This week was amazing! Elder Judd and I are working super hard in
Shibuya right now and we are seeing great things! The work this week
was great, but the highlight of this week was definitely Elder Ballard
coming to the mission! He had a devotional planned to be broadcast
from Utah to Japan, but they decided last minute to just come and meet
the missionaries and the members, and so we were able to have a 2
mission conference with him this last week! It was such an incredible
experience! Elder Ballard came with the presiding bishop, Bishop
Stephenson, and President Rasband of the Presidency of the first
quorum of the seventy. Then we also had the area seventy presidency
here with us as well and there was just a lot of power in that
building!
So we had the conference and it was intense because President Budge
asked me a couple of weeks ago to say the opening prayer, and so I had
the chance to pray! I won't lie I was pretty nervous because there
were a lot of amazing people sitting behind me, but I got up there and
said the prayer of my life! I literally was guided by the spirit
because I didn't know what I should say before but I think it ended up
being good because after I finished Elder Ballard said,"Thank you
Elder." so that was awesome! After we got into things we had just an
amazing conference. I love these kind of conferences because the
speakers don't have a talk written or anything like that but they
completely rely on the spirit and just kind of teach what they feel
everyone needs to learn. So it's always really cool to see what they
have to say and how they are guided and how they really are so in tune
with the spirit.
The meeting was really just amazing. I felt like I learned so many
things. Everyone who spoke seemed to really focus on the Restoration,
and teaching to people about the restoration as fast and as powerfully
as we can. It was so cool to feel the spirit so strong as they all
testified personally of the reality of the restoration and how the
people in Japan need these truths that we hold. It was definitely one
of those times where I felt my own testimony strengthened, and I feel
like that was just one of the huge blessings of this conference! It
helped us all to get excited about teaching all of Japan about the
restoration and about the church.
I know that this church is true! It is such a blessing to be able to
share about it every day, and to tell people how it has blessed and
changed my life. I have had the opportunity to see many of my friends
blessed with this gospel, and every time that I have seen their lives
improved and blessed by it, it has strengthened and blessed me. Thank
you all for the amazing support that you give me. I am grateful for
all of you! You are amazing and I will talk to you again soon!!
Love,
Logan
Baseball with Brother Sugiyama
We had the chance to take the sacrament to Brother Wajima!
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