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| Other Japanese missionaries will understand...the magical furugura! |
My pictures have devolved into meal selfies. Sorry in advance!
These past two weeks have been packed with a lot of lessons (seven of those lessons involved church members even), but we are still struggling getting people to come to church. Last week, they had a
pretty legit excuse, "There's a typhoon, so I'm sorry but I can't."
But this week, well...
The church is a 30 minute bike ride all the way to Itoman. A little bit far. BUT one of our investigators was explaining to us how he runs to Itoman on the weekend so he can go get drunk with his friends. He can't drive home drunk, so that is his reason for running. We don't use wine for the sacrament, but we invited him to church anyways. He can't because, though right now he's living away from his family for work, his family will soon come to Okinawa. So he can't come to church
because he has a family to think about soon. Hmm.
Another of our investigators can't come to church because he says a 20 min motorcycle ride to church would be too dangerous... Hmm.
Another investigator was sitting in church with us on Saturday night, having a long discussion about church. He says baptism is "divine" (kougoushi or 神々しい (the kanji means "god")) and that church is his favorite English, but because he doesn't believe in God, he can't come to church (and we've invited him many times). But he will pray every night and read scriptures. Hmm.
Our apartment smells like an old person library and that is mystifying. But our investigators and their reasons for not coming to church are slightly more mystifying perhaps. Maybe it's time to put more emphasis on finding new people. Nothing is more peachy than having investigators attend church, and there is a lot of peach flavored food in Japan so that's saying something.
Hope everyone had a great Halloween. The weather is great in Okinawa--barely need a jacket! But still we hear the locals saying, "Wow it's getting cold!" Ha ha :)
Until next time,
Sister Rogers
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| Curry dinner with the district. |
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| Powerful curry! |
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| Member Dinner |
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| McFlurries, yay! |
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| Road. Train. Lamp. |
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| Sister Hansen :) |
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| The Forest of Owl |
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| Cheers! |
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| Sister Hansen and me--"say cheese" sign. |
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| Chinese dinner with the district |
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