Hello everyone. It is currently
11am on Monday morning and snowing outside (missionary snowball fights for days), here in the Land of the Rising Sun. It's been a pretty good week. Next level kinda cold and we've been biking through it like mad men, but I love every second of it! Honestly not a lot to report from this past week though. Just a lot of going out into the cold and talking to everybody. We also had the opportunity to attend Zone Conference this past
Wednesday. It was a lot of fun meeting up with all the missionaries and hearing from President Warnick. A lot about developing personal faith and trusting the Lord. Good stuff.
One big miracle we saw this week though, was with our good friend Kobayashi San. Now previous to this last Sunday, we had tried to reach out to Kobayashi San many a time, but with no success. Week after week we tried to call, and time after time, we were answered by the soothing voice of the nice Japanese lady that does the answering machines here in Japan. So, in accordance with Preach My Gospel standards, we kindly dropped Mr. Kobayashi and sent his Area Book records on their way. Then, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, this guy calls us up after church
on Sunday. He told us that he happened to get off work early that day and wanted to meet up within the next fifteen minutes. So, as any good missionaries would do, Elder Low and I skip lunch and hustle over to the church to meet with our potential candidate for a one way ticket straight to the Celestial Kingdom. So, we arrive at the church and our friend Kobayashi arrives shortly thereafter. We make our way to a class room and sit down to talk. By this time, I'm guessing we're gonna do a little get to know you and things like that, but no, this guy takes us straight into the Plan of Salvation and Baptism. He had met with some missionaries a while back, and he basically already knew the plan, so we talked about faith and baptism and invited him to be baptized right there. He said that if he comes to know that the Book if Mormon is true, he would like to be baptized. We invited him to read in the Book of Mormon and pray to know if it is true. We will be meeting again
next Sunday so hopefully everything goes well!
God is great. Trust in his plan and everything will work together for our good. Being a missionary and having the opportunity to teach about that is the best. Hope everyone has a great week and I look forward to hearing about it from all of you! The church is true!
-Elder Sadler
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| Some Bowling as a zone last week |
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| With ninja pants |
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| The sushi in the plates go round and round |
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| Fresh squid |
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| When you're pretty tall, but the other Elders make you look short |
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| Making mochi with the Harada Family |
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| Shabu Shabu with the zone |
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