September 1

FAMILY LETTER TIME!

 

HI EVERYONE! :D Big news! This week we were not able to baptize our investigator, unfortunately Her husband's heart has gone to critical hardness. :/ HOWEVER, my good friend from the MTC and his trainer were able to baptize a part member family. So we were very VERY lucky to see a baptism kai this Saturday. It truly was special. I don't know if i can express how different everything really is here in Japan. I got to sing I know that my redeemer lives in Japanese to our new member :3 It truly was an amazing night.

 

There is still hope for our investigator always. We'll do our best to help her husband feel the spirit. Everything will be ok, I know it. Well, a baptism is about as exciting as one can get in a week, so let's see if i can keep typing to everyone. In FHE *YSA* we got to share some scriptures. An elder shared an amazing one that I missed somehow while reading through the BOM. It's Alma 29:14-16, I don't have time to type it all out, so you'll have to read it yourselves~ It's all about rejoicing in others successes. I can truly testify that when we want others to succeed, (instead of wanting them to fail) we are avoiding pride, and achieve more happiness in this life. It could be little things, or big things. I'm happy that my good friend was able to get a baptism. I'm happy that someone was able to get baptized. I'm excited that my shimai friend was able to give a great lesson in Japanese. The blessings are endless.

 

In more news~ We have a new investigator~ She has a pretty interesting daughter, which makes teaching lessons very hard, but we do our best to feel the Spirit. She has a lot of interesting questions and it really seems that she wants to listen to us. We are great friends as well, so when we leave it might be a bit difficult. But she loves Missionaries whoever they are so let's hope that we can teach her something she won't ever forget.

 

We were able to get in touch with another investigator, unfortunately his story is a bit sad. He might not be able to see the next month due to terminal cancer in many places in his body. We are doing our best to make him happy and teach him some wonderful lessons about peace and love. He won't receive baptism for various reasons, but that doesn't mean we just give up. I hope to be able to talk to him some more.

 

How about some interesting Japan facts? There are a TON of different kinds of tea here. Apparently we can drink mugichya (wheat tea) and it's ok with the word of wisdom... at first it tasted like it looks. Dirt. But now I'm slightly addicted XD haha, nothing beats a nice cold cup of mugichya. I also think I ate tiny shrimp in a salad... at first I thought the little black dots were pepper... nope. They were eyes.

 

I was talking to my district leader a bit about his areas and where he's served. His first area only had about 3 active members in the ward... not sure if that makes it a ward... anyway. Let me just say how grateful I am for the church members. Missionaries would be nothing without them. Their strength lifts us up in hard times. If only they knew what kind of influence they have on the Lord's work, the whole world could change. I love my area, and I hope that whatever happens in transfers that I'll be happy. I love everyone here, but I wanna meet new people. I love all of you, and I hope everyone is doing great. Unfortunately my 20 minutes are up :D so I must be off. Until next week. If you want a letter, just ask~

 

and guess what...?

 

The Church is TRUE!

Love you!

-Money Shimai