This week I just have to start off with one of the most amazing
miracles in my whole mission! This week we were able to have one of
our awesome investigators, W_____come to sacrament. He came and was
sitting with us just during the meeting being reverent and it was
really good! The meeting was really good and spiritual and it I was
just glad he was there. W_____has been really close to baptism but
just hasn't been able to do it. He is completely ready, but is just
wondering if he should make the last step pretty much just into the
font. So we are sitting there in sacrament and he just turned to my
companion and said, "今日バプテスマを受けます！” (Today, I will be baptized) We
were shocked! We didn't really know what to say! He hasn't quite had
his baptismal interview yet so he has a couple things left to do, so
we just explained that we will do it as soon as possible. He is going
to be really busy next Sunday, so we will be baptizing him this
Thursday! Such an amazing miracle that God does take care of it for
us. We really didn't do anything, but he was prepared and he will now
be baptized! The best part is that he really wants to be baptized
when it is raining, and it is supposed to maybe rain on Thursday, so
if everyone could please just pray this week that it will rain on
Thursday in Tokyo that would be amazing! We are really excited for
that and just can't wait to see how happy he will be after baptism.
This week other than that has been amazing! A pretty normal week,
but something special that we had was that we had our Zone Conference,
where we get to learn from the Assistants and President Budge! It was
an amazing conference, and I really felt like I was able to learn so
much from President Budge, and was able to learn how I can be a better
missionary. Something that I really loved was that President really
wants us to put more focus on Church attendance. I love this. Just
like we saw with W_____'s miracle, he came to church and he was able
to have a change of heart! It is amazing and super powerful at
church. Elder Egbert and I are really excited to start working with
the Zone to put more focus on people to sacrament meeting.
This week the Cherry Blossoms are coming out and it is AMAZING. I
am blown away by how pretty they are and I will try to send as many
pictures as I possibly can. The four of us took a bike ride this
morning to a really famous river in Tokyo, where there are just miles
of "sakura," (cherry blossom trees) and it is right in the middle of
the city! We took lots of pictures so I will send a picture email
today! Japan is a really amazing place.
I wish I had more time than I do today, but hopefully the pictures
will help! I do just want to let you all know how happy I am. I am
just so happy! There truly is no joy like the joy you feel as a
missionary. Helping these people and inviting these people is the
best thing I have ever done. I am absolutely loving my mission and I
am so grateful. I always used to hear that you had to get to your
year or you had to get a way into your mission to feel comfortable
here in Japan speaking Japanese, and I just feel way to blessed that I
feel comfortable now, and I am having as much fun as I am. I love
this area and I love this work! I am so grateful for the opportunity
I have to share the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon with people. I
know that it literally can change lives. I know that as I work my
hardest to focus on these people and help them change, I too will
change for the better and I am so grateful for that! I love you all
so much and I am so grateful for all your amazing support! Please
have an amazing week, and I will talk to you soon!
Love,
Logan
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This week was one of the busiest, craziest weeks in my entire
mission. Me and Elder Egbert had so much going on and it was just so
sooo busy! I could not believe all the stuff we were expected to get
done, but some how we did it. I can not tell you how many times in my
mission this seems to happen. As missionaries, we are given a lot of
things to do, and a lot of times it seems like we will not be able to
do it! I always find my self asking when will we have time to do all
of this. But, some how we always seem to get it done! I really do
feel like this is a miracle in and of itself! Things just always seem
to work out and we always end up being able to accomplish the things
that we need to accomplish. But as I was thinking about this, laying
in my futon last night just WAY to tired, I just realized how happy I
was. I really just blows me away by how happy I am right now! We
work so hard, we are away from family and friends for two years,
getting rejected and denied by people all over the place, and I am
just sooo happy! We ran into a family from America yesterday after
church and they were members of the church and were just asking how we
were doing and what we needed. Me and Elder Egbert just kinda looked
at each other and said, "Nah I think we are good! We are just happy!"
I have come to realize that this is God's work, and it is a privilege
for us to be a part. As we do his work, he blesses us with the joy
that he feels when we help bring his children closer to him. Such a
blessing to be a missionary right now!
This week, one of the big things that was making us pretty busy was
we had Zone Meeting. We had the whole Zone together, and me and Elder
Egbert were supposed to train everyone! It was way too fun. It was
really busy and a little bit stressful planning everything out, but
the spirit definitely guided us as we planned and as we taught.
Something that we are really focusing on as a Zone, and as a Mission
is focusing less on the missionary, and focusing more on the
investigators. We are realizing that this is what helps us grow the
most as missionaries! President Hinckley once said, "Do you want to
be happy? Forget yourself and get lost in this great cause!" I think
that is 100% true. We always hear about how we need to forget
ourselves and that is when we will feel the joy, but I feel like we
just kinda brush that aside sometimes and continue to focus on
ourselves. But, I really have seen that as I have tried to focus only
on our investigators and on helping other people, I have felt the
happiest! Something else really cool we are focusing a lot on right
now in the mission is remembering that this is God's work, and not the
missionaries work. We sometimes think that we have to do everything
as missionaries, but that is not true! God is preparing his people,
and God is hastening his work, not the missionaries! What we can do
as missionaries and members of the church however is simply to work to
become an effective tool in his hands. Our new vision as a mission
is, "To be an instrument in God's hand, to save many souls, and to
strengthen Zion!" We can not hasten this work by ourselves, but the
good news is that we don't have to! God's hand is in this work, and
if we can become the tool in his hand that is when we see the
miracles!
Zone Meeting really was so fun, and it was awesome to have the whole
Zone together! We have a really awesome Zone, and it has been so much
fun to get to know everyone here! I think that is my favorite part of
being a Zone Leader so far, is just the awesome chance that we have to
get to meet lots of missionaries and make such great friends with
everyone! Our Zone is really close, and it's so much fun! Actually,
today after emailing we are going as a Zone to play soccer on the top
of that building! Remember that picture I sent to you of Shibuya with
the soccer field? Yeah...we are playing there! Pretty cool huh?!
That is actually one of my life dreams right there and I get to do it
today! So, if I can, I will send pictures later, but if not I will
just send them next week! Things here in Tokyo are just way too fun.
I love my companion, apartment, and the people we are working with
right now! Speaking of investigators, we have two amazing guys, T____
and W____, who might potentially getting baptized this Sunday! We
are working really hard with them to see them baptized this week, so
PLEASE pray for them to have the faith and courage to be baptized! I
seriously love these two so much. They are such amazing people and if
they can get baptized they will be so happy! So, we are saying lots
of prayers and working really hard!
I am out of time today, but I am so grateful for you all! I know
that this church is true. I can't deny it! There is just no way that
it isn't. I have received that answer so strongly through the Spirit,
and I promise that if you ever question anything about the church, God
will answer you if you just ask him. I love you all so much and I
hope you all have an amazing week! I pray for you all daily and think
about you all the time! Talk to you soon!
Love,
Logan
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So I just have to start today by telling a story that happened this
week that was kinda funny. So this week we got a referral from some
missionaries in the South Mission. It was a guy named S________,
who had interest in God and wanted to meet again, and lives in
Shibuya. So we got his information and called him up to see when he
could meet! He could meet on Sunday, around 3, so we said that was
perfect. However, he said that he wanted to meet outside of Shibuya
station..which at the time we didn't think was a big deal. We get
there at 3 and there are literally THOUSANDS of people outside the
exit of shibuya station that he wanted to meet at because it was the
side of Shibuya Crossing! So there we are, standing there waiting for
a 30 year old Japanese man in the middle of thousands of Japanese
people. You could say it was kinda like finding a needle in a
haystack haha. But, we called him up and he was able to find
us(because we definitely could not find him) and we were able to talk
with him! We actually walked back to the church and we were able to
show him around and teach a really good Restoration lesson with him
and he is going to read and pray about the Book of Mormon! It ended
up being really good! Just kind of funny trying to find the guy!
This week has just been another crazy week. That is the only thing
about being a Zone Leader that I just didn't really realize is just
how busy you really are! But I love it. It has been so much fun to
have a chance to serve the missionaries in the Zone, and I have really
had a chance to get to know so many more missionaries it has been
awesome! This weekend I had the chance to go on exchanges down in the
Tokyo 2nd ward with a missionary named Elder Barray! He is such a
cool missionary and he is from France but is perfect in English! It
was a pretty crazy exchange though because the Tokyo 2nd ward is a
english ward! So we went around all day trying to find people who
could speak english! It was the weirdest thing for me ever trying to
teach these people on the street, because I have never done that
before! It was honestly kinda intense, because I felt like it was a
lot more personal when it was in my native language! But that also
made it really cool. It
was an amazing experience and we saw some amazing miracles! We were
able to get a handful of numbers and found a lot of cool people who do
want to learn more!
So, I guess the big update for this week is the new tool that we
have been given as Zone Leaders here in the Tokyo, Japan mission. We
have been given the OK to use Facebook for missionary purposes! It is
pretty intense! I have spent the last couple of days "cleaning up" my
facebook so that it looks like I am a missionary and so that I can use
it here! So now we will be able to get peoples facebook information
so that we can contact them and have a chance to teach them the gospel
either through facebook, or communicate through facebook and then meet
somewhere to talk. The world is changing! It really is an amazing
opportunity to use this amazing tool, however there are definitely a
lot of risks and dangers with this so, I have to send out an email to
all those that I love and are friends with on facebook! I love you
all. You are all ok to be my friend, however if I get emails or
messages or posts on my wall from you I have to un-friend you...what
this will do is you will still be able to see my page and everything,
but I won't be able to see stuff that you do, and that is just so that
I can stay focused! So, if nothing gets posted, I won't have to
un-friend you if that makes sense! I am really excited for the
opportunity to use this tool, and it is going to be so effective!
Just these last couple of weeks we have been playing soccer with some
friends who invited us to play every Saturday and it is awesome but we
can't really just go around asking for everyone's numbers as easy as
getting everyones facebooks! It is going to be a pretty amazing tool
that is for sure!
Well, that is about all the time that I have for today, so I best be
off! But I want all of you to know how much I love you, how much I
look up to you, and how much I pray for you! I love this gospel and I
love this work. I love Japan and all, but I would not spend two years
here away from all those that I love if this was not true. I love
you, and I will talk to you all soon!
All my love,
Logan
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Dear Everyone!
I am so sorry that I don't have very much time today, and that I am
not able to really explain Tokyo very well! These last couple of days
have been absolutely crazy, overwhelming at times, but I have felt The
Lord's hand giving me strength the whole time.
This transfer is going to be amazing I can already tell. I got to
Tokyo on Thursday, and we have already seen so many miracles it is
amazing. The people in Shibuya are incredible. Everyone here in the
ward is so nice, but are also very powerful, well off people so the
ward has an interesting feel to it, but I like it! The apartment is
right center down town, and it is crazy to be living here in the Big
City. I only have one picture for today, but I promise I will take
lots this nexxt week and send them out!
One quick miracle I want to share before I leave is about this kid
named S_____. We met S_____at a members house last night and is sooo
cool. We talked over dinner and it was just amazing how prepared he
was. God really has been preparing him long before he met us, and
that right there is a testimony builder!! We started talking about
religion and he told us that he had all these experiences where he
felt like something else was out there, but never knew for sure and
really wasn't very religious, but that he kind of wanted to be. We
talked about some times he just felt really strong feelings of peace
and comfort when he tried praying and things like that. We were able
to teach that that was the spirit, and it was just incredible. We
told him we wanted to meeeet again and talk more, and he said that he
wants to way bad and so we are going to lunch with him on Saturday!
He is a way cool 19 year old kid, and it really was just the biggest
miracle that we were able to meet with him. Miracles do happen! I
see them all the time here as a missionary and I testify that they are
real, God is real, and this church is true!
Love you all so much have great weeks and I will talk to you soon!
Logan
Look at this city!!
Wow. This week has been a very busy one! I really felt like this
week went by so fast, but I really think that it was just because we
were so busy with things! I have to apologize right from the
beginning, because this week I was so busy with so many things that I
just didn't have the chance to do nightly journals, but I think that I
have enough time to make this one good today;) I'll be better next
week!
So, I guess to start off, we did receive the transfer calls, and I
am transferring! But, the place that I am transferring to is the
crazy part. I will be going to Shibuya, in downtown Tokyo. Shibuya
is down down DOWNtown Tokyo, actually the biggest, most crowded city
in the entire world! You know the classic picture of Japan with the
crosswalk where thousands and thousands of people cross at one time?
Yeah, that is my new area. President Budge was the one who called
today, and after telling me I was going to Shibuya, he told me that I
am going to be a Zone Leader down there. I am blown away and
seriously so so humbled by this transfer call. I won't lie, I do
feel a little in adequate, but I do know that this call came straight
from God, and somehow, knows that I can do it. I am so grateful for
the chance to be able to serve more missionaries, and in a new area!
My companion's name is Elder Eggbert, and I have actually met him
before and he is a way cool guy! He is a transfer 10, and I am just
so excited for the opportunity to learn more from him and to really
have a chance to learn and grow more! I can't wait for the big city,
and I can't wait to start this transfer off strong! I will hop on a
train on Thursday, and so I will be leaving Mito then! I really am
just blown away by the call, and shocked that I am going to be leaving
Mito! I have seriously been so blessed to be here, and serve here,
and I just can't even begin to describe how sad I am to leave! I am
definitely more excited to leave, but the thought of leaving Mito
ward, and all the investigators here just breaks my heart! Missions
are full of goodbye's, and it can be kinda hard sometimes! But, I am
beyond excited.
This week really has just been so busy! We had so much going on
this week, and it really was so awesome. The investigators we have
are really doing awesome, and I am going to miss all of them! We have
been working really hard to try and get people really progressing and
working to get closer to the standards of excellence and we have
really seen some amazing miracles! We had a chance this week to meet
with L____ a lot, and we have been working really hard with him.
Lately, he asked his parents about baptism and they told him that they
are part of a different religion, and so lately he is kind of having a
hard time with that right now...We are working really hard though, and
I think that with me leaving, I will really be able to be super
straight forward with him, and be able to help him see why we really
want him to know for himself that these things are true, because they
can change and bless his life forever! I just want to say thank you
for all your prayers and thoughts for our investigators. I have such
a strong testimony of prayer, and the power of prayer. Thank you for
your faith! Your faith strengthens my faith. I am so grateful for
all of you and your amazing examples to me. Thank you!
I wish I had more time, but I just really want to bear my testimony
that I know that this church is true. I really am so grateful for the
great influence it has been in my life, and how grateful I am for
amazing parents who helped me stay on the path, and helped me get here
to Japan. I know that Jesus Christ is the Savior and Redeemer of the
world. I love him. I feel his hand in this work, and in my life
daily as I strive to do the best I can, and especially feel him when I
feel like I can't do it. I know that he lives. I am forever grateful
for his atoning sacrifice for us. He lived, and died for us because
he loved us so much. I am so grateful for the opportunity to share
that with people. To teach, preach, and testify in his name. I love
this gospel and I love this work!
Everyone have good weeks this week and please be safe! I love you
all so much, and I will let you know how this week goes! Talk to you
soon!
All my Love,
Logan
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Dear everyone!
Today was one of the longest days of my life! But it was a really
good long. We got up at 3:00AM to go to the temple and make the
session in Tokyo at 8, and then had to ride another 3 hrs home after
words! It was long but lots of fun. The temple is such a special
place! Every time I go in there I really feel so close to our Savior.
Such a special place! So lucky that we have the temple in our
mission, and that we have the opportunity to go there once a transfer.
I love it!
So this week, was busy! This is basically what I did...:)
2/17/14 - Today was a P-Day and we love that! Today really was a good
day, we were able to get a lot done which is very important! But,
first we started with some really good study, and about 10:30 we
hurried and finished that and cleaned the apartment really fast. It
was super funny because right now I am currently in the process of
drawing a picture on the back of Elder Nielson's Japanese study books,
and so he just said hey I'll do all the cleaning if you just draw
that. So that made cleaning nice;) After that we were able to go
out and do emails at the church! I love my family so much! Everyone
always sends me the best emails and I look forward to them every week!
I wish I could write longer emails home every week, but there just
isn't enough time! But, I think I will keep trying to get faster and
faster. After the emails, we went and visited a really cool
Phillipino less active family in their little international store.
We got to visit with them for a little bit and that was really fun!
They are a great little family, and I think that they could be active
again so fast if we just showed them a little love! So, that is what
we are trying to do. We finally made it to the shopping center and we
went to this different place today to buy, and it was crazy! All of a
sudden we find ourselves in this line where you get a bag, a pretty
decent size, and then you get to put as many potatoes in it as
possible, and the whole bag is 300 yen, or $3. It was amazing! We
ended up getting a huge bag of onions and 2 huge bags of potatoes that
will probably last us a couple of weeks! Pretty amazing. After
shopping, we dropped everything off at the house and me and Elder
Lammintaus went out to the bike shop and another store for some bike
repairs and different things. The coolest store in the world is over
there, and so I really really really love visiting. It is like this
old american clothing store, and it is just way too cool. We were
able to visit there, as well as the electronic store and we fixed our
bikes. We went and grabbed dinner at an Indo Curry restaurant which
was so good, I love Indo Curry, but the owner B____ who we wanted to
talk to wasn't even there, so that was a bummer! But, we were able to
finish the day off really good with a great lesson with L____! We were
able to skype him and talk to him for about 45 min, and he is doing
really well! Unfortunately, he is not going to hit his date for
Ferbruary 23rd, but we want to try to work with him for the next
Sunday which we really think he can do it! We will see with him!
Great day today, really working hard on P-Day, which was fun but
sometimes I just want to relax! Maybe next week. Lfe's good!
2/18/14 - Today was a great day to start off the week of dendo! We
started with a pretty normal day, studying in the morning and stuff
and then me and Elder Lammintaus didn't really have any lessons
planned or anything so we were just going to go out and do some
finding, but right before we went I kind of felt like we should go try
and visit this cool kid that the missionaries had been visiting for a
while about 6 months ago, but I have never met while I have been in
Mito! His name is S_____ and Elder Hall actually had talked about
him to me when I was leaving Niigata because the guy plays soccer and
loves it! So..I came to Mito really wanting to meet him, but didn't
even know where he was or that he existed, so I couldn't really do
anything! Then Brother Uchida, our ward mission leader, brought his
name up in DCS and asked if anyone liked futsal! So we found out who
it was and got his address and I thought of him before we headed out,
so we decided to go visit one of our other friends, and then go try to
find where he lives and pay him a visit!
2/19/14 - So today, actually not a lot happened, because we had Zone
Meeting today! We had an amazing Zone meeting today and I really felt
like the Zone is doing great. I was able to give a little training
that the Zone Leaders asked me to do on Finding. They gave me sort of
a long time, haha but I was so happy to do it and I thought that the
training went great. However, after the meeting, we basically had no
time today, and so all we did was studied, and then went to Eikaiwa!
Class was great, and after I was able to talk to M______ a little bit,
and we were able to set up another appointment with him for next
Monday. He is way awesome, and today I asked him if he thought the
church would bless his life and he said that half of him thought it
would bless his life, and half of him didn't really understand. So,
we are answering any questions that he has next Monday over dinner! I
am way excited and I really feel blessed to have been able to get so
close with M_____ over the last little bit. I really want to baptize
him..haha but I know that it will bless his life so much and so I am
really working so hard to help him see how important this is. I
really hope that next week's lesson goes great!
2/20/14 - Well today I am going to write super fast because I HAVE NO
TIME! Seriously the most frusturating thing as a missionary is that
we have no time to do anything! We have tons of time to do different
things, but not enough time for little things like writing in our
journals cause there is always something we can do to for our
investigators! But today was amazing. We did not have any lessons
really planned, so after our weekly planning session, me and Elder
Lammintaus went out and started working way hard to find people. We
were able to end the day with finding 5 New Investigators! It really
was just an amazing day! I could not believe the miracles we saw.
These people were so prepared by The Lord, and I am just so excited to
be able to work here in Mito! Love missionary work!
2/21/14 - Today we just another one of those amazing days. Today, me
and Elder Lammintaus went out to find a new person who was just ready
to hear the gospel. That is really something we are working on as a
mission, is trying to find that next person who is ready for baptism.
We went out to the Eki and stopped and talked to this nice old man
sitting on a bench outside the Eki. We went over to him and started
just talking to him about the weather and just normal "conversation"
starter things. We kept talking and getting to know him and it turns
out that he was a really famous animation artist in Japan for years
and years. He started asking us if we had hear about 'Astro Boy,' and
I said that I had and said it was an old animation show and Disney
made a movie out of it. He told us that he was the creator of Astro
Boy! I honestly wasn't so sure, but then he wanted to draw us a
picture, so I gave him a note pad that I happened to have and asked
him to draw Astro Boy. He said it had been a while, but that he would
try. He drew it, and it looked amazing! He really was so good I could
not believe how cool it was. We became really good friends, however he
doesn't live very close...but we got his phone number, and then he
wanted to by us drinks because we made him so happy haha. So we end
up going with him and his friends to this coffee shop, and they buy us
hot coco, and we just keep talking and getting to know everyone. All
of a sudden, a lady that we went with to the shop hands me her phone
and says in Japanese to me, "your fluent in English so please talk
English to him." Haha I answer the phone and it is this guy who is
speaking amazing English to me! We talk for a little bit, and then I
just tell him that we should meet up! So, we switched phone numbers
and planned to meet on Wednesday before Eikaiwa! It was amazing to
get a new investigator on the phone, I have never done that before
from a random persons phone! But, The Lord works in mysterious ways,
and knows where we are going to be and puts prepared people in our
path! I really do feel like The Lord is just really preparing his
people to hear this message right now and I know that as we continue
to work as hard as we can, he will continue to bless us with success.
Another day full of miracles!
2/22/14 - Today was Saturday, and we had a really neat experience
today! In our ward, there was a little girl in one of the ward
families that was baptized! It was such a special day for her and her
family, and even for the ward to be getting another person into the
ward family! The family invited us to come to the baptism, and to try
to bring our investigators to come and see what it was! However, try
as we might, we were not able to bring any investigators to the
baptism, which was such a bummer! It was such a good opportunity to
be able to teach baptism by showing them, and then letting them feel
the special spirit that is there. However, even though no
investigators were able to come, the baptism was amazing, and the
spirit was strong as this little Japanese girl received baptism, and
then bore a powerful testimony after about why she joined the church
and why she wanted to be baptized. The whole time while this was all
happening, I could not help but think about how amazing the church is,
and how it really is the same church all over the world, that we all
believe the exact same thing, and that salvation comes through that
same person Jesus Christ, and that the first principles and ordinances
of the gospel are the same here, as they are in good ol' Utah. I love
that. I loved how the spirit was the same here in 日本茨城県水戸市, as it is
back home. It really was a testimony builder to me, so see that these
are the same, and that this truly is Jesus Christ's church once again
on the earth, here until he comes again. Something else that was
special about today was we were able to go to a members house for a
dinner activity with L_____! It was so much fun to see him interact with
the members and see how he truly could be brought right into the ward
family so quickly, and that he just fits in so well! We had some
really good food, and then we were able to have L____ drive us back to
Mito eki and grab our bikes. It was great! Such a good time to spend
with L____, and I am just so grateful for him and the amazing
opportunity I have had to meet him, and become great friends with him,
and I just hope to be able to give him that thing that has made me the
most happy in my life!
2/23/14 - Today was Sunday! I love Sunday's as a missionary, and I
love Sunday's in Japan! I don't know, I just feel like there really
is a special spirit about Sunday's. This particular Sunday morning
was spent with a nice walk to church! Elder Lammintaus's bike got a
flat tire the night before, and we weren't able to get it fixed so we
had to walk to church! It is usually about a 20 minute bike ride, so
it took us about 45 ish minutes to get there..But the weather was nice
and it was a great way to start off the day! We got to church and
C_____ ended up coming to church again! It was great to see him
at church. He told us this week that he isn't really sure why he
likes church, but he likes the feeling he gets when he is at church.
We are excited to continue to work with him through this week, and
will see about possibly/hopefully extending that baptismal commitment!
After church, we were still walking, and so we tried to visit a less
active, but they ended up not being home. So, after that we went to
the eki and waited to meet our friend for a lesson we scheduled. His
name is P___, and he is from Nepal, but he forgot the appointment!
But, it was ok because we were able to meet two of our investigators
at the station and talk to them about the Book of Mormon, and
challenged them to read some of it before our next appointment with
them. The agreed and it ended up being a really awesome little lesson
with them. Right now I just really feel like our prayers are being
answered and that even though we aren't the most qualified people for
the job, God is making us his tools, and shaping and molding us into
what he wants us to become. I am just incredibly grateful for this
opportunity to be here in Japan on a mission, to learn the things that
I am learning here, and to hopefully become the man that I want to
become! Missions are great.
2/24/14 - Wow today. Sometimes you have these days as a missionary
and you really just wonder why they have to happen? Haha not that bad
of a day, bit definitely not the best day on my mission or anything.
Today, because Elder Lammintaus is a new missionary, we had a "new
missionary" conference in Matsudo at 10. It was way good, the only
thing that isn't the nest about it is that it is a pretty solid 2 hour
train ride to Matsudo, which isn't bad, but it just uses up a lot of
our day! It makes it hard to be effective when we just have to be on
a train for 4 hours in one day! But, after that we had another
problem that we had to take care of...A couple days ago Elder
Lammintaus got a flat tire, so we had to go fix that today! We walked
fromMito Eki to the bikes shop which was maybe 45 minutes? We made it
there, got the stuff and then had to head to our apartment. After
almost an hour, we made it to our apartment, fixed the bike and were
ready to go to our lesson with M____ annndd he said he couldn't do it
tonight. Not a fun way to end the night. So, even though today was
not a day full of miracles, I still loved being a missionary. I think
that sometimes the hard times are here, just to make the good ones
even better, and to just strengthen us in whatever way The Lord sees
fit. I am so grateful to be here!
So that was my week this week! I hope that gives you a little bit
more detail, and helps show what I have been up to! Things are really
just going great here, and it is crazy to think that this transfer is
already almost over! I really can hardly believe how fast it has
gone, it is actually kind of scary! I really am just loving every
minute of being out here, and even though somedays it just seems way
tough, I really do feel The Lord by my side the whole time, and feel
him strengthening when I am weak, which is a lot! I definitely could
not do this alone that is for sure. But just like in my mission
scripture Alma 26:12 - Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my
strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will
boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all things; yea, behold,
many mighty miracles we have wrought in this land, for which we will
praise his name forever.
I love you all so much, and I was so grateful to read all the
awesome emails that I got today! You all give me so much amazing
support, and from that support I feel so much love! I just hope you
all know that I love you like crazy, and also that I love this work!
I know it is his work. I know that we would not be able to do it if
it wasn't through him. Everyone please have a safe week, and I will
talk to you all again soon!
All my love,
Logan
