Hey there everybody! So Okada and I are still in full force with our everyday Christmas thing going on. I'm a fan of it, but it might be dying... so full force, maybe not so, but it's going!
Tuesday we had an appointment with one of the guys we found on a recent junkai (exchange) which was awesome. We were talking to him for a little bit, getting to know him and asked him what some of his hobbies were and wouldn't you know it, his number one favorite thing to do is bowling! Shoot, after that the conversation took a bowling route for like 15 minutes. It was good though, we had a bunch that we could share and talk about (and I learned a bunch of Japanese bowling words, to boot). He's actually a pretty good investigator; he has some really good questions that led to some great conversations. Now we just need to get more people like that, that we can actually teach, that would just be awesome!
Later that day while we were doing some housing around a college we ran into this Chinese student that was super sweet. She didn't seem really excited about the gospel aspect as far as the English class we offered, but was more than willing to refer her friends to us. That's about the best response (well, probably the 2nd, but eh).
I'm not sure what it is but Okada has been on a baking kick lately... we've made a bunch of cookies and pound cakes to give out to everybody. I'm fine with it, baking's a way good way to do missionary work; I highly endorse it for everybody. The cookies have been given out with an invitation to the branch Christmas party! So far Okada and I have made it to maybe a quarter of our Less Actives here, granted a quarter is like 15 or 20 families so, it’s a good number!
Thursday was a semi-weekly ping pong night which, sadly nobody came to again.... maybe next time people will come. Maybe. Friday we hit up the north a bit ( "north" more like a 40 minute bike ride up north, our actual north you have to take a train or a car or there is no way you're getting there) and talked to a bunch of less active members that apparently haven't had any sort of contact in years from the church. A bunch of them have just completely forgotten what it means to even be a part of the church. It's really sad to see them just have no real direction in their lives and nothing that works as a focus for them. The church gives us direction in our lives and really is there to help us make the decisions that we need to make in every day life. We may not see it, but we are affected by what we have learned in every decision that we make. And that's not a light, over-arching statement, it's really, actually true.
Our other activity as of late has been organizing our Area map and marking where everybody lives. Have I told you have Hiroshima is a maze? Well, finding houses is almost impossible if you have no prior vision beforehand. So our goal has been to mark on our map where everyone lives and really getting it ready for everyone that may come after us. It seems like a bunch of my mission lately has been directed to making it easier for the people that come after. Maybe it's a good thing, we'll see.....
Oh, Saturday we finally got our Air conditioner! (Well, it cools and heats, but in Japan the actual thing is called an aircon.... I'm a fan of not having 40 degree mornings anymore. Sunday we had what could have been my last Sunday here in Yasufuruichi! Tomorrow is transfer call day and I won't know until then if I'm staying or not. This past transfer has been a flash, it feels like it just started and it's already over. If I thought the MTC was a crazy time vortex, this field stuff is crazy!
Monday we had a zone p-day over at the Hiroshima Peace Park and Atomic bomb museum. That's probably about the saddest museum I think I've ever been too, but it was way fascinating! One of these days I'll send some pictures over if I can find a place that'll let me.
Today for our last district meeting I somehow got the assignment to teach it! We talked about Christ-like attributes and it was good ... I think. We'll see how good it is if people actually keep the commitments I gave them: find what attribute you are lacking, study it, write your own personal definition for that attribute, and then do all you can to help develop it in your own life and in all that you do. Those little attributes are so important and if you can master living by those, you’re set, man.
Hey, sorry this e-mail is a bit random and all out of sorts, I'm losing my grip on English and I couldn't tell you if any of this is grammatically correct or not.... oops. (note from Ben’s mom: I edit his emails to make the reading of them much easier!)
The EVERYDAY IS CHRISTMAS list for the week:
December 6th: Investigators who rather enjoy bowling
December 7th: The smell of pound cake coming from the oven
December 8th: listening to Christmas music as you study about the life of the Savior
December 9th: GLOVES
December 10th: AIRCONS!
December 11th: Church meetings that can make people cry and videos with the same power
December 12th: Peace
December 13th: PMG telling me how to conduct a district meeting.
Hey, have fun over there in, well, wherever you are!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
クリスマスおべでとう！！
エベレット長老
Ｅｌｄｅｒ Ｅｖｅｒｅｔｔ
Elder Benjamin Charles Everett
Japan Fukuoka Mission
9-16 Hirao-Josuimachi
Chuo-ku
Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka
810-0229
Japan
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