One of our investigators likely dropped us. She said "yeah I'm busy this Sunday so I'll let you guys know when I have time to meet again" so pretty much she probably won't ever call us.
Another had car problems and had to cancel her appointment. Another said he can't meet until after March 14.
That all happened on the same day ha it was terrible but it happens and at least two are still investigators that just can't meet for the time being.
But despite all that we have a new progressing investigator named Rumiko. She's this way cool 49 year old lady that loves alone in this way sketchy communist looking apartment that you can hear everything that's going on but really all that's going on is her TV and she leaves her door open. Anyways so she found scriptures she liked in the Book of Mormon and loved it and said "sorry I've only read to here this week" and she had read the first ten chapters and it was super good and she remembers the story perfectly. She turned down the invitation to come to church for the time being saying that while we were nice that she really doesn't know if she can trust church organizations and went on a thirty minute thing about organized religions and evil religions. She's a big big big talker and it's hard to teach her because well say like two things and she'll go off for a half hour haha it took two lessons to teach the restoration but we did it and she's progressing. So we're happy. Plus she's so nice and gives us food and cookies and cake and Mugicha and so she's super cool. We're teaching her once a week and she made it herself so we go back every Wednesday at 11:00. How cool is she?
That's pretty much the highlight of the week.
Now to some cool stuff learned. So sister Sakamoto wanted a blessing on Friday night before the left to Naha for exchanges but it wasn't looking like time would add up because we had an appointment 40 minutes away at 7 and they were leaving at 8. Well so she said never
mind it's okay, you know how girls do that which never means it's okay and so I told her if she needs a blessing the Lord will give us a way to be there at 7:45. Now this is what happens. Our person wasn't home (of course ha that's typical) and so we booked it home and every single light we hit was green and we were able to make it to the senior couples apartment at 733. 1. That's a new record by 7 minutes and 2. We could have gone faster and 3. The Lord prepared us a way and we were able to do what we needed to do. That's one thing I've learned on my mission. I've been studying a lot about Joseph Smith lately. Well kind of. I've been read the Church History in the Fulness of Times institute manual and it's really good and up to now has been all about Joseph smith and one of the things I take away from him is that even though he was imperfect, he always was able to do what the Lord wanted. Even if things were looking bad. Even in the face of opposition. Even while the Mormons were being abused and killed, he always stood tall with unwavering faith to do what's right. That's kind of what this felt like. As soon as I told her that if she needs a blessing we'll be there, I knew we'd be there and never doubted that and we were able to be an instrument in the Lord's hands. If we put aside ourselves and just put our trust in the lord and allow ourselves to be humble, we can do anything and He will help us. He won't tell us
to do something and not help us. The times we feel like we aren't being helped is actually when we aren't doing our part. It's simple.
Love you all!
Elder TschirkiLast night we had dinner at the former Bishop Arakakis house with a lot of the YSA in the nearby wards. Me and your boy taught a way bomb lesson about prayer and everyone was laughing because I'm funny but the spiritual part aka most of it was super good. Ft Thomas who's just a marine that came to have fun haha. He's so funny. I bet you can't find him. Actually he's trying to learn Japanese so he's way cool.
Rumiko's freaky apartment
Yakiniku with the sisters
We went to Shuri castle with some military members but here's my district it started raining
The castle
A good pic for mom (I told him he looks so silly in many of his pictures...)
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