Well it's the end of a wonderful week and it was capped
off by President Smith telling me that I've been transferred down to Iwaki
which is the lowest part of the mission.
Iwaki is called the Hawaii of
Tohoku so it must be great there. I've
been called as a zone leader and will become companions with Elder Price from
Gilbert Arizona.
Elder Davies and I had the most successful Sunday of our
missions. First of all our miracle
referral, Sister Inumaki, got baptized and she will receive the gift of the
Holy Ghost next week. She is awesome, a
really pure person, it is unfortunate that I only meet and taught her for a
week, but it's all about her getting the gift of the Holy Ghost. She had some trouble at work and she burned
her hand and face so when she got in the water it was a bit painful. But when she went down and was baptized and
come up out the water she said that all the pain had gone away and was feeling
fresh and brand new! She is already
starting to see the blessings of following Christ. After hearing that I wanted to get baptized
again! Haha. I am excited for her, she
is a new member that is just blossoming.
Just before that, we had a lesson with President smith as
the joint. We taught the Lee
family! Brother Lee has been a
investigator for a couple of weeks and come to church and everything. This week finally his wife came to Japan and
he brought her to church. So she has a
christian background (even though being from China) and has read Bible and
everything! It was like we were looking
a big plate of tonkatsu we were licking our lips at the thought of teaching,
but so was President Smith. We start the
lesson and Pres Smith starts talking about how he feels as if he has meet the
Lees before this life. That is exactly
what Brother Lee was saying when he talked about goen (a Chinese Japanese
phrase about meeting someone in the previous life and receiving luck from them
and then eventually meeting them on the earth). We draw up the plan of
salvation on the board and that is when President takes over! Within the hour he teaches with power and
uninterrupted knowledge the plan of salvation, the restoration, and the gospel
of Jesus Christ. All of it all of
it. I was more than happy to take a back
seat to this awesome lesson! Elder
Davies and I were the junior companions to President Smith the whole lesson π. But again, we were blessed to have the Lee
family on the edge of their seats listening to all of that, feeling the spirit
and accepting a date for baptism on the 6th of April. It's a family! Haha My last Sunday here we finally get a
family! I firmly believe they will get
baptized down the road! Ugh going to
miss them!
Lastly through all the activity of baptism prep, Elder
Holland of the Quorum of the 12 Apostles came to the mission and had a
missionwide conference. Its was again an
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in a life time experience.
This man is intellectual, experienced and an incredibly
special man. I knew that before but it
never set in until he spoke with his classical power and passion that can only
be really felt in person. He held a
question and answer for the majority of the tour but at the end he talked about
salvation. Salvation is not easy, if it
were easy the mission of church would have been a lot easier. The road to salvation goes through the Garden
of Gethsemane . Christ opened the gate
for us to gain salvation by suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane and giving up
the atoning sacrifice. Salvation is
knowing God and Christ. The only way we
can know him is by walking in his shoes, feeling what he felt, and knowing just
a fraction of the pain that he felt. It
goes though the Garden and he showed us the way. Now let's do our best and when we trip, stand
back up and try again!!
I am sad to leave Furukawa but I am not craving sad hah
because I know I accomplished the will of God in this area! I love this place and want to come back
sometime after the mission! Love you all
and have a good day!
Yes, I know I have forgotten a bunch of English.
Elder Halverson
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