More Miracles! The Lord loves effort!
みなさんこんにちは！せんしゅはたくさんたんごを学びましたよ！
I've been learning a lot of Japanese this past week! It's been hard these past weeks staying excited but my companion has revitalized my joy of learning Japanese. How did I do it?
Before I say what helped me, shout out to Elder Hiltscher :). He drove through Queen Creek (where I'm living now) and was outside his mission for a bit because his district leader is an ASL missionary which is cool and they had to visit someone. But he gave me a shoutout in his email, so here's one back to my MTC comp! (And Elder Rahm, whats up dude!)
But back to the Japanese. I was struggling to be excited to learn and it's hard to apply it. Mainly because you're not immersed. But I've started to really read the Book of Mormon in Japanese and studying a book that the MTC gave me. It's a book on how to read the Book of Mormon in Japanese. It's almost as long as it too, which got me to laugh :). But you learn kanji that's super prevalant in the Book of Mormon (モルモン書) and then you can apply it! So it's been super encouraging to learn kanji and to then almost instantly apply it. I'm starting to recongize a lot more characters and what their meanings are. So that's been a cool breakthrough. Another cool thing is that an apostle or a past prophet has promised that if you read the Book of Mormon in your mission language completely through, that by the time you're at the end, you will understand that language. I'm taking that very seriously. It's still going to require lots of learning new kanji, but I have faith in that promise. I'm still in the introduction pages, but I'm almost to 1st Nephi :).
Spiritual thought, take counsel from the Lord! I was reading in Jacob 4 and DC 84 and lots of cool things came together in that as missionaries we need to trust the Lord. In many ways that feels vulnerable or scary for us mortals. But when we do put that faith in Christ, He can make us powerful instruments in His hands. Elder Merrell and I have been really focusing on prayer and expectting miracles and we are recieving promptings left and right and up and down. Its crazy! But amazing! So I recieved a prompting this last Saturday, but I wanted to do language study, but the Spirit firmly was saying to visit this particular family. I hesitantly did and they still didn't knock :). But as I experienced that, the Lord clearly taught me to ALWAYS following those promptings. I don't know why we had to visit that less-active family and not get an answer. But the next day at church they came! We had a great conversation and scheluded a visit! The Lord works in higher ways. Love you guys! Gotta run!
ロバートソン長老
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