Skip to main content

Plainer than white bread 🇯🇵⛩ (Week 86)

おはようございます! Hope everyone had a great week! Things haven’t been too interesting over here in this side of the world recently. I think that leadership has two sides to it: a ministering side and an administering side. Elder Jaeckel and I have definitely been able to see the importance of the administrative side this past week. With the beginning of a new transfer, zone conference coming up this week, and the various other leadership meetings we attend, needless to say, things have been pretty busy. Despite all those things though, we have been blessed to be able to get out and see the beauty of the Lord’s vineyard.

To start with, we’ve been able to talk to tons of people this week. The Lord is preparing people all the time and it’s always amazing to be led to those people and blessed to see the miracle. One way cool experience that happened this week was with our new homie, Fei. He is from China, fluent in Mandarin, Japanese, and English, and a hustler on the court. So our story begins two weeks ago with the usual Saturday morning game of basketball in the parking lot. We been able to get a pretty good group coming recently and one guy that heard about was the husband of a less-active member that the Sisters have been working with, our homie Fei. So he comes out last week, and let me tell you, this guy is an animal on the court. Draining 3’s and breaking ankles left and right. Anyway, he has a great time and then goes home and is talking to his wife and the sister missionaries who also happen to be there. He said that he felt something different with the missionaries and wanted to be able to join our “team”. So a week goes by and Fei comes out again to ball up. We have another great game and he he comes up to us and is just like, hey, I know you guys are busy and I don’t want to take up your time, but I feel something different with you and I want to learn. So of course we do what any good missionaries would do and say absolutely! So we sit down and have a lesson with Fei and he tells us about how his wife joined the church one year ago and how he wants to become a better father and husband and that he wants to learn about God. So we taught him about the nature of God and how He is our Heavenly Father and loves us perfectly. It was a great lesson and we will be meeting with him every Saturday after basketball from now on.

It’s been a blessing to be able to serve as a full-time servant of the Lord in Japan. The beauty of it all is that I don’t have to worry about myself any more. All I have to do is go out, preach the good word, and let the Lord work the miracles. The work is sweet, life is good, and I’m blessed to be along for the ride. I love you all and hope you all have a good week!

Elder Sadler

Didn’t take any pics this week, but here’s where I was a year ago lol.




Comments

Popular posts from this blog

MTC Week 1

Wednesday September 21, 2016 My p-day in the MTC is every Wednesday so expect emails then. I can read emails any day but I can only reply on p-day. I will admit, the first week of The MTC was really really tough. It was incredibly frustrating trying to learn the language, and trying to adapt to my new, very scheduled lifestyle. Since Sunday, I've been able to settle in a little more though and come to terms with having to be patient with myself as I learn the language and further learn the Gospel. On our second day in the MTC, we received our first investigator, Ohira san, who we have been teaching in Japanese! The first lesson was a total bomb shell, but as we have learned to stop trying to rely on ourselves and our own teaching skill, and start relying on the Spirit to teach, we have seen much success in just these few days. My companion is Jones Chōrō. We are not very much alike at all, but we work well together and generally keep each other in balance. Chab Chōrō is our dis...

The Beginning of the End ⛩ (Week 97)

Have you ever just walked outside and been like, wow, you know, it’s really really hot out here and it probably can’t get any hotter than this? And then you walk out the next day and realize it got even hotter... We’ll, if I had to sum up our week this past week, that’s how I’d describe it. Hachioji truly is 太陽の町. It’s been rough, but we’re hanging in there and having some fun along the way. In other news, this past week was transfers, and there has been some major changes. First off, I’m still here in Hachioji (blessings from Heaven), but Elder Gill transferred to my old area Yokosuka, and my new companion is the one and only Elder Matsunaga from Yamaguchi-Ken. On top of that, our zone has doubled in size and now we cover the entire Machida Stake rather than just the western half. Yea, I just thought last transfer was busy. We’ve been running around like chickens with our heads cut off working with Stake leaders, organizing all our districts, planning zone conference, and coordinatin...

Typhoons, Lady’s Baseball, and Zone Conference⛩🇯🇵 (Week 98)

Well, it’s been quite the week over here in the Land of the Rising Sun. Once again, we’ve been stretched pretty thin with not a whole lot of time to come up for air, but it’s been a blast and we’ve been blessed to see all kinds of miracles. To start with, the beginning of last week was all meetings and planning for Zone Conference this past Thursday . Elder Matsunaga and I and the STL’s gave a zone training on becoming experts in PMG which went really well and lined up perfectly with President Warnick’s trainings, and then Elder McDonald and I did a musical number with President Warnick in guitar which went as well as it could with zero practice lol. Either way though, we sang “I’ll go where you want me to go” and the Spirit was strong, so that’s all that matters. Next pretty big event this past week was our typhoon this past Saturday . We talked to some pretty concerned Japanese people and got lots of calls from leadership, but everything was completely fine. I tried explain...