It was another great week in Japan. Except that it's rainy season and
it rains every single dang day. That's not too fun but I'm super glad
I bought a nice rain suit. We ate at 2 members houses this week which
is very rare. Elder Richards has eaten at a members house 4 times on
his mission and 3 were in the past 3 weeks, haha. The members here in
Takasaki are pretty great. Our goal this transfer was to work with the
ward members as much as possible, so we've been trying to visit and
talk to members every day. The bishop knows our plan to work with the
members and yesterday during testimony meeting he had all six
missionaries here stand up and he said something nice about each one of
us. He told the ward how much we need them and it was so awesome. All
the missionaries also got up and bore our testimonies. I'm super
excited to see what's going to happen.
Other than that the work was pretty tough this week. We've been
talking to everyone we see on the street and sharing our message. We
also knocked on a lot of doors this week but no one seems to want to talk
to us :( Sometimes it's pretty frustrating but we just have to keep
going!
Something awesome did happen this week, though! Ishida finally received
a spiritual confirmation that the gospel is true. On Tuesday we had a
great lesson and afterwards he said he felt something that he hadn't
felt before and it was just a super happy and warm feeling. We told
him it was the Holy Ghost. The next day we asked him if he knew the
Book of Mormon was true and he said after what he felt the day before
he knew it was true. It was really awesome. I know that it was through
his faith and prayer that he was able to receive a confirmation of the
truthfulness of the Gospel.
I know this is the Lord's work. I know the Gospel is true and I love
sharing it every day here in Japan. Love you guys!
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