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| My best friends came to eikaiwa this week! Miyake Kun and his friend Eri Chan! Miyake kun came to the concert we did. So good to see him again. |
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| The cute kid in the front. Hiromu. He makes the picture perfect. |
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| We tried a new kind of heart attack. |
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| This was my favorite heart |
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| No good pictures this week. Sorry! This is the last one. Love you all! |
Testimony and Conversion
This week we spent so much time finding. We did a lot of housing and talked to a lot of people. We have only one investigator right now (and that investigator is busy) so we needed to find some people to teach. We spent so much time planning. Thinking about where we should go, who we should visit, what members may have referrals, what old investigators we should visit ect. We made some really great plans and went out to go find these people. For the amount of time we spent finding this week we had a lot of contacts. We talked to a ton of people, yet we saw no success. The old investigators rejected us. The less active members quit the church. The members have no friends(?.... I was confused as well.) And the people we talked to had no interest. It was hard! Seriously hard. We had one day where we found this REALLY good looking area. Lots of new houses and we saw a lot of young people walking around. This was our chance to go find young families! People hid in their houses. About 10 of the 120 houses we pinged, actually answered the inter-phone. BUT the people that did answer rejected us SUPER nicely so we considered it a huge success.
I spent a lot of time thinking about our finding. I felt horrible for my companion. He just barely got to the mission and has yet to teach a lesson to an investigator we have found. We have spent hours and hours of finding, yet have not found anyone to teach. We made great plans to help members, to work with them and receive referrals, yet the members seem to be too busy. It was pretty depressing. I though about other missionaries, who on their last transfer work sooo hard and see TONS of miracles. I thought about my work and if it just wasn't good enough. I have had these times before on my mission and have learned how to get over these trials, but it was just weird to me that I had to have this trial again on my last transfer. A few weeks before coming home.
As I thought about this my answer came to me. Yesterday while sitting in church thinking about how I can help the struggling ward members who were arguing with each other, I looked down at the Liahona talk which we were studying. It was Pres. Eyring (Spellcheck) talk in the February Liahona, Testimony and Conversion. We began talking about it and the members all had their different opinions on how and why we need to be converted. I tried really hard to feel the spirit, but was too distracted. I started to read the talk to regain focus when I read about missionaries. I talked about how missionaries rely on the spirit to know what to teach and how to help people change. It had nothing to do with what we were currently talking about, but I got my answer.
I am having this last trial to seal my conversion. I am proving to the Lord just how much I love him. I am showing him that I will give Him my everything, even when it may seem like I am seeing nothing. I am committing to live my life as He would have me live, to obey His commandment and truly love everyone around me. I am learning what true conversion is and what it means to become like the Savior.
My companion and I talked one night about the miracles we have been seeing lately to try and get our dendo fire up. We were pretty down and had a hard time listing off miracles. I now know the biggest and most important miracle I saw was the change I had.
I love you all so very much. Be excellent to each other.
-Mecham Choro.
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