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Ministering to the One🏆⛩🚶‍♂️ (Week 100!!)

What’s up everybody!? Hope everyone had a great week! We’ve got some big plans over here today, so not too much time to write, but we had quite the adventure this past week.

It seems like we’ve been around the world and back this past week, but one way good experience was this past Friday. So we went out to Takao to go on splits with our amazing District Leader, the one and only Elder Thorin, hailing from South Dakota. Now, for anyone who knows anything about the Takao area, you know two things: the delicious soba shop right next to the apartment and the legendary number 7. Basically, on the Takao area map, there is one mountain man of a less-active member who lives ridiculously far out and is labeled as number 7. Eventually, we decided that we had to make the most of the opportunity and hit up both. So we plan accordingly, hop on our bikes for the two hour up-hill journey, and get to work. It was a beautiful ride, right along side a river in the countryside, but biking in slacks and a button down isn’t always the most fun thing in the middle of summer. Anyway, we randomly saw a way legit Lamborghini in the middle of nowhere on the way up, and eventually made it to the top. There were about six houses in the entire area and like half of those six were abandoned, so it wasn’t too hard to find the house we were looking for. We knock a couple doors, talk to a nice lady, and come to find out that our friend, number 7, has long since moved away. We did get to introduce ourselves and our message to the lady though, so it was a great opportunity. After that, we hopped back on our bikes and made the far less strenuous journey down the mountain and back home in less than half the time it took to get there. And of course, for supper, we are at the Soba Shop. Good way to end an adventurous split.

Basically, what I learned from all of this, is the importance of “Ministering to the One”. There we were, an elder from South Dakota and an elder from Alabama, put together on an island on the opposite side of the planet, in the Takao area, and we take a two hour bike ride up a mountain, all to reach out to just one man. There are no coincidences. The Lord knows and numbers each of his children. He loves each of us and no matter how far away we may seem, “His hand is stretched out still”. I love the Lord and I love this gospel. It’s been an honor to be able to participate in such an amazing work.

Elder Sadler








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