Friendly Fire

Yo, Im not gonna lie - one of the biggest temptations on my mission so far is to go swimming and now knowing that my family is out on the lake is not helping!

Just kidding I hope you are having a blast and that it wont be windy for you.

This week was a really good week, and a little sad. I said goodbye to President and Sister Rasmussen as they are returning to Arizona and in a week we will be getting our new mission president. President Smith. Everyone is a little excited and scared to see how the mission is going to change, but I think it will be fun.

This week we were able to pick up a few new investigators. We found them through Eikaiwa, and it's pretty funny. Because Kitkami is so small our area has three cities in it, Hanamaki and Mizusawa. So we started up another Eikaiwa in Mizusawa. This last week we had a little problem with the other elders old investigator who got mad because the missionaries had stopped teaching her English.  But it was because she had no interest in our message. So she called the mission offices and complained so now we are teaching a third Eikaiwa class which is also in Mizusawa. So we have a lot of Eikaiwa teaching to do but we are finding a lot of investigators through it.

The earthquakes are starting to slow down a little. That or I am just sleeping through them now. Yesterday we had a crazy rain and lightning storm. Probably the craziest I have ever seen in my life. We got so soaked.

This week I also heard an amazing talk that I would like to share some things from.

We were in zone conference when A couple missionary stood up and bore testimony and the wife said something that I agree whole heartedly.

I labeled it Friendly Fire.

Now friendly fire is in war accidently or purposefully shooting your teammate in combat. Now why on earth would you want to do that, you wouldnt right? Its just like gossiping or telling rumors or attacking members and the people who have the same eternal objective as you. Why are we trying to shoot them down. Is it out of our own pride? Shoot at the right enemy, you will never win the war shooting your teammates. 

I really liked that and thought how applicable and how easy it was for me to understand.

This week we also had a special broadcast that was for all of the asia North Region, President Christopherson presided and they talked about becoming stronger members and that there is a lot of spiritual dangers but they are not labeled. It was way cool and I think that everything they said was very inspired for Japan and Korea. It was really weird to see so many American old men speaking Japanese. There was Elder Walker and Elder Stevens. Who I believe are in the seventy who gave both their addresses in Japanese.

Anyways. I don't have a whole lot of time this week, But have fun In Lake powell!

Love,

Elder Nebeker