Hey Nettie!!
Thanks for the email!
I really love reading all the fun over there, and of course can't wait to get that 1 year anniversary package! As usual, it will be amazing, I know!
Haha that's funny that your summer is staying as busy as not. Always fun to realize more things we want and have to do when free time opens up. It feels the same out here. A free night, but then something pops back into mind that we need to do, a person we need to visit. One thing is for sure, time is to be used and God has given us that gift!
I can't believe all those boys are already getting their eagles!! Way quick, good examples! I would love to just pop over for the night tomorrow...we will see! haha!
Oh and actually, kind of funny, the other week, actually Mothers Day week, I got a phone call from Kobe Mission office. Long story short they just needed a phone number of one our members. But then I realized, *hey, that's Pres Mcintyre's mission!!* So I asked if he was there and the elder said he was busy. So, sadly no talking but still way cool!
Well have fun with the dinner and listening to dad's music, two things I look foreward to in one year!!
love you!
Hey Amanda!!! It's going great!! I love you!
Well cool, I got some Amanda time!
Way good job on the report card! That is the way to be! Keep up the grades and make it a habit to prepare for high school! It always feels better to get good grades!
So how are the teeth? How's piano?
Well just keep doing good with the piano, you really will be happy you did it later, I promise!
Japan is way fun! This area is full of foreigners from all over the world. So we talk in Japanese, English, Spanish, Portuguese. Lots of fun!
I get to eat lots of fun food and meet lots of cool people too!
and can you believe I have already been out a year!!?? Crazy huh?
This week we had some good brazillian food at the members house, taught lots of lessons, and rode our bikes pretty far!! Way fun times. It's what we do all the time, but really fun!
haha cool! Yeah you are getting too tall and old! Slow Down!
haha, well I love you and will talk to you next week!
Oh hey tell mom and dad I love them too!
Hey Everyone!!
Well there goes another week and tons more things to share!
Business first...Milette is getting baptized this week instead because of her daughter moving back to the Philippines. So, she is solid and promised that once she is baptized she will come to church every week! And one thing about her is that when she promises, she does! So that is exciting!
Then we also have John, another Philippino, possibly getting baptized, he just needs our faith and prayers, so we are giving it to him! He is great and ready, just needs a little sort out time. And so we are meeting with him to help him work everything out. He is sadly moving to an area in the Kobe mission on Monday so we are trying to get him to feel ready by this sunday! Good times.
Other than that, we are working with a Peruvian family of three and they are cool. The grandma is 72, Olga, her daughter is around 40, Nanci, and then the next generation, Naomi, is 13. We are also trying to get them ready for this week Sunday baptism and have a lesson tonight and will see how it goes!
There are just tons of people here and we try to teach all of them. As well as try to break that awkward embarassed feeling and talk to people on the trains and everywhere! It's a riot and good time going around Japan and teaching as missionaries.
One thing I have really come to realize over the past week is that my pride comes out more that I thought! My beloved bean chan, new missionary, has helped me realize that sometimes the tone that comes out of my voice is not what I think. So I have come to be much more cogniscent of these things in trying to have the best time together. it has been really good for me to do so as well. I try to have him tell me all the time what he wants to do and teach and what not. From doing so he definitely doesn't seem like a new missionary at all! So, thru it all I have come to really grow once again as a missionary and person as well!
The mission really is good for that in getting a person prepared for life.
I know for a fact, however, that through it all God is still constant and never changing. He has really helped me many times and I can always look to that support of strength. As I have finally got to a point in my life where there is nothing holding me back from being a worthy candidate of 100% spiritual guidance, I feel so great! It's a special thing to be able to say so. There are always little things everyday we have to repent of, but that is life. Once we get to that point where we are honestly doing our best, praying, reading the scriptures, going to church, following all the commandments, we can have no doubts at all that God will be right there with us always through his Holy Spirit. What a blessing! I am so immensely grateful for this, especially as a missionary. By doing these things and striving always to have the spiritual guidance, life is good!
I really want you all to be the same! Please try your best to get this feeling and be this person. I am for sure still not perfect by any means, but am trying to do my best, and that is enough. That is what God requires of us. Once we do so, His hand and window of blessings is opened for our benefit.
Please get that in your life.
The Church is true and I love you all!
Elder Parks (who has almost been out a whole year!!!!!AHHHH!)
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