Week 66

 Getting lost in Christ and Members are awesome!

A lot of people say "get lost in the work". Get lost in serving others. But you need to remember the why's.

Lose yourself in Christ!

Losing yourself is losing yourself. Seeking yourself is losing yourself. But if you lose it in Christ. He will heal you, he will change you! 

We had a lot of interesting things happen this past week, but it was great. We had a great SKK (companionship daily planning) and discussed what we could do to do the best things rather than the better or good things. 

We taught the Restoration to this lady that we have been helping with English! It went well and it was so cool to see that she wanted to know why Christ died for us. So we explained a little bit and then we read the introduction together which was great. We are going to read Mosiah 14 in the next lesson!

We went streeting one night and it was a little tough. Sadly we haven't been much, but we are trying to include more in our schedule. But I was a little reluctant at the end to talk to some younger kids, but Elder Bettinson was firm about it (which was awesome!) and we ended up talking for about 25min. We talked about them for a bit. And then we asked them about questions they've had about life and we showed them a bunch of life's questions and one of them wanted to learn more about life's purpose. He said he was really scared about dying because he loves trying. And once he dies he feels he won't be able to "try" because he's dead. So it was cool to teach him that God is our Loving Heavenly Father and that we do have purpose here! It was super cool. We then gave him a Plan of Salvation Pamphlet!

We had a great Sunday! We had a decent DCS and talked about ideas on how to help out the ward and the people in it. We decided to set up a meeting with the less-active family and their son that we are teaching and the bishop and the ministering brothers and sisters to set up a plan to help them stay active!

The rest of the Sabbath was awesome. We had a great sacrament service and talked with a ton of members. We set up a message, discussed with some other people on how to help some of our other friends. In all, a very solid church service. I then had a weekly report with the Joyo Shimaitachi and later that night with the Ibaraki Chorotachi. It was great talking with Elder Matsumoto haha. 

We actually went to a member's house and had a lesson with Kataoka San there. We talked about God's attributes and charity. Super awesome!

We had another great pday and went on another tour with Doke Kyodai and with the Ibaraki Chorotachi. It was a blast! We went to Arashiyama and Elder Bettinson and I and Doke Kyodai went to this really good hamburger steak place for lunch.

Remember to lose yourself in Christ! I invite you to look at yourself and find what is preventing you from trusting in Christ more. Find that thing, choose to change, repent, and trust in Christ. I know you will receive the strength to change from Christ!

Love you all!

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