Well we had another wonderful week.
We actually had the chance to go to Nagoya and have Zone conference. It was way fun to see other missionaries that I haven't seen in a while. It was incredible because President Baird only spoke for 10 minutes. I was shocked. He loves talking more than any person I know. But Elder Ishi of the quorum of the 70 spoke to us for like 30 minutes. He talked to us about his mission experiences and about how much things have changed since the time he served his mission. Then we heard from a doctor and a psychiatrist. Those two speeches were.........................interesting. They were good the doctor talked about how we need to wash our hands and do some other things that I have forgotten. Something about cleaning the bathroom often...ya I know not that important. Oh ya also about dealing with raw meet. Apparently we need to be more careful with raw meet, but I don't understand because Japanese people eat raw Chicken and Raw horse. I know pretty cool right. The other person talked about how we are all fallable human beings and we are supposed to fail. I'm not sure if that was supposed to help us or what but that was good. Then the zone leaders and assistants talked to us and conference was over. It was a very cool experience.
I had a cool experience this week. Well, my companion is officially dying. Ya I know it's sad but he has stomach issues and wasn't able to eat anything for three days. It was terrible. Not letting a missionary eat for three days has to be something like giving child birth. Man it was terrible. I know how the husband feels now. Alright maybe I am exagerating a little but not much. So I went out with the other missionary in my apartment and we went and taught english class. Like right when it was about to start this man walks in and starts asking me for pamphlets because he couldn't read the Japanese one that he had. He recently broke his leg and has some free time apparently. He is originally from Peru but can speak pretty good English and Japanese. Unfortunately all I had was Portuguese pamphlets but he took them. I invited him to church but unfortunately he wasn't able to come. He showed a lot of interest. It was cool because people don't ususally walk into church asking for pamphlets...hopefully we are able to meet him again.
Well actually an investigator called us this week and said the Book of Mormon was about Jesus' evil brother. I don't know where she found that but it's not in my copy of the Book of Mormon. It's too bad that things like that happen because of the internet but even though things like that happen it is good to know that through prayer we can find out if the Book of Mormon is true and we don't have to rely on other sources.
Have a great week
Love Elder Nelson
祭 - (Festival) (May 15, 2011)
Good afternoon!!!
Well we were able to have another pretty good week here in Oogaki Japan. It is really nice outside. I love the weather. We also had a huge matsuri..or festival. It was really fun. There were so many people there. Everyone that lives in Oogaki was there. It was a way good experience. We met a less active and his friend there and talked with them for a while. It was very good. The less active friend is in turn an investigator. We will be able to meet him again this Wednesday so that is exciting. They pulled floats around and there were just so many stalls to buy things at and stuff like that. There was interesting food and interesting people. It was a great experience.
Well Book of Mormon english class is going well. People are actually enjoying it which surprised me and also they are doing their homework which is reading the Book of Mormon. Sweet!!! It is starting to make people ask questions...we are making real progress and we are now on page 10 so we have read about a good chunk of the story.
Yesterday we had a pizza party. Probably the best pizza I have had in 15 months 2 weeks and 15 days...no im just kidding but seriously it was way good. We had two investigators come as well and we actually had the weirdest/best lessons of my mission. There was a member there and he is like...I am tired of planned lessons so lets just read random scriptures. so we opened the scriptures to random pages and the first one was about charity, the second one was the introduction to the Book of Mormon which was cool. The third one talked about how if you read the scriptures you will KNOW that Jesus Christ is the Savior and the fourth was in Third Nephi and it was the Baptismal prayer. We couldn't have planned it better. I don't know if I will ever do it again but it was sweet. We were able to talk about baptism with the members and investigators and though no one commited it was way powerful. I think it was a good lesson because the investigators were losing interest and the spirit was so strong that they have more interest now!!!
So it was an awesome experience.
Keep living the Gospel...It's the way to true Happiness.
Love
Elder Nelson
Well we were able to have another pretty good week here in Oogaki Japan. It is really nice outside. I love the weather. We also had a huge matsuri..or festival. It was really fun. There were so many people there. Everyone that lives in Oogaki was there. It was a way good experience. We met a less active and his friend there and talked with them for a while. It was very good. The less active friend is in turn an investigator. We will be able to meet him again this Wednesday so that is exciting. They pulled floats around and there were just so many stalls to buy things at and stuff like that. There was interesting food and interesting people. It was a great experience.
Well Book of Mormon english class is going well. People are actually enjoying it which surprised me and also they are doing their homework which is reading the Book of Mormon. Sweet!!! It is starting to make people ask questions...we are making real progress and we are now on page 10 so we have read about a good chunk of the story.
Yesterday we had a pizza party. Probably the best pizza I have had in 15 months 2 weeks and 15 days...no im just kidding but seriously it was way good. We had two investigators come as well and we actually had the weirdest/best lessons of my mission. There was a member there and he is like...I am tired of planned lessons so lets just read random scriptures. so we opened the scriptures to random pages and the first one was about charity, the second one was the introduction to the Book of Mormon which was cool. The third one talked about how if you read the scriptures you will KNOW that Jesus Christ is the Savior and the fourth was in Third Nephi and it was the Baptismal prayer. We couldn't have planned it better. I don't know if I will ever do it again but it was sweet. We were able to talk about baptism with the members and investigators and though no one commited it was way powerful. I think it was a good lesson because the investigators were losing interest and the spirit was so strong that they have more interest now!!!
So it was an awesome experience.
Keep living the Gospel...It's the way to true Happiness.
Love
Elder Nelson
Plague (May 1, 2011)
It was a decent week all things considering. My companion and I fell ill. So we did not have the most productive week this week. He got sick at the beginning of the week and I got sick toward the end. We both had fevers and felt really weak but we both recovered and made it to church. It was a very nice day at church. The members seemed very excited to have 4 missionaries serving in Ogaki. It seems that it hasn't happened for 20 years so everyone is surprised and excited to work.3 of the 4 missionaires bore our testimonies so that was good. We are just filling everyone with dendo fire.
So Japan is starting to get warmer...actually it is the side of hot today. I am excited. I am ready for winter to be over and summer to come. It is about to get really hot and humid.
We saw a pretty cool miracle this week. My companion left his id card at a store on accident. There was also a copy of his passport in there and some other important things that he left there. So after about two hours we realized that he left it at the store and went back to find it. They didn't have it there and we searched our apartment and couldn't find it. We just prayed really hard in hope to find it. At about 9 o clock this man comes and knocks on our door. We open it and he says he has something for Elder Bardzinski. It was is id card along with everything else that he left at the store. It was pretty cool. It was way cool that someone went out of their way to bring it back to him. He was truly blessed of God.
Have a great week and a happy Mother's day...take care
Love
Elder Nelson
So Japan is starting to get warmer...actually it is the side of hot today. I am excited. I am ready for winter to be over and summer to come. It is about to get really hot and humid.
We saw a pretty cool miracle this week. My companion left his id card at a store on accident. There was also a copy of his passport in there and some other important things that he left there. So after about two hours we realized that he left it at the store and went back to find it. They didn't have it there and we searched our apartment and couldn't find it. We just prayed really hard in hope to find it. At about 9 o clock this man comes and knocks on our door. We open it and he says he has something for Elder Bardzinski. It was is id card along with everything else that he left at the store. It was pretty cool. It was way cool that someone went out of their way to bring it back to him. He was truly blessed of God.
Have a great week and a happy Mother's day...take care
Love
Elder Nelson
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