Hey everyone!
I'll start out by
apologizing, there is a lack of pictures from the
past week. But, because
spring is coming up, and I'm in Japan, cherry
blossoms will bloom
soon! So keep posted, I'll make sure to send lots
of beautiful pictures
next week, or the week after, or whenever they
bloom.
With that said, besides
the photographic evidence to the contrary,
this past week has been
an amazing week! The biggest highlight is
probably the fact that
we had not one, not two, but three
investigators come to
church! Ippo, Kodzuma, and Idzuno all made it,
and they all benefited,
as might be expected. I'm not Japanese, and
Elder Erickson isn't
Japanese, but all the members are, and it helps
our investigators so
much to understand everything. But more that
literal understanding,
the feeling of church works miracles. Just by
coming, and feeling the
warmth and love, you can see that it affects
people, it makes them
want to learn more. It was a pretty big miracle
last week.
And in a similar
fashion, we had miracles basically all the time.
Kodzuma and Ippo are
both preparing for baptismal dates, and as part
of that, both of them
are in the process of stopping smoking. Having
never gone through it, I
can't compare how difficult it must be, but
both of them have found
help from the heavens, and will be able to
make their dates. And,
just in the past week, we have felt so much
love and help from the
members with them. Kinoshita Kyodai and
Suziyoshi Shimai
basically adopted our investigators, and so it's
impossible for them not
to feel loved, and impossible for them to feel
alone. More than
anything the help members can give has stuck out to
me, because it's exactly
what Christ would do if he were here.
I also got to see a
miracle on splits with Elder Christensen, who went
through the MTC with me
in the other district. So we are both pretty
new to this whole
missionary thing, but got to go out together in his
area, down in Kumamoto.
As part of that we taught one of the families
he has found, teaching
with a grand total of 11 months in the country
between us. But through
the grace and help of God, the lady we taught
felt peace and comfort.
I can promise that this is His true work,
because if it wasn't,
sending two 20 year olds out wouldn't work. You
wouldn't have hundreds
of missionaries going out in all types of
weather, 24/7, and
finding people ready to change, to improve their
lives for the better if
this wasn't true. God is in every aspect of
this work, and I love
having the chance to be even the smallest
instrument in his hand.
Love you all, thanks for
all the love and emails!
Elder Mitchell Woodhouse
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