Week #81

Had a good week as usual, we found 2 new investigators, one has an appointment tonight the other fell through unfortunately, but we’ll see if we can't get back in contact with her, both of them are young moms and the investigators left for us when we came in were also 2 young moms, also not in great contact with, I will say one pain here in Japan is that their work schedules  are the devil, in America if we just tell our boss we want to go to church on Sunday they respect you for it and let you go but here they don't understand the reason, but we’ll pray for the best.

My new comp is good, he and my last comp are the closest to my size in comps I've had, thankfully, he's willing to do anything diet wise or workout wise that I am so we're going to get yolked.

It's really true what you say about conversion, as much as the gospel is undeniable because of how much it makes sense just knowing that isn't enough, we really have to let ourselves be converted in our hearts before my mission all I felt really was that it was true but it did little to my heart it's just the way it was I thought, but on my mission I experienced the impact of letting your self be changed, I still like allot of the things I did, my personality didn't change but why I am here definitely did. After that when the gospel makes more and more sense to me it just adds to the testimony, but really the conversion is more like what are you willing to do for the Lord, and less whether or not you know or believe it's true, if you wouldn't do something hard or painful just because you love the Lord, then make it a goal, I know I still let my self be lazy sometimes that's why conversion is truly an ongoing process. The question isn't do I know it's true it's what will I do because I know it's true.

  The prospect of letting myself go into the Lords hands has been a scary thought to me, because I don't know exactly where I'll go, but the idea has slowly become more open to me as I go along.

Anyway, on less serious topics the weathers been great here and no more suits so I'm happy.

And if you would like a little better guide to Okinawa than me, there is a member who is American down there named brother Christensen way good friend of the missionaries, I'll forward you an email from him they just had another baby.

I also sent mom an email about the Mother's Day Skype call it's two weeks off but they want us to get it set up.

Any way love you all 

Stay strong stay faithful stay diligent JKS

Connor