there's another place in the world like Japan. Only two percent
Christian, but some of the most Christ-like people you'll ever meet.
Then you meet the members of the church and its x10. It's great!
It was a bit of a disappointing week because many of our investigators
with lots of potential are so busy they can't meet with us very often.
It stinks! But the big focus right now is on member work. Here's a
crazy stat:
0.1% of people found through missionaries' personal finding efforts go
on to get baptized. 60% of referrals given to the missionaries from
members are baptized. That's crazy!
So, we have been trying really hard to work with and build the
testimonies of the members here. I talk about Bishop Fukawa a lot, so
you probably all know he's awesome. But, we have been discussing with
him how to get the other members into it, too. He tells us that he
feels sometimes like he's the only one here that wants to be involved
with the missionary work. Mostly everyone else is old and doesn't want
to share the gospel. We need to change that! But probably my favorite
part of the week was that three of the less active young men that
we have been working with came to church on Sunday! It was awesome and
everyone was way happy to see them there. There is normally only one
young man and no young women that come every Sunday so we're gonna get
them all re-activated and on missions! We are starting up an English
tutoring service here and we think that will help us find a lot of
"sweet spot" aged kids who want to learn English or help with their
homework. Pretty excited for that! President and Sister Nagano are on
fire right now. It's pretty awesome to see the revelation and ideas
they are receiving to help the work here.
I know this church is true! I love the gospel and being able to serve
the Lord. Work with the missionaries and help this work move forward!
Talk to you next week.
Oh, and next week is Temple p-day so I'll be emailing on Wednesday.
Love, Elder Snyder
There's a ramen shop here with a spicy ramen challenge. If you eat
level 5 you get to put your name on the wall. Of course, I had to do it
and got to put my name on the wall of fame:
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