July 30, 2018

Email July 30, 2018 – Elder Jackson Kunzler Burton

Hey Everyone!

                  This week was great! The highlight happened yesterday, we met this college student couple on the street who was super interested, they'd actually been to a different Christian church once and they agreed to come to our church this next Sunday! We told them a little about why there are so many churches and about the Restoration and gave them Books of Mormon. It was one of the best conversations I've had on the street since being in Japan. It was also cool because our daily goal for finding new people to teach is usually one, but yesterday we decided to go for two, and we got it! It was a huge blessing, I'm really excited to see them at church next week. Coming to church is one of the biggest challenges for a lot of the people I've taught, if this couple comes it'll be the first people I've had at church since my second transfer so I'm really hopeful. We also had a few other good lessons this week, one with an English student, Yuu, who's interested, which went really well and one with Hamamoto who we've been teaching for a while. He understands what we're teaching and likes it, and is totally up to do personal commitments like reading the Book of Mormon and praying, but he doesn't want to come to church for some reason so we're trying to help him over that hurdle. We also had a festival on Saturday which was way fun! It was for the community around the church, so the missionaries and a few members volunteered to help with the food and set up. It was way fun, and they had fireworks afterwards too which was super fun. I'll send pictures. In other news we've had a less active member who we visited come to church for the past couple weeks which is awesome. It's good to see people come closer to Christ, whether it's coming to Him for the first time or coming back. I know God loves all His children and He will always be happy when we turn to Him. Love you all! Have a great week!

Love,

Elder Burton