Monday, October 10, 2016

October 10, 2016

Thanks for the email, sounds like everyone is doing well :) That's fun you get to do some extra conducting work on top of all the RS stuff...sorry you're so busy! Glad you're enjoying it though. So the melon soda float...the one I had was just melon soda mixed with calpis with vanilla ice cream in it. You'll have to try it someday!

So this week has been so good...on Tuesday we had splits with the ZLs (the other Elders in our apaato). We visited this less active guy named K Kyoudai who was super friendly. But we taught about prayer and how Heavenly Father loves him and wants to hear from him. He said he hasn't been praying at all recently, but he committed to pray every day and he prayed at the end of the lesson! In the prayer he gave thanks to the Lord for sending us his way. Super solid guy.

We taught R Kyoudai the word of wisdom while on splits. It went really well, he already knew kind of what it was, so really he just needed to verbally commit to live it. He did, and he even asked us to call him every day to follow up! It's super good that he wants to be accountable. We taught him again on Friday, we taught the 10 commandments and the Law of Chastity. He said he thinks the law of chastity seems like a really good thing, good for society. So golden. So we have taught him all of he commandments and he doesn't have any problems keeping them! We do have to get his parents' written permission for him to be baptized, but that's the last thing! Still planning on October 22nd. Please pray that there won't be any problems with his parents! :) They gave permission for him to take lessons way back when so it should be fine.

On the way to Eikaiwa on Wednesday we happened to be walking the same direction as this middle-school aged girl, so we talked with her for a while while we walked. It was pouring rain, and she had a tiny little umbrella that was totally busted. Mine was just fine, so I traded her umbrellas. I got totally soaked! Worth it though.

We had our 2nd new missionary meeting this week, in Morioka. It's about a 3 hour bus ride from Aomori. It was way fun to see all my doki again!! The meeting was super good. President Smith is so awesome. For the first part of the meeting, he talked to just the new missionaries (without our trainers) and we listed on a whiteboard everything that was surprising, and everything that went wrong. Then he invited our trainers back in and we talked about each item on the list. Then we talked about how different Christ-like attributes will help us to solve the problems we have. Rather than trying to change or fix our surroundings or others, we should just try and focus on being as Christ-like as we can.

General conference was so good! We had to wait until this week for them to translate it into Japanese so we could watch it at the same time as the branch, but we got to watch it in English in another room. It seemed to me that there was alot about member missionary work, and the Book of Mormon, and having joy. And it was cool to hear all the talks from a missionary perspective. Also, I think this is the first time in my life that I have watched all 5 sessions without falling asleep a single time! Amazing how much more you get out of it when you're awake.


So that's been my week! Nothing too exciting...between Morioka and general conference we had very little actual dendo time. But it's been good! Still livin' the dream!

愛してます!
パスケット長老
Elder Paskett

Some pics from すたみな all-you-can-eat Yakiniku!




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