Can you imagine? 5 New Investigators in an hour
There was a huge mission tour with Elder Choi (pronounced Chey...?) from the Area Presidency coming to speak to us. That’s a deal in itself, but it also meant that we had a lot of missionaries spend the night here at our apartment from really far areas. +4 missionaries.
It takes forever to arrive, so they left early and spent the entire day traveling, and expected to arrive around dinner time, like 5:30ish. Actually, only two made it on time, but we weren’t letting this opportunity going to waste. We were going out to knock doors as a mass and see miracles.
I was paired with a new missionaries who has giant faith. That night, we only got on knock on about 20 doors and talk to maybe half that because of the two biggest miracles ever.
First, this guy opens up and acted wishy-washy, but I promised him big spiritual blessings if he would let us inside to share a message with his family, and he gave in allowing us 20 minutes. His wife and brother were inside. Ooh, that Restoration lesson was so powerful, and they all asked for Book of Mormons afterwards. Commitments+blessings. My companion was so good with his testimony.
Not long after that, a different door opened up to a lady holding a Cup Noodle, which smelled so good I had skipped dinner. She also let us in, and it was a Brazilian Family so I couldn’t do much beyond introductions but the father came out, and the two daughters, and my companion started teaching all of them. I was on the floor playing origami with the kids while my companion answered the lady's sincere questions about life after death by teaching the Plan of Salvation. It was a full lesson, with commitments to church and read the BOM and everything. That was also super powerful, I’m so glad we took advantage of this opportunity!
Funny thing
Last week Monday was a huge holiday that equivocates to the 4th of July, National Foundation Day. Hahahaha but nobody actually celebrates it, everybody just enjoys the extra day off, so it’s closer to President's Day. We took the opportunity to talk to a lot of people in their homes. One dude was just the best. He opens up, sees our smiles and responded perfectly, having no clue who we were or what we did really but open to hearing us out. Except, we caught him at dinner time, and halfway through our introduction there was a shout from the other room from his girlfriend or sister or something asking who it was. He shouted back, “Christian Church!” And then you hear from the other room, “Don’t you remember, we're Buddhist?!” Oops. She came out to kindly close the door. We’ll probably go back to talk to that dude again, though.
Also, there was this moment when we were biking to an appointment about 45 minutes away and the weather decided to be extremely temperate— what was originally a perfectly acceptable light drizzle of rain suddenly turned into snow, and then huge gusts of wind combined to make a mini blizzard that only lasted about five minutes! Pretty sure that those discouraging winds were only to prevent us from having another super bomb lesson that day.
Lots of other cool miracles and guided moments happened last week that I can’t write about, but just know that last week was a really, really good week.
愛しています！
カードん長老より
Elder Cardon
Egg 🥚 🏡
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