Week 59

Miracles and Reminders 

What 

a 

Week!

We started off the transfer with a great District Council. We had myself, Elder Bettinson, then Elder Walker and Holland, Sisters Rich and Juber, Sisters Nitta and Horie. Such a great district! We had a great district council on our focuses and what those are. We talked about that as we focus on Christ, we might still be making mistakes, but we know where we are aiming and we can have confidence that Christ can magnify our imperfect work and make it wonderful.

We had lots of great member contacts. On Thursday we did 日会話, haha we asked a member if he had any friends that wanted to do Eikaiwa class and he said he wanted to do Jkaiwa like Japanese conversation class. It was pretty funny and then he offered it to us, so we had a language practice with a member! Super great.

We had a great Eikaiwa and people actually stayed for the spiritual message and it just was amazing. We had a great message about General Conference with a member at the church and then met an awesome person named Yu San! He wants to go to BYU and is interested in praying and believing in Christ. So we will start working with him, and he wants to come to Eikaiwa! 

Saturday, we had an amazing Zone Conference at Shimogamo. It was a blast and I learned a lot. Lots of reminders and some humbling experiences. 

Some things I was reminded of was to make goals meaningful. Because making goals isn't striving for goals. Anyway, you can write a goal and say I'll do it, but if your heart isn't in it, it's going to be hard.

Trust in the Lord. Let Him take the reins in all circumstances.

We watched General Conference in Japanese this past Sunday and I won't lie. I fell asleep for 10 minutes at a point, but I still received revelation because I was listening! Such another powerful example that learning isn't much about what is physically being said, but from the teacher following the Spirit and the student (me), listening and striving to understand. I still received a lot of insightful answers! 

A thought that I received. It's not about the mission, but rather what you become for your whole life. It's not about just going to the sacrament and the temple, but what you do outside--when you aren't in those big spiritual moments. Right now, our whole life is an "outside" moment. We are outside Heavenly Father's presence. And it's about what we do when we are not in it. Temples and the covenants we make there are necessary and sacred and are amazing. The sacrament is amazing. Heavenly Father is amazing and our perfect loving Heavenly Father. But it matters too whether we stay true when we aren't in those moments. So let us bring the temple with us into our hearts, into our daily lives. Let us emulate Christ and the Father in our daily lives. Then we will find true peace!

Love you all! Stay safe and healthy. I pray for you all!

Love

Elder Robertson