Well I am coming to ya again from a internet cafe and the
guy next to me is out cold snoring like a bear. It’s another great sunny
and hot day in Furukawa, Japan and Halverson Chouruo is genki.
It has been another really blessed week. Every week we
get a newspaper type of email from the mission home telling everyone new
annoucments or a message from President Smith and this weeks was
noteworthy. Pres Smith has a bold vision for the Sendai mission. He
sees that there can be a couple of new temples announced in the next five
years. Therefore he has given us a new goal for the mission, a Sendai
Japan temple. As of now we have enough members in the mission for a
temple but we need 3 functioning stakes and we only have 1 because there are
too many less actives in the Tohoku area. To bless everyone’s lives, we
work with a lot of less actives in the mission. This week we were
inspired to go out and find those who once knew the way to happiness, but for
one reason or another they fell away and now need a bit of rescuing. We
had a lot of finding time this week and so Elder Koide and I went out and knock
and knocked and knocked then biked and biked and biked. We were out
finding those who have lost the way and those who haven’t found it yet.
We got a good group of PI’s and a few investigators this week. Slowly and
surely we will have a temple here in Sendai and it will be a miracle.
Just hanging on to the hope that it would be announced is a great
motivator. We were again reminded that missionary work in Japan is slow
compared to other countries and missions …. especially this mission. But
countless missionaries have come to this land for over a hundred years and now
we have 3 temples so we can see results of everyone’s hard work. I am
challenged daily to go out and find “the one” and help them see what God’s love
can do for them. There are now over 130,000 members here in Japan and it
is a miracle. We have more work to be do in this amazing land of Sendai
Japan, more people to find and more people to bless. It is a great work
and I love being a part of it. This week I had another DTM in Izumi and
they were having a party there so I got to see some of the members from my
first area. They are seriously the best people. This time I was
able to have an actual conversation with them, not just nodding my head and
pretending to know what they are saying! haaha good ole bean days.
Lastly, everyone please read or watch the talk that I put up
on the subject line. It is very good and inspirational. I am going
to take care of the things today and not procrastinate. You never know
what tomorrow brings and you don’t want to regret not doing something.
Please read your scriptures, pray, smile and do your best. Love you all
and have a good week!
--
Halverson Chourou
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