Teach All Nations: (Elder S.) What a week!

What a week! This week was great. We saw a lot of awesome miracles
here in Yachiyo. The weather here is a bit miserable sometimes. Mid
90s and 70% humidity... It's kinda funny, though. We leave the
apartment at 12:00 everyday after studies and lunch and get to work. By
about 1:30 my pants and shirt are just drenched in sweat. Crazy!
Lately, we've been walking around a lot trying to find people to talk
to and share our message with. We just carry around 2 liter bottles
with us cause it's crazy how much we sweat. But I think Heavenly
Father is really blessing us!

So on Friday we had an awesome experience. We were housing and just
went to this random apartment building and on the first 3 floors there
were about 5 doors on each floor. We knocked on each one and they all
looked out their little peep hole and not one of them answered the
door. On the last floor there was only one door for some reason. We
knocked it and out came a kid named Bamba. We taught him the Plan of
Salvation and he was very interested and told us to come back whenever
we wanted. It was an amazing tender mercy of the Lord. Sometimes
missionary work here in Japan is pretty deflating. We do everything we
can to share our message with everyone but as soon they read the "Iesu
Kirsuto" on our name badge or we tell them who we are they just say
"Sorry, I'm Buddhist!". But I've noticed that as we put all our faith
in Christ and just go out and give all you have, we are really
blessed.

We had great lessons with both Takano and Flavio this week. Right now,
Takano says the only thing that's holding him back is the Word of
Wisdom. He just can't give up is tea and coffee. He told us "I want to
find a loophole to receiving the gospel and still being able to
drink coffee and tea." We're doing our best to strengthen his faith
and his testimony right now. If you know any talks or scriptures that
could help him send them my way! Flavio is doing so awesome.
We just need to get permission from his parents so he can get
baptized.

I love being here in Japan. It's tough, but when I kneel down at night
and talk to my Heavenly Father I know it's all worth it. I love you
guys and hope you're doing awesome!

Love Elder Snyder