The MTC is so great and the
last week went by so fast! They say that on your mission you have the
longest days and the shortest weeks of your life and that is so beyond
true.
This week Sherri Dew came and spoke on
Sunday and she was spitting straight fire and truths about how we MUST
become converted and 'wrestle' with the Spirit and the Lord if we want
to have any success on our missions. THEN on Tuesday, President Russell
M. Nelson and his wife came to speak and they spoke about how we must
become 'epistles' of the Lord and have His gospel and truths and our
conversion written upon our hearts. Then he cracked a lame joke about
how he left his initials on many people's hearts and he's just a funny,
caring guy.
The Japanese is coming great and I
made a goal to memorize 400 vocab words per week and be pera pera
(fluent) when I get to Japan. That amounts to about 3000 words by the
time I hit Japan but I can see the rewards of studying Japanese hard and
it will continue to bless me as I prepare to teach the wonderful
Nihonjin (Japanese people). All of our books our named after Japanese
words, like Bulbasaur, Charmander and Magikarp and even the teachers
call them that so that's awesome!
Me and my
douryou (companion) taught one of the Zone Priesthood lessons on Sunday
about baptism and that went great. Sacrament meeting was amazing too and
my Branch President, President Stevenson is one of the most caring,
Christlike people I've ever met and I have had such a wonderful
opportunity being able to work with him.
Teaching
by the Spirit this week has been wonderful because I've been guided in
my lessons and been able to vary greatly from our lesson plans to meet
the investigator's needs and questions and I know that the Spirit 100%
is there and guides us if we are ready and prepare with the Spirit and
with our Kyuudousha's (Investigators) needs in mind.
Me
and Sherman Chourou have been hitting the gym hard this week and we
auditioned today to play in the Sunday devotional and it looks like
we're going to. He's a viola major at BYU and the girl who is playing
the violin is a violin major there too and I'm just me. We're playing "I
Know That My Redeemer Lives" and after our audition one of the MTC
Presidency's wives told us that since we are here for six more weeks
that we should audition again and we were actually going to audition
with "A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief" this week and we have it down
perfectly and then we changed plans so we are definitely going to
audition once more.
Also, the pics I took all
happened today on Tight Pants Thursday (P-Day). (We also have Aoi
Nekutai Kayoubi (Blue Tie Tuesdays)).
A
picture of Polaraid that Walker Shimai took of me; me and Sweeten
Chourou doing laundry and then me and Sherman Chourou doing our laundry
today on Tight Pants Thursday.
There's no place I'd rather be besides Japan right now.
Aishteimasu! I love you all!
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