This week was pretty bomb spectacular if you ask me. We had a couple of exchanges this week which spiced things up a little bit. First was my third kokan (tying him with Elder Smith and Elder Mueller for the most times I have gone with splits on someone officially in my mission) with Elder Nakamoto and while it was short because it was after Zone Conference (my last one as a missionary fun fact) but we had a good time talking to people on the street, even though our appointment for the night fell through.
Friday I stayed here in Fukutoku with a younger missionary Elder Hovorka. We planned to pretty much just talk to people most of the day so I could give him more experience in that regard but at night one of our investigators called us wondering if we could go out to eat. He had eaten with us before a few times but when we brought up us being missionaries it wasn't that successful in the restaurant environment. So, we ate with him close to the church and afterwards we were like, "Our church is right across the church by the way. Let's go see it!" So, with our friend Ito San we gave a church tour and when we showed him the baptismal font he was asking a bunch of questions. During the middle of the explanation on baptism, someone called him and he told them that he was in a cool Christian place talking about this cool thing called baptism that can make you clean again. The person on the phone asked him if he was alright which was pretty funny to hear but he is a bro! We asked him if he would prepare to be baptized by the end of April but he said he would like to think about it. We will see what happens next week. It is just cool having stuff come out of the blue and then things going WAY better than you thought they would.
Thursday we met with Tatsuya (our hat shop friend) again and had a great lesson. We're
learning that we just have to keep the member helping us on a really
tight leash in the lessons and he helps a lot. If you give him too
much space he'll talk the whole time about how he's keeping the law of
chastity but not the Word of Wisdom (don't worry he has a plan to stop
in 1.5 years). Tatsuya has a lot of interest in the Plan of Salvation
and things are going well with him.
The coolest thing that happened this week though was last week. We were biking around in the southern part of our area trying to find a less active member's house when we stopped this guy named David from Canada. He invited us to go eat at McDonalds with him right there so we went and talked for a good hour. He asked us a bunch of questions and talked about not really have perfect faith which he thinks he why he hasn't gotten concrete answers from God before. That then led right into the message of the Restoration and so we got to teach that, in English which, by the way, is really, really weird at this point of my life. I was thinking that it would be nice to have an English BOM but I remembered when I was life transfer 5 I put an mini-English Book of Mormon in my bag tucked away so I pulled it out and we gave it to him. He is moving next week but it was SOO COOL! So random but we could feel the Spirit in hindsight just guiding us to him, even though he isn't Japanese at all. It is so cool that Heavenly Father loves us so much that he leads others to help us other in the time of need. I think that is why it is important that we follow the Spirit because we are the people that do the Lord's work, as priesthood bearers, or as missionaries, or as covenanted baptized members. We will never quite see how we helped people someone when we followed a prompting or went out of our way to do to something. So never do anything to quench the Spirit! We all need it in our lives and I pray that we can all be worthy of the Spirit and have Him lead us! I love you all and have a great week!
learning that we just have to keep the member helping us on a really
tight leash in the lessons and he helps a lot. If you give him too
much space he'll talk the whole time about how he's keeping the law of
chastity but not the Word of Wisdom (don't worry he has a plan to stop
in 1.5 years). Tatsuya has a lot of interest in the Plan of Salvation
and things are going well with him.
The coolest thing that happened this week though was last week. We were biking around in the southern part of our area trying to find a less active member's house when we stopped this guy named David from Canada. He invited us to go eat at McDonalds with him right there so we went and talked for a good hour. He asked us a bunch of questions and talked about not really have perfect faith which he thinks he why he hasn't gotten concrete answers from God before. That then led right into the message of the Restoration and so we got to teach that, in English which, by the way, is really, really weird at this point of my life. I was thinking that it would be nice to have an English BOM but I remembered when I was life transfer 5 I put an mini-English Book of Mormon in my bag tucked away so I pulled it out and we gave it to him. He is moving next week but it was SOO COOL! So random but we could feel the Spirit in hindsight just guiding us to him, even though he isn't Japanese at all. It is so cool that Heavenly Father loves us so much that he leads others to help us other in the time of need. I think that is why it is important that we follow the Spirit because we are the people that do the Lord's work, as priesthood bearers, or as missionaries, or as covenanted baptized members. We will never quite see how we helped people someone when we followed a prompting or went out of our way to do to something. So never do anything to quench the Spirit! We all need it in our lives and I pray that we can all be worthy of the Spirit and have Him lead us! I love you all and have a great week!
Elder Hall
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Ponderizing Scripture:
"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?...For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
-Romans 8:35-38
Monday Flashback:
"And then President Yamashita got up. He told us how that we were all great missionaries and that our light and examples have helped him build his testimony. We are always trying as missionaries to improve and to forget ourselves so it seems like a lot of the times, we have so many shortcomings and weaknesses. It was very humbling to hear all of the speakers express their gratitude for us missionaries and exteremely touching as with his tear-filled eyes, President Yamashita thanked us for the positive impact we have had on him. I felt my eyes tear up as well as I realized how much good I have been doing even when I always focus on wanting to improve, get better, and get rid of my shortcomings."
- Elder Ballard and the Parable of the Lost Wallet 2/22/2015
Picture:
My Last Zone Conference
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