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| Elder Mckenzie (left) with unidentified sister and Elder Heaton |
Thanks for all your love and support in the Nagoya
Mission. I really appreciate your
sacrifice to be here.
I wanted to tell you about Yamazaki Yuya. He is 11 years old. He is like a comedian, so funny. I first met him on an exchange with Elder
Heaton. We talked to him on the street. Later
on the sister missionaries met his dad, who is less active, housing. Because of that, they both came to church.
From then on, we started teaching Yuya and we set a
baptismal date. Eventually it was time
for him to get baptized, and we scheduled an interview on Saturday. Because of circumstances we had to get Elder
Tolman and Elder Tsutamori to come from Ueda.
But when the time for the interview came around, Yuya didn’t show
up. So we searched everywhere for
him. We went to his house, to the park
where he plays soccer, the park where we taught him and the sisters even went
to his school. He was nowhere to be
found. This was on the Saturday before
his baptismal date.
On Sunday morning, he came to church and he still wanted to
be baptized. So we got Elder Beal and
Elder Sorenson to come from Suwa. They
did the interview. Sister Wada and
Sister Nakatsuka helped make the program, and we cleaned and filled the
font. With a lot of help from everyone,
we got it all together.
The best part
was his dad got the Priesthood and got to baptize his son that very day. It was a sweet experience.
