week 19

Here are some cool experiences we had this week! We have been working with Kume San who we knocked into a little ways back. We haven:t really been able to meet with her too much recently because she has been sick but we have visited her a few times to see how she has been doing and she was able to come to the church for a lesson yesterday! The last time we met, we invited her to be baptised and we set a goal for May 5th (remember my Miracles email? More on that later). Anyway, we had some members joint with us for the lesson and one of the members had just taught a lesson that day about how peoples; ancestors are pleading for their decedents to find this gospel. Kume San has had some unfortunate things happen in her family and when she was taught that she could do things for not only her salvation but also her ancestors; salvation, she basically promised us that she would be baptized and wants to be baptized as soon as possible! We have high hopes and are always praying for her! It was an amazing lesson.

I have a few things that continue to be reiterated as we continue to do this work. One of those things is that if you work hard, and then you work just a little bit harder, you will be immensely blessed. And it continues to manifest itself by some of the cool things that we get to take part in when we are warn out for the day and push to knock one more door or talk to one more person. We met a young 22 year old as basically our last contact on Sunday. He was interested, invited us back, and we are really excited to meet with him again. We had had a rough day where it felt like we were out talking to people because we had to. We stopped, changed our attitude, tried to do our best for the rest of the evening and we were able to see that blessing worked through us.

Now to revisit the "Miracle" email from last week. Another thing that continues to be reiterated more and more every day is how much of this work we don:t do. Nothing that we do is fault of our own; the best that we can do is be sharper tools in the hands of God and let him work through us. We had twenty minutes left one night and we were maybe 10 minutes from home so we say a small house with the light on and decided to stop and knock just that house. Of course we could have gone home early but we figured we had some time and wanted to do just that little bit more. We ended up talking to a wonderful woman for about 8 minutes or so about this message and gave her a pamphlet and she said that we could visit her next week. I know how much that wasn:t us. It was like we knew that she lived there and that she needed to hear from us at that time but it manifested itself in logical thinking of "we have just a few minutes left" and her house having the upstairs light on. I consider these things to be miracles. We are nothing more than tools in His hands, and I want to be as sharp as I can! It:s hard, it:s a lot of work, but it is worth it.

Brower Choro

Also, I:m really sorry but I haven:t been taking too many pictures lately... sorry! But, I will be getting pictures from the other elders next week before we get transfer calls and I will send you a bunch then. Japan right now is so pretty. All of the Sakura are blooming and the trees are everywhere and they are amazing. You all would love them! I:ll send pictures next week (Life scouts honor... that is a funny joke that we say sometimes because me and elder murphy only got our Life scout... "Life for life") Alright, until next week!

Brower Choro