Hello
everyone!!
How
great a week it has been and how great this next week will be. For all that are wondering, we survived the typhoon except that
our house is so old that it started leaking from the roof in a few places. With
that we are supposed to get hit with another typhoon tomorrow!! Hopefully our house can withstand this next one!!
This
week we had the opportunity to do some service for a member that was extremely
affected by the typhoon.
So
for about 3 or 4 days we were able to go over to his house and help him by
throwing stuff out and redoing the house. It was great to see the branch rally around him and come and
help him out.
Despite
the terrible disaster that was the typhoon, it was great to see the love shown
toward shibata KYOUDAI and family. It was a great experience and what I learned was
incredible. Service is truly the work of the Lord. The other day I was looking around at all the mud and
destruction and I thought of one thing. When we come to this world we are clean but as we live and grow
he make mistakes and we need to be clean to enter into Heavenly Fathers
presence.
Heavenly
Father knew that we would make mistakes and become unworthy or unclean. For that reason He sent His only son to atone for us. And because of him we can become clean and eventually return to
the presence of our father.
Shibata
kyoudais house was quite affected by the typhoon and we did our best to make it
clean and it was amazing the diffence that we made in the 3 days. I can only imagine how much Heavenly Father rejoices when we
make right choices to become clean though the atonement of Jesus Christ.
Also
what to shared another miracle.
This
week we have had little to no finding time cause of the service project we have
been doing.
But
with the time that we had we went out and worked. And we were able to find a couple and one more investigator in
the process.
The
couple that we found are the best two people. They are the funniest and
always give us food when we leave the lessons. There are the Hareyama fufu. Honestly the best and the other one that we found is a members
husband that used to be an old q and is now keeping commitments and we are
working though his wife to get him progressing a little bit more. Also on Sunday after a great lesson on baptism and being worthy,
we set up another date for kawame San to be baptized. The date is the 24 of September and as a matter of fact the same
day her friend that she used to work with is an investigator of the other
elders, has the same day so we are working what we can have both of them
baptized on the same day.
Right
after that lesson there was a guy that walked off the street and into the
church wanting to pay donations. He used to go to another christian church and donated but that
church disappeared and he walked into to ours and now he is an investigator of
the other elders.
It's
awesome here in Miyako and it's a shame cause this next week is transfer calls.
I never know what is
going to happen cause smith kaichou is always random with his revelations.
Love
you all and have a good week!
Elder Halverson
ハルバソン長老~日本仙台伝道部
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