Hello!
Today before I say anything I just have to say THANK YOU to everyone who wished me a happy birthday!! It was so nice to hear from all of you and feel the love all the way from America! Thank you for you love, support, and prayers! It was one of the best birthdays I have ever had, and it was crazy that it was my second birthday in Japan! It was great to spend the birthday here in Nagaoka, in an area where I have been for a long time where I have so many great friends and so many people that I love! It was also a huge blessing to spend the weekend listening to the living prophet and apostles, and having the chance to be spiritually recharged! We were able to have a party after the last session on Sunday with some of the branch members, and a Sister from the branch who is one of my favorite members in the branch bought and brought me a cake! I took some pictures so I will send those but it was so great! I really couldn't have had a better birthday, it was so soo good! Thank you again for a great birthday wishes they all meant so much!
So it was another great week here in Nagaoka! We are being so blessed here in the Zone, and in this area that it really is hard to put it all into an email! But, I am so grateful for the things that we are seeing. We know that we are all up here for a reason and it has been great to hear about each of the miracles that each companionship is having.
This week was a great week because we had General Conference, and so it was a great chance to have lots of people be able to come, and see what the conference was like. It was really great because we were able to just put a huge focus on General Conference all through out the week in our zone and in our own area and because of that we were able to help a lot of people come to the conference and experience that special spirit that is there! It was also really great because we had a great opportunity here in Nagaoka to watch it here! Usually, all of the members here go up to Niigata to watch the Conference which is always really great, but it is very difficult to get less active members or investigators too be able to go and so this Conference Elder Wheatley and I really thought about it a lot, and shot the idea to N ______and he thought that it was a good idea! So we were able to get one of the dvd's here and were able to watch it with investigators and members who weren't going to be able to make it all the way up to Niigata. The turn out was great! We ended up having 7 Less active members come to the conference over the weekend, and for every single one of them it was a great experience. We also were able to have a good amount of investigators come as well, and the turn out for the weekend was a huge success! We were really blessed to be able to watch it this weekend in Nagaoka.
Something else this week was Elder Wheatley and I were able to go on exchanges with the Joetsu Elders! We went to their district meeting, and Elder Hardin did a really great job with the meeting. I had the chance to work with Elder Hardin in Joetsu, and we were able to have a great day! We had time to get out and find, as well as time to teach investigators. It was really good to be working with Elder Hardin and it was a really great exchange with him! Great exchange! It's so fun to have the opportunity to work with so many missionaries on you mission! Really before my mission, I never really thought about that aspect of missionary work, but it has been such a blessing for me to work with so many amazing missionaries and learn so much from each of them. Excited to continue to learn from them as I continue to have those opportunities.
Things are going great. The Zone is excited about this goal of 100 baptisms in the mission by the end of the year, and everyone is working extremely hard to accomplish it! Their amazing faith and desire strengthens my faith and desire. I am so grateful for the opportunity and blessing that I have to serve here in this mission! I love japan, I love President and Sister Budge, and just feel so blessed to be working here. There are miracles happening all over, and it is a huge blessing to be a missionary at this time! Thank you again for the birthday wishes, and for always supporting me! I love you and I'll talk to you all soon!
Love,
Logan
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Birthday love with a birthday cake a member got him!
Done with bikes, moving to scooters.
After General Conference with Y____
Lunch with a less active and Elder Wheatley
Eating with a less active and her friend.
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