Aaron's letter 9-8-09

We have been eating lots of veggie stir fry type things with tomatoes and cucumber salad and rice...no meat in the apartment lately. So lots of fun creations!
My companion is awesome!!! It is so fun having him because he is senior too and so it feels like we can just work and have fun! We have been to the station a couple of times already to sing in front of it and have had lots of fun singing all around! He has a great voice too and plays the piano really well! So fun! As for new cool new adventures, those shall come in the weekly!Investigators are doing great. Still not into the font yet but we are planning and working towards before the end of this transfer!!

haha Wow fun trip! and go amanda and grandma for the few hours of success with the stow away cat. hahaha
That's too bad about Travis...I will keep him in the prayers and want to know that they find out as well!

THE WEEKLY:
Hey Everyone!!!
Well sorry for being a little late today but we were just having too much fun that it took a little time!!! We went with our branch president, his wife, their son, the relief society pres., and the stake presidents wife to the branch president`s daughter`s senior year type show. Way fun!
It was a play they adapted from Echanted the movie with short clips from the movie. It was so fun!
Then we went out to sushi roller with an all you can eat ice cream bar! Yeah, big mistake with two foreigner missionaries! Good time!
This week has been so awesome!!! My companion and I get along great and he sings and plays piano too!!!! So we have had lots of fun with music and just having a great time being cosenior! We can just work and have fun and both understand the people together!! It is a real good time!We have also had the chance to have many good experiences as well!
Specifically, Sunday: one of the most clear and memorable experiences took place I will ever have in my life. We had visited a member who couldn't make it to church and took her the sacrament as well. Well, upon leaving her place we decided to take another road that seemed reasonable in getting to the next members home....it wasn:t. We rode, and rode, and rode, and rode. All the while, uphill. Well we took a right and came to an intersection with road signs that seemed a good landmark to tell the member in seeking for some kind of directions.
She too didn't know where we were and we concluded the call on the decision that we would all pray. Well we then asked a lady where Yamaguchi city was, the city this family lived in, and she gave us rough directions which we followed, and continued UPHILL.
By this point both my and my companion`s strength had about gone and we were just hoping to find something. We finally got to some kind of summit. We asked a lady at the only really lit home and she had no idea...so we prayed.
Here's where it gets good. As Elder Mulder was praying I had the most clear direction given to me that we needed to go left. Now, let me tell you the kinds of roads that surrounded us, they were all downhill since we were on the top of this summit....except LEFT. This left road was the smallest, darkest, steepest, and looked gravel-covered. So as Elder Mulder continued praying I pondered this impression and really felt that if I did anything else but follow it I would end up knowing I made a mistake and that LEFT really was the right way.
Then he finished the prayer and I asked him what he felt...nothing except that he didn't want to go left....Well as I told him what I felt we did it.
Upon entering this road it got more dark and windy and was way twisty through lots of rice fields (all of this while it is dark outside nonetheless.) We finally arrived at the one lit house and asked the man if he knew anything.
He didn't know the same Sakashita as we were looking for but for some random reason (or revelation from God ;) ) he told us of a hospital not too far and how to get there! Well I too remembered there was a hospital by here house. So we follwed his direction and arrived 3 minutes later. Miracle? I`d say YES!!!!!
We seriously were lost beyond any belief. All I knew was that we could essentially get home somehow. However, God so fully answered our humble prayer through Elder Mulder and led us to our destination.
I have never felt so happy in my life. Seriously, I was yelling with joy as we pulled up to Sakashita's house and the feeling didn't die until late that night. That is the power of prayer. That is the power of worthiness. That is the potential of being members of the true church.
You can all do the same. Try it. When you come to that time in your life where you need some extra guidance, turn to the Lord in humble prayer with an open heart. If you do so, I can promise and testify to you will recieve what you need. The Church is true. By being members of it we open up the windows of Heaven into our lives.
Let's all do this and begin the flow of blessings into our lives. I know you can.
I love you!
Elder Parks