Hello!!
Yep this week was great!
Here is my letter I sent to President Nagano:
This week was super great. We saw so many miracles and I really feel like Joetsu is starting to move. On Monday as we were coming to the honbu (Mission office), we met a "sweet spot" investigator named Yuki in the eki (train station). We ended up talking to him and he decided he wanted to see the church. So we walked all the way to the church and chatted with him and then met Elder Munro and Elder Clark. Elder Broberg and Elder Clark ended up
teaching him and committing him to baptism. He was so prepared and such a great guy! It was amazing to see such a great miracle and meet some one who has been really prepared by the Lord.
Elder Bednar (He is one of the 12 Apostles of our Church. He traveled to Japan from Utah and met with the Missionaries in Tokyo. It is a very special thing to have him or any Apostle visit the missionaries and speak with them) was also great and I learned so much about letting the spirit guide. The spirit was so strong and it was an amazing experience to be in the same room as an Apostle.
On Thursday night we met a kokosei (Senior High School student) and he agreed to meet with us again. He gave us his phone number and said he would gladly meet again. We also had Hashimoto shimai at church today for the third week in a row! It's so exciting that she is coming back to church and enjoying it too! The best miracle of this week was Teru. We meet him at the Naoetsu Eki, kind of by accident but he was way excited to talk to us and super friendly. We actually met him while waiting for the Nagaoka elder's to come. When the other elder's got here, Elder Moore and Elder Broberg went with him back to the church and taught him a lesson and committed him to baptism and he has a date! His date is November 26th! Also during the lesson when they talked about baptism he was like "I want that." He is so prepared and we are going to meet with him as often as possible. Teru is so genuine and seems way excited about the church. I'm so excited to see Joetsu finally have a baptism! I can't wait to see Teru grow in the gospel and the happiness it will bring him. I also know that he will help the Joetsu group to grow and start their dendou (Mission) Fire!
Every day is getting better and better and I am so grateful for the opportunity to learn and serve the people here in Joetsu. It is such a great feeling to be apart of this work and to know that you are a tool in God's hands helping his work to progress. - End of letter.
As you can tell we saw some great miracles this week and I sat front row at the Bednar Choro conference and he looked me in the eyes. Yep way spiritual and I learned so much.
Next all that I can really think about right now is transfers. I am going to Kawagoe. That is in Saitama Zone. I will be white wash training (White wash is a term that missionaries use when they are going to a brand new area that others have not been to before and they start the work from scratch without any prior leads or knowledge of the area)!! This is so crazy. I'm going to an area I have never been with a companion (His new companion will be coming strainght from the mission training center in Utah having never been in Japan before. Mason will help him with his in country training and getting use to being in Japan and being a missionary) who has also never been to
Japan and who also needs to be taken care of for a while and I don't even know Japanese. Hahahah I'm a bit nervous as I have never been to this area, but I am so excited. We will see so many miracles and grow together so fast. I am very excited for this opportunity and I know my Japanese and everything else as a missionary will grow.
It's been getting pretty dang cold on the daily these last few weeks. I'm way loving it here. I was hoping I would get to see the snow in Joetsu cause apparently it's pretty crazy out in the Niigata zone but I guess not now that I am transferring to the city.
Oh also exciting news, today while riding my bike I got hit by a car. Hahahah Me and my back are 100% fine and I didn't even fall over or anything. The guy driving was waiting to turn and then right as the oncoming traffic cleared up we were biking through and he didn't see us at first but then when he did notice me in the middle of the street he hit whiskey throttle and accidentally stepped on the gas Hahahah then the brake. But basically it ended up so perfectly that the first thing hit was my calf. Basically momentum caused me to sit on the hood of his car with my bike in between my legs for about 2 feet. It was pretty neat. He was pretty shaken up but nothing like what I saw in Vegas (The night before Kyle's wedding, a guy was sitting at a stop light and the people next to him were taking shots at him out the window. In panic he hit his gas and came flying through the intersection at our car and just missed us. When the poor man got out of his car, he was in shock so bad, he fell to the ground and was pretty out of it. - That is what Mason is referring to) so we were all good. Also my leg feels the same as when you get kicked in soccer and it's just kinda sore for a few days but that's all.
hahahahahahhaha Adventures in Japan neh?
Love,
Elder Bloomfield
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