Week 60

Members and Miracles!

Today I wanted to start with a spiritual thought that I had this past week. 

I was thinking a lot about charity and Christ and how He has perfect confidence in each of us. I was pondering about how Christ never focused on Himself and yet accomplished the greatest victory, over physical and spiritual death, which is sin. He never took any of the victory upon Himself and was like, "I'm the best!", "I did this for you all, look at me!". But He was joyful, not that He accomplished the greatest victory, but rather that because of what He did, WE could all be victorious. We could now all change, turn outwards, love others, because of the Atonement and the great victory Christ accomplished. He had joy in our victory. We have joy in His. He didn't have joy in the Atonement because He was able to do it, but because WE can now do it, through Him. He was so happy because all of God's children now had a chance to come back to Him and the Father.

Remember that Christ has confidence in you. He has joy in the victory that we can all have, because of Him.

So we started applying a lot of what we learned from this past Zone Conference and have seen a lot of blessings! 

We've been starting every daily planning with the people and our goals first and then we plan our day. We've been trying to do our full meal times and not contact after 9pm. We've been trying to follow the standards, not more or less. 

The members have really begun to trust us and we have been working a lot with them. Lots of member meals and meals with the friends we are teaching! We started working with this family that is pretty interested. We set a returning family's 9 year old kid for a baptism date and we and the ward are helping them return to full activity! Through the Holy Ghost we have been inspired in all aspects of our work in Fushimi. To do God's Work in Japan. Because all of this is His, we are just stewardships trying to fulfill what He has asked of us. 

Our friend Kataoka San needs prayers! If you can pray (which is everyone lol), please take 20 seconds and give him a prayer. Do it with real intent and with intent to remember him next week and every week. 

The kid we put on a baptismal date, his name is Hiroki. And we've been trying to set up lessons with him for 5 months now, literally 5 months and it has happened! Still can't believe I've been here for so long, but I have loved every moment serving in Fushimi. Can't wait for the next couple months!

We need to head out to do our other activities, but I'm so grateful to serve my Savior, Jesus Christ and to do it for the rest of my life! It's not just here or when I'm old. Throughout the rest of my life, I can be a missionary! And so can all of you too! We are taking Elder Bettinson to Kura Sushi (Kaiten Sushi, which is conveyor belt sushi lol) up in Kyoto. Should be fun!

Love you all!

ロバートソン長老