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September 24, 2018 – Elder Jackson Burton
Hey
Everyone!
This week was awesome! There
were a lot of miracles! On Wednesday we tried a new method of Dendo where we
made a big sign that said "Do you think God exists?" in Japanese,
with Yes, No, and Why? written on it. Then we stood outside the eki (train
station) and asked people who walked by whether they believed in God and to
write why or why not. It was super great! We were actually way surprised
because we had a ton of people say yes, they believe in God, with all sorts of
different answers for why. Only one person who wrote on the board said no, so
it was cool to see how many people believe in God, which I think also
influenced some people who were kind of on the edge to say yes. The best part
was we found a new person to teach, and he's from Algeria! He couldn't even
read the sign, but he asked us what we were doing and when we told him he said
yes, he strongly believes in God because he's Muslim. He's married to a
Japanese woman and just moved to Japan a month ago. He's a really nice guy, and
speaks really good English. He said he loves learning about other churches and
believes in Jesus Christ and all the prophets in the Old Testament. We met with
him yesterday and taught the restoration and he thought it was really
interesting and really wants to read the Book of Mormon. As he keeps
progressing I'm not sure exactly how it's going to play out but we'll do our
best to help him come closer to Christ. On Friday we got another person to
teach that the sister missionaries passed to us so that's exciting as well. For
the past couple weeks we've been struggling finding new investigators so this
week was a real blessing.