Japan is awesome!! I arrived in Fukuoka after something like over a full 24 hours of traveling.... I`m still not exactly sure :) We slept that night in the mission home (which is underneath the temple), were trained a little, had a lot of Japanese food, and then went out to do some work with some of the more experienced missionaries.
The particular missionary that I was set up with had a lesson to teach to a couple of guys from Nepal who spoke a little English and a little Japanese. We taught the message of the restoration to them and were astounded at how prepared they were. Before they came to Japan they had studied Christianity and they had a lot of questions. During the lesson I asked if they had any about what we were saying and they said "no, you just gave us a lot of answers".... That was my first day here, and they committed to baptism. I have never seen such a miracle, I really cant express quite how amazing it was.
The particular missionary that I was set up with had a lesson to teach to a couple of guys from Nepal who spoke a little English and a little Japanese. We taught the message of the restoration to them and were astounded at how prepared they were. Before they came to Japan they had studied Christianity and they had a lot of questions. During the lesson I asked if they had any about what we were saying and they said "no, you just gave us a lot of answers".... That was my first day here, and they committed to baptism. I have never seen such a miracle, I really cant express quite how amazing it was.
After we "streeted" for a while we had dinner with the president and his wife, and then found out our new areas and our companions. I was sent to Nagasaki, and my new companion is Elder Harvy, from Utah. He is awesome.
I met him the next day, and they took us to our apartment and showed me around.
Everything is narrow and small. We "housed" yesterday and it was probably the craziest thing I have ever done, ever. There are like a billion houses all scrunched together with crazy winding cement pathways threaded between them and stairs and just craziness... It`s hard to tell the front and back doors apart and for like the first hour I wasn`t even sure that we were even like supposed to be that close to peoples stuff, but the sidewalks that thread between the houses are totally their "streets" and it`s just normal. Besides that, sacrament was awesome, we had five investigators there, and four of them have baptismal dates!
I dont have time to write more but I love this. I love it so much! I love the people here more than I ever expected! I am anxious to be about the Lords work. I am grateful that I can be here serving Him and His people.Love to all!
Elder Bevan
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