and send that? I'm pretty sure it makes it past my year mark but you know, the sooner the better. I have a page written for everyday of my mission and it's pretty cool with my calligraphic writing. We can't go into bookstores so I just needed the assistance with obtaining that.
Last week not much happened because of transfers. Packed, left, waited. Elder Woolston is a stud and I'll sure miss that guy. He'll do great things along his mission though. Already has. So before we drove up to the airport an hour away we are at go go curry, because you know, curry is my favourite food (not really a joke, I love love love curry) and then took a nap in the car up. I don't have any problem really communicating with these Japanese elders. Obviously they're fluent, they've lived here their whole lives, but I can understand whatever they say. It helps that the one that's not my companion is from Tokyo where they speak so clean Japanese and it's very easy to understand. But because my bike is still down, and my comps hasn't come yet, we've been walking everywhere which isn't effective because nobody is really on the streets and the places we go take forty five minutes to an hour walking there, and then do that back, so time is limited. But we're working hard. It's hot.
So I read some stuff about the "spirit of conversion" and there was like 5 things that came up and all five I actually wanted to study about so that was pretty cool. But the one that stands out right now is hymns. In the introduction of our hymnal, the first presidency has stated that people should study, ponder, and memorize hymns, but I don't think we do that enough, so I started going through and I'm going to do like a hymn a week or every two weeks or something like that and go through because I learned that:
1. They strengthen your testimony in the restoration
2. Strengthen your testimony of the atonement
3. Puts you in a place and setting that you are receptive to the spirit. Like how cool is that?
Before I even did any of this, the song "The Morning Breaks" has been going through my head.
1. The morning breaks, the shadows flee Lo, Zion's standard is unfurled! The dawning of a brighter day, The dawning of a brighter day Majestic rises on the world.
2. The clouds of error disappear Before the rays of truth divine; The glory bursting from afar The glory bursting from afar Wide o'er the nations soon will shine.
For hundreds of years the fulness of the gospel that Jesus Christ had taught had disappeared. Darkness and misunderstanding spread, but when the gospel was restored through Joseph Smith, a brighter day dawned. Light has spread. Glory bursts. The gospel is being spread through every nation. The church just got recognition in Vietnam! This is a
work that cannot be stopped! It cannot fail! Millions across the globe have found truth and light! And all you have to do is read the Book of Mormon and pray about whether or not it's true and that Joseph Smith was a prophet with the intent to act upon the answer you receive from God. It's simple. It's easy. It's the truth! But I think the most profound part of the hymn "The Morning Breaks" is found in this line that states truth.
"Jehovah speaks!" He speaks! He leads this church! He still gives revelation to his apostles and he is working to bring us back to him! He speaks! He lives!
my comp is the one in the back right
we found a habu in the wild. we thought about catching it to get $30 but we didnt
kamada kyodai, a less active, and his sick ping pong paddle
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