Can I just say how amazing it was to talk with my family this last
week? I was so happy to get to see them, and see that they are all
doing so well! It is great being able to email every week, but there
definitely is something special about getting to see ya'll face to
face and just get to talk! It really was amazing and it is such a
blessing to be able to skype! The call went great it only cut out
once, and it was just perfect. I have a beautiful family!:) I am way
too blessed to get to call you all my family. Thank you for your
amazing support to me while I have been out here, and thank you for
being such amazing examples for me. I can not tell you enough how
much it means to me, and how you all make me a better missionary! I
love you!
So honestly, I really don't even know where to begin this week! One
of the most amazing miracles that has happened on my entire mission
happened this week, and I really am just so grateful that we have The
Lord on our team in this work. He is the one who is hastening his
work, and we just get to help out!
As you have heard before, I have been talking a lot about T____ and
how he is really close to being baptized. However, he has been
lacking in getting permission from his mother, so things have just
kind of been on hold with him which has been really hard! But, this
week something amazing happened. Last week I sent the picture home of
the chinese night, I think...But we had a huge chinese night and
T____'s mom is chinese, so we invited her! She came and had an amazing
time and that was kind of that. However, we really have been getting
worried because T____was supposed to be moving to America soon for
school, and we wanted him to be baptized before than! This week, on
Friday, I was actually on splits in a city called Senzokuike about 45
minutes from Shibuya, but Elder Egbert got a call from T____'s mom!
She asked if he was with T____ and he said he wasn't, and then she said
that she had been thinking a lot about T_____because he is leaving soon
and she is getting nervous for him to go to America. She said she
just kinda kept thinking about Christianity and that thought wouldn't
really leave her mind(we had talked to her about T____being baptized
and things but she thought he was just too young). So, she decided to
call her family in China about it. She gave them a call, and they all
said amazing things about Christianity, and that all christians were
just great people, and they all told her that they really thought it
would bless T____'s life. So, she told Elder Egbert that she wants
T____ to be baptized!!!
This is where it gets crazy though, because after wards we talk to
T____and he is way excited, but then we learned from his mom that he
is leaving this Saturday for America! So we decided that he would get
baptized on Friday, and get the Holy Ghost the same day and then we
will send him to America the next day! The timing for these miracles
literally could not have been any better. We have been working really
closely with the ward and we are going to be able to do it this Friday
and it is going to be amazing! The best part though is that we looked
up where he is going to be living in California, and it is literally a
5 minute walk from the LA temple, and a church that is right next to
it! We are going to contact the missionaries there, and just have
them really help T____ be able to grow like crazy over there! This
whole week with him has just been amazing, and he is so ready to be
baptized. He is going to go to America and just get so strong in the
gospel its amazing. Also, in September he is going to move up to Utah
and go to Snow college possibly! I told him he is going to have to go
visit my family for me and he said he would love that! So be ready to
meet T____! :) he is a great kid and by then he will be amazing in
English so it won't be a worry haha.
Today we also had the chance to go to the temple and that is always
amazing! I love the temple so much and the spirit that is there! It
is great to have the chance here in this mission to be able to go to
the temple! It is a huge blessing. It is always way too much fun to
meet with all the missionaries that come in and just get to say hello
to everyone! It really is just the best I love it. Something else
that was really amazing this week was at church we actually had a
member of the seventy come and speak! It was Elder Gay, and he gave
an incredibly powerful talk about the reality of the savior and you
could just feel the spirit so strongly. It isn't every day in Shibuya
that you have a member of the first quorum of the seventy speak in
your sacrament meeting;) haha something really exciting is this
Saturday we are actually going to have Elder Cook come and speak to us
in a 2 mission conference! It is going to be amazing and we are
really excited to learn from a member of the quorum of the twelve
apostles!
This week, I really just realized how blessed I am to just be a small
part of all of this. This is an amazing work that is happening, and
we are way too blessed to get to take part in helping The Lord prune
his vineyard. I know this is his work. I know for myself that he is
hastening his work. I see it every day here as a missionary. He does
work through us as missionaries, and through small and simple things,
but he does work. I feel so blessed to be a part of this mission, and
blessed to be serving where I am serving, and with the missionaries I
am serving with! I know that as we continue to just try and give The
Lord all we have, he will make up the rest.
I love you all so much! Please have an amazing week! If you can,
please just continue to pray for T____ and that all will go well with
him! I know that prayer works, and I am so grateful for you all
praying for us here in Tokyo! Talk to you soon!
Logan
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