Faith in Failed Appointments and Former Investigators

This past week Nagamine Shimai and I hit our year mark together! It was super fun being able to celebrate it together. I can't believe it's already been a year since I entered the MTC. Time is flying faster than I can keep track. This past Monday we had scheduled to do a FHE with one of the Families on base but it ended up falling through when they got super busy and called us a few hours before the appointment to cancel. At first, we were a little disappointed, but if there is one thing I've learned out here, it's that failed appointments almost always lead to miracles! So with that attitude, we said a prayer, a re-planned our evening. We felt good about going up to a specific part of town, and I actually had one street that popped into my head, so we decided to go with that. Let me just say, it was some of the best finding I have ever done on my mission! It seemed like every single person we talked to was there for a specific reason. We were able to have a ton of really good conversations with people, gain like 4 potential investigators, and 1 new investigator, and have a wonderful visit with a less active to finish off the night. Failed appointments are really just blessings in disguise! Another cool miracle of this past week happened because of the other sisters that I live with. Sister Olsen, my roommate has actually been locked inside the apartment for the past week and half because she caught pneumonia. This has led her and her companion to have time to go through our entire area book and call a bunch of former investigators. They made an appointment with a man named Takeshima. Turned out that by the time the appointment rolled around, Sister Olsen still wasn't feeling good enough to go out so we did a companion exchange I ended up going to the appointment with Sister Pinzon. The first meeting we had with him was really good and he let us know that he had been really struggling lately with his life and purpose and just a lot of trials that have come up. When he recieved sister Pinzon's phone call out of the blue, he felt like this was his answer to his problems. He was able to attend a baptismal service on Saturday and come to church yesterday. Because of Sister Olsen's continued sickliness, we've actually ended up being the missionaries teaching him, and yesterday when we tried to make a goal for baptism with him his only real concern was that it would be embarassing to have so many people there watching him. He said if it was only us, and the person performing the baptism, he would do it. So now, we've just got to convince him to let a few more people attend the service, and I think we can set a date with him! Anyway, there's miracles happening every single day here. Okinawa is the best place to be. Even though I literally have sweat dripping off my nose when talking to people on the streets, there is no where else in the world I would rather be right now and I'm so happy to have this opportunity! Hope everyone enjoys their 4th of July weekend and remember to be grateful for religious freedom! Sister Wells