Happy Mother's Day

May 8, 2016

This is our last District Meeting! 

This is our Family Home Evening night. 
We played ping pong.
The Marvel guy is a Chinese investigator. 
His name is Pan Pan, we just
got him because the other elders are leaving.

This is our Farwell party for Sister Godfresson. 
She is heading home this week. 
This Ward is so nice, they treat the missionaries very well.
 I am excited to stay here for another transfer! :)

Here is the Yamashita conference picture.
 I am right behind President Nagano.

Here is my favorite thing in the whole world.

Hello everyone and Happy Mother's Day!!!!!! :)

Happy Mothers Day to all the wonderful mothers out there, especially

my mother.  I love her so much and she has been my number one ever

since I was little.  She is amazing and I love her so much! :)

Well this week I got my transfer calls and lucky me, they are closing

the Togane area.  I must be a plague or something.  The good thing is,

they are not closing my area, they are closing the other Elders area.

So a four man will now be changed to a two man.  Two mans get kind of

lonely but I know with Elder Lin, we will make it fun.  I hope that

with the summer blitz thought that some areas will open back up.  I

was really sad when they got their call to leave, but I know that is

what needs to happen.  Elder Gibson and Elder Munro are two of my

greatest friends and I am going to miss them so much.

As for this week, we did a lot of finding.  This week was Golden Week

which means everyone gets off of work and they don't have to go for a

whole week.  The problem with that is there is nothing fun to do in

Togane except look at rice fields.  So naturally all the people

traveled to Tokyo for the weekend.  As we did our finding, we didn't

really have anyone to talk to this whole week.  It was a rough week.

But we were able to teach a new investigator.  His name is Ishino and

he has a lot of interest.  He is about 62 years old but his memory is

really good with Gospel related things..  We taught him the whole Plan

of Salvation on Sunday and he remembered all of it.  He even had him

teach it back to us to make sure he understood it and he did

perfectly.  He is an amazing guy.  We tried to set a baptismal day

with him but he didn't accept it.  So we set a soft date with him

meaning that when he comes to find that this church is true, he will

be baptized.  He is an amazing investigator!  Also because the other

Elders are leaving this area, that means we are going to get all of

their investigators.  So we should be teaching at least one lesson a

day from here on out! :)

Another fun thing that happened this week was we had a conference with

a member of the Seventy.  His name is Elder Yamashita and he is also

the area's First councilor of the North Asian areas.  He is way cool

and his English is amazing.  My favorite part of his conference was

how often he bore his testimony.  I think we forget sometimes how

powerful our testimonies can be.  His testimony really touched me and

made me want to be better. He is an amazing person and I loved

listening to him.  He really wants the mission working on obedience

and becoming better missionaries.  It was a really good conference and

I learned a lot.

But my favorite part of this week was being able to see my wonderful

family and some friends! :)  I have missed them so much!  Skyping home

is one of my favorite things to do because it always gives me a really

good feeling in side and I love being able to see the people who love

and support me.  They are all amazing and they mean so much to me.

Happy Mothers Day mom!  I hope today was special for you and I hope

you have an amazing week! :)  Being able to talk to you today made me

whole year. You always bring a smile to my face and you fill me full

of joy.  You are the best mom anyone could ask for.  Thank you for

everything! :) I love you!!!!

Well that is all for this week.  I am looking forward to working with

Elder Lin this coming transfer and I know we are going to see some

amazing miracles in Togane.  Thank you all for your love and support.

It came to my attention that some of you don't know the URL for my

blog so I am going to post it on this letter.  Go and see the

wonderful pictures of me and tell my mom how wonderful she is! :)

nicsmission.blogspot.com

I love you all so much! :) I hope you have a wonderful week and I hope

to hear from you soon!  Let me know what is going on back in the

hometown or what is going on in your life, I would love to know.  I

love you and I will talk to you next week! :)

Elder Unsworth