Week 100: July 1, 2018 - July?

Hey everyone!

It honestly feels like just yesterday that I emailed, which is crazy!

Our apartment is keeping all of the missionaries, and the zone as a

whole only switched 6 out of 24, so now that the craziness of

transfers is gone, we should be settling back down. With a new Mission

President! President Mack and his wife came over the weekend, and are

now the Lords mouthpiece for the Japan Fukuoka Mission. We don't get

to meet them until next week, at the meet the president tour, but it's

both normal and odd at the same time. Really normal, because both

President Mack and President Egan were simply conveying the will of

the Lord. But odd, because President Egan is gone, and I now get to

reflect over everything he taught me. Thankfully, we have lots of

study time to do so, and I'm sure it will last a lifetime.

Besides that switch, one of the fun things that the Tsuboi ward did

last week was to have a Nagashi-somen party, which translates to

running noodles (I think). The video should be self explanatory, but

we got to meet with all of the members, and eat noodles and socialize,

which I think was really good for us.

That's one of the things that we need to be focusing on, because in

reality both members and missionaries are doing the same grand

redemptive work. One of the miracles we saw this week wasn't a

referral, but talking to one of the older members about other people

who used to come to church. Elder Burr and I were able to visit one of

them, Oyama Kyodai, and it was just a spiritual experience. You can

tell that the gospel, when truly lived, changes your heart and

elevates it unto God. It gives you a purpose, a reason, and the means

to accomplish them. It is comfort in times of need, and joy in times

of sorrow. Of course, these things take effort, but one you have

engraved them into who you are, people can see that. Just a cool

experience to get a glimpse of how a God sees him.

Besides that, just a standard week doing the best work in the whole

world! Kumamoto is the best!

Love you all,

Elder Woodhouse