Week 35

Mission reflection, more Japan news, and exciting opportunities!

Wow! So much news to announce! So this Saturday we are going to have a meeting with all 5 missions based out of Arizona and Elder Uchtdorf will be speaking! That will be an awesome experience! It'll be such a privilege to be there and listen to a Apostle of the Lord speak! I'm so pumped to hear from him! 

More exciting news! I received news that my Visa and passport are getting to the mission office this week! :O So that's super exciting! I don't have a date yet, but I could possible leave May 5th. That by no means is an exact date and I haven't heard that spoken to me, but some other missionaries are leaving then, and my passport is already approved and done. So I might leave then, or later, but I will be officially leaving the Gilbert Arizona mission sometime in the next 2 months :(. I have loved it so far and I look forward to the time I still have here. 

This past week we've had lots of cool miracles! The coolest miracle was one I had on exchanges with my DL, Elder Jenkins. It was about 7:00PM and we were spiritual finding. That's were we pray and seek the Lord on where He wants us to go. So we're walking around, trying to find a person to help. And we prayed and sought His will. So we're going down this one street and we could either go straight or left. I saw a car coming towards us and I was like, "Hey that's the sign, lets go straight!" And as I said that, the car turned right onto the street left of us and then Elder Jenkins was like, "That's our sign, let's follow the car!" So we went and we met a lady named Tishana! We had a really cool conversation and we discussed missions, taught from the Book of Mormon, and we talked about and testified about were we go after this life! We handed her a Book of Mormon and 2 pamphlets and she said she was going to read them soon! She then asked us why we came on our missions and we testified of our personal conversion and how we want to help others come unto Christ. She then asked me to bear my testimony in Japanese and I bore a simple testimony. It was the WORST Japanese I have ever spoken, but she asked me what I said and I told her. We friended her on Facebook and said goodbye! Elder Jenkins then told me that the Spirit was super strong during the Japanese testimony and that to me is a testament of the gift of tongues. Even when you don't speak a language perfectly and it doesn't make sense to native speakers, the Spirit works through that, the Spirit will teach, as long as we are willing to strive for it at all times! 

I gotta run, but we had a fun pday! We did pickleball, went to a Lego store, and a fun zone activity with board games!

Love you all!

ロバートソン長老