This week, as far as things that
happened:
- We had a ping pong tournament with the youth in the ward. Lost.
Turns out Japanese are really good at ping pong. Who knew??
#StereotypesAreTrue
- Shared a message about Love with a part member family for FHE. You
can learn a lot from 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
- Had a fun district meeting and at the end, ate fermented soy beans
for some district unity
- Invited someone to be baptized the first time we met him and he said
that it would be something he wanted! It was awesome! But
unfortunately he wasn't there for his return appointment
- Shout out to my dad for his birthday on the 24th
- Got a taste of what it was like to do missionary work in America.
Had a lesson with someone in English for the first time on my mission.
- Got to be farmer joe and pull some weeds in a garden for an English
class student who then treated us to some good Barbecue Japanese style
- Taught a sudden lesson on prayer to a really cool family we met last
week. Awesome family of 5 that we hope we get to meet again.
- Made friends with a wild boar
That was my week! On a more personal, non-bulleted level, I've learned
a lot about becoming rich from collecting small flecks of gold. There
is a Mormon message about it but, if you haven't seen it, the moral of
the story is that if you are looking only for golden nuggets you will
miss out on making yourself rich from the small flecks of gold you
passed up. If we accumulate these small flecks of gold, overtime, we
will be rich. As with most things, there can be an analogy drawn from
this relating to missionary life and for that matter, life in general.
Big miracles happen and yes, there are golden nuggets to be found but
most of the time, on my mission at least, there have been small things
that have made all the difference. Small things such as handing a Book
of Mormon to someone, even if they aren't super stoked to read it. Who
knows what will happen to that book but the fact that they have it in
their house is a small flecks of gold. Being able to leave a good
impression of the church and Jesus Christ with people as you talk to
them on the street or at their door. Small flecks of gold.
I'm becoming a rich missionary. And I am grateful for this mission.
Brower chourou
- We had a ping pong tournament with the youth in the ward. Lost.
Turns out Japanese are really good at ping pong. Who knew??
#StereotypesAreTrue
- Shared a message about Love with a part member family for FHE. You
can learn a lot from 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
- Had a fun district meeting and at the end, ate fermented soy beans
for some district unity
- Invited someone to be baptized the first time we met him and he said
that it would be something he wanted! It was awesome! But
unfortunately he wasn't there for his return appointment
- Shout out to my dad for his birthday on the 24th
- Got a taste of what it was like to do missionary work in America.
Had a lesson with someone in English for the first time on my mission.
- Got to be farmer joe and pull some weeds in a garden for an English
class student who then treated us to some good Barbecue Japanese style
- Taught a sudden lesson on prayer to a really cool family we met last
week. Awesome family of 5 that we hope we get to meet again.
- Made friends with a wild boar
That was my week! On a more personal, non-bulleted level, I've learned
a lot about becoming rich from collecting small flecks of gold. There
is a Mormon message about it but, if you haven't seen it, the moral of
the story is that if you are looking only for golden nuggets you will
miss out on making yourself rich from the small flecks of gold you
passed up. If we accumulate these small flecks of gold, overtime, we
will be rich. As with most things, there can be an analogy drawn from
this relating to missionary life and for that matter, life in general.
Big miracles happen and yes, there are golden nuggets to be found but
most of the time, on my mission at least, there have been small things
that have made all the difference. Small things such as handing a Book
of Mormon to someone, even if they aren't super stoked to read it. Who
knows what will happen to that book but the fact that they have it in
their house is a small flecks of gold. Being able to leave a good
impression of the church and Jesus Christ with people as you talk to
them on the street or at their door. Small flecks of gold.
I'm becoming a rich missionary. And I am grateful for this mission.
Brower chourou
Happy Easter
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