For a Small Moment

Well, the call from my Mission President was the last thing I was expecting on a Sunday evening.

But I know that the Spirit guided Doctor Hansen in Tokyo. He is not even a spine specialist but he caught and noticed things that none of the spine specialists here in Hirosaki noticed. As hard as it is for me to leave the place that I have grown so much to love, I know that one day I will be able to come back and pick up where I left.

I feel bad for my companion Elder Kugai, He is like a little brother to me. I love him. I love all the investigators that I have gotten to teach here in Hirosaki. My hope is to come back with even more strength and a stronger Testimony. 

"My son, peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment."

D&C 121:7

Well, I guess I can tell you more happy things right?

This week, I gave a district meeting on "Study", and I focused on focusing our studies on investigators. So I myself tried especially hard this week, and I prayed really hard for each investigator and how I can better help them. I have never had better personal studies yet on my mission. And this week as we taught Akimoto san, it was a half English half Gospel lesson.  Our theme that we chose to teach him was "Showing Love". SO we started the lesson off with English, and he looked at me and he said I have had something on my mind all morning and I want to know how to say it in English. So he said the sentence in Japanese and I translated it for him, "The People Live to Support Each Other." It just happened to be along the lines for what we prepared for him. And when we shared the message, he was very moved and tears were shed. It was a great lesson.

We have been having a lot of things happen like that recently with our investigators.

This week we taught a lesson to Narita San and we were talking about keeping the commandments with him, and he told me again that when he first met Christians and read the Bible he thought they were crazy. But he followed one of the commandments and he felt so much peace and happiness and that is how he began to believe in the bible.  He says that when he tries to talk to people they think he is crazy. And he says that as much and as hard as he tries to explain to people it does no good because they just have to try to know. ( Though whole time I thought to myself, ya, that's exactly the same things we are trying to tell you.) It was pretty funny, but that lesson went really well.

Well I guess I could call but I don't know where to buy a call card here in Japan to make it cheap so see you all in a couple of days.

love,

 

Elder Nebeker