My week was pretty great actually. It was a bit
difficult in some points but when i look back on it and think about it,
it was a great week. So we didnt find any new investigators while we
were acutally finding. That bugs me a bit. I have been really thinking
this week why the Lord is not letting us find those who are ready to
hear and stuff like that. IT was good to get reaffirming words from
D&C 122. It is for my benefit. But man, it was sure a bit of a trail
this week. I had everything going against me to tell me to give up or
not work my hardest. On Wednesday, on the way to church my tire popped.
That is inconvinent. My companion also was puking his guts out. That is
pretty inconvinent too. So we had that trail. Well on Thursday,
Thanksgiving, my comp was still puking his brains out so we were in the
Apartment all day. I called people adn worked in our area book for over 6
hours. That was way hard but this is where some of my joy comes from.
During that time, i had thoughts of like, you are tired and need a nap,
or just take it easy, you deserve it. I honestly was about to take it
easy and take a break. But then i remembered in PMG a part about
Diligence taht stats that you work effeciently, even without being
watched or supervised. I thought about that. Then i thouht to myself, i
am always being watched by God. I was thinking maybe this all happened
becasue God wanted to see how serious i was about finding new people to
teach, a test you know. I didnt take a break but i worked all day. While
i was calling pepole i got a reaffirmation that this work is Gods work
and it makes you happy. I was so happy even thought it was hard. But i
felt like i passed Gods test. On Friday my comp was feeling a bit
better, a good thing becasue we had a thnaksgivign dinner at an
americans house. It was so good. That was the first Thanksgiving dinner i
have had since 2010. It was so good. I think my stay in Japan has made
me more AMerican. Like before i hated stuffed potatoes but they were so
good. I am getting around cheese too. It isnt so bad. Man it was just a
great night. We also had american made pie. SO GOOD!!! ILOVE PIE!!! I
love eating at Americans house but at the same time i hate it. This is
the reason. We were on an American Embassy Houseing complex and we had
american food adn around americans and it was aweseom. But everytime i
looked outside, i could see rain, hundreds of people, and i knew that i
had to go out there and go back to work. I didnt want to. Everytime i
never want to becasue i feel like i am at home and what not. It is just
bad. But it was super good. It got me excited to go home. Saturday the
trails continued becasue the bike i was using, well the tire popped. The
2nd one this week. Talk about trails. But since i read D&C 122
i knew it was giving me some expirence. I also knew that we were going
to get some reliefe from this hard time too. Just needed patience. This
is where it gets cool.
On saturday night, we get a call from the sisters and
they told us they had a kinjin for us. We watched the Restoration
with him and testified to him big time. I testified to him about
Families and how much God loved him and how much he meant to us and to
God. I knew he was being touched by the Spirit. IT is so cool to see
people be filled with Joy. This man was so joyous and happy to hear what
we were telling him that it brought him to tears. This is the 3rd time i
think where this has happened on my mission that a person has started
crying becaseu they were so happy to hear. I knew that he was filling
the Spirit. His name is Hiro. Hiro went on to tell us that even before
he watched the Restoration, he knew this church was differnet becasue
when he saw all of our faces, he said "they are all different and have a
different light than everybody else on the street. You have a light
coming from out of you.". Isnt that cool? It was an awesome lesson. We
invited him to church and he accepted. Sunday morning we got a call from
him at 5:55. At 6:30 we got up and called him back, he had gone to the
church. He was so excited to go to church taht he couldnt sleep. He got
up, said a prayer, read from the Book of Mormon that we gave him the
night before, and got a feeling taht told him to go to the church. Well
we met up with him at 8:30 in the morning and watched "Finding Faith in
Christ". He loved it. After the movie was over, he randomly asked us
about Baptism. He said he saw Christ get baptized, and in the Book of
Mormon, they talked about Bapitsm. Then he told us, without us answering
his questions, that he wanted to be baptized. WHAT???? How cool is
that? He had studied it by himself and wanted it!!! FREAKING COOL!!!
We told him we would teach about it during church and turned on General
Conference. Well when President Monson stood up to speak, he looked at
me and said" This man has a very specail power that the others dont, who
is he?" I told him the prophet and he was way excited and said that he
knew it. We continued watching and he asked about what a temple is. I
told him and he resonded telling me that he wants to go to the temple as
soon as he can and he wants in. DUring his lesson, another way
spiritual one, we taught about the Doctrine of Christ. Well to be short,
he gave perfect answers for everything. He told us some way cool
things, way sad things, but we all felt the Spirit. We invited him to be
baptized on the 23 December and he accepted. Hiro is way prepared
by God. It is amazing. I am so grateful that i am worthy to teach him. I
think about what if i didnt work hard when my comp was sick, or if
i didnt work hard becasue we arent finding investigators, would i be
teaching this man? I know God was testing us to see if we can be
trusted. I am happy to say i passed the test and am a better person
becasue of it. It is amazing and i cant put everything into words. I
wish i could. It is just a miracle. Thanks for your prayers. On Sunday
night, we talked to some girls because if we didnt, it would of been
super awkward because we were walking down a dark path and they were
like 2 feet behind us and laughing. So we said hi and then the
conversation started. It was pretty funny. They were typical japanese
girls. Falling for the americans. It gave me confidnece though fro when i
go home. Hopefully i will be able to do just that when i go home. We
shall see.
Yup. That is my week for ya. Pretty exciting at the
last part. I have a list for mom of things i would like for Christmas.
Here it is: Cologne, Ties, Teeth Whiteners(strips to make your teeth
white), Money. That is what i have thought. Like i said, i get home 6
weeks after Christmas so some of things i wnat, i can wait til i get
home. But Cologne, Money, Ties, and Teeth Whitener woudl be nice. I love
you so much. I hope that you both have a greta week. I cant believe i
have only have 11 weeks left. TIme has gone by so fast. It jsut blows my
mind. I will be seeing you and mom in no time. You are going to love it
here in Japna. It is the best place ever. I love it here so much. I am
super excited to talk with you too on Christmas. That is in 4 weeks.
Crazy!!!! Well i hope you have a great week. Tell everybody i love them.
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