Bring the World His Truth

Hello,    Yeah... we got dropped.  So, the last lesson we had with this person, we invited this woman to be baptized, but she thought she wasn't ready for that, and needed time to think.  Because she goes to Kagoshima a lot, we weren't able to meet up for almost a month.  In that time, I think doubt crept in and she had lots of time to contemplate on that.  At the last lesson, she said that it would be something she'd want to do and knew it was important, but wasn't ready for a date yet.  So this time when we met, she said that even though she stumbled a bit with what words to use, the day before the lesson she realized that she was happy with where she was in life, and I think that finding out what baptism meant during the lesson probably got to her.  She told us that she was predetermined to stop lessons before she came to this lesson, so, I'm kind of sad about that.  Even though we love people and desire their salvation, some...

Hey,    So it's been a nice short week in Amami.  Well, first, let me start off with leaving to Kagoshima. Well, our boat ride wasn't the best boat ever, but it was alright.  This one was from the company Marix Line, and the economy is a bit worse than the other A Line boat.  Remember how I said that the boat ride had a block of stiff foam covered in leather, which I called "The Brick", well, that was still there, and the blankets were thinner than the other ones.  Unfortunately they still smelled like they hadn't been washed in a while.  The worst thing was the fact that they had no dividers.  Everyone is sleeping next to each other, and there is no stopping from the person next to you rolling on top of you while you're sleeping.  It was at least better than standing up though... every time we would take a step it was almost as if we were drunk.  Well, when we arrived in Kagoshima, we were picked up by the senior couple mi...