This week I had 35 plates of sushi in one sitting. It was pretty fun. The picture is a little bit before we actually finished, and the Elder I'm sitting next to is not actually my companion, because he sat at another table and didn't do the all-you-can-eat.
The work here in Morioka has been speeding up a lot lately! We unfortunately had to drop a baptismal date because Sasaki Kyodai's daughter doesn't like the idea of him joining a church. He is 87 years old, but we really wanted to baptize him. :( We have a couple new people that seem really promising though. One of our new people showed up to church on Sunday with a church address card and restoration pamphlet. He remembered meeting us but we didn't remember meeting him at all. We don't think that our failure to remember him showed... (Missionaries are not perfect :)) We had a great lesson with him and our recent convert, Brother Shibata, during the second hour of church and then another good one last night. We don't have a baptismal date with him yet but based on our conversation with him he believes that following the commandments and getting baptized will help him with some struggles that he currently has in his life. And it will! He's planning on coming to English class too. I think that part of the reason for our increased success is that we're praying not just to find prepared people, but for prepared people to find us. Our mission president asked us to do that at a recent zone conference.
I love you all and hope you have a great week!
Elder Mitchell
Sushi
My companion and I with Brother Shibata
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