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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