Week 67 - 11/25/18 - Group Emai

Hey everyone! Just wanna say thanks for all the birthday love last week, I had a great one! A member took me and the other Elders to dinner and brought me a bunch of presents. It was kinda crazy he bought me a pair of Adidas, a Nike shirt, and some other stuff. Was not expecting that at all. He also brought a cake and some birthday hats so we had a miny party in the restaurant and it was a strange experience to say the least. lol. 

I picked up my new companion from the Mission home on Wednesday! His name is Elder Suzuki. He's from the Philippines and is half Japanese but didn't learn to speak Japanese before he came out. It's been fun showing him around. Right after the trainers got paired with their trainees we went out around the mission home and talked to people! It was the new missionaries first time proselyting in Japan and it brought back lots of memories from my first time over a year ago. 

On the train ride back to Kofu I talked to a Highschool student who opened up to me about some problems he has and he even said he wants to die because his stress is so unbearable. I really tried to explain the atonement and the hope of the gospel to him. We set up a time to meet on Sunday but sadly he didn't show :( That really bummed me out but maybe he'll call us in the future or come to church. 

A couple days later we found another guy who told us he doesn't feel happiness in his life and we had a great conversation. He agreed to meet tomorrow so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we won't get stood up twice in one week. The circumstances surrounding both of those contacts make it definitely seem like God has a hand in this work! 

A random funny note: We were standing by our bikes and some dude pulled up on his bike. He put the kick stand down then started walking away but his bike fell over. He went and picked it up then right as he let go it fell over again haha. He was really angry and just bent the kick stand so it would stay up then marched inside. After we could hear him in his room just screaming way loud cuz he was mad. I was laughing so hard. It might be a "had to have been there" type of thing. 

I hope everyone has a great week! 

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