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Little America (Week 24)

Another week of miracles in Japan! Not much time to write today, but that's okay because everything eventful that happened this week, happened within a span of like 2 days. So I'll get right to the point.
Monday through Thursday was spent doing a lot of streeting and a lot of housing. On Thursday, we had zone meeting. It went really well. I was able to learn a lot and receive some personal revelation for myself as a missionary. Directly after zone meeting, Elder Duke and I got the opportunity to go on splits with the zone leaders, Elder Carrasco (from Mexico) and Elder Gonzales (from Columbia). The cool part is that our zone leaders just so happen to be in the Fussa area (basically tiny America) which is where the Fussa Air Force base is, so we got to talk to a lot of Americans. All of them were also in the Air Force so it was a way cool experience. I hope I will be able to serve in that area one day down the road. Anyway, I will move on to one of the miracles we saw while I was with Elder Carrasco. So we were heading home at like 8:30 on Thursday night and we said hello to one
guy on the side of the street. He said hello back and we asked if he was out for a walk. He said he was currently working and pointed to the sign above his head. Turns out he was a bouncer standing outside the front door of a club lol. Long story short, we talked to him and he's coming to church on Sunday! Immediately after that, we were once again heading back and said hello to one last guy on the other side of the street. He said he just got off work and asked if we knew anywhere good to eat. We said there was a really good Mexican place just down the block and he invited us to go eat with him. So of course, we were like yea! Let's go! So we ate some real Mexican food (very rare in
Japan) and taught him a lesson over dinner. It was way awesome! 9pm rolls around and we realize we gotta go so we get up and put on our Jackets and by that time, he had already paid for our dinner.
Miracles left and right! Anyway, we trade contact info, set up next appointment, and invite him to church. He was way down to learn more. Awesome!

That's about it for this week. God's hand is in every aspect of our lives, we just gotta look for it! Everyone out there reading this email, keep being awesome! Look for God's hand in your life. I promise it's there. Until next week, 愛しています!

サドラー 長老


Musashino South Zone Meeting (with lunch made by the Morgans)
Zone P-Day

 "Okay let's take a funny one!", "wait, the last one wasn't funny?"

Everyone loves a selfie

What's better than one selfie? Two selfies!

Beautiful Thunderbird I found in Fussa

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