#41 August 3, 2015
Dearest Family and Friends,
I don't have much time tonight, I'm sorry. I'm a slacker, but know
that I'm busy helping people here in Japan! This week went pretty
well. We could have worked harder I think. This week we are making
consecration our focus, really being exactly obedient and working as
hard as we can. Missionary life can be hard because you realize just
how much room for improvement you have. 10 months ago, I would have
thought that I was working super hard. Now, I see that there is so
much room for improvement and working harder and being better. It's a
good motivator. I'll share a couple of cool experiences from this past
week. We taught Yuichi yesterday with his friends. It was a super long
lesson, but it went really well and I think we could get a new
investigator from it. We taught them the restoration and one of them
was really interested and is going to come to church. Another cool
experience was going to shinokobo, or Korean town. We didn't find any
Koreans, but we got 3 Facebooks and a cell phone number. One of the
people we found has been texting us unceasingly about English class.
He's going to bring a friend. That was pretty cool. I have a quick
spiritual thought this week. I read this in Mosiah 2 today:
"4 And also that they might give thanks to the Lord their God, who had
brought them out of the land of Jerusalem, and who had delivered them
out of the hands of their enemies, and had appointed just men to be
their teachers, and also a just man to be their king, who had
established peace in the land of Zarahemla, and who had taught them to
keep the commandments of God, that they might rejoice and be filled
with love towards God and all men."
I really like that last part. I have been thinking a lot lately about
how I can be more kind and loving to those around me, especially my
companion. I think that one of the biggest ways I can do that is be
more exactly obedient to the mission rules and the commandments. As I
am more obedient, I will have more of the Spirit and be more happy and
more filled with love "towards God and all men" and thus be more kind
to them. Life is good. I am happy. I am going to work harder and be
more happy this week. I am really far behind on my journal, so I am
working on that. Please follow up with me and ask me if I have been
catching up next week. As I write in my journal more, I think these
will get shorter, as I will no longer feel the need to chronicle my
mission in letters home. Please be happy this week! I love all of you,
have a fantastic week!
Love,
Elder Calhoun
I don't have much time tonight, I'm sorry. I'm a slacker, but know
that I'm busy helping people here in Japan! This week went pretty
well. We could have worked harder I think. This week we are making
consecration our focus, really being exactly obedient and working as
hard as we can. Missionary life can be hard because you realize just
how much room for improvement you have. 10 months ago, I would have
thought that I was working super hard. Now, I see that there is so
much room for improvement and working harder and being better. It's a
good motivator. I'll share a couple of cool experiences from this past
week. We taught Yuichi yesterday with his friends. It was a super long
lesson, but it went really well and I think we could get a new
investigator from it. We taught them the restoration and one of them
was really interested and is going to come to church. Another cool
experience was going to shinokobo, or Korean town. We didn't find any
Koreans, but we got 3 Facebooks and a cell phone number. One of the
people we found has been texting us unceasingly about English class.
He's going to bring a friend. That was pretty cool. I have a quick
spiritual thought this week. I read this in Mosiah 2 today:
"4 And also that they might give thanks to the Lord their God, who had
brought them out of the land of Jerusalem, and who had delivered them
out of the hands of their enemies, and had appointed just men to be
their teachers, and also a just man to be their king, who had
established peace in the land of Zarahemla, and who had taught them to
keep the commandments of God, that they might rejoice and be filled
with love towards God and all men."
I really like that last part. I have been thinking a lot lately about
how I can be more kind and loving to those around me, especially my
companion. I think that one of the biggest ways I can do that is be
more exactly obedient to the mission rules and the commandments. As I
am more obedient, I will have more of the Spirit and be more happy and
more filled with love "towards God and all men" and thus be more kind
to them. Life is good. I am happy. I am going to work harder and be
more happy this week. I am really far behind on my journal, so I am
working on that. Please follow up with me and ask me if I have been
catching up next week. As I write in my journal more, I think these
will get shorter, as I will no longer feel the need to chronicle my
mission in letters home. Please be happy this week! I love all of you,
have a fantastic week!
Love,
Elder Calhoun
The pizza Elder Alder made a few nights ago. We didn't really have cheese but he just went for it. #respect
District picture! I was trying to rush back to make the photo timer but didn't really make it. The other picture was worse though.
What happens when I touch the computer. Pray for the mission.
Sister Kotter and a cake we received from some parents of a missionary in the mission. Really nice of the. Sister Kotter is the best. She and Elder Kotter are the office couple here, and they work so hard. Sister Kotter is hilarious. She has such a wonderful sense of humor and we all love her. They are fantastic.
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