There is nothing more rewarding than sitting in a home, being overwhelmed with God's love and knowing that what these people are hearing from you is the absolute best thing that they will ever hear in their lives. There si nothing better than watching a person have the words of the Book of Mormon sink into their souls. There is nothing more rewarding than seeing a mother watch as her children pour over the words of God and knowing that her prayers are being answered. Ther eis nothing more rewarding than hearing that you have a special light about you and that they can feel love from you. There is nothing more rewarding than being moved to tears because you know that these people are tasting of the goodness of God. And there is nothign more rewarding than a person saying that they will be baptized on such and such a day.
It's amazing to see the power of God work. You said the ward had a special fast this past week. Well your fast was answered. And it was amazing to read Riley's email and hear that he had a successful week too. I am so overwhemled with gratitude that God answers prayers On wednesday we too fasted. We fasted that we would find someone to teach and get a baptism date. That night we had a girl come to Eikiwa (English Class). We kubati a lot. Sister Laird and I find lots of miracles when we hand our flyers for eikiwa. (For example, a guy we found kubatin is getting baptized in two week!) This is Chinrei san story. She told us that she usually doesn't take the flyers from the people but for somereason she took ours. That night she had a dream about a huge church with lots of people in it. She then came to eikiwa the next night that was at the church. She said that when she came into the building she said, I want to hear these people's message immediately. (Side note: when people come to eikiwa, they have to have a shokai lesson where we show them a video about the purpose of life. everyone is required to do this and then from there we ask if they want to met again to hear more.) So Chinrei, scheduled her lesson for the next day. When we met with her one of her first questions was "I've just been really wondering about which church is the true church." We were like "wow, great question" So did this guy named joseph smith. We showed her the restoration movie and all through it she was totally invovled. Afterwards, I bore my testimony and surprise surprised was crying. I just have such a testimony of Joseph Smith and love what he did with all my heart. We continued to asnwer her questions. It was a great lesson. We gave her a book of mormon adn she siad she would read it. The next day we got a text from her asking if she could met with us the next day. We said yes. And long story short we committed her to baptism on the 16th of Oct. Our prayers were answered! She is so cute! She's catholic and when we asked her to come to church she said yes and then said "Should I go and tell my catholic priest that I'm quitting going to his church?" We said no, no, you don't have to tell him anything :) She is continuing to just take in everything.
Second miracle: On thursady we went down to Kubati again and we had 20 more flyers left so we divided them up and had a race to give them away the fastest. So we were laughing and having fun. There was a mother and daughter sitting on the bench who were watching us. After we were done the mother called over to us and asked us where we were from. We started talking to her and she said, you both have this glow about you. You both seem so happy and are just beautiful." that made us really happy to hear. We told her why we were here in Japan. Turns out the daughter was having a bad day so they were just sitting there talking about hte purpose of life and didn't really know. THey were wondering where they would go when they died. The daughter told us that she had just boughten a bible but didn't really understand it. Long story short, they invited us over for dinner the next day. We showed up to their house and it was the mother, daughter and her son. For the next 2 1/2 hours we just talked all about the gosepl and how it has blessed our lives. I wish words could describe how it felt to be there. One it felt like I had found my Japanese family. I really felt like I fit in with them. They were so comfortable and were just eating up everythign we were telling them. We would read a scripture with them and they would just read it again and again. They told us how they thought God truly lead us to them to answer their questions. I have never seen a more prepared family in my life. The special thing is Laird Shimai's whole mission, she has felt as if there was a family she needed to find. And it wasn't until tonight that she felt like she had found that family. How rewarding. She foudn the family she had been looking for. They all have a book of mormon and as we were leaving the mother was pouring over the purpose of life phamphet. I'm pretty sure we could have stayed their all night and answered their questions. But sitting there I was just overwhelmed with God's love. god loves his children. That I know for sure. He is aware of everyone.
I love this work adn I'm happy that I get to continue to do it.
loves love
shimai
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