So this weeks been pretty
exciting! Lots of fun stuff happening over here :D
Yesterday we got
kohai! New missionaries that are in our zone :D Apparently we're part of some
pilot program...that's what I hear..But anyways we got 10 new shimi (sisters)
and 6 new choro! (elders) in two different districts! They're pretty cool, we
have a whole 6 weeks to hang out with them, so we'll probably get pretty close.
Oh also, I'm actually running out of cards here...can you send me another batch
of 30 or so? That'd be cool. My business/write me cards, you know the ones haha
So teaching in
Japanese is going really great still! I'm getting pretty efficient at planning
with the spirit/using gift of discernment to know investigators needs, so we
can plan to teach to them before they tell us them. It's pretty fantastic. We
committed both our investigators to baptism :D
Oh and at TRC this
week we taught a ningonjin (Japanese peeps) from Sendai who got converted by
the missionaries! And she recognized my name! I told her dad had served a mission
there and she got excited and wanted to see a picture haha So I showed her the
old family Christmas card I have in my bag from before Brenden's mish, she
wasn't sure if it was you though. Her name was Emy, she didn't speak any
English, and we taught her about prayers from your kokoro (heart) that you can
give through out the day to ask/plead for help.
So I'm some words I
think in are English even though they're japanese..just because I use them
alot...and I accidentally type them...so I'm just going to go back through at
the end and translate them in parenthesis. Also I think I start every paragraph
with so or also...how weird?!
-I finally got to go
to the temple! It's been closed for winter break forever!
-I didn't break all
the records! I might still do the pull up and push up one..but the new soccer
juggle record is 1103...and I can't even count that high...let along juggle
that long. The pull up record is only 33 I can beat that now if they let me
fish a little...if not...then maybe not.
-Elder Nelson came
again this week! Again...I liked his wife's talk better than his...haha she's
just a really good speaker! And he is too! Just..not as good as his wife haha.
So spiritual insight of the day: Sister Nelson talked about the key to success
on your mission being desperation. And how when you're desperate for something
you don't let anything get in the way of obtaining that goal, you find time,
excuses go away etc. And then I thought alot about being humble and having
righteous desires and all that other stuff, and wrote a bunch in my church
journal. Oh yah! I made an awesome church binder thing this week! I'm now super
organized! The front part has my goals and my language study plan, then there's
my japanese notes, and then my notes from church and devos/any other spiritual
insight I get, then there's my investigators section with their teaching
records and old lesson plans, then my talks in japanese ( I write one a week)
and scriptures I've translated and want to memorize, then a misc. section with quotes
and letters to people and stuff. It's awesome! I poured some essential oils on
the leather cover so it smells good and helps me stay awake/think. Maybe I'll
include a picture. I'm really proud of it if you couldn't tell :D It also has
my to do list on a sticky note taped down, and the scripture I'm trying to
memorize on sticky notes (right now it's the first vision). It's working really
well :D I've planned out like..every second of my week :D
-Another insight I had
this week, since I have another 6 min on email...We have an awesome choir
director and I get alot of insights from singing with him. Anyways he was
talking about peter walking on water, and then seeing the storm come and having
fear and falling under the water...and how jesus reached down below the water
to bring him up...Then he talked about no matter how far down we've
sunk....jesus can always reach down and bring us up, as long as we call to him,
and reach back. He's the one who's "Descended below all things" That
got me thinking about judging people, and how most of the best missionaries and
converts are always the people you wouldn't expect to see in a church. Alma the
younger, paul, etc Because they really needed the atonement and used it and
felt it's power save them from the "gall of bitterness" and even
hell. They know how bad it can be without the gospel. When people are already
living a righteous life, they don't see a reason to accept the gospel, they
don't feel much of a change when they are asked to keep commitments, because
they are already living right. It's the people with tatoos, a hard past, that a
really ready for the gospel, and really need it in their lives. Those are the
people I'm looking for. I want to go teach in a prison! That'd be sick! Never
judge people...no matter what your judgment it. It's wrong. If you think
they're mean and scary and would never accept the gospel. You're wrong, if you
think you know them you're wrong. But Heavenly father knows them, and loves
them..so you can learn what they need to hear.
Anyways...My times
up...dang it, didn't put any pics on...my bad...I'll send you the memory card
next week so you can see all of them :P
Oh and Japanese
proverb of the day! 犬も歩けば棒汁 or in romaji inu mo arukeba bou ni ataru aka
sun rises on the evil and on the good; even experts make mistakes
(literally...if a dog walks, it will hit a pole).
Love you all!
Aishtemasu!
-Elder Coleman!
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