みんなさんこんにちは!
Life is going well here. This past week I feel like we have had so many spiritual promptings. I will share one of them with you. So it's kind of hard to explain, but I'll do my best. So right now our main investigator's name is Ibata. He is progressing pretty well, but lately he's been having some problems with a friend of his. So this friend supposedly wants to become a "bad boy", but he doesn't have any friends to be a bad boy with so he's been trying to get Ibata to do it with him. Now, of course Ibata is trying to improve his life, not the opposite, so he has been telling him no! So this kid has started threatening Ibata, telling him that his father is in the the Yakuza (a dangerous Japanese gang) and he could mess with him if he wanted to. So, this has reallyyy been worrying Ibata, even one night to the point where he had to cancel a lesson with us because he was so nervous thinking about it. Then we had a lesson planned with him for yesterday evening. After church Elder Ogata and I were thinking about how we can best help him. I just out of nowhere said, let's get Eiki (who is an awesome youth in our ward) to be a member present with us. So we called him and got it set up. So, here's the amazing part. We got into the lesson and asked Ibata about how he's doing and how the problem was. He started showing us messages between the two and what was going on. Then out of nowhere, Eiki just said wait, who is this kid?? They then found out that the kid is actually someone in Eiki's grade in his school and that he has done this before with other people. Eiki told us that the kid's father is actually NOT in the Yakuza and that there is nothing to worry about. The look on Ibata's face was complete relief and happiness. For the rest of that lesson, I could feel the Spirit as strong as I ever had. So that story doesn't do it justice, but that was one of the biggest miracles I had ever witnessed. God directly gave us the inspiration that we needed to help our investigator.
That's all the time I have for today but I know that this work is real. I know that God lives and that the Spirit is real. Talk to you next week!
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