Post 94!

No big email from Logan this past week, so I am sending my personal email he sent me. 

Dear Mom!

Time is sure going by fast isn't it?! Crazy that April is already almost half way over...seriously unbelievable.  Just enjoying it while it's here.  Fun things are ahead though.

Has your package come yet?

1. The package has not come yet, but I'm sure that it will be coming soon!  I am excited thank you so much for always sending me so much!

What is your decision in accepting the Ambassador Scholarship?

2. Thank you for your support with the program.  I actually emailed the lead man there and talked to him this last week, and he asked who I wanted to room with him and I told him Ryan and he said that he probably has a good chance that he will get in because lots of people defer the scholarship for missions, so I'm hoping that he will be able to get in!  But I accepted the scholarship this week and yeah just like what your saying like once I'm home I can figure out more about the details and stuff and talk to the guy in person and see what my options are if Ry doesn't get in.  One option that he was saying is that if he didn't get in, I could still be in the program and not live in the Ventana apartments so that could also be an option, I guess we will just have to see!  I'm sure God will be able to help me out a little bit...;)

Would you like me to send you some new pants?

3.  Are you sure?!? I would be really grateful for some pants...my gray ones just tore...so I would love some new gray ones!  Of course I don't really have that much time...so if I got them soon that would be amazing but of course don't worry about it too much I promise I'm doing ok right now:) haha but your amazing thank you for being so thoughtful. Yeah that is the style I like though 32x32 flat fronts slimmmmm haha.  Although I loved having ginormous pants that were way baggy..I like the fitting slim pants a lot:) thank you I love you!

I got a teaching job in St. George!

It sounds like things are going soooo good!  I AM SO PROUD OF YOU! That is such a blessing that it is so close to our house, and that you were able to get a position that you wanted at an awesome school with an awesome principal and everything!  I am so excited for you!  How are you going to get all of your school stuff there?? Thats so exciting though I am so happy for you!  It also sounds like things are going way good with the house and just that everything with the family is going so good it makes me so happy you have no idea!  

Keep it up.  Time is going quick...One thing that I wanted to make sure I told you is that I found something out pretty cool for coming to japan as a visitor.  There is something that foreigners visiting japan can buy called a Japan Rail Pass, which is basically 1 flat rate for a straight week of riding the trains/ bullet trains all you want. I think the price is around $290 for 1 person, but I think that it could be worth it if we went to kyoto and Nagaoka...because it also pays for all the trains that we would take in downtown tokyo and everywhere we could go, so traveling around would never be a problem it would just be one price for a week, and it's pretty cheap compared to normal...So i don't know maybe you can research a little bit and let me know what you think.  But if we all had that, that would mean that we could travel a lot farther around japan cause we would have already paid for the bullet train!  Could be fun to go down to Hiroshima and different places...but I don't know let me know what you think!  

Also I was talking to a sister missionary who used to live in japan and she said that she hiked mt. Fuji and that it wasn't that long....that people do it in like 3 hrs all the time...so I don't know if we could do it but I think that would be SO SICK! so maybe look that up too and see if it's open...but yeah I'll keep thinking of cool things to do!

Love you!

Logan

Beautiful......

Post 93!

Hello everyone!

I hope that everyone has had as good of an Easter Weekend as I had this week!  It was great to get to go to church and have an awesome day with investigators coming to church, and people giving us easter candy!  It's been fun over here and it sounds like most of you had a good time over there.  

It really has been a great week here! The work is progressing and it's always fun to see. It has always been such a fun thing to watch how the Lord really is the one who is hastening his work. It's truly amazing. This week we had the opportunity to meet and teach some people who have real potential to be baptized in this next month. They are people who are young and have interest in the church and why it is here. We have a new investigator who was invited to a recent convert named H_____'s baptism last week because he is her friend and she invited him to come, and we were able to teach him a lesson at the Graham's, who are a missionary couple who live near the temple.  He also came to Eikaiwa where we were able to teach a member present lesson with H_____ and we talked about what we do and how we want to help him know that these things are true just like how H_____was able to learn it. He wants to do it, and has agreed that he would be baptized if he came to know that these things are true. We are hoping to set a baptismal date with him our next lesson and help him progress to be baptized here soon! We also have a chinese investigator named S___who was able to come to church last week and just has tons of questions and interests in the church. We were messaging him and he told us that he doesn't know why, but he had this desire to read the bible and to learn more about the savior. So we set up an appointment and we met up and gave him a Book of Mormon and he is excited to start reading it. He is busy, but he is able to find time so we are excited to get things going with him.

This week we also had the chance to do some volunteer work with our Brother S____.  We went with a group of Japanese people who all live in the area that we live in, and they basically just took us to cool places in Tokyo that not very many people know about, and it was really cool!  The volunteer part was there there are some foreigners who live in our area as well, and so since we speak Japanese we were able to help them be able to understand what was being said and it was really cool!  As we were going around, we were able to meet with some really cool people, and get contact information and make lots of friends!  It was a really easy way to talk to people about what we are doing and why we are here.  One older lady that I had the chance to talk to shocked me when she started speaking perfect english to me.  It turned out that she actually was born in Utah, and lived there until she was a teenager and then moved to Japan to finish schooling, but lives all the commandments and really likes the church.  We talked for a while, and we are planned to meet with her this next week to talk more about the church and it was just incredible to me to see how God put us in her path to be able to meet with her, and hopefully help her come to church and all that good stuff.  There are miracles out here every single day, and it's so fun to watch!  I wish I could put them all in here, but I just don't have the time to type that big of an email!  But they are happening, and it is a testimony builder every day when we get home and reflect on all the things we saw that day. Something that I will never be able to forget!

Thank you for all you do!  I love all of you out there and I am grateful for your support!  This mission thing is too much fun, and it's crazy how I just feel like I keep learning and learning even though I have been a missionary for so long! I'm happy to be here, and especially happy to be serving here in Japan.  It's an amazing country with amazing people.  I hope you all have a great week and I will talk to you soon!

Love,

Logan