Hey! Sorry I couldn't post anything last week. I was just busy...no really huge excuse, but guess what! This week I'm getting transferred...I'm not suppose to know that yet, but President told me yesterday, so I'm going to be going to Tsuruoka, and I have a gaijin companion (not japanese). So I dunno...it's going to be totally different! Well this week has been great, and last week was too, but I don't have a ton of time, cause Transfer week is crazy! Well for the most part, we have been focusing on the Atonement this week and teaching everybody about the Atonement, so that's been real fun. So last week I watched the Testament...i guess it's an "again", but it was really great! That movie was really good, I thought...I watched it in Japanese when we were teaching Inoue about Christ. I studyed a bunch about the Millenium last week too, so that was fun. The end is at hand! Last week Takaki choro was sick and Sis Tateoka made him Dendo anyways...haha, funny stuff. He was totally out of it when we were dendoing. There is this Kinjin less active that always calls us and wants to do mogi lessons with us and we finally met with him the other day...it was pretty cool. He got baptized when he was in his teens and he hasn't been going to church for like 15 years, but he always calls occationally and wants to hear some lessons. I went to Miyako last week I think it was...good times. One of our investigators is Shikama and he is pretty awesome. He can't open his left eye and he has a cane, but his clothes are always osshare! He talks slang all the time and it's great. I can't ever understand what he's saying cause he smokes and some of his teeth are missing, plus he speaks Sendai-ben, but at first he didn't believe in God, but now we're getting him to the point where he says there could be a God. But zan-nen nagara, we are transfering, so who knows what will happen to him. Umm...k, this week we got Standard! Good times...we actually found 3 investigators by thursday or something like that, so it was a way fast week! I'm glad we got to get the Standard on our last week here in good ol Nagamachi. It's so great here! There is so many people to find and teach. So awesome! On Saturday, we went to a Halloween party thing for one of the members who teaches English, to help them out with English stuff, and it was great! Just like back in US. Everyone was wearing costumes and they even went trick-or-treating!....it was only two houses though...and at the houses they got a bag of candy with their name...so that wasn't even the same at all, but haha...They don't do Halloween here at all, besides acknowlege that it exists...so Enjoy it! There was also this clip that President had me listen to before I went out to Tsuruoka that was about Planning and becoming a Master Planner. Planning is really super important even in regular life, so if you have Preach My Gospel then by all means read chapter 8, if not then consider learning how to be a better planner and in setting goals! Cause it's super important! Planning is the part of the work where you show the Lord that you can be trusted. It's the part of the day when you get to use your accountability and agency to decide how well you are going to use your time and what accomplishments you want to show the Lord you can do. But it was a good clip...very cool. Anyways so the Atonement is pretty awesome! Have you ever thought about the Atonement deeply? If it wasn't for the Atonement then our existance here would be useless! Think about how the Fall of Adam and the Atonement relate. Then when you think you're done with that think about the crazy pain the Lord had to suffer for our petty mistakes. God doesn't allow the slightest degree of sin to enter into the Kingdom, so he gave us a way!!!! Why don't we just take it! He gave us a way back and some people don't take the help. We're all stuck in a pit and God put's a rope in front of our foolish eyes to help us out of the pit, so why in the world don't we grab it!? What are we thinking! We decide that maybe we can get out of the hole ourselfs, but MURI...you can't do it alone. There are too many Sins on the sin list for anyone in the world to not have one. How many drops of blood did the Saviour have to spill for you? Think about that sometime. It's great stuff! Zehi, everybody think about the Atonement really deeply and ponder about How many He spilt for you...and just maybe it'll influence you for the better. Anyways, Sorry, thats about it. The only picture I've got is one of my feet, so I'll post those! Haha...Bai-bai!
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