We had transfers this week and I am now companions with Elder Aiu. I actually stayed in Iwaki for this transfer, so not having a need to pack was a welcome change. This is actually the first time that I've stayed in an area for a transfer call since our new mission president got here this summer. I was pretty excited about that. There are a few different things that I want to do in this branch before I have to leave it. One is get their Family Home Evening program back up to what it was when they had senior missionaries here (for those that don't know, senior missionaries are super-nice old people who have more than enough money to retire and decided to go on a couple-year vacation to help out the church in other areas. Or at least that's what they generally are here in Japan... :)). Anyway, when they left it sort of lost branch involvement. I'd also like to get more people to come to our new English class for young people. We've had as many as six people, but we think that it would be a bit more of a party if we had 15 or 20. :)
This week we've had a few lessons with people, but most of them didn't quite play out how they were supposed to. We're doing our best to invite people to Come Unto Christ and help them receive the restored gospel, but for some reason even our recent convert hasn't been coming to church lately. We also have a guy that might be referred to by some as an "eternal investigator" who likes meeting with missionaries and hearing about the gospel, but will frankly tell anyone that he will not be baptized into our church. So I guess we have work to do on a few different fronts.
Last (and maybe most important), we got to witness a miracle firsthand this week! One of the Sisters in my area hurt her knee pretty badly and had been told by a local doctor that she would more than likely need surgery. This information was shared with some mission leaders and they took her to Sendai where they could get a better idea of what the problem was. If she needed surgery it would more than likely be done in America and lead to a premature end of her mission. BUT, they got the MRI and the problem was nowhere near as serious as the first doctor had guessed. So not only did she not have to return home, but she's back in Iwaki! She is slowly but surely recovering and is still able to go out and share the gospel with people!! The moral of the story is that Heavenly Father protects his servants and that the work must go on. :)
Have a great week,
Elder Mitchell
P.S. This is something that I was taught how to do a couple weeks ago during a missionary training. I was pretty proud of it... I also took a few pictures of myself just now. :)
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