What's the purpose of Religon?

Well...Good Afternoon! This week was pretty good. On Tuesday last week we got one lesson in with the recent convert who was baptized like 8 months ago...(This Branch needs another baptism...it's ridiculous...) 8 months is too long.

Then Wednesday...we had a lesson with Saito-san. He is a member-refferal/(forced into meeting us...haha) By some of the members that live like 45 minutes away. He's pretty cool. I'm not sure if I mentioned him earlier or not, but yeah, he's pretty cool. He doesn't mind the church, but he just doesn't know why it's important to him. Lately I've been learning a ton of ridiculous stuff from all of the investigators ridiculous questions. For example...How many of you know the meaning of religon? Why do we as humans have religon? It's an interesting question. I've been pondering that one for many days now. I think I've come up with an answer, but yeah, it's a tough one. There is another one...What is real happiness? This one is an especially hard one. How do you find happiness in the normal human hustle&bustle? How do you actually separate yourself from the normal "society" mindset that controls 99% of the human race? What does dependance mean? Etc...etc...etc...Goodness!!! I'm getting so worn out by these questions and by others, but I can totally tell that by the time I get off my mission, I'm going to have "legit" answers to many of these questions. So I'm looking forward to that, but as for now, I sit and ponder and sit and pray and ponder and sit, and wait...

Thursday...We went to Sendai today for a Zone Conference...it was a blast! I love hearing Tateoka Kaicho talk to us...it's awesome! And the Zone Leaders are way good at energizing us, so it was a way good expirience. Umm...I don't really have my journal with me today, so I am going off of my Planner...so yeah. After Zone Conference, the Zone Leaders, District Leaders, and AP's met with Tateoka Kaicho and we talked about the word unity. Who do we have to be United to? How do we change our dependancy to God more? How do we have one mind with the Bretheren? Goodness! I am starting to LOVE these ridiculously hard questions!!!! Anyways that's all that happened.

Friday...we did another weekly planning session and talked about all our investigators and so on and so on...it was a good time.

Saturday...we pretty much dendo'd like we always do. It was a good time...like it always is...

Sunday...Church! Twas good. We had a new person come to church today. She came and we gave her a tour of the church and then did a lesson and it was pretty good. I made Rufenacht choro lead it...and it was funny cause she was one of those people that likes talking a lot, and when you first know no japanese it's hard to control those situations, but Rufenacht choro did it pretty well. Turned out like a good lesson.

Monday...P-day! We pretty much went to Off-house...a recycle store...(cause they are the BEST in Japan!!!) But unfortunatly they had no 3$ 3-piece suits...sad day. Rufenacht choro, in his first area, bought 2, 3-piece suits for 3 bucks each. And they are legit! But I guess Tsuruoka's recycle shops are pretty bad...at least according to his desciption, I am judging Tsuruoka as "pretty bad"...haha. But we taught the Famous Sugawara-san, and he SUPRISINGLY didn't pray. His reason was that he has more then one personality and the personality that said he would pray, got over-run by a different personality...dang Satan...I'm getting sick of him. And to make things better, the lesson was a complete waste of time. He pretty much told us a bunch of "truths" and I pretty much said that "Yes, we agree to everything you said. Your point is?" And thats what kind of lesson it was. Not very good. But he AGAIN asked tons of ridiculous questions and I'm not even going to add to the list that's already there (see above!).

Today...we got to teach Mizuguchi! He has been an Investigator for 30 years now...he is old and he forgets everything we say. Within like 5 minutes of talking. But his lesson went ok. I had to teach him how to pray again and I'm still not sure he will do it, only because he forgets so often. It's ridiculous! But yeah, his lesson was ok...he kept feeding us these little snacks and now I'm super full of snacks. But yeah, then who knows what will happen tonight! It's an adventure EVERYDAY!

But that's my week so far! Thank you thank you! Hope everyone has a good February the 11th! Cause that is the day that Japan was Born! Not to mention, I was born too! Yay! So have a good February the 11th! I wish for everyone to see a miracle on that day!