HAI!
For the record, I do know that dad served in Chile. It's just that like I meet with Peruvians everyday and I had Peru on the brain while I was typing :) gomenasai
Well, that's terrible that it's cold in Washington and not snowing, it's really cold here. In fact it snowed like 4 inches yesterday! I'm attaching pictures. Everyone here was tripping out cause of the snow. They all kept saying," It never snows here! This is dangerous and annoying!", haha. Japanese people are so funny.
I went on splits with an Elder Martinez from Mexico City/ Spanish Fork and we had planned on using his Spanish ability for our Peruvian friends. But, it snowed so no one wanted to leave their houses and meet :( we didn't get to use his skills ,but he is a way cool guy and it was fun getting snowed in with him, haha.
Here is an explanation of the pictures I sent:
332- President Budge in a Santa suit at our Christmas Eve mission party
337- Jumbo shrimp that was dinner at a members house
339- Our Bishop, his wife, and one of his kids named Kirk (After Captain Kirk, haha), the Sisters and their Chinese Investigator named Helen, Elder Clark
344- Game night, wide shot of our investigators and stuff
345- The Sisters at game night making Mexican food
349- Our backyard this morning! Snow!
I've got a bunch of fun videos and stuff that I took but I can't really send those, haha. We have had a killer time teaching investigators and recent converts recently. It's really interesting trying to teach Fernando in like half Spanish/English/Japanese cause he isn't very good at the latter 2 of those three and we are no good at Spanish, haha.
We just got done teaching an investigator that we found last week named Asada. He has no background with religion, God, or anything. Like literally we've been teaching him from ground zero and he has grown more in the past week than I have ever seen in a Japanese person. He came to our lesson today having read 200 pages of the BOM in a week. He said that he had time on train rides and stuff and so he figured he should just read while he goes about he daily life. We asked him if he believed the BOM was true and he said, "Ummmm well that's hard to say. I haven't read all of it, but from what I've read and prayed about so far its true. It's hard to understand, but I really like Nephi's dream and the tree of life and his faith." And we were stunned. He had only been taught one lesson, but he understood and applied faith, prayer, and daily study into his life. We taught him how to receive answers to prayers through warm feelings of confirmation, then taught the Plan of Salvation and the importance of baptism. When we asked him what he thought about baptism he said, "Well, in order to go to the celestial kingdom, we have to apply repentance into our lives through baptism. I think everyone should get baptized so if I can I would like to have an opportunity to get baptized." And we were like, "Oh ya, we will make sure you have the opportunity." Then we set up a new date with him for the 3rd of February and asked him to pray about it. He said the closing prayer and during his prayer he asked if he should be baptized. Then he paused and was like, "Thank You". He then prayed and asked if he should be baptized on the 3rd or 10th of February. Then he paused and was like, "I understand. Thank you Heavenly Father.", and closed. After his prayer he turned to us and said, "I should get baptized on the 3rd. God wants me to get baptized. I can feel a special warm feeling in my chest. That's the Spirit." and we said, "Yes it is. Yes He does. Let's meet 4 more times, come to church 2 times, and we will baptize you my friend." He said, " Right. Lets do it." and oh how great was our joy! He is an absolute miracle. I've never seen someone apply our teaching so well before. He studies more than we do and recognized the Spirit right as he felt it.
Well, that's my miracle story for the week. Tell Kelsie I say hi and Cameron as well, por favor :)
I got a letter from Spencer Norawang the other day, he is in Sendai not Sapporo so he won't see my friend. But he was companions in the MTC with the elder that Elder Shibuta just transferred to go train. I also got a letter from Dallon Coombs this past week and he is doing great.
It's cold, but I'm very happy and I'm excited for this next week :) !
Have a wonderful week and good luck in school boys! It's great to hear that you guys are enjoying life and everyone is genki!
See you, BU-BYE,
Elder Crandall
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