Week 79

Mission Tour, Miracles, Elder Wada!

Elder Wada came to the Kobe Japan Mission! We learned so much from his example. We talked about some simple things.

1. Learn the scriptures with your friends.

　1. Read

　2. Ponder

　3. Liken

　4. Apply

2. Raise your visions. Remember that this is the Lord's work. 

3. God is using our efforts. Big and small. One of our Senior couple, Elder Allan, he found Takashi Wada as a 15yr old who later became a mission President and is now the Area President of the North Area. So cool!

So part of the mission tour included:

Wednesday- MLC at 8AM and then Zone Conference with Elder Wada at 9. We then had a two hour district council from 1-3 and President and Sister Halvorson came to our District. During that time, Elder Wada interviewed a bunch of missionaries. 

Thursday we had Zone Conference at 10 and then we had some lessons that day. We also watched his devotional through Zoom with Tsukui San. 

On Friday we had our last Zone Conference from 9-12. We then went home, had a quick lunch and then did another MLC. We had a great discussion about the mission and what we learned. It was so cool to see the AP's turn the time over to Elder Wada and he used that time to focus on us. I've noticed that Elder Wada and Elder Bednar do a lot more asking questions than preaching. The best teachers use questions to learn. Because the learner and the teacher learn. 

A cool thought a lot of us had was that we don't want this mission tour to turn into a "a great 3 day FSY", but rather an experience that we ponder, liken, and apply. We can apply those same principles to what we learned. 

We had an honestly crazy past week. A visit to our apartment with the Allan's. Talking to a bunch of highschoolers with the STL's from another Zone on the train. Going to the doctors for my ears. And of course the Mission Tour!

And Sunday was SO busy haha. 

Got to church. Sat with our new friend Ueda Shimai (we asked her if we could call her Sister Ueda and she said she would love that!). We taught her a lesson about the Book of Mormon and the Spirit was really felt. She will be praying about it! And we are meeting again this Tuesday. 

Elder Marks gave a great talk on missionary work. Visited with the youth. Received a generous amount of food from the ward. Ueda Shimai was invited to the Relief Society activity this Saturday. Had a great opportunity to give two cupcakes to two widows. Found a person outside the church that wants to learn English after church next week. Let's just say, it was a great day led by the Spirit of the Lord!

Love you all! Thanks for the prayers and the thoughts :). 

Elder Robertson