Week #24

right, i guess it was a little mean but as for where I'm transferring i wrote that in hiragana within the letter, but ill tell you what it says anyway, I'm not transferring I'm sticking right here in okuyama for another transfer, as is my doryo webber chourou.

 so we'll make the best of it as usual, ill admit through language study and such, i have been able to improve in speaking but i just cant seem to understand people, i try my best to listen but man, its just to many words to fast, it kills me because i want nothing more than to teach these people by what they need but i cant understand what they need, but sorry about that my little selfish rant, ill ganbara tsuzukeyo(ill continue doing my best), saigo made ne, (until the end, ya know).

aside from that im doing really good were slowly getting back to work here, since webber chourous been pretty sick up till now and is still suffering from it a bit. to day after lunch were heading down to fukuoka by shinkansen(the bullet train)(not the real translation but thats what you guys know it by.) so that webber chourou can get a checkup with the doc.

 

half the week was spent inside after having just gotten back out cuz the sickness came back a bit, but when we did get out on wednsday i think we found 3 potential investigators so that was really cool, we got out again yesterday to visit a few people after church, one morimoto san we had an appointment with but he was rather drunk when we got there so we rescheduled for thursday. then we went and visited some pi's fuji san and hashimoto san, with both we were able to share a spiritual message, so yokatta to that.

 

i'v lost a bit more weight recently I'm down to about 126 kilos or 278 or so lbs. i started at 310 when i got into the mtc. and dad remember how we got those belts and weren't sure how big to get them well im on the smallest hole of all of them right now and will need to make new holes if this  continues.

 

weather here is pretty cold most days although nothing compared to Twin Falls I assume. I'm  going to come back a wimp to the cold, i know it. but any way, we had a nice day yesterday and that was good since we had o ride the bikes allot.

 

as far as a spiritual message for the week ill simply talk about the power of patience something I've always struggled with, mom and dad I'm sue you can agree that i was an  impatient child and it s sill the same now i always want to be good at the language now, have a baptism now, but things don't usually happen as fast as we would like,ne(right?) well suffice to say i, however difficult it is to fallow myself, do know of the power of patience and hard work until the end, i recall back when i was down in Okinawa i went on junkai(splits) with our zone leader we hadn't seen much  with the little time we had, It was after conference, we had a little time while waiting for our ride so he decides to do a bit of housing in the area, still no success up until the last door of the last apartment, right as i was dang ready to head back because our ride was supposed to be there, at that last door we get an answer and are able to talk to this guy share a message and he says that missionaries can come back, after this we head back and get back to our spot right as our ride pulls up, i think i remember them apologizing for being late for whatever raason but it was the perfect timing.

    we cant always tell how things are going to play out, we don't need to know, we need only to trust in our heavenly father that if we do what were suppose to do and put our full effort forward he will make things work, we will all have those times when we knock on tons of doors with no answer or we study so hard but cant understand people, or  as with job we may lose all of wealth family and friends, but there is an end, one to each day to each hour, and as long as we are patient in our afflictions strive forward though the end seems far off we as job will have so much the greater than we lost.

don give in to the temptation to quit, strive for the goal press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, and what ever comes will be worth it, i know these things are true i know this gospel is true, i know that through christ any thing is possible.

 

i love you all friends, family, dogs, etc. you mean every thing to me and you have no replacement.

i miss you but not too much,

stay strong stay faithful stay patient in your afflictions, and i will too,

elder connor kemp