Kofu and Futons

Helooooo Friends and Family!　こんにちわ！

So, ten more days will be my two month marker in Japan! Wow, I think time goes by way slower out here than in the MTC!! Probably because everyday is a little different, meeting new people, biking out to new(ish) places, and much more of a forward motion than the MTC... :) But lets see, this week seems to have been slowish. We have had a lot of lessons, have one more new investigator who's name is Amemiya. We met her at the Kose Sports Koen (park) and she has a little boy who's just turned one. He crawled around the whole time we were trying to teach her about the Church's Restoration and the Book of Mormon but he's way cute. She said her husband is pretty anti-Christian, so she couldn't take the Book home we'd brought to give her, so we'll have to address that concern soon, maybe build some kankei (relationship) with him so he could open up to new ideas? But she still wants to meet with us to talk about it. And our other investigators are great, we met again with Lee\Ri and she had a lot of questions as usual and it was interesting trying to get a lesson between her Chinese-Japanese and our American-Japanese but it worked out somehow. We invited her to read the BOM and pray intently about which church is God's ichiban (number one) correct church. If there is only one God, why would He have many churches that teach different things? She said she'd never thought about things like that before, but that she's give it a try. But how do you address something like that? What has worked for you on your missions (those who have served somewhere with a Christian background) It's hard here because usually people don't have any concept at all of God, but when they do have a little Christian background it kind of all blurs together for them. They're not well taught in doctrine except maybe that Jesus died for us and you have to believe in him. It's hard for them to see that one Christian church is different than others. I guess like we look at Buddhist religions like that.

But anyway, this will have to be all for today, we're going with a member family to try and see Mt. Fuji today (try because it's pretty darn cloudy..) but there's I guess a lot of nature parks, etc, and lakes by the mountain so I'll take lots of pictures. [Picture: Mt Fuji]

And the futons are finally getting to my back and making it hurt a bit, so my companion who's not bothered by them at all gave me her extra and now I'm sleeping on three. I think I slept better last night :)

It's getting pretty hot now, but it's just starting I hear. It's supposed to be rainy season in June but I guess Kofu doesn't get as much rain as other areas since it's in a basin.

Love you all,　あいしていますと！
それは　すばらし　かぞくです！

LeFevre しまい