Goodbye Togane, Hello Mito

August 8, 2016

Goodby Inoue and Takatori family goodbye party for me.

Inoue family

Takatori family.
He is the bishop.

Wakaumi family.

This is Lin and his girlfriend.
 Saying goodbye to him.

Saying goodbye to Takashi and Dun.

Saying goodbye to Dun.

Saying goodbye to Takashi.
He is a member I worked with a lot.
I love him so much!

Elder Law and I in front of our apartment!

Good bye Elder Law and my apartment!

Saying goodbye to Sho.
 He is the one I found on the train.
He was way happy to see me! :)

Saying goodbye again to Takashi. :)

One last goodbye to Elder Law.

New companionship!!!
Elder Ishikawa  , Elder King, Elder Unsworth

Hello everyone and boy do I have some fun news for you all!  Well as

you know I was transferred from my wonderful area Togane and was moved

to Mito.  Since I have been in Mito I have loved it.  We have had many

festivals here and we have taught many lessons and just had a

wonderful time.  Also being in a trio is so much fun.  Elder King is

great and Elder Ishikawa is as well.  I love being with these three

amazing missionaries.  However this morning as we were doing some of

our studying we got a call from the Assistants and the asked to speak

with me.  I am now being transferred to another Area in the mission.

It is called Narita and it is the place where the international

airport is.  An Elder has to go home because of health problems so

they had to split up the trio and send me to the new area.  I knew

that this was going to happen sometime during this transfer because

missionaries get switched around all the time, however, I didn't think

it would be me and I didn't think it was going to be this early in the

transfer.  Well with this all being said, I am sad to be leaving Mito

but I am excited to continue my work in Narita!  It is a great area

and we are going to see so many miracles.  My new companion Elder

Porter, just moved to the area about two weeks ago so we are pretty

much white washing the area.  So this is going to be fun!  I can't

wait to get there and get to work!

I also have one more great news!  So I don't know if you remember him

but this man's name is Tatsuya.  He was an investigator I found when I

was in Matsudo.  I was sad to be leaving him because he was such a

great a friend.  I loved that man so much.  Well when I came back to

Matsudo zone I was excited to see him again some day.  Well to make

things even better, he is deciding to be baptized this Saturday!  I

get to see a baptism on my mission!!!!  I am so excited and I am

overly excited for how this is going to change his life and the life

of many other people.  The best part of this is how special Tatsuya is

to me.  I am the one who found him and opened my mouth to talk to him.

I am the one who taught him when he was brand new and I am the one who

helped him along when he didn't understand things.  And now I am the

one who is the happiest man on this earth.  The best part is none of

this has to do with me.  This is all about Tatsuya and the steps he is

deciding to take in his life.  He is going to be an amazing member of

this church.  I am so happy to see my work actually pay off and see

someone that I taught be baptized.  I can't explain how happy I am

right now, but I am overly excited for Tatsuya and I can't wait to see

him again this Saturday! :)

One day I would like to talk about that I thought was pretty cool was

Sunday.  We had a wonderful church meeting and we had two

investigators come to church.  One of them came so that he could talk

with the bishop about how he can get off of Tabaco.  He really wants

to turn his life around.  He is doing great but there are still a

couple of things we need to work on with him.  Today during sacrament

meeting the three new missionaries got up and bore their testimonies.

I liked doing it, it was fun and filled with the Spirit.  Afterwards

we had wonderful church meetings.  I went out with a counselor of the

Bishopric and we went housing together!  It was so much fun.  They are

trying to get the new English Program up and going at the church so

they are going around with the missionaries to houses around the

church looking for kids who are interested.  It was great and it was

also really easy because he is Japanese so he knows exactly what to

say! Haha We talked to a couple people and it was great.  We then had

a lesson with an investigator named Yuya.  He is deaf and we had to

write everything down so that he could understand what we were talking

about.  It was so much fun and he is so nice.  He has a lot of

interest in the church and he accepted the restoration pretty well.

We talked about baptism with him and he accepted it.  He asked how

long it will take for him to be baptized and we told him about 3 weeks

to a month.  He seemed really excited and he sounded like he really

wanted to be baptized!  We told him he needs to start coming to church

and he said he will try to come every week.  It was a way cool

miracle.  He is going to be great.  What makes this even better is

later that night we went and visited a family.  I remembered the

families face.  I saw them when I was in Matsudo for Stake Conference.

Well I asked them if they knew how to do sign language and they said

yes!  We now have people who can help our investigator understand

church!  I was so happy.  This Ward is amazing and I can sense there

is a lot of good things waiting to come to past in this area.

Not too much else to talk about because of the transfer plan.  I need

to go pack some more and get my bags shipped off so I am going to

close this weekly email here.  But this week in Mito we had so many

cool festivals.  We had a firework festival that shot fireworks in the

air for over an hour!  The finale was amazing and the sky was so

bright!  I loved seeing the shows.  Then they had a huge festival

where the closed down the Main Street in the city and had a parade

going down it the whole day and people were dancing and doing fun

things all day long.  At the end of the day they did the city dance

and everyone did it. I of course participated and it was so much fun!

I love Mito and I am so grateful that I was able to come here for this

week.  it was so much fun and there were a lot of cool things that

happened.  I loved finding new investigators and also teaching people.

I have seen a change in Mito and it has only been a week.  I will miss

this place.

But I want you all to know that I love you and that I love hearing

from you!  Thank you for your prayers and your love.  I hope you have

an amazing week and always remember how much the Savior loves you and

blesses you each day.  I can't wait to tell you about my new area next

week! I love you all and I will talk to you later!  Love You!!!!!

Elder Unsworth