Heyyyy Familia! (or Kazoku
around here)
So first some news:
Payge Flake left! And Jessica, and all my other Thatcher friends, we see alot
of missionaries come and go, being here for so long...haha But our new
missionaries in our zone are awesome! A couple of them played volley ball in
high school, so that's what I do in gym alot now, before it was super
boring...couldn't ever get a set so there was no spiking. But with good people
it's alot of fun! :D
Oh Robby has a good
chance of being in my zone! And he'll probably get an Ipad! The new Japanese
missionaries are getting Ipads to train with this week, so that's cool. Our
sempai's our leaving the same week he's coming, he has a good chance of being
in our group.
I did 35 pull ups
yesterday! And broke my own personal record and the MTC record :D So that's
cool. ALthough I have to do it again with the official people watching to get
on the wall of fame
Sang our version of
I'll go where you want me to go on Sunday, with one of the new missionaries. It
was really great :D Oh and I got to teach the lesson in priesthood about using
the BOM in our own and others coversions....That was supppppper great. I love
teaching. It's my favorite, and it's soo cool to receive prompting about what
to teach, or what to share :D I'm teaching again this sunday for our district
meeting, actually...not that I think about it...I've taught a lesson, every
Sunday except the first haha. Awesome.
Elder Ballard came and
spoke on Tuesday! Had lots of insights :D
I'm finally healthy, I
eat from the gluten free room....which is waay better food than the rest. The
other food is really yummy...but highly processed and has lots of
preservatives, the gluten free room is home cooked meals :D
Oh and I'm sleeping
well finally! I got myself some earplugs...didn't think that my comps snoring
bothered me so much, but I've been sleeping great since I got them so I guess
that was the problem!
Oh and I love getting
Dear Elders! They're awesome, but for future notice..I don't leave till the
23rd of Feb. So stop putting the 19th on it because they always cross it out haha.
So funny story, one of
the elders in our district found out the word for poop, unco and has been using
it alot in his everyday SYL speech, so it's been floating around in my head
alot..so last Friday when we were teaching about faith, which in Japanese is
Shinko, I accidentally said switched them and said in order to obtain unco we
need to....and then the investigator just busted up...haha I so that was a
little awk. but we laughed about it and still had a great lesson :D
Spiritual thought of
the day...It's really really cool how the spirit can inspire us and give us
revelation in order to teach fake investigators...Like I pray about what they
need to know, and then I write, and as I write I get Ideas of what I need to
teach about, and it's really cool, and alot of times it's strait up revelation.
But it's just really interesting at how the system here works so well...like
how the spirit testifies of truth everytime we learn or teach it, even if we
already know the truth. For example on Monday the teachers switched our
teaching schedule without telling us. So we prayed about and prepared a lesson,
for one investigator an 80 year old Japanese dude named yuichi...and I usually
start by looking at the teaching record for a while and thinking what they need,
and my eyes kept being drawn back to the restoration...which we had already
taught him, and he has a really strong grasp of. Like he's prayed to know if
the first vision happened, and is reading and praying the BOM daily and stuff,
he's getting baptized next Saturday actually, he's the best :D Anyways we
prepared a lesson for what we thought was yuichi, and tried to teach to his
needs, but then we found out we were teaching ozeki shimai, who needs to learn
about the restoration still. Then we read over our lesson plan and it was
totally 100% to her needs, it was what she needed to hear. So even though we
didn't know who we were teaching, the spirit knew and honored our efforts at
preparing. Isn't that cool!? I mean she's not even a real investigator! But the
spirit still cares enough to give us that revelation!
Ok That's all I
got time for! I'll end with another Japanese proverb or two.
なせばなるなさねば、ならぬ何事も、ならぬわ人のなさぬなりけり
Which means: Those who
try to succeed, succeed. Those who don't try, fail no matter what. Failure is
the lack of people trying.
Not as weird as
the dog hitting the pole one...but here's another weird one
六十の天来 It is never too late to learn (lit. Learning
to write kanji Characters at age sixty)
Anyways I love you
all! MTC is great. The spirit is awesome, and Japanese is hard. That is all
Aishtemasu!
-Elder Coleman
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