genki yo. this week has been really good i prob cant remeber all the good thats happened. i taught lesson one to a pi sitting on the curb. my japanese is improving, weve found lots of potential investigators and have helped or are in the process of getting people back to church not to mention the baptismal commitment im going to extend to tsunenari at 5 today.
so the work is going well here in the isahaya and the lord is really guiding it and leading us to people that need our help. heres a couple highlights. thursday night we visited kita shimai and she made us dinner. it was werid soup and stuff but delsicous. we taught her about thankgsgiving and being thankful so i invited everyone another member was there to say what they were thankful for, it went relly well and the spirit was really strong, great lesson. so no turkey or not much food but an amzing thanksgiving.
another highlight is going to a restuarnt with takayama an eternal investigator we met for the first time. shes way nice and loves the missonaries. she says to call her taka mama cause shes our japense mom. anyways she took us out and i had sukiyaki, way good and some raw egg stuff and this miso soup with a weird fish in it. it was all so good haha. shes really cool and im loking forward to lessons with her to come.
so i have a lot more stories and good stuff but ill share one that happened yesterday. a memeber yamasaki took us to the kuroda family that live far away. brother kuroda is active but the wife is not, anyways we vistied them and had an amazing lesson. elder reyes and i gave them the lesson we had to do for combined relief society and priesthood(which we only had 20 minutes to prepare for btw haha) anyways i shared one of my favorite scripts which ive already shared but mosiah 24 13-15 especially, Sister kuroda really need it. i shared my experience with that scripture, then reyes shared with her D&C 121 a great scripture as well. at the end we both gave our akashi(testimony) by the end both sister yamasaki and kuroda were crying. they were surprised and impressed with the power we had when we spoke and how strongly they could feel the spirit. they were impressed with how i could speak and the power i had. it was really cool, nobody has ever told me that before. anyways i didnt really do anything the spirit is what touched them, not me. i think thats an imprtant lesson. the spirit is the real teacher in any lesson desho? anyway that was areally a cool experience and sister kuroda was very genki afterword and promised us to come to church next week! it was so sweet.
its great to be a missionary her in isahaya. to be working as the instrument of the lord among the japanese people. what an amazing thing. life can be hard, it will be hard for absolutely everyone, theres no away around it, but we have the gospel the scriptures and our heavenly father to help us through hard times. it is our ONLY constant. and when those dark times of mist come and we cant see, we must blindly hold tight to it. i have a very strong testiomony of this. I know that God is our heavenly Father. that he loves each and everyone of us and wants to help us. he is there and he will comfort you, he will give you strength to keep going. we just have to ask. this is my testimony in the name of jesus christ Amen.
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