Dear family!
Another great week! Things are going amazing here in Nagaoka and you can really feel the fire picking up. I know that we are going to see an amazing Christmas season here in Nagaoka with a lot of baptisms! We are already looking like we will be going "white" and I think that there are even more people ready to be baptized than just one in each area! Exciting. Things are happening all over the Tokyo Japan mission right now and it's so fun to see. With this big goal that we have, every single missionary in the mission is working every day to see miracles in their own areas, and we are seeing them! President Budge is helping the mission a lot by being engaged with all the missionaries and really inspiring everyone. I feel so lucky to be a missionary here! It is crazy to me how much President and Sister Budge do for us and how much they are always helping. It is definitely a huge blessing being able to serve with them! Actually this week we had the chance to have President Interviews here in Nagaoka and it was way good! We were able to have an interview with President Budge, as well as have a little talk with Sister Budge while we were waiting for our interviews which was way good! I really feel like every time I have an interview with President Budge I come out of it so much wiser! Haha but really he always gives such good advice and is just way relaxed about things. It's never a stress to have to talk to him but just something that we get to look forward to! It's a blessing to have such an amazing mission president!
So church this week in the Zone was really good! Right now we have a goal that is focusing on church, but not only investigators, but focuses on all of the work of salvation including Recent Converts and Less actives. This is a fun way to look at ALL of the people that God is working with, and to see all of the work that the missionaries are doing every day, because we get to hear about all the less actives and recent converts coming. This week there were tons of people at church, and all the missionaries were just really excited! I think that was probably the best part of the week was not only did we help a lot of people by helping them come to church this week, but the missionaries were all able to really feel the joy, and experience that happiness that comes when we help lots of people come to church. It was a great Sunday yesterday, and I think that everyone is really excited to work even harder this week and have an even better week next week. To be honest, church wasn't great here in Nagaoka, we didn't have very many people come which wasn't very fun..but we have awesome plans for next week and so we will be working really hard all week to have a huge week next Sunday! This week was a little bit frustrating when we didn't have a very good Sunday, and I was kind of sitting there thinking about why we weren't able to have very many people come and a thought came to my mind that was something one of my soccer coaches told me forever ago when I was super young, and something I have kind of kept my whole life and heard my whole life playing sports, but it was that when we lose a game we learn a lot more than when we win a game. It hit me pretty hard that maybe we didn't work as well as we should have this last week, and God was helping us learn so that we can be better missionaries and work better every week to get people to church. It was something that I don't think that I will be forgetting any time soon!
Something else we had this week was exchanges in Sanjo and I had the opportunity to work with a new missionary Elder Fryzel, and he is doing really really well. I am extremely impressed by the missionary that he is becoming. It's way fun to work with the new missionaries in the mission! It was also really really fun to work in Sanjo again and have the chance to be back in my first area! It's always really nostalgic and crazy, but it's fun to be back there. We also had another exchange this week and I got to go with another brand new missionary Elder Richards! Way fun to have that chance to learn from them, and really just grow from their faith! These new missionaries have such strong faith and really know that they can do anything with God's help which is so good. I am always trying to increase that faith, and it's nice to have younger missionaries help me out with that;)
This week was a learning week! I felt at times like we might not be able to get every thing that we had to get done done, but we did and it was because God was helping us! I'm really lucky to have Elder Wheatley with me working way hard and having fun while we do it. Something I have realized is that God needs us not only to be obedient and working hard, but that he needs us to do that with a smile on our face. If we don't have that, we can't fully show these people the blessing that the church is in our lives. Thank you all for always being so good to me! I have to give a special shout out to my amazing mother Mom I love you! Thank you again for the amazing birthday package! It was perfect thank you. I have an amazing family! Love you all so much have a great week I'll talk to you soon!
Love,
Logan
ps - this next week is transfer calls, so I will let you know whats going on!
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