Snowowowowow!

Whoa Snow!  Utah does not know what snow is.... This is crazy....

 

There is so much snow everywhere! I thought that winter was going to come to an end but that wasn't true as the heavens poured some more snow on good old Aizu! It's okay though, because it creates good tracting opportunities to help people shovel their walks and places and talk to them.

 

On monday as I was finishing my email to you, we got a call from a member in the branch and he said he was having a friend come to dinner and would like us Elders to come too. I was shocked, but excited that they would bring us to introduce to their friends. I thought that it was going to be a lot of the missionaries coming to this dinner but we found out that is was just the two of us. So we were able to talk to him and wow he is way cool! He has read 200 pages of the Book of Mormon.  He gave us his address and his phone number so that we can stop by. Talk about miracles!  Whoa, my mind was blown! So we are going to pay him a visit tomorrow.

 

Found out this week that we are getting a new mission President this summer right at my 1 year mark. He is an oral surgeon from Provo. You will have to see if you can find out more about him!

 

Our cute little families here in Japan are doing great! We had a lesson with them and their friend on Saturday and they haven't been reading the Book of Mormon or praying lately because they feel they are too busy. I was pretty disappointed, but she said she really wants to know how she can get answers to her prayers.  We re-emphasized prayer and how to recieve answers and I was thinking a little bit in my mind, Uhhh if you don't pray you're not going to recieve an answer. And before I could say that she and her husband said that exactly.  They knew what they needed to do. Recently we also had an opportunity to talk to them about the plan of salvation because one of their friends passed away. I felt so happy to know that I have a testimony of the Plan of Salvation and the comfort that it gives me when we have times like this that there is so much more to this life.

 

This week as I was reading the Liahona for the month, I ran across a talk that talked about home teaching and ideas of what you can do if the person is struggling with attendance or something else. So I read something that says to update them on what went on at church, what was discussed, and give them any papers or anything that you might have gotten at the meetings. So I thought I would put this into action. We have been visiting this less active for a while and reading the Book of Mormon with him.  On Sunday I thought that I would grab him this years study materials and give him an update on priesthood quorum. So I grabbed this years book, Joseph Fielding Smiths book, and I gave him a report and he was actually really intrigued to know what questions people asked about the lesson and what discussions there were. It was really good. It's amazing what happens when you have faith and do the things which the Lord through his prophets have told us.

 

Sorry.  There was a lot more but I will probably have to write a letter to tell you the rest of this week.

 

Elder Nebeker