“Good evening, how are you?” (“”=Missionaries and =guy)
I’m fine, thank are. Are you guys from America?
“Yeah! We're volunteer missionaries for the Christian Church around the corner.”
Really? I love English, I really want to learn. Would you be my friend?
“Of course! We are actually teaching English tonight as a community service. Would you like to come?”
Man, I can’t tonight. Sounds good, though, do you offer anything for the weekends?
“Well, we can do private lessons for 30 minutes in exchange for a
30 minute introductory explanation about our church. Would you be
interested in that?”
Jesus Christ? I traveled in Europe once and saw all the beautiful
Christian churches, and have been curious about Jesus ever since. Yeah,
I’m interested. Actually, do you have thirty minutes right now? I’ll buy
us drinks and we can talk about it.
And then we continued to set up a 30/30 appointment and such. It was cool. He was practically asking us for the lessons.
This weekend in Tsu was a huge お祭り (festival) that happened to land
exactly on the street in front of the church. It was great! We did a
lot of prep, including:
— Printing and Posting the church name on the windows upstairs so
you could see it across the street and over the small shops parked out
in front
— Putting up some street signs pointing people towards a Free Toilet! Wow!
— Setting up the church lobby so that people were immersed on the
way to said toilet. MoTab playing in the background, a BOM display with
an array of about 10 different languages, huge posters containing the
basic Plan of Salvation pamphlet on it, and
such.
— Opening up the chapel doors, for anybody to walk and take a rest
in. A quiet place, and we just happened to have General Conference
playing on a TV up front. Some people walked in only because they were
curious what the Japanese voice on the TV was saying
for the American speaker.
And then all the missionaries were out front handing out flyers and
pointing people to the church. Man, so many people! I’m pretty tired. I
haven’t walked and stood for so long in my life.
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