Fun P-Day

January 25, 2016

This Indian statue would be great for my dad!!

Cool shrine in front of a guys house we were visiting

Ramen with Brother Masuda.  Man I love that guy!

This week has been full of spiritual and uplifting things!  This week

we had a mission conference that was world wide.  Elder Anderson,

Elder Bednar, and Elder Oaks spoke. There were also some other people

from the missionary council that spoke. It was so good. I felt the

spirit so much. It felt like another General Conference. They spoke

about how we can have the spirit more in our teachings but the big

focus was repentance. They said we need to teach repentance more. The

main theme was "Teach Repentance and Baptize Converts". It was a

really powerful message. I loved all of their talks. Another thing

they talked about was testifying of the savior. At the end of all

their talks they testified of the savior and they told us we were

called to do the same thing. We need to testify of Him everywhere you

go. It made me realize what I needed to change. I testify a lot about

the Book of Mormon but I think I need to testify more of Jesus Christ.

That is the reason why I am out here and I am doing his work. I am

going to try and build my testimony of him in Japanese. I can say it

in English but I think if I can build it in Japanese it will help me

have the spirit more in my life and it will also he,p my Japanese! :)

By the end of the conference I had a huge list of things I need to do.

Fun fact, there are 75,000 missionaries in the world right now. I

thought that was pretty cool. But yeah, the conference was really

spiritual and I loved it. I wish they would happen more often. One of

those haven't happened in forever. I think the last one was 10+ years

ago. So it was really cool to be apart of it.

Another really cool thing that happened this week is we worked a lot

with the members.  We worked with Brother Masuda who is my favorite

member here!  He loves working with the missionaries.  We met early in

the morning to go finding with him and he stayed with us till late in

the night.  Probably my favorite thing to do with him was talking.  I

loved talking with members because they help me with my Japanese so

much.  Brother Masuda speaks a little English so I can talk to him and

ask a couple of questons so that he can understand how to help my

Japanese.  But he is awesome when it comes to help.  He corrects you

if you say it wrong and when you say things right he makes you feel

like a million bucks.  He is amazing.  We talked to a lot of people

that day.  Later that night we had a lesson and it was in Chinese,

Japanese and English!  I had to through some English sentences in

there because Japanese is hard!  And our investigator understood all

those languages so it was good! But we talked about the Book of Mormon

and I think it went very well.  I love sharing my testimony of the

Book of Mormon and the Savior.  I know that he lives and loves us.  I

know we can learn about him through the Book of Mormon.  I love the

feelings I get when I read the Book of Mormon and I love the feelings

I get when I share my testimony.  I know this church is true and I

know that Jesus is the Christ.

Another cool thing that happened this week was Fukuda. We went and did

some finding and as we were walking down the street there was no one.

I had no idea why we were going down this street and I wanted to go

back home where it was nice and warm.  I was so cold and my toes were

ready to fall off!  But right when I was about to turn back I looked

up and saw this boy walking towards us.  I knew we had to talk to him!

 I went into my missionary mode and tried to become his friend right

off the bat.  With younger people I like to speak to them in English

because they usually like it and will try to talk back to me.  Well I

hit it off with Fukuda and we became really good friends.  Then came

out the Gospel questions.  Do you Believe in Christ, do you want to

learn about God, and do you like religion?  He said yes to all of the

questions.  He has been wanting to learn more about religion and he

believes in God.  It was so cool!  We even talked about the Book of

Mormon and he took one!  He told us he would read it and he is looking

forward to meeting with us again!  He was an answer to our prayers.  I

am looking forward to meeting with him again and sharing the gospel

with him! :)

Thank you all for your wonderful examples to me.  I love hearing from

you and I love sharing my spiritual experiences with you.  I hope you

feel the spirit when I share them with you and I hope that you are

finding ways to have the spirit be in your life.  I love you all so

much.  Take care and have an amazing week.  Know that your Savior

loves you and watches over you every day.  He wants to help you, you

just have to let him help you.  Don't forget to look at my Blog and

see all the wonderful pictures posted on it.  I love you all!!!!  Take

care and talk to you again next week! :)

Elder Unsworth