GainingWeight at Christmastime

This last week was pretty intense as in we had to go to the bike shop three times and didn't have a whole lot of dendo opportunities. We had to go for Horstmeier 長老s brakes, my brakes, and then his flat after he hit a tree pretty hard in the dark and flew threw the air. That was pretty cool, we were just riding and all of a sudden there was a huge crash and he's gone because he hit a tree but he was fine and landing walking as his bike flipped through the air. That was a cool experience but apparently it put a pretty big hole in his tube. 

We went out to Yamaguchi yesterday for interviews with Kaicho and I love the trainrides in Japan so much but I haven't been able to ride a shink yet.. but anyways while we were there we had a very edifying message from the assistants about faith and conversion and what we
need to do for our own conversion. They shared the scripture from D&C 4 which says, "...and an eye single to the glory of God" and that glory is God's work and glory which is the eternal life of man. So in order to be qualified for the work we have to have the same conviction and
passion for the work that God has, meaning we have to be converted. You have to "lose yourself for [His] sake" like Christ teaches in the New Testament and you will "find yourself" in eternal life and joy. It's simple! It's wonderful! 

I was reading in 1 Hebrews 11 this morning about faith and what I took away from it is like Moses, we have to love the gospel and Christ more than the riches and pleasures of the world (conversion) and in order to have faith we 1. must believe that God will help us and 2. "diligently seek him." If we don't believe, we don't have faith. If we don't do our part, we don't have faith. God wants to help us but we have to accept His help and do our parts. I 100% believe that. Read that chapter and Ether 12 together and your mind will be opened as to faith if you diligently study. Anyways I love you all and I'm glad you all had good Christmases!

Oh and for New Years Eve we went to Fukunaga Kaicho's house and has some of the most delicious food ever. We had Nabe, lobster, mochi pizza, everything and it was delicious. Japan is the best!

Elder Tschirki

At the train station at Christmas going to a member's house for dinner 

 

New Year's food