This is the Karino family. Nagashima is the guy who Elder Lin has his arm around!
Weekly letter
What a wonderful summer day it is today! The sun is out, the wind is blowing and it is just a fabulous day in Japan. Well, I have had a lot of progress this last week and I have a couple stories or experiences I would like to share with you. First off, let me just say how amazing my companion is. We have been working day in and day out and we are dead tired by the night. But we are seeing so much success in our areas! Let me start with this first story, We had a lesson with our main investigator Ishino. He was not doing well. We rode up with a member and Ishino kept telling us how much he hurt. We all looked at each other and knew what we had to do. We taught Ishino about the Priesthood and how we can give priesthood blessings. After teaching this principle we asked him if he would like to receive a blessing. He said he would, so we had the member give the blessing and Elder Lin anointed the oil. It was a really good blessing. It was kind of weird that we did it in the middle of a park and people may have been watching us, but in the moment all I could think about was Ishino and how I wanted this blessing to work. I felt great peace and definitely the Spirit. I loved the feelings that I had and it isn't too often that you feel the Spirit that strong that fast. After the blessing, we sat down and talked to him for a bit. By the end of our conversation, he said he was feeling better. He could now walk around and he said his side, and back didn't hurt as much anymore. We committed him to read his scriptures and pray to Heavenly Father for more blessings and more help. He left really happy and he seemed like a new person. That was a pretty cool miracle that we saw. The power of the Priesthood is real and it helps others more than anything on this earth. Seeing the priesthood bless someone's life was such a cool experience. I loved seeing him become happy and healthy again. The priesthood is defiantly a sacred thing and it works, it blesses the lifes of others and it is a gift from God. My next story has to do with finding! So Friday was a huge miracle day. We had to go to Asahi to fix Elder Lins bike because of the previous night. On the way there, we talked to a guy and he had met with the missionaries before but somehow lost contact but he wanted to meet with us again. So we got his contact information and set up a time for us to meet. So there is one new investigator! We then got his bike fixed and tried to go visit a member who lived kind of in this random place we had never been before. So we took this little dirt road out to this area and when we got to the area where we thought the house was, we couldn't find the house. The map kept taking us to the wrong area, or the people moved and their name wasn't visible from their house. Well we decided to keep looking around. Just down the street, maybe three or four houses down, there was an apartment. We looked at each other and decided to go house it. It was kind of in the middle of the day, and we were really afraid that no one would be home. Well this is where the miracle comes in. We house the whole apartment which had maybe twenty to twenty five rooms in it. Out of that number we got six new Potential investigators. We got Six new numbers and out of those six, we got three return appointments! So for that day in total, we got four new investigators!!! It was such a cool miracle. We were able to teach most of them on the sport and explain who we are and what we teach about. Then from there, we were able to find out where most of their interest was. I loved how receptive they were to the Gospel. I know for a fact that the Lord had been preparing that place for us and he led us there for a reason. I don't think our map messed up, I think it lead us to the place where we needed to go, the place that the Lord had prepared for us! It was such a cool thing to witness. Each door we knocked on, we had so much hope and faith that the person we were going to talk to was going to be a golden investigator. Because of that, I think our mind set and our teaching ability was ready to go. I know that this miracle would not had happened if Elder Lin did not run over that glass the day before. I think sometimes we look at things like that as a "why me" but I think we need to look at it as a, "what does the Lord want me to do?" It was a way good day and we defiantly went to bed tired that night. We worked our little tails off! Haha And finally I have one last story I would like to share with you. We have a new investigator named Nagashima and we met him just last week up in toke. We asked him if he would come to church on Sunday and he promised us he would come. He came to church as promised and I think he had a really fun time. He liked sacrament meeting and he told me that he had a very good warm feeling in his heart and in his head during the meeting. That was pretty cool! But the best part is yet to come! During Sunday school we learned about the Spirit and how he helps us and Nagashima really liked that but the coolest part was priesthood. I pretty much stayed with him all day long and went to all the youth classes with him. In Priesthood the teachers were going over the "Fulfilling My Duty to God" book. The teachers then took it as a teaching opportunity and it was one of the coolest meetings I have ever been to. Each kid went through and talked about what part of the book they did that week and when something came up that Nagashima didn't understand, the quorum as a whole would teach him. They taught, Home Teaching, Testimony, Prayer, and the Holy Ghost. All of those are big things to learn and yet they taught it together as a whole. It was very impressive. The part that I liked the best was the unity in the group. They all worked together so that Nagashima could understand what was going on. I also liked how Nagashima was not afraid to ask questions. He is an amazing youth and a perfect investigator. I know the sprit has already touched his heart because he has told me that it has. I am so excited to teach him. After church, we sat down and had a small lesson about prayer. We taught it very simply like always and he picked it up right away. He was asking really good questions like, why do we fold our arms and why do we close our eyes? It was amazing! At the end, he offered the prayer and it was very sincere. I am really looking forward to seeing him progress in this Gospel. Church was simply amazing and it really gave me some ideas on how I want my quorum to be like when I return home. But I can also try and have that unity work in between my companion and myself too. There is a power when there is a unity. This week we were defiantly blessed to have some amazing miracles in my area. We got new investigators, taught a new investigator, and saw a miracle through a blessing. It was definitely an amazing week. I hope that these miracles continue to happen and that I can continue to see my area grow and change. I love Togane so much and I am so blessed to be here. Thank you to everyone who writes me and let's me know how they are doing. I love you all so much and I love getting your letters. I hope you all are having a wonderful summer! I miss you all so much but I hope you look for miracles in your life. Christ lives, I know it, I have felt it, and I preach it. This church is true and this is a church of miracles. I hope you all have a wonderful week and don't forget to check out my blog, my pictures, and send me pictures and emails! I love you all so much! :). Take care and talk to you next week! :)
Elder Unsworth
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