Monday, August 24, 2015

August 23, 2015

[ Mom's note: Today we had Tristan's farewell. He gave a wonderful talk. It was especially sweet to know about that very moment that helped him to decide to serve a mission. This is so tough. I can recall how hard it was when they both went to Heritage Tours last summer. Now it will be a whole year.....I will post Tristan's letters and updates on this blog as well.]

This week was a pretty good one, way busy though, still in the middle of training the Arrington Couple and trying to get everything else done for transfers kinda crazy but things are getting done and I am happy, was able to go on splits this week with the DL we  went in his area and was able to go and visit with a wonderful family and a nice guy was fun to be teaching lessons and doing stuff again can't wait till I have my full dendo time again but for now the 3 hours a day will work:) Also had zone Conference this week everyone got to see me get wrecked by the cinnamon challenge so that was fun! The AP's tied it into love and you can have the right ingredient for (cinnamon) but if you don't have the full recipe or use it wrong aka the cinnamon challenge, you don't get the same result like Paul's words "if you have not charity you are nothing" or something like that cinnamon we have right ingredient but in order to get cinnamon toast crunch we need the other stuff. yea it was something along those lines but yea those are all the highlights for the week!!

I love you all and hope that you have a great week!!!!

                                                                       1.Zone Conference    
                                                               
                                                                2. Zone Conference             
       3. Sister Yoshimura- her birthday was this week, she was trying to make my
face but a little different:)    

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Aug. 16, 2015

 Wow it's email time again. Time flies so quickly but I probably say
that like every week it was another good one here in the Honbu.
Highlights are probably a visit with an NA family, they had a bunch of
visitors so it was a lot of fun we were introduced to a lot of new
people so it was good a couple said that they would come to eikaiwa so
I'm excited for that. Next would probably be that we got to watch Meet
the Mormons again with all the members and investigators  in Japanese
it was pretty good but I think the movie is just better in English, I
think the stories of the different people were super good but the
beginning I don't think that anyone got any of the jokes with
references to movies and TV shows. But watching those football scenes
again made me really happy! And then today we went with a member to a
City called Otaru it's beautiful and we went up a mountain and then He
took us for ice cream and ya that was about it but it was fun!! I love
you all and hope that you have a great week!!
1. dtm lunch


2. New couple missionaries

3. Did the cinnamon challenge( it was for a good reason I hope it was
for the AP's zone conf. Workshop so it better be good because I
thought I was one and done with that freaking challenge.



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Aug.9, 2105

Hey everyone another week down in the Honbu! and it was a good one we had a lesson with an investigator, she is way cool and she has been studying the bible for 40 years and right now feels that there are 2 choices that could possibly be right and our church is one of them so hopefully we can get her to feel that it is our church through our testimonies. We were also able to meet with a Less active member and we had a good conversation there, and of course we had some really good time to get out and find people so that was fun too! Eikaiwa(english class) was great this week we had a lot of people come so it was super fun, we also had a sports night this week with a bunch if the youth in Sapporo, we played basketball and everyone was freaking out at how good me and Elder Horne were at basketball, we ball soo hard man!!

The Arringtons cam this week as well my financial replacement people and secretary replacement people as well. I still have the recorder job but we will see how long I stay it will either be for a really long time or it will be for a super short time is what everyone is saying and what I am thinking. but that is it for the highlights I love you all and hope you have a great week!! 

                                                                Zone Pics





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Aug. 2, 2015

Good week this week!! We were able to get out and do some work and we had one lesson this week that was pretty good we like through it all on the line for this guy his name is ishii, he is what is called an eternal Investigator, missionaries have met with him on and off for like 7 years, and before I came Elder Hishii and Elder Birch were trying to get him to come to church and see if they could help he come closer to Christ, but anyways back to the Lesson, Elder Hishii threw like everything out there it was so freaking good he was basically like " yo man do you understand why we are here and what we are doing, do you know what you can get from this if you put forth the effort, ARE YOU LISTENING man I Freaking love you and want you to put some effort in I love you and want you to receive all these blessings I have right now!"  That is probably the best I can explain it in english, but Yes it was just amazing I don't know what else to say, but if the end final result he is going to come to church this month. I was honestly blown away by that lesson, if you knew Elder Hishii its just like that is not his personality he is literally the nicest most humble person you know but when he was tearing this dude apart, that is a little strong but really, he was doing it because that is what he needs to progress right now. oh and I guess I havent said anything about Elder Hishii yet but he is from Kyoto and we have been on a mission for the same amount of time we are going home at the same time, pretty cool but, he is an amazing chef, super fun and willing to do what ever to get the work done and going faster, I love him and we are having a blast!!!

Dont have a bunch if time to Email this week but those are the highlights. Love you all have a great week!!!
 
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