Typhoon and More...
Konnichiwa minasan! こんにちは
How is everybody doing? Thank you for
all of the emails that you sent me this week, I officially got more than both of
my companions combined! lol and Thank you so much grandma and grandpa Stevens
for the care package that you sent me this week! It was super amazing to have
American candy again! I'd forgotten how sweet it tasted! lol So thanks! We
are all doing super awesome over here on the opposite side of the world! To
answer mom's question, I didn't baptize any of the converts but I did witness for
all of them. We always try to have ward members baptize the converts so that
they have an unbreakable tie to the ward. All the missionaries will leave Japan someday so we
just want to make sure that the converts have friends in the church. The baptisms were so amazing! F... gave
his testimony at the end of the baptism and to end his testimony he said, " In
the name of Jesus Christ Amen, Go Buckeyes!" It was so awesome! As soon as he
found out that I was an Ohio State fan, he started to pray for them at the end
of every lesson. He also updates me on their stats every time we meet! It's so
cool to have been able to meet such an awesome friend. He is also thinking of
serving a mission in a year and I can't wait to go to the temple with him to get
his endowments. Speaking of the temple, we went earlier today and it was super
amazing! I loved being able to feel the Spirit in the House of the Lord again.
About the typhoon that happened this
week. It was supposedly the biggest one that they'd seen in 10
years, but nothing really happened. I slept through most of it and it wasn't too
bad. All the train stations were closed the whole day because of it which was
very inconvenient because we needed to go to some hospital that was a one hour train
ride away! But the night before the typhoon we had to go to an appointment at
an investigator named U... house. He lives about 30 min away by bike and we
decided to brave the weather and bike there. The journey there was relatively fine
but the way back was super windy and rainy. And I'm here to tell you that it is
not fun biking when you can barely see in front of you and when the wind is
always trying to throw you into oncoming traffic. And at one point I tried to
jump a curb but my tire slipped in a puddle and I totally missed. I flew from
my bike and banged my knee up pretty bad. It was not fun trying to bike home
after that but we eventually made it. Luckily we found out that my knee wasn't
broken or anything so I guess the Lord was really watching out for me. And we
all learned a valuable lesson, don't ride your bike in a typhoon!! So we may have
to stay in our apartment this
Saturday because apparently we are having another really bad typhoon coming
our way. I hope not though because we have a Halloween party at the church then
and there's supposed to be a lot of American candy! And also we have like 10
investigators who say they are going to come.
Well I think that's all of the cool
stories that I have to share this week, oh wait one more thing, I'm giving a talk
in sacrament meeting this week on Elder Uchtdorf's talk, "Come Join with Us." So
I probably am going to need a lot of prayers! Luckily the talk is in English so
it shouldn't be too hard. I hope that it goes ok. Well I wish all of you back
home the best! Make sure you have another amazing week! I will see you all
then!
ai shite imasu yo!
Eric Stevens Choro
Tokyo Temple
Happy Halloween!
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