What`s up everyone, hope all is well! This week we had lots of miracles. It is very different from the states. I feel God just throws us people sometimes out of nowhere and I feel the miracles we see often feel unreal with thoughts of there being no way that stuff could happen the way they do without some supreme powers hand in it all. We had some awesome lessons this week with our progressing people and some awesome finding experiences.
This week we got to go to Sushiro with Daiki and ate way too much food as always haha. He really wanted to try and read The Book of Mormon, which was awesome to see because that is definitely harder to come by than in America. This week I honestly felt like we were just getting tossed around. I realize that Japanese people are amazing but regardless there are good people and bad people, nice people and rude people, open people and secluded people anywhere you go. Amongst all of our interactions with people we had a really cool week though. It was already pretty dark and a guy with headphones passed us and we tried to stop him but he didn't look. My comp chased him a little bit and got his attention and it turns out like 10 years ago he talked to missionaries at a train station and had read half of the Book of Mormon but lost his copy. He was in a sad place over a breakup as well. I was able to understand and talk enough to give him another copy of the Book of Mormon which was probably the first time that on the street I have been able to give a Book of Mormon out with my testimony in Japan. It felt really good and then last night one after another near Narita san was super sweet and when our job as missionaries ended up coming up in conversation they were all super cool about us being Christians. One mom we were able to talk to for a good 25 minutes about a lot of stuff and she didn't want to stop. She started asking us about Justin Bieber haha. So that was way needed. We run into a lot of people that have no clue about us at all and are really nice and open but we also run into a lot that realize we are Christians and are told not to listen to us, which is annoying because sometimes I'm just trying to invite them to play ping pong with us haha. Anyways the language is coming slowly but surely. I still have a very long way before I feel comfortable but the start of understanding and speaking is arriving.
A lot of times here in Japan it's the little things that bring me happiness, like randomly running into an inactive high school student while biking and having him ride with us for 15 minutes or having someone simply tell us good luck and that they don't think our job is weird haha. Alongside the huge miracles that makes us scratch our head on whether something actually just happened or not haha, I am determined that the mission offers some of the best experiences someone can have in this life with the right mindset.
Jesus Christ Lives. He really did come down here and atone for all of mankind and I know he would have done the same thing for you alone. The Book of Mormon is true so although life can get busy try not to let it sit on the shelf along with your prayers. God wants to help you but you gotta ask for the help in order to receive it. If you can't feel the happiness you originally did at baptism or in the temple or when you got a testimony or decided to repent or on your own mission you can feel it again. You just gotta put in some effort and search for it! You have a great purpose right now in a plan that God who does exist has for you, so don't give up.
- Elder Parker
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