July 12, 2015
[Mom's note: I think this is his longest email so far ;) ]

One week down in Honbu with the new Responsibilities and everything went great I was able to get the work done pretty quick and we were able to get out there and get some good work done found a lot of really nice people and hoping that when we go back that we can get some great opportunities to share the gospel.

This week we had ZTM and our ZL's gave us 2 great workshops the first one was on doctrines, principles and applying those in our lives as well as the the people that we teach emphasizing the use of the book of Mormon, and the other was on listen to people it was really good the Mogi (role-play) that we did was really good and I learned a lot from it, we have a lot of investigators in Japan where ever you are that have just one problem and the mogi helped remind us that listening and asking the right questions are super important. 2. You ask Mr. B (who is investigator of Elder) what he thinks about Christ. He said, ?I believe that he was certainly a great

teacher. I enjoy reading his teachings in the Bible. But I am not for sure about his being a son of God and his atonement. 4. You are talking with Sister D (less active for 2 years), she says, ?I don?t quite understand the Book of Mormon. I don?t get too much out of it. So, I don?t enjoy it very much.

These were the two mogis that I did.

I also had an opportunity to give a talk in Sacrament yay!! Always nervous and this ward is an actual sized ward and everyone knows more people equals more scary right??! But it was all good had a lot of help from the lord and spirit so everything went great, this is my talk.

Self intro

-Family, #, age, Little brother has mission call to Fukuoka

-Japan Stuff, How Long: 8 Months, Areas Asahikawa 3 Months Kitami 4.5 Months, and Hakodate 3 weeks

-Favorite Food, Katsudon and sukiyaki

-Hobbies, sports especially Football

-Excited to work in the Kotoni Area, With Kotoni Ward

Message

Akashi

What is Akashi?

Scripture Guide , First sentence after that Alma?s Testimony, Alma 7:11-13

How can we obtain Testimonies like this??

Gekiteki and teikiteki na experiences talk about that.

GoDoy?s Story

Alma the Younger

                -Gekiteki Change

                -Teikiteki Teachings

Getting your own testimony is important but even more important than that is sharing it with all the people around you

Lastly Alma 29:9-10 Share

                -From This Scripture through sharing our own Testimony we can bring others to the joy of the Gospel, as well as remember the joy we felt at our own Conversion.

Akashi

Iesu Kirisuto no mina ni yotte o hanashi Akashi itashimashita Amen.

If you don't know a word good luck with Language study:) After church we also had an amazing activity we taught about missionary work then we split up with members and young men and did some Missionary Work!!!! It was way fun!

But those are the Highlights of the week hope everyone has a great week!!!

                                        Japanese King size LOL!!!                              

  ( Mom's note: king size candy bar in Japan is the normal size candy bar in the U.S.)

                                    

                                                        we climbed another mountain yay!!!