Email #62 January 17, 2016
Pre-post :)
Beloved Family and Friends,
This week is temple p day, so I'll write you all (or at least attempt
to) tomorrow! Have a great day!
Love,
Elder Calhoun
This week is temple p day, so I'll write you all (or at least attempt
to) tomorrow! Have a great day!
Love,
Elder Calhoun
Real post:
Dearest Family and Friends,
This past week was great! I feel like we are back on top of things
after falling apart a little bit last transfer. Our dendo is much more
organized and we are working more closely with the ward leadership!
It's been a great start to a great transfer! We were blessed to see a
ton of miracles. After interviews with President Nagano on Thursday,
we felt like we really needed to focus on starting up tutoring. We
made chirashis for it, and from Thursday to Saturday were able to find
three, solid people really interested in it. On Friday, we had a good
meeting with a kid named Zack and his friend Issei. Zack is from
Pakistan. He wants to meet us again, but with more friends next time.
The friend he brought when we met on Friday was really interested in
learning English and attending the 家庭教師 service we had just planned
out the day before. He also wasn't hantai when we talked about our
purpose and why we became missionaries. It will be good to get him in
the church and really be able to set good expectations and get him
progressing. The next day, Elder Faganello and I really felt like we
needed to be finding machines, so we decided we were going to stop
every sweet spot kid we saw on our bikes. We stopped the first and
only kid we saw, and he had a ton of interest in learning English and
coming to 家庭教師! We were able to exchange numbers and hopefully we'll
see him on Friday. On Saturday, we went to a community Japanese class
they have here that's a really good finding opportunity. We were able
to tell Maki, a kid from Indiana that we've been trying to work with
but can't figure out how to, that we can help him with his homework,
and he had a lot of interest! He said he might come, which is a lot
further than we've gotten with him before. Sweet miracle! We were
really blessed with a ton of miracles as we aligned our actions with
your and the Lord's vision. Sunday also went super well. We went to
ward council in the morning and it was much better than usual. We
shared some thoughts about member missionary work and how we wanted to
work more closely with the ward council this transfer. After church, I
had a good talk with the 2nd counselor in the bishopric about how we
can make ward council more effective for the missionaries. From here
on out, the missionaries will be given time at the very beginning of
the meeting and then we can leave after that so we can go dendo or do
reports or greet members or do other, much more effective things. It
was a really good talk. We are really united with the ward right now,
and I am excited to continue to strengthen our relationship.
We had a good district meeting on Tuesday where we set district goals
for the key indicators. We put our biggest emphasis or finding two new
investigators every week, because all the other key indicators
basically come down to us having progressing investigators. I know as
we focus on finding and teaching investigators we will be blessed to
do exactly that. We are going to have this week's district meeting be
about how we can find effectively, especially through our own efforts
and through working with the members.
I had a great exchange with Elder Kuwana on Wednesday. We worked hard
and were exactly obedient to the promptings of the Spirit, even though
we didn't see any crazy miracles as a result. It felt good to know
that we were doing everything the Lord wanted us to do though. Elder
Kuwana is a great example of finding with faith and bringing up the
gospel. I learned a lot from him.
Working with Elder Faganello has been super fun, he's a beast! We went
to the temple today then to Ueno Zoo with a lot of the elders from the
zone. It was super fun and only $6. It was a great p day.
My spiritual thought for the week is about having an attitude of
gratitude. The more grateful we are and the more we express that
gratitude, the happier we become. I really love happiness. I'm really
trying to work on being more full of gratitude!
Life is good! I am loving everything about it. I don't have very much
time (even less than normal) so I won't be able to send many personal
emails today. I'm sorry! There are so many people I need to email and
feel so bad about still not sending one. I apologize if I just
described you, I'm working on it! Have a great week everyone, love you
all!
Love,
Elder Calhoun
This past week was great! I feel like we are back on top of things
after falling apart a little bit last transfer. Our dendo is much more
organized and we are working more closely with the ward leadership!
It's been a great start to a great transfer! We were blessed to see a
ton of miracles. After interviews with President Nagano on Thursday,
we felt like we really needed to focus on starting up tutoring. We
made chirashis for it, and from Thursday to Saturday were able to find
three, solid people really interested in it. On Friday, we had a good
meeting with a kid named Zack and his friend Issei. Zack is from
Pakistan. He wants to meet us again, but with more friends next time.
The friend he brought when we met on Friday was really interested in
learning English and attending the 家庭教師 service we had just planned
out the day before. He also wasn't hantai when we talked about our
purpose and why we became missionaries. It will be good to get him in
the church and really be able to set good expectations and get him
progressing. The next day, Elder Faganello and I really felt like we
needed to be finding machines, so we decided we were going to stop
every sweet spot kid we saw on our bikes. We stopped the first and
only kid we saw, and he had a ton of interest in learning English and
coming to 家庭教師! We were able to exchange numbers and hopefully we'll
see him on Friday. On Saturday, we went to a community Japanese class
they have here that's a really good finding opportunity. We were able
to tell Maki, a kid from Indiana that we've been trying to work with
but can't figure out how to, that we can help him with his homework,
and he had a lot of interest! He said he might come, which is a lot
further than we've gotten with him before. Sweet miracle! We were
really blessed with a ton of miracles as we aligned our actions with
your and the Lord's vision. Sunday also went super well. We went to
ward council in the morning and it was much better than usual. We
shared some thoughts about member missionary work and how we wanted to
work more closely with the ward council this transfer. After church, I
had a good talk with the 2nd counselor in the bishopric about how we
can make ward council more effective for the missionaries. From here
on out, the missionaries will be given time at the very beginning of
the meeting and then we can leave after that so we can go dendo or do
reports or greet members or do other, much more effective things. It
was a really good talk. We are really united with the ward right now,
and I am excited to continue to strengthen our relationship.
We had a good district meeting on Tuesday where we set district goals
for the key indicators. We put our biggest emphasis or finding two new
investigators every week, because all the other key indicators
basically come down to us having progressing investigators. I know as
we focus on finding and teaching investigators we will be blessed to
do exactly that. We are going to have this week's district meeting be
about how we can find effectively, especially through our own efforts
and through working with the members.
I had a great exchange with Elder Kuwana on Wednesday. We worked hard
and were exactly obedient to the promptings of the Spirit, even though
we didn't see any crazy miracles as a result. It felt good to know
that we were doing everything the Lord wanted us to do though. Elder
Kuwana is a great example of finding with faith and bringing up the
gospel. I learned a lot from him.
Working with Elder Faganello has been super fun, he's a beast! We went
to the temple today then to Ueno Zoo with a lot of the elders from the
zone. It was super fun and only $6. It was a great p day.
My spiritual thought for the week is about having an attitude of
gratitude. The more grateful we are and the more we express that
gratitude, the happier we become. I really love happiness. I'm really
trying to work on being more full of gratitude!
Life is good! I am loving everything about it. I don't have very much
time (even less than normal) so I won't be able to send many personal
emails today. I'm sorry! There are so many people I need to email and
feel so bad about still not sending one. I apologize if I just
described you, I'm working on it! Have a great week everyone, love you
all!
Love,
Elder Calhoun
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