Hello everyone! HAPPY FATHERS DAY! Happy day to all of the fathers, future fathers, and mothers in the world. (really the mothers are the real winners because they are the ones that work the hardest on fathers day, and probably all of the time) Dad you are the greatest and I love you. Thank you for the amazing example you have set for me. I hope to be just like the amazing missionary you were.
Well here is what has happened this last week. On Monday we hiked Mt. Moiwa. That was a lot of fun! It felt so great to be outside. I was able to wear normal people clothes out in public. That was weird. The forests in Japan honestly remind me a lot of utah. There are random buddhist statues all over the place, that do not remind me of utah, but the trees are almost the same. There are a lot of aspen trees that are cool. Wow why am I talking about tress. That is super boring. Anyways the hike was about 2.3 miles long. Not a very hard hike, but a lot of fun. The top of the "mountain" was way cool and funny. That was the most asian part of the hike. You can drive to the top of the mountain, which totally takes the fun out of it, (but I really want to bike it) or you can take a giant gondola thing to the top for like 9$. We hiked up for the sunset and then rode the ropeway thing down so that we could be back at the apartment by 9:00. So at the top of the mountain they have this builiding and they play this magical music to make it seem like you are in some crazy far away planet. They have this random metal cage thing that has a bell in it. My companion and I went and rang the bell as loud as we could together and yelled, "Dekimashita!" Which means we did it! We then got a lot of weird looks from everyone, because 1. it was really quiet and we were super loud and 2. because we read the sign after we did it and it is called the "lovers sanctuary" It is for couples who ring the bell to symbolize being together forever. Then they buy a lock and lock it onto the bars to symbolize their love. SOOO funny. We did not know this. We rang it and laughed so hard after we realized why everyone was being so weird. Well that was monday. Tuesday was a normal day. But we did meet this new amazing family. Their name is the Nada family. Right now we are teaching the mothers. She is 29 and looks 18 and has 2 kids. One is 9 and the other is 7. Oldest is a boy and the youngest a girl. She explained to us that she has really felt like there is a god when somebody has died in her life. She really felt help from something else. We taught her about how we will see these people again and about eternal families and testified so hard. Then we extended the baptismal invitation and she said yes! She is going to be baptized on September 8th. We want to teach her family so bad. Her husband is a doctor and basically only is home on Sundays. He works so much that most of the time he just sleeps at his office. We really want to bring them to church and allow them to feel the holy ghost. They are so great. They are such a happy and loving family. My companion and I are really excited to keep teaching them. Wednesday and Thursday were sick days. My companion was sick so we stayed in the apartment all day and I studied for 13 hours straight. My brain almost exploded. Well on Friday I met my investigator from Columbia! Her name is Sra. Rena. I was able to talk in Spanish! Wow that is an awesome experience. It was just get to know her kind of stuff, but I set up an appointment with her for this Friday. I also recieved a refferal for a man from Madrid Spain!! What?! Am I on a spanish or Japanese speaking mission? Well I just wanted to tell you all how important you are. You are so important to me and you are so important to God. It is amazing how much of an example everyone is to everyone. If you saw somebody dancing on the street you would either be happy, upset, weirded-out or whatever, but either way they had an impact on you. Everyone you meet you have an impact on. What kind of impact are you leaving? What are you really about? What kind of person do you want them to remember you as? For me I want people to know that I teach about God and Jesus Christ. I want them to know that I know that this message is true and that I know they can recieve the happiness that I have as well. Always be the best example you can be. It is extremely important. Remember that you have bad days, and there are times were you will not be the best example you can be, but it is from these times were you learn who you really are and who you want to me. I really screwed up a lesson this week by not even talking about the gospel. I was too concerned about what he thouht about us and that he thought we were normal people. I did not even bring up our message before he told us that he did no have time to talk today. I was SUPER down about this. I was very very hurt by my poor example. BUT I learned that I can be a better example. I learned that I really need to take a step back evaluate what I really want and who I really want to become. This is something we always need to be doing. We are always improving. Life is always moving and we are always learning. YOU can do this! I love you all! Your heavenly father loves you perfectly and completely. He always understands you no mattter what the circumstance is. Trust Him. Be excellent to each other. I love you.
-Mecham Choro
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