Incense

Conference was so awesome. The highlights for me were Priesthood session, President Uchtdorf's talk on Saturday, and Elder Holland's talk on Saturday. Everybody was great though and there was a theme that I noticed about doing what we need to do everyday such as reading the scriptures, praying, serving, developing charity, etc. We have to do what we can do everyday to qualify for God's help. And like Elder Holland said, God knows that we can't be perfect, but he wants us to improve, and if we are improving everyday, it is enough. It's true! And to add to that testimony, I found a spot in the Doctrine and Covenants that testifies of that same principle. DC 5:21, "And now I command you, my servant Joseph, to repent and walk more uprightly before me, and to yield to the persuasions of men no more; 22 And that you be firm in keeping the commandments wherewith I have commanded you; and if you do this, behold I grant unto you eternal life, even if you should be slain."

The key is that Christ tells Joseph Smith to walk MORE UPRIGHTLY. He doesn't say that he has to be perfect right now, because that's impossible. He doesn't tell him to do something Joseph can't do. He tells him to walk more uprightly, or to improve himself and his behavior and actions, and promises that if he continually does that, he will have eternal life. It's a principle found in the scriptures. It's true, and I'm trying to do that everyday. It's hard, but like President Monson asked us to do, we need to make the hard decision to do right than the easy decision to do wrong.


Anyways, on to the week. We went with the Sano's around the island to visit some less actives and taught them some lessons. A lot of them just don't have a way to get to church because they live so far out, about an hour away, and they're older without a car. They get rides though but it's hard for them. So while we were doing that, the Sano's like to go to the beach and take pictures and walk around in the sand on the island, which was way fun, so I have some good pictures of that, and I took all the best ones on my camera. We found a new
investigator, this young mom named Shigeki, and she has three little boys. She's pretty interested and could sense the importance of the message and said she would come to church but she wants to be able to go with her whole family and her husband works Sunday's too. He's very busy and they don't have a lot of family time, but we are going back again to teach her on Tuesday. We also helped Miwa, our friend, move and she gave us food. She's fluent in English so we ask her Japanese questions and she can answer them and help us out. And conference happened too. So that was the week this week!


Love you all!

Elder Tschirki
#japan❤️

A cool beach we went to 

We eat snails here

My incense box. (We all have one). We love incense here. 

 Keihan, or rice and chicken soup, the native dish on Amami.