Week #21

so to fill you in on my incredible week, i haven't seen more then 30 min of the sun for he past five days, my doryo has been really sick, so we were told to stay inside, on the bright side its given me allot of study time and i got through the rest of alma Helamen and half way through 3rd nephi in the book of mormon and a big lump of pages in jesus the christ, and i do intend to read it in japanese when iv finished in ego, but for me it will be a very large kanji learning experience at first cuz, I'v only really just started having a good kanji study and there is allot of them in that book, iv definitely warmed up o eating more veggies on my mission, our average meals consist of eggs toast and miso soup in the morning pilOvegies and rice for lunch with fruit then pilOvegies for dinner with fruit. its really good though, and i definitely feel a lot healthier. this coming week should be a lot more active i think, since my doryo is feeling better, i am rather exited to get going again.

my spiritual message this week is kind of about learning and how every one was right when they say that high school could have been way easier than i made it out to be, not really but thats kind of how i feel sometimes.

we have been taught always in the church of the importance of learning, one of the things that made Christ  the most amazing teacher aside from the fact of being half god, was that he knew lots of stuff, and used all those things that he had learned to teach people, in parables and metaphors wonderful examples that are around us all the time, and one of the best things we can study is the gospel because in the long run its the most important knowledge we can gain and there is so much of it. always study the scriptures and the material there is to study, expand your knowledge on many other things as well with the gospel as the base of it all and it will expand all that you learn as long as it is the truth.

and more than anything involve heavenly father in every part of your life, when you are earnestly seeking knowledge heavenly father will help. in return the best way to repay heavenly father is by serving him by using you new knowledge to bring more souls unto is kingdom.

please never forget Him or Jesus Christ capacity. they love each and everyone of us more than we have the human capacity to understand. and they will help us, hey will bless us, they can save us, we just have to have the faith to open the door.

i love you all and miss you all, but not too much,

stay strong stay faithful until the end,

kemp chourou

Week #20

Thanks for the story, that’s super cool, so I had my first experience baptizing someone this last Saturday, Kojima shimai is finally baptized! It’s so cool then my comp confirmed her on Sunday.

Things have been going pretty well so far the new language study plan has been working well so far at keeping me interested which is like crucial for me with learning things, I'm exited to keep it going, i think I've got another good 3 or transfers before I start feeling comfortable with it, but things are coming along. My comp and i are going o start eating allot healthier once we go shopping today so we shall see where that goes, and a really cool thing real quick, my comp had the phone in his pocket and took it out to do something and realized that he had but dialed someone we had never met but who was in he hospital and now wants us to come by and visit, super cool I’m thinking, the spirit works in mysterious ways.

One thing I’ve been doing allot of lately is reading Jesus the Christ I’m already half way through the thing and am loving every moment, the saviors life is so interesting and a wonderful example, I would strongly suggest the reading of it.

Oh yeah I need recipes, now healthy would be good, but also I want your recipe for short ribs dad that would make my day if I could have some of that wonderful stuff, and i kind of enjoy cooking now so send them all in,

That’s most all for now, ill leave you with this though, study the saviors life, he was and is incredible and your love for him will grow so much when you know that all he did and went through was for us from my own study i can truly testify that i love my savior Jesus Christ, i will never fully understand all he did for all of us or for me as an individual he knows all of our pain and all of our desires all of our need and all of our vices, he wants nothing but the best for us and has and has told us just how to do it "come fallow me" through this we commit to become his servant through it we become his friends and through i we become his children as the 2000 to Helaman, we can only become so much on our own, but through him there is no limit. Please don't fall astray; this is the only way,

I love you all with every particle of my being but greater than my love is heavenly fathers love and Christ's love, remember them.

I know this is where I need to be; I miss you, but not too much

Again, I love you

Elder Connor Kemp

Week #19

Alrighty then where to start i guess ill start by saying hat this transfer feels like some of the hardest I've worked so far in my mission so much so that I've half way broken down twice in the past week, mostly over language and feeling like i cant help people as much as id like but these have been much needed experiences. my current dorio is awesome he's helped me o set up a really good way to study and it looks promising. on the brighter side of things the work has definitely payed off, one of our investigators Kojima is set to be baptized this Saturday. she's been an investigator since july and has allot of struggles but we finally just asked her again and she said she would. we're working hard with her now to get her that much more ready for it. these sort of times are what make allot of the really hard times worth it i think. finally helping someone to open that gate to the correct path, she has a 4 year old son and now he will be able to grow up in the gospel he already loves primary and has made friends with some of the other kids there,

now we just need to help our other investigators get to this wonderful point as well, ill work my hardest to get them there.

if there is one thing i would ask of all of you it would be to help the missionaries in you ward, i cant tell you how helpful it is when we receive help from the members. i don't have allot of pics this time on account of being so busy. but we have found a way to use drawing to serve people and to help them get involved with there friends a we are drawing gospel pictures for people so ill sen what pics i have.

my last note would be to please trust in the lord, he knows our situations better than we do and through him we can find the path that is best.

pray always study the scriptures, and read jesus the christ, its really good.

i love you all and miss you... but not too much,

kemp chourou

p.s. you guys need to send me pics too ya know

Week#18

こんにちわ、私の家族

i like he joke thats a good one,

not a ton to report but ill tell you what i've got, I'm still here in tokuama but elder lawson is back at home now, and my new dorio is a one webber chourou, i shall sendeth thee mine pics, the work really feels like its picking up here in just he last few days, and i'm loving it, our investigators are all doing fairly well and are moving along,

for the new year we woke up at like 5 or so and hike up a mountain with some of the young men and leaders it was a good hike and we got up in time to see the first sunrise of the new, privileges of being in the land of the rising sun, or in scripture format, and we did rise in the early morn of the first day before even the light had shone upon the land, and in our weariness we were swept away by the car of kanatoshi, to the base of an exceedingly high mountain, for it came to passexceedingly that i did behold it to be exceedingly high, to exceed that of many which were in all the land of tokuyama. and we did set forth and did clime this mountain, and we did make good time in that as we beheld the blessed veiw of the land, a new light had only just begun to brighten the land all about the mountain. and it came to pass that we did wait in patiencearrival for the arrival of that which we did anticipate with such excitement in our hearts, and behold, it came to pass that our patience was not in vain for we did behold the first light of the sun of this the new year of our Lord 2014, and behold the sight of which was pleasing unto not only the eye but also the soul, now behold it came to pass we did take many pictures. and thus began the 2014th year since the birth of our Lord and thus ended the second transfer of mine own mission in the land of the riseing sun.

thats all for now i think, i love you all and miss you, but not too much,

stay stong stay faithfull,

kemp chourou