Hello, Hello

How`s everybody doin?! Man we rolled into Sendai today and we`ve already got Christmas trees goin up! Haha I guess it`s just about that time of year huh. They also had some Christmas music playin and what not...American of course! They had `Santa Clause is Comin to Town` goin. Japanese English is pretty funny. Of course the music is correct, but sometimes they try and put English phrases up and it gets pretty funny :).
So it`s been kind of a disappointing week with our investigators this week. We`re still meeting with Kanno Arata a lot, and wanted so badly for him to come to church this week but when we went over to his place on Saturday evening, he had caught a cold :( It was a big bummer cause we really wanted to talk about baptism with him and try and get him to church. He should be feeling better this week though so we`ll just go from here!

We also got a call from Mika Kumagai, the mom with a couple kids, saying that she couldn`t meet anymore. I think her husband might have had something to do with it but we won`t be meeting with her anymore. She said that her family is Buddhist, and that she can`t do Christianity. We get that a lot but it was still hard to hear. I just testified to her about our message and I could tell she was feeling something. She is still a sweet lady. Maybe later!

Saturday afternoon we called the dude who came to church last week to see if he was gonna come this week. It didn`t go over to well haha. The old man started yelling at me and tried to tell me we were the same as some other crazy church! Haha I tried to explain things to him but he wouldn`t hardly give me a chance.

We also never met with another one of our high school investigators, Ono Tomoya. We had an appointment with him but he had high school sports come up. He told us he`d call us when he has time. He`s a way good kid and sticks to his word so hopefully he`ll come through! He was golden, but has got way busy and we haven`t been able to meet with him for a few months now. So it`s been kinda discouraging these past couple days.
We did have an awesome Zone Conference this week though! It was huge. The Sendai Zone is by far the biggest in the mission. It was so good to be able to see everyone. I even saw my trainer! Haha I got a pic with him and my comp. 3 generations! Ha. At the Conference we get to see pictures of all the baptisms our mission has had since the previous Zone Conference. Guess what?! Yasushi-San, an investigator Elder Mitsuda and I found in Iwaki, got baptized!!!!! I was so happy!! :) It`s feels so good to know that the work you do isn`t over when you leave. You never know what will happen from the hard work you put forth.
My testimony has grown so much this week. I have particularily come to love Preach My Gospel. It is an awesome book! I have not only learned tons about missionary work, but about the church and how to obtain a strong testimony! There is so much good in PMG and I encourage all of you to study it. I`m so grateful for it and the help it has given me. I love the Gospel! I love my Heavenly Father. I love my Savior. My comp and I talk about what a stud Jesus was. He`s the man! He`s our perfect example and I want to become more like Him. I know He lives and is our Redeemer, our Advocate with the Father. May we all feel of His love everyday of our lives. I love you all!
Elder Ovard