Week 36

 Elder Neil L Andersen, Sushi, and driving

Wow! So lets start with some miracles

If you recieve a good thought, do it! More often or not it is inspiration from God. I had a couple promptings this week and I followed them. Most of them lead to a small miracle and some of them lead to what seemed a failure. One time, we went to a person named George who was really nice and talks to us here and there, and I felt prompted to go there, and we ended up not talking to George, but we talked to Tunde! We set up a lesson for this Monday! So that was cool to see the Lord's hand. Another time, we knocked on a guy's door we've been trying to meet, and he was busy, but he said we could come over for dinner on Monday night!

Last Thursday we had a great Zone Conference (bunch of missionaries get together) and our President talked about relying on the Lord even when we don't think we have the resources to do His work. Because in the end, we don't do anything, it's all the Lord. We then had the amazing privilege to hear from an Apostle! So Elder Uchtdorf didn't come (that's what I said last week), but Elder Neil L Andersen came! He talked about three main things:

1. Your influence is much bigger than you think

2. Memorize 5 scriptures that you would die for

3. You are meant to be in these Arizonan missions, you are among the finest missionaries and I'm not saying that just because I'm here.

He talked about these concepts and elaborated more. My favorite thing he said was this:

"You can count the seeds in an apple, but not the apples in the seeds."

What a powerful statement! Even for everyone that isn't on missions. YOU! You have much more influence in your circles and in your private and public settings than you think you do. People do pay attention to you. So what we fill our life with is very important, because it reflects in our example and how we react to situations. What a cool concept! It was espicially amazing to hear his apostalic witness of Christ! You could feel the rightness, just like 1+1=2, it just is right, it makes sense. 

Sushi! So there is a Japanese place about 5 minutes from us and we've been there twice this past week! とてもおしいいですよ！ It's not Japan level, but it would probably be equivalent to okay sushi in Japan. But it has been fun to practice using the chopsticks, I need to practice more! And yeah, I now have my physical visa and passport at our mission office! So now I'm waiting for the Church to give me travel  plans! I won't go right away, because they are spacing missionaries at when they come in, so the soonest I'll leave is 3 weeks. But I will be going soon mainly because I have my visa. 

And honestly, I felt like I needed to put in a third word and I put in "driving" haha. So yeah, we've done a lot of driving, but nothing noteworthy to say about that word. It's a filler word!

And remember, feel free to email me any questions about my mission or any experiences I've had! I would love to respond next Monday!

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