Elder Tschirki in Japan: Relief Society

So for those of you that dont know what the relief society is, it is the oldest standing women's organization in the world ran by the LDS church and it is for women 18 and up. Well the reason I call my email this is because it is a joke and I feel like a relief society president because there's more sisters here than elders and they just kind of tell us what to do and sometimes there's a little drama and some other stuff and me and my companion, elder McColm are both kind of chill and so we are just like okay and do it. But yeah I dont recommend being in charge of a bunch of 20 year old girls. Men dont know how they think or anything so its sometimes fun. No problems though. Everything is good here in Okinawa.

So we had some interesting experiences this week. We met a lady that told us she hates us because we're American and then explained why. And then the next day we met an old Okinawan dude (they are ethnically different than Japanese people) and he said he loves American people and hates Japanese people and then explained why. So as you can see there are the extremes on both sides and they both have good and bad points to their arguments. So were just kind of like "we aren't associated with anyone we are just missionaries" and so usually the people here like the missionaries. So unfortunately we haven't had anything negative happen to us. On a side note, my number two place that I wanted to go on my mission to was Russia because it is crazy and I wanted to get kidnaped out there and have a cool story. But instead I went to the safest country in the world with 2 gun homicides a year and its a good life down here.

We also did the worldwide day of service and we did it all day long and it was really good. Service is how we help other people feel Gods love for them. This christmas season, if everyone could find little things of service to do it makes a big difference in everyone's individual lives.

Also we found someone that gave us a book about how research shows that Japan didn't invade and kill hundreds of thousands of people in China during WW2 and how that was a fabricated lie by the Allied forces to cover for the Atomic bombs. So obviously we gave her stuff about Jesus. Then, later in the same day, someone else gave us books two from some religious leader and we couldn't really turn them down and its either a Japanese person or a Himalayan person but whatever its cool and she was nice and we cant read it on our missions anyways so it doesn't matter there's a lot of crazy people out here but thats okay. Crazy people are the best.

Recently we have had the opportunity to work with a few less active people and its really interesting to see that pretty much anyone that falls into inactivity still has a testimony and knowledge of the church and its truth. It shows how even anyone that has gone on a mission or whatever can fall into inactivity for literally no reason. Its really sad but can happen to anyone. But the Lord has promised through the prophets and apostles that if you read the book of Mormon and pray everyday then you will never fall into inactivity. Its true. Its so simple but nobody on earth is too busy to not find time to read and pray.

Elder Tschirki

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Service at a member's house plus being sick