What... is.... up guys! This week was crazy and filled with many awesome experiences. I am officially deep within the 6 months to sexy phase of my mission, so me and my frail body brought my concerns of shire weakness and lack of effortless seducing power which is usually strong with me to the president's wife. Luckily I have been blessed with an absolutely loaded mission president who understands my concerns and sent me some supplies. I have been able to run quite a bit these days too and have been feeling way better mentally and physically in doing so. It's a good way to release my fury built up from winter and people's lack of ambition and pathetic wills. Anyways, to place a cherry on top I found this drink that I cannot go without. Its packed with crazzy amounts of vegetables and tastes like straight tomato soup. Its actually quite disgusting and I'm probably the only one dumb enough to buy them at the convenient stores. However, they make you feel great. What makes you feel greater then them though..... well that's the temple which I was able to go and do an endowment session at in Tokyo last week. It was an absolutely amazing experience and one that I will not forget. Out of the 3 times I've done an endowments session this time I was by far the most prepared and ready for it. The spirit was strong and I felt comfortable there. Walking out of the celestial room the only thought in my mind was that I would back.
Following this we went to the mission home to eat. Knowing that all missionaries care about 80% of the time is food our mission mom whipped us up some delicious food. It was gone before I could tell what it was but man was it good. Then the zone all split with someone who wasn't their companion to blitz downtown Tokyo. Oh my goodness that was the funnest night of my life. I got off at Ginza Eki which was definitely the play because no other missionaries where right there. Anyways me and the Elder I was with just split up staying within the same general area and did what we do best. Ended up talking to a bunch of drunk people which was the funniest thing ever. They wanted me to go drink with them but instead I declared the word off God upon them and called them to repentance. Then that night we all gotta stay in temple houses which was sweet and have ZCM DCM and interviews there. Anyways we came back and on Friday we ran exchanges with the APs which was so fun. I was with Elder Inuoe and he has a car😏. You should've seen me drifting through intersections while that one song from Tokyo drift automatically started ringing in everyone's ears as we passed by. We were able to see a lot of success and have a lot of funny things happen. It was my first time ever being offered money by a Japanese person while they were driving. That honestly blew my mind. Then AP Sama went outside of my boundaries as I don't talk to females here no matter what and gave some Jesus pamphlets away. We ended up seeing one of them again with like 10 friends as she is showing the pamphlet to them either all being interested or laughing at us. But then out of nowhere there's these "gangsters" on skateboards outside the Eki and a cop comes out and just shoots one. No I'm joking cops here don't have guns so he just squeaked out a please stop and they all ran into the station and so I said "hello" to them and then they started skating in the station and I was thinking wow this is so cool but the station people didn't think the same and then they just got mad at everyone and we were right in the middle of it all. It was great.
Then on Saturday we went to Maebashi with our investigator Ki San and had a gyouza party that was really good and a lot of investigators came. Not 1 member decided to come so we funded that out of the old MSF pocket which hurt but was worth it, 2 people sliced their fingers while going ham on some cabbage also, which was kind of funny because there okay.
I'm starting the talks of conference from Sunday now so I am really excited for those over this next coming week.
My testimony is strong, stronger then ever. We don't see a lot of success and its hard, and we try so hard to see success and do the best we can. However, I know God is proud of my own conversion and am grateful to share that with people as much as we can every day. This time in my life like no other time I see things with a completely different perspective and with an entirely different way of thinking. I can't express even a sliver of it through an email, however, so your just gonna have to trust me!
Until next time - Elder Parker
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