I'm not entirely sure where to start (well, I sort of am because I accidentally deleted the first post I wrote) so I'll start off on Tuesday. First thing, it was my birthday (!) so I brought a bunch of party stuff (balloons, tops, the blow out thingies, etc) and distracted everybody there. Well, not really our district, but all of the other ones around us. In Hiroshima all of the local districts meet at the same building and have their meeting there, so those balloons successfully distracted at least 10 19-24 year old missionaries. It especially didn't help that we taught all of the Japanese elders the balloon trick with your hair and the wall. By the end we had 25 balloons sticking to the ceiling, and a ton of spiky-headed missionaries.
In District meeting we learned all about faith and the perhaps principle. You do all your work so that perhaps one person may come to the Gospel, that perhaps in the future they will remember how the times were with the missionaries and want to learn more, that perhaps though you may not see any effects now, that in the future the fruits of your labor will bless the lives of people that you could never have imagined being helped. The Perhaps principle is a principle of hope, mostly that even though you don't see the results now, realizing that you can never know the full extent of all your actions and the knowledge that if you do good, good will happen, can give you the extra strength you need to conquer whatever your individual obstacle may be.
Tuesday we came back with the Elders from Hamada 浜田 and had Junkai (splits) with the 浜田 elders which was awesome. Elder Stratford and Bagley are awesome (one of the more fun sleep-overs....I mean splits I've had; it definitely ranks in the top 5 of all 4 junkais I've done so far!) We didn't see a ton of success that day; actually we were told to scram a couple of times from people we went out to meet, but the lesson we had on Wednesday with all 4 missionaries and our investigator was awesome. From the lesson we got a commitment to read and pray more, she came to church (!) and has a desire to become closer to Christ than before. 4 missionaries is a good combination.
Speaking of 4 missionaries, we got an interesting call today from the Assistants to the President. This week is Transfer week, so we usually don't know anything until Wednesday, but we got a special call today! Elder Beckstrand and I are getting kicked out of our apartment and 2 sister missionaries are coming in to whitewash the area! Well, sort of. They are going to be in the Apartment by the Church and I am getting a new Companion (ANOTHER JAPANESE) and we are getting a brand new apartment about a 20 minute train ride from our area! Elder Beckstrand is getting transferred to Okinawa and becoming a trainer and a District leader (he's so nervous) and we get to spend the next couple of days trying to figure out how to get enough stuff for four people! So, for the first time I'm not getting transferred, sort of, but I am still moving (my suitcase is toast too, those wheels didn't even make it to Japan before they were busted, and now I'm on my 4th move with a busted case.... oops).
Speaking of 4 missionaries, we got an interesting call today from the Assistants to the President. This week is Transfer week, so we usually don't know anything until Wednesday, but we got a special call today! Elder Beckstrand and I are getting kicked out of our apartment and 2 sister missionaries are coming in to whitewash the area! Well, sort of. They are going to be in the Apartment by the Church and I am getting a new Companion (ANOTHER JAPANESE) and we are getting a brand new apartment about a 20 minute train ride from our area! Elder Beckstrand is getting transferred to Okinawa and becoming a trainer and a District leader (he's so nervous) and we get to spend the next couple of days trying to figure out how to get enough stuff for four people! So, for the first time I'm not getting transferred, sort of, but I am still moving (my suitcase is toast too, those wheels didn't even make it to Japan before they were busted, and now I'm on my 4th move with a busted case.... oops).
Oh man, so much cool stuff is going on in Yasufuruichi, I wish I had time to tell you everything this week but we have an appointment in 20 minutes and a 20 minute bike ride ahead of us. Next week I'll fill you all in but here's a sneak peek: a 4 hour basketball activity, a pizza party, black magic, spicy curry and fermented beans, a church full of crying people, and Caligraphy performance, swords dance, and a bowling activity!
Good luck and I hope you all do great things in all you do!
Elder Everett!
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