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2018 Sep 21 - Itinerary

2018 Sep 17 - When darkness turns to light, it ends tonight

 Well, these have been an absolutely fantastic 2 years, easily the hardest 2 years but, fantastic. Instead of telling you all how my last week was I’m just going to bare my testimony.

I know that this church is true. From these 2 years I have learned much more about our Heavenly Father and about Jesus Christ. If I had the opportunity to choose going on a mission again I would take it every time, without any doubt. I have grown and learned so much from my mission. I love the time I had to serve the Lord. I know this church is God’s true church, restored through Joseph Smith. I know the Jesus Christ is our savior.

Oh, and some last pictures 

Ward Mission Leader - Dan Uehara (?), RM (?), Me, Walters

Me, Winchester, Walters, Sis Johnson, Ellert, Sis Shinsato

2018 Sep 9 - Wada and Yamamshita

 It was a good week, fairly busy. Interesting thing that happened was that 2 members of the 70, Elder Yamashita and Wada came down with their wives and talked to us, way cool. We were able to learn a lot about working with members and having meaningful contacts with people. Another interesting that happened was we met an old Eikaiwa student and talked with her for a little bit and she said it was okay if we came back on Saturday and when we came back we talked to her about prayer and the Book of Mormon and she is fairly interested but, doesn’t have time to meet. 

so, I finally finished the origami thing from the start of the transfer

the Kagoshima crew and Sano兄弟

Shinsato, Mizukawa, (?), Bowl, Campbell, Larson, (?), Me, Sano

dollar doughnut

Elder Elhert tried to make some rice and beans when they came over and it didn’t work very well

2018 Sep 2 - ‘Cause I’m half way there

 It’s week 4 in the transfer, weird. All and all, this week wasn’t super eventful. We had a meal with the Isa夫婦, they were the last mission president and mom in the Hiroshima mission. It was way cool and they made some way good food. We also met with a guy named Lopez, he was food last transfer and he is a pretty crazy guy. Seems like most of his life has been partying and has a bunch of crazy stories, not to sure what his interest level is but, he is cool. 

Saturday was a pretty interesting day, had a crazy amount of time so, we went to a far area in the afternoon and stayed there until 8ish and went home. We mainly were looking for members that hadn’t really been coming and we were able to find a lot of them. One in particular, Oharen姉妹 invited us in and we talked for a good amount of time. 

Sunday was fun, it was normal church for the military branch and stake conference for the Japanese ward, at the same time, in completely different buildings but, we worked it out with some members and I went to stake conference and was able to met a lot of Nago members again.

shanshin

2018 Aug 26 - Crazy Week

 Well, this week has been very crazy, we had family home evening with the military branch, mensetsus and zone conference the next day then a beach party with the military branch. It was all way fun though. We were able to met with and talk to Tanner and Damian, recent converts and they are both doing good. Also went on Companion exchanges with the Nago Elders here in Futenma and while me and Elhert were going around a Eisa, Okinawan drum parade. It was way cool to watch. We also visited with a member, the Muraokas and talked with them and at the end we shared a little message about the Book of Mormon. Also, this past week was Obon, Japanese day of the dead, and the ward mission leader invited us to his house to participate in some end of Obon traditions, it was pretty cool. Cool thing from ZTM was the Mack’s talked about the church’s 12 step ARP and how it wasn’t just for addiction but, it was for change in all aspects of our lives, any bad habits or anything like that could be changed through the 12 steps and I thought that was very interesting, I haves had any experience yet but, I’m definitely trying to apply it to my life.

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Video, the performance 

with the performers

sea glass and a cool shell I found