AP for a day🇯🇵🏆⛩ (Week 44)

Konnichiwa! How was everyone's week? I can't believe it's already p-day again. It feels like I just wrote! Elder Palomino and I have been way busy this past week and it has been quite the adventure. Last Monday we went to Yokohama as a District. Ate ate "La Salsa", hung out at Landmark tower, saw the Pokémon center, and took some sweet pictures. If you ever decide to come to Japan, I would recommend Yokohama. On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, we just did the normal missionary stuff like walking around and talking to all kinds of people. Always fun. On Friday, we got to go up to Kichijoji on splits with the AP's (Assistants to the President). Elder Palomino and Elder Hemi went with a guy they baptized last year to the temple for his first time. I wasn't there, but I'm sure it was a way cool experience haha. Meanwhile, I got to go on splits with Elder Nelson (my trainer's trainer (my grandfather)) and Elder Gonzales (our newest AP, who arrived the same day). It was a way cool experience, especially because the AP's are generally considered to be the best of the best, and they did not disappoint. We talked to tons of people and found several new investigators. Good stuff. We spent that night in Kichijoji and headed back home Saturday morning. We then had a huge missionary blitz with all the missionaries from the Yokohama North and South zones. We were able to talk to tons of people there as well. It's been a good week for dendo my friends.

One of my lessons learned this week has definitely been the importance of working with the members. Church leaders say over and over again that member-missionary work is the best way, but sometimes we still fall into the habit of missionaries feeling like it's their job only to find people to teach and member just kinda do their thing and never invite anyone. As Elder Palomino and I have been doing our missionary thing this, we have been visiting members homes nearly every day and
inviting them to invite their friends. As missionaries serving on a base, we are very limited as to what we can do to find people to teach so our biggest resource is the members! Luckily, we have the best
members in like the whole world in our Ward here in Yokosuka. We have been able to meet and talk to so many people that are found through the help of the Ward members. I guess what I am getting at here is that, for all you missionaries out there who are reading this, don't be so selfish as to think that finding people is your job only. Talk to and work with the members! They are our greatest resource. And for all you members out there, it's not the missionaries job to do all the finding. You know the people around you far better than anyone else. Go out and invite! When everyone works together, we will see miracles.

Thank you for all the wonderful emails. I love all of you and love hearing from home. And yes I love all you missionaries out there who write me as well lol. Everyone keep on keepin' on. This is Elder
Sadler, signing off until next week. 皆さんを愛しています!

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