tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31500512645601724252024-02-22T12:45:52.968-08:00 Elder LamoreauX4Elder Lamoreaux times 4. The official blog of three cousins and their Grandpa - serving as missionaries for
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665849321724163626noreply@blogger.comBlogger166125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150051264560172425.post-90662115090724545572016-09-30T17:24:00.000-07:002016-09-30T17:24:53.607-07:00JT - August 26 and 28, 2016 Welcome home Elder JT Lamoreaux<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzuEfIUQzsEvXTS5TMyHdghYLM6jtah4O8Ezl8PrLEIQHQ1916zHtarjLJeB4YsnObW9PiGWNe_qStgLxQF8Q' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Airport part 1</div>
<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxRg4kOOKtBYZQfeOxBXzxKQLwYGMtOxrDg2CFxzjBSi2t031id3Lh0e6qj3KZnNn22hXazDviMrNhCx-pEfQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Airport part 2</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">I know sometimes the videos on this blog do not work, especially if you are viewing them from a mobile device. I am including here some pictures of Elder Lamoreaux at the airport, which the previous videos showed.</span><br />
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFtmHiMWAc6SQVQkv6qj5MaK4NIbATw8Rhq1DuV2gLHOuCUstcjeM9wsJwSbH9JYKHMKS-DcVV3PxxH8Q8irtfcz8DHseGwkALFzJKeDvS6aALmCWe0Pb9aC2uUikZsVe732jYod1rg9U/s1600/01.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFtmHiMWAc6SQVQkv6qj5MaK4NIbATw8Rhq1DuV2gLHOuCUstcjeM9wsJwSbH9JYKHMKS-DcVV3PxxH8Q8irtfcz8DHseGwkALFzJKeDvS6aALmCWe0Pb9aC2uUikZsVe732jYod1rg9U/s640/01.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Waiting for Elder Lamoreaux at the airport</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisXD69d1FHAyLycT09e_5nmGwVeaYk2WVdvJ-GyP0crPwtVHkQ3mxBUHJ-S_eJqX7V07EI5E5-W8RFETGm3jD9sCi64XG9Ct4LnPGGZpj1oKiVYKP37wp-KFuvhCnoAX2XcRAqK3ztjGE/s1600/02.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisXD69d1FHAyLycT09e_5nmGwVeaYk2WVdvJ-GyP0crPwtVHkQ3mxBUHJ-S_eJqX7V07EI5E5-W8RFETGm3jD9sCi64XG9Ct4LnPGGZpj1oKiVYKP37wp-KFuvhCnoAX2XcRAqK3ztjGE/s640/02.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgse-VXPQoJ16TvkFvpNh1ebvywDUvFeM67Yz9jePGBD1TGbzKszce5UDsVmmbq6pyUznneX85nS2mP6q9VEDTyoHJYclDs9zdyCqBVnq6u63qr6VS5reW5pzXzJaV7y-ZZbqxiPzmBaxs/s1600/03.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgse-VXPQoJ16TvkFvpNh1ebvywDUvFeM67Yz9jePGBD1TGbzKszce5UDsVmmbq6pyUznneX85nS2mP6q9VEDTyoHJYclDs9zdyCqBVnq6u63qr6VS5reW5pzXzJaV7y-ZZbqxiPzmBaxs/s640/03.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here he comes....</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC5zGFfhuIe9GEO52YIOeK-hxRqCBTF7zG5FEhdbphUqpvgvO4L43oheoDS-pwQ_jM1GpC6k27JukB2Sp9sroDPmv7k6iekHH9nFHrZMftTGKncsxJCU0UDgKcf4QxpdCttPU-0ITw6dU/s1600/03-2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC5zGFfhuIe9GEO52YIOeK-hxRqCBTF7zG5FEhdbphUqpvgvO4L43oheoDS-pwQ_jM1GpC6k27JukB2Sp9sroDPmv7k6iekHH9nFHrZMftTGKncsxJCU0UDgKcf4QxpdCttPU-0ITw6dU/s640/03-2.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What will he want first? A huge and kiss from his mother, or the Cafe Rio that he has missed for two years?</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp-5AGEJLzeS_S9BC5HSMCfGfoIkNVI_7kglvCmzu9vUvNDK-RsQukKBP4tNEUn4dq6GBFc8HnuN2i-FAq7PVZ6Bt-TNAGorZLCXvIFrX1MP9jGj2OJLg4u8-EyOPJ6vOveXG5JYz4ZTc/s1600/04.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp-5AGEJLzeS_S9BC5HSMCfGfoIkNVI_7kglvCmzu9vUvNDK-RsQukKBP4tNEUn4dq6GBFc8HnuN2i-FAq7PVZ6Bt-TNAGorZLCXvIFrX1MP9jGj2OJLg4u8-EyOPJ6vOveXG5JYz4ZTc/s640/04.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSmMli7AhB-WbBU162B3V-x5Ze622WqyAeTQ1c57s27aroQS06m8mHHFg_Rn2vQ4I44RnFL4l5QuGNKHW2FhUxUPKKEm6jASyLmyibnkZmBGhYEHX4upFQ8CLWI3cjThFu9jsR7rwd4H4/s1600/05.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSmMli7AhB-WbBU162B3V-x5Ze622WqyAeTQ1c57s27aroQS06m8mHHFg_Rn2vQ4I44RnFL4l5QuGNKHW2FhUxUPKKEm6jASyLmyibnkZmBGhYEHX4upFQ8CLWI3cjThFu9jsR7rwd4H4/s640/05.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgACZtLWBaB0Wmgbk_6gJDzzFQkv0rDS6UAIlMwPq_8ZaDOsuShDcweboT650nqckFA6Cy1Dbnx9KEbpdx_j6keLgG8K1Et_Mh8DqGXp6OfsQrjYA7oDx2qy_0CH8rjWLytrlRNpp8TE0E/s1600/06.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgACZtLWBaB0Wmgbk_6gJDzzFQkv0rDS6UAIlMwPq_8ZaDOsuShDcweboT650nqckFA6Cy1Dbnx9KEbpdx_j6keLgG8K1Et_Mh8DqGXp6OfsQrjYA7oDx2qy_0CH8rjWLytrlRNpp8TE0E/s640/06.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The race is won. </td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEispgpD82nAy-JUfutVe6Jqi5kpJwxngwpftcRMnghEs8VnPKnrvB7JHlUh7_D-v2Tpy1XVJcE2LOJSx-1biyS23onLcJrjFXoBdb3AtFyybp00cXK931Q2TpGdAZA4dokBEyET6BE_szk/s1600/07.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEispgpD82nAy-JUfutVe6Jqi5kpJwxngwpftcRMnghEs8VnPKnrvB7JHlUh7_D-v2Tpy1XVJcE2LOJSx-1biyS23onLcJrjFXoBdb3AtFyybp00cXK931Q2TpGdAZA4dokBEyET6BE_szk/s640/07.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKeGjUhLfjVXUEArtDDZGNIw5zyemLRsVMbfqGhiVEKbkYJxddtIOFbnaojrtZCZs8YuUqca0ugQ6QLDpdKcAymVl7nNye9RVB3nS7dQBoiNMgrvD94yjTV_GBxJfmNuIJpTfHsmLAZWE/s1600/008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKeGjUhLfjVXUEArtDDZGNIw5zyemLRsVMbfqGhiVEKbkYJxddtIOFbnaojrtZCZs8YuUqca0ugQ6QLDpdKcAymVl7nNye9RVB3nS7dQBoiNMgrvD94yjTV_GBxJfmNuIJpTfHsmLAZWE/s640/008.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The family together again.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVb18kmDIAZX1LPcCls6vC7Q9NO5KdRLp2WYnnZqKTlP0UVXbltrdJB34qnB91S6nzvpiWOYt0lyscO21-GXSREDJisRzyJLSU5e3ir_sf3M_uGgz7HM0Ja45Fe-JkaLj1rOUMK-LTtmQ/s1600/09.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVb18kmDIAZX1LPcCls6vC7Q9NO5KdRLp2WYnnZqKTlP0UVXbltrdJB34qnB91S6nzvpiWOYt0lyscO21-GXSREDJisRzyJLSU5e3ir_sf3M_uGgz7HM0Ja45Fe-JkaLj1rOUMK-LTtmQ/s640/09.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1-ocFrl04i4xWJjcMi0TKph7BrVVImoA8oJeczlyZzX3dygxNwSGvQz-_Qfr6MSnVMtTy0ZZGBXIC2mdSWVQnWTEk9BZx29C5XGGhLzSvAyyb2WwW4Q1n9l2lObU5gMKBmvrsusFJwXE/s1600/10.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1-ocFrl04i4xWJjcMi0TKph7BrVVImoA8oJeczlyZzX3dygxNwSGvQz-_Qfr6MSnVMtTy0ZZGBXIC2mdSWVQnWTEk9BZx29C5XGGhLzSvAyyb2WwW4Q1n9l2lObU5gMKBmvrsusFJwXE/s640/10.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Putting the last piece to the Temple build - the countdown is over.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh-7lSHXpmvP9BnAjjV-yiJK_uZM9HGq4JTsbwKrNjopwoYJbtvum0vJq25A3YW0Lx0R257XJ9mhqGcMoCtU56uupOLXflCNFeVqjiMVLtLzjP_LV-aej4AuIRpVmVhFBm1ae5zDJerIA/s1600/11.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh-7lSHXpmvP9BnAjjV-yiJK_uZM9HGq4JTsbwKrNjopwoYJbtvum0vJq25A3YW0Lx0R257XJ9mhqGcMoCtU56uupOLXflCNFeVqjiMVLtLzjP_LV-aej4AuIRpVmVhFBm1ae5zDJerIA/s640/11.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finally, Cafe Rio!!!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">August 28, 2016</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Lunch after Elder Lamoreaux homecoming talk.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv3P2L1NPPf5WjT6f1Q-Qr-OCWIlbWxGBWIfY-Uj7pfba4K0Gy2Y6ysxpRRwgQzQInA2yFCSH5MsJvKTz8zur6O-sNBCS38L0ZNWsSwIAdN9vtLftKmx_77cyqc8AnblOKP2i3iCAFmYI/s1600/12.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv3P2L1NPPf5WjT6f1Q-Qr-OCWIlbWxGBWIfY-Uj7pfba4K0Gy2Y6ysxpRRwgQzQInA2yFCSH5MsJvKTz8zur6O-sNBCS38L0ZNWsSwIAdN9vtLftKmx_77cyqc8AnblOKP2i3iCAFmYI/s640/12.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidFeuDWnt_-UbWsAgH18TqwhcalDIDyAn5erX6HtVs_h_x-lKexaQ5ylTFvQ45_JFkN_qI54Eg0CLn3DyoHzZIqbgRpUnlPoISpWf3cggm8DBj1yf4yWgwPMJarpoTkJpLBBXbqm-DXjI/s1600/13.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidFeuDWnt_-UbWsAgH18TqwhcalDIDyAn5erX6HtVs_h_x-lKexaQ5ylTFvQ45_JFkN_qI54Eg0CLn3DyoHzZIqbgRpUnlPoISpWf3cggm8DBj1yf4yWgwPMJarpoTkJpLBBXbqm-DXjI/s640/13.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWkaQcvhFVIcZbVY9mCxhuhq-wtO0wT1QwLaKa9m7kjjo1eg7gThXlHqOBLY_DwqGM2EmqbmZEsLvZ887ZseHxpBJSFpF4DZRaPdY9YVyEBWrIPD-_B4iCllKusnWCrpMwDyI-uahr2eM/s1600/14.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWkaQcvhFVIcZbVY9mCxhuhq-wtO0wT1QwLaKa9m7kjjo1eg7gThXlHqOBLY_DwqGM2EmqbmZEsLvZ887ZseHxpBJSFpF4DZRaPdY9YVyEBWrIPD-_B4iCllKusnWCrpMwDyI-uahr2eM/s640/14.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is only half the food that we had. We didn't get a picture of the others.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1fWzbIhp1RP7RMhjtPXKmMYs9mYUZix_nnw5lxb6u281A1m6jr_AicNeKI__vPIZQDqEQC2-N4V-Ae4mEmIOC2HHsxhyeisW3qCDgbI-KEXFz2vC01aayzQk4AWFX20Jr8kh5x1nzlZQ/s1600/15.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1fWzbIhp1RP7RMhjtPXKmMYs9mYUZix_nnw5lxb6u281A1m6jr_AicNeKI__vPIZQDqEQC2-N4V-Ae4mEmIOC2HHsxhyeisW3qCDgbI-KEXFz2vC01aayzQk4AWFX20Jr8kh5x1nzlZQ/s640/15.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitsuZTZsii3KdvyI8issGlVs18JfgY13ZGeyNQNcn_-I3ZOl4JCt57IzQUMum81m7YPaWB3mD33sm3oINelgR4H5ADyQ_5FoBhZmBJ291ycSeM6uz8QZhBajH3A5eQ2VyNrHzCTeGNIeg/s1600/16.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitsuZTZsii3KdvyI8issGlVs18JfgY13ZGeyNQNcn_-I3ZOl4JCt57IzQUMum81m7YPaWB3mD33sm3oINelgR4H5ADyQ_5FoBhZmBJ291ycSeM6uz8QZhBajH3A5eQ2VyNrHzCTeGNIeg/s640/16.JPG" width="360" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">JT with the Sainsbury family. <br />For those of you who have followed Elder Lamoreaux's mission from the beginning, JT meet this family when he was assigned in Maizuru Branch (August 2015)<span style="color: #353535; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">. They live here in Utah.</span></span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg09wIBRUPYyRvI8PwJPbJt2NPIzxgyNNx6HtYJ1FNMYBSXiqBHlaY9a5NQYAxLWhg3WLwMIxRgCF7kfXRGL-G_-RSo934N5HQgL2ThBsaCmwYXxZnBe5P1xQcewBQRzPuDpfFZIYiZK3E/s1600/17.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg09wIBRUPYyRvI8PwJPbJt2NPIzxgyNNx6HtYJ1FNMYBSXiqBHlaY9a5NQYAxLWhg3WLwMIxRgCF7kfXRGL-G_-RSo934N5HQgL2ThBsaCmwYXxZnBe5P1xQcewBQRzPuDpfFZIYiZK3E/s640/17.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Return missionaries from the Kobe Japan Mission.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKAsMrwuD6x0EqaRqeyXoTQN1rtXSI5JCwmeUiYMo7TURuFX4u7nxdIt0j9VYDfQ9hPdLqO4-g6es0CcqjdzDlraYXc-ArF0cpyV6royGKLyNkAyFCQfIqvfsbOs1uzR607aaM6b2OIJI/s1600/18.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKAsMrwuD6x0EqaRqeyXoTQN1rtXSI5JCwmeUiYMo7TURuFX4u7nxdIt0j9VYDfQ9hPdLqO4-g6es0CcqjdzDlraYXc-ArF0cpyV6royGKLyNkAyFCQfIqvfsbOs1uzR607aaM6b2OIJI/s640/18.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Friends reunited</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Mbruf8rDwPqW2xwdybUaOU4Osek4wZ8eQGQjmwjmrdBd7ck1ij_TPuwVRhcT_75giW2MYBGkdjMMO5acqowj-xvc-EJ7QqzK-iosnZzxDk9c8L7w-n_i3REhrCxJ1-retf_9NrAJsvs/s1600/19.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Mbruf8rDwPqW2xwdybUaOU4Osek4wZ8eQGQjmwjmrdBd7ck1ij_TPuwVRhcT_75giW2MYBGkdjMMO5acqowj-xvc-EJ7QqzK-iosnZzxDk9c8L7w-n_i3REhrCxJ1-retf_9NrAJsvs/s640/19.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A few of JT's oldest friends... All are return missionaries.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Thank you to all who have supported <br />Elder Lamoreaux on his mission. <br /></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665849321724163626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150051264560172425.post-36407730182247957022016-09-28T19:34:00.000-07:002016-09-28T19:34:43.639-07:00JT - Last week of mission - Aug. 22 - Aug 26, 2016<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiewmZjU-_T288u0ILJ8bpvE_ve7DnyDjyR8XTxy453NzkBQQzZdS0PCGNPARuWTzfLvLXUfs6rVE56-QkQEyh9kl3lGR0il49_4vmGVx6_usrprMkFcA2l8tMqGB8HqK6_ep7b-qnWtyU/s1600/34.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiewmZjU-_T288u0ILJ8bpvE_ve7DnyDjyR8XTxy453NzkBQQzZdS0PCGNPARuWTzfLvLXUfs6rVE56-QkQEyh9kl3lGR0il49_4vmGVx6_usrprMkFcA2l8tMqGB8HqK6_ep7b-qnWtyU/s640/34.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We went to a nearby zoo as a district for my last Preparation Day and last district preparation day! The best PDay of my life!</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />This was a zoo that was pretty far away from everything and relatively unknown. Because of that, the animals weren't hiding in a corner like every other zoo, they were excited to see us and gave a a good show at every exhibit! Best zoo ever!</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXdKY2LALL1CrYUeJkfWvYCc9ZTH2f5hQGetgYEfvyEu3cWGcbbQ23OZn8HFmzzRa_gJcnHZOCgT9G5f8_x8JOFhkEy50d7BfCHqMKkhCDk-fi3UCZ99ixXDHy2QaJSlOcPqj0lXDOA_o/s1600/43.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXdKY2LALL1CrYUeJkfWvYCc9ZTH2f5hQGetgYEfvyEu3cWGcbbQ23OZn8HFmzzRa_gJcnHZOCgT9G5f8_x8JOFhkEy50d7BfCHqMKkhCDk-fi3UCZ99ixXDHy2QaJSlOcPqj0lXDOA_o/s640/43.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The best district! (Minus Tsuyama Elders)</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhC0pp-dPByOXeIhN0_LwhZNWiK-CKw24A-L2LEn25KUse4c69cWB542c7a1Cv-GkQ5vTjub44MYu-lpmB5DiM6borEpvlnfnebiea55mJldqHuxdhfZ0qZnPmOlJJL0k6d-mKDKsxCQA/s1600/36.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhC0pp-dPByOXeIhN0_LwhZNWiK-CKw24A-L2LEn25KUse4c69cWB542c7a1Cv-GkQ5vTjub44MYu-lpmB5DiM6borEpvlnfnebiea55mJldqHuxdhfZ0qZnPmOlJJL0k6d-mKDKsxCQA/s640/36.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">He's trying to make the peacock open its feathers... I think this picture is a good representation of our companionship!</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8ZilLkh6jzsMcNcnAiki9PttCdSFlPNnxcLyTYO8O92_Wz5l6DB-jFZD7QNksaT6AVGHtQequtVebwJzscBv-veaofUq8gcqYgsEuyWvRBGPY_16FJ_LpOKn0hUdz1x3eM4_hPufVkTA/s1600/41.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8ZilLkh6jzsMcNcnAiki9PttCdSFlPNnxcLyTYO8O92_Wz5l6DB-jFZD7QNksaT6AVGHtQequtVebwJzscBv-veaofUq8gcqYgsEuyWvRBGPY_16FJ_LpOKn0hUdz1x3eM4_hPufVkTA/s640/41.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgVr1IK9AJuZiUBkLPAlQMlVOwqjaLfxHI1liZUYg2OH_56NWbIOMUg0QCmJnTzS8n6yAhiILduxnMxX5cvnWH72RteI8pQR3cmRPyAgFVZzjQXVhSgmh-yBB2LwD79u59-HZ-zehjq7A/s1600/44.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgVr1IK9AJuZiUBkLPAlQMlVOwqjaLfxHI1liZUYg2OH_56NWbIOMUg0QCmJnTzS8n6yAhiILduxnMxX5cvnWH72RteI8pQR3cmRPyAgFVZzjQXVhSgmh-yBB2LwD79u59-HZ-zehjq7A/s640/44.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">My new favorite animal; Red Panda!</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL1uCaa-uY8KK_4U4jKuCPPEqS2Znk4mPqnhuArOF_3W-fqo4b0vp9kdmSDxSxYEX3mx6Xjgaz5nhMMGtbnqJLzJ_pqwaCqu24e7eqMDPnRoMmR2FAA86oKmyhZa9MQ07-fi9m3dgWqps/s1600/45.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL1uCaa-uY8KK_4U4jKuCPPEqS2Znk4mPqnhuArOF_3W-fqo4b0vp9kdmSDxSxYEX3mx6Xjgaz5nhMMGtbnqJLzJ_pqwaCqu24e7eqMDPnRoMmR2FAA86oKmyhZa9MQ07-fi9m3dgWqps/s640/45.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD3XMUVkmVLC2Emn8dR3VCSfCu_yHMw0ekhh7DQhzEoggy6uc51lZ1IAQS2d7bS9LHoXKUZsi_W9Q1LLUUHWg3UsWoMTbmHUajbsjreGjFaiWTpffq57sr18LrcwIgA5MKJpd2LMFsrfk/s1600/53.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD3XMUVkmVLC2Emn8dR3VCSfCu_yHMw0ekhh7DQhzEoggy6uc51lZ1IAQS2d7bS9LHoXKUZsi_W9Q1LLUUHWg3UsWoMTbmHUajbsjreGjFaiWTpffq57sr18LrcwIgA5MKJpd2LMFsrfk/s640/53.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Only time I hold someone's hand on my mission...</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4APL_ykQq41-AyZ8U4TXC2otuchO02JPGwgDxuHEKpWMbFcRDM_zlZ78tpkRiAF29JfmlALK4jm9hK0tpmqGRlFyrr48P0ylWuEDSgqVFW0LipwbRCq3FrfTWMcXhgmJIvdp1sYdWh7c/s1600/55.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4APL_ykQq41-AyZ8U4TXC2otuchO02JPGwgDxuHEKpWMbFcRDM_zlZ78tpkRiAF29JfmlALK4jm9hK0tpmqGRlFyrr48P0ylWuEDSgqVFW0LipwbRCq3FrfTWMcXhgmJIvdp1sYdWh7c/s640/55.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Fun sky ride that went all the way around the zoo! Best 3 bucks I've ever spent</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS_Zi9tX5yvXwyDPOH5XPm2HSQkZDoibcfyQepbbA1yaBpzsn_QrrgYeJqQDQYV3NAdi3PCA4CqoV4QmASWtUcow99DGbdbzRjpWwrKTEvs_Vh0axiEfZCgG-BgMSvOX58U2l9GWbZ7hY/s1600/56.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS_Zi9tX5yvXwyDPOH5XPm2HSQkZDoibcfyQepbbA1yaBpzsn_QrrgYeJqQDQYV3NAdi3PCA4CqoV4QmASWtUcow99DGbdbzRjpWwrKTEvs_Vh0axiEfZCgG-BgMSvOX58U2l9GWbZ7hY/s640/56.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihH05KNLD282l8JiS_AYb2ItfOYtU1yqXvvxItdASLYNSezxZ-sc8w65oyiqzJvYzcCX7X44BhJ7prjckqb-W17z7kBgP9HKZAUiZxKxmQm1oq8Wo51eUU8Vl5vxSVlvK7s7cbHvI72FU/s1600/59.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihH05KNLD282l8JiS_AYb2ItfOYtU1yqXvvxItdASLYNSezxZ-sc8w65oyiqzJvYzcCX7X44BhJ7prjckqb-W17z7kBgP9HKZAUiZxKxmQm1oq8Wo51eUU8Vl5vxSVlvK7s7cbHvI72FU/s640/59.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">They had a petting zoo too!</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxya_C4PCMrlkA7vuLvfMckneGopnv-_CWZabJklcjYvHGT7FGaz_DzBmdHrpD3lM-b0OAxWuYI9lRl60vqU993CmYpsq8tYZC5KmFcjbvBJZUBy8mqItPxpfdPPmIB83VT2enKeu-Pdo/s1600/62.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxya_C4PCMrlkA7vuLvfMckneGopnv-_CWZabJklcjYvHGT7FGaz_DzBmdHrpD3lM-b0OAxWuYI9lRl60vqU993CmYpsq8tYZC5KmFcjbvBJZUBy8mqItPxpfdPPmIB83VT2enKeu-Pdo/s640/62.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Elder Yardley had a special moment with a cow!</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZbsUkAqMdgBKE7YhWNeZabTRc7KIX5H0MjI6l9TyfRdOH2MeDgB5-07Zs8BJ6vxrmTZmUGsxAeczQJY7pFxbhHUtB2f9Akg2XkA4A9-1MaFWQZlG8XbQyyc81mG__dxXyYMlF86FGREw/s1600/63.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZbsUkAqMdgBKE7YhWNeZabTRc7KIX5H0MjI6l9TyfRdOH2MeDgB5-07Zs8BJ6vxrmTZmUGsxAeczQJY7pFxbhHUtB2f9Akg2XkA4A9-1MaFWQZlG8XbQyyc81mG__dxXyYMlF86FGREw/s640/63.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">Last lunch with one of our Vietnamese investigators and a member who is very helpful with him. We went to a hole in the wall restaurant where they had the biggest Hamburg (not a hamburger) I've ever had. It was good, but it wasn't good because we had another appointment to eat sushi a half hour later....</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6G72dhy2DhyFByOFC-X-lZKqezfgqPRKq5mSl-yDgElTykqwy2HhWIN3u4WZ0C-pRs7rX_kJrGzUz7XtD6uu9q8fXIB6fTKj5rlg4ZUPe0gz0MIfdfGHrL9ZNhR4RYFuI5ZYsXGkju1g/s1600/64.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6G72dhy2DhyFByOFC-X-lZKqezfgqPRKq5mSl-yDgElTykqwy2HhWIN3u4WZ0C-pRs7rX_kJrGzUz7XtD6uu9q8fXIB6fTKj5rlg4ZUPe0gz0MIfdfGHrL9ZNhR4RYFuI5ZYsXGkju1g/s640/64.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">My last time eating real Japanese sushi. We my companion and I wanted to eat as much as we can, hopefully reaching over 25 plates, (my record is 22) but because of the last appointment, the most we could eat was 10. Such a fun time with the sister missionaries and Moose and the girls. Gonna miss doing this. And sushi. I'll miss sushi.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwt68yDoNgtBsc7OZ25JGtPrf7uPAlhVSFQRZw7-FNagy5jlqclIUpTJJhbZoZwh941ensOZ2GdpmMiXmVfGYGRLAGh3N0TrJJs-MI_DG0Aum-gdqMCmZQb7TN47Z_53LIqEciwlT5rPA/s1600/65.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwt68yDoNgtBsc7OZ25JGtPrf7uPAlhVSFQRZw7-FNagy5jlqclIUpTJJhbZoZwh941ensOZ2GdpmMiXmVfGYGRLAGh3N0TrJJs-MI_DG0Aum-gdqMCmZQb7TN47Z_53LIqEciwlT5rPA/s640/65.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">Weird pic with Moose</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0LAYUFS5mzZ1v0udPyeaI_XkMCli8k7D1TNMZOT-bdm3O7wVOyX_2tQ4lPunEkvwHWzsVVjI9-erH0llpObG8Y4zZJIHaPt9O5ibB87cRZiuJ175tRmNhq0KbhnPbPBujW6PNzVy99CQ/s1600/66.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0LAYUFS5mzZ1v0udPyeaI_XkMCli8k7D1TNMZOT-bdm3O7wVOyX_2tQ4lPunEkvwHWzsVVjI9-erH0llpObG8Y4zZJIHaPt9O5ibB87cRZiuJ175tRmNhq0KbhnPbPBujW6PNzVy99CQ/s640/66.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">Saying bye to one of my favorite member couple who helped us out so much.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM6ynjfPo3CVF5yZsDAKx3fsV3kreCLroxWnH-y5_b_6vGHNm9r-FOGivisMkZqz1c0NBYwHEe_6BxvoELzwgGaWSs8x8IvoX5bFs4bD-9Ek_G0MFBZoilavfzY9anMy_7ZJOvs7PWcR0/s1600/67.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM6ynjfPo3CVF5yZsDAKx3fsV3kreCLroxWnH-y5_b_6vGHNm9r-FOGivisMkZqz1c0NBYwHEe_6BxvoELzwgGaWSs8x8IvoX5bFs4bD-9Ek_G0MFBZoilavfzY9anMy_7ZJOvs7PWcR0/s640/67.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">Dinner appointment with a member family and another sister and her Less-Active son. They have a huge, American style house!! Such a beautiful place. The father is a professional Japanese sword maker and earns a lot of money doing it.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAUOBsPE2l3UgvlAWGKbUP5m9m5yEwbCKPLGWqlKcrb7DLhzKvAIN7H7A10sTn6qzQz3PDzQFHnSP6-NPeDIWv8W4U5oG3Sz1hyCEcPSDTEwaJ3-3I7iijqktopdhCDl3G5QYElX7jFuI/s1600/68.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAUOBsPE2l3UgvlAWGKbUP5m9m5yEwbCKPLGWqlKcrb7DLhzKvAIN7H7A10sTn6qzQz3PDzQFHnSP6-NPeDIWv8W4U5oG3Sz1hyCEcPSDTEwaJ3-3I7iijqktopdhCDl3G5QYElX7jFuI/s640/68.JPG" width="478" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">Me and one of his swords. He said that this sword costs ¥400万 which is equivalent to about $4,000,000!! That's four MILLION dollars for a sword!! I felt like I would get cut just by looking at it.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYndbn2B8xLOJz8u-XdiY7wTlq5Rz5Y2L6Ks_WnqoAkJClarlDcMSNOlIqxw92qywqFuJ_Tn4Y4ze8CMbkvL0hOq4sT2FxF7hT6-TJtSNZBK_VNJxaJsj4eiaPQ3GQYiIplzI1-4p3Sg4/s1600/69.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYndbn2B8xLOJz8u-XdiY7wTlq5Rz5Y2L6Ks_WnqoAkJClarlDcMSNOlIqxw92qywqFuJ_Tn4Y4ze8CMbkvL0hOq4sT2FxF7hT6-TJtSNZBK_VNJxaJsj4eiaPQ3GQYiIplzI1-4p3Sg4/s640/69.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">Inside his house.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwzNwwYHkQGSDYv93JFjE4QsYZqnuaGVQ-JpvE3iP1XIM0g6CfFhQ93vkyrNpcanaW4hpLoLV-cNPyxoif3eg829x1PkW-gwmOKCudZKjzJ-lCxo0sFsUgZoXzx7uQN4G9NPBOid_0uvs/s1600/71.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwzNwwYHkQGSDYv93JFjE4QsYZqnuaGVQ-JpvE3iP1XIM0g6CfFhQ93vkyrNpcanaW4hpLoLV-cNPyxoif3eg829x1PkW-gwmOKCudZKjzJ-lCxo0sFsUgZoXzx7uQN4G9NPBOid_0uvs/s640/71.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">These guys put together a surprise party for me!! It was so nice of them and I felt very loved and appreciated! For those of you that don't read Japanese, The balloons have my name written on it with a picture of my face.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhvOK0wn96QCeyyIrI7abVgy_suR4sxQ-clpXQUWO5IMvukXJU-xg785S5v8ZSOWVi8iHVmkMJCQOZRj4SnY5Ulb1wbNq4GaecfgsBYCVBiQi0eWKuet49tz1lHwZAykALslUGkACXl4A/s1600/72.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhvOK0wn96QCeyyIrI7abVgy_suR4sxQ-clpXQUWO5IMvukXJU-xg785S5v8ZSOWVi8iHVmkMJCQOZRj4SnY5Ulb1wbNq4GaecfgsBYCVBiQi0eWKuet49tz1lHwZAykALslUGkACXl4A/s640/72.JPG" width="478" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5qilS5DupBOKtuHEPq0MM0-eyfgQqoaZSEXEgw85GKf-_cQBt6XUmJb7xfwlCfjRtKLUA6kywLodhagi6T6DUuth_E1b4b3ThvK2YxJ2Ej9SmW9bUlH9trpaJkSEV5ufP7NAdb365WMc/s1600/73.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5qilS5DupBOKtuHEPq0MM0-eyfgQqoaZSEXEgw85GKf-_cQBt6XUmJb7xfwlCfjRtKLUA6kywLodhagi6T6DUuth_E1b4b3ThvK2YxJ2Ej9SmW9bUlH9trpaJkSEV5ufP7NAdb365WMc/s640/73.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxQfZCyKF7q-faecOaxXgoOddkvzGdEXfauuElNZn-ukrqJ1p5zMXrLbNXiKvkAi-EZMFz0aUIC4wqXJk66IerohXmhkyDcap1y7nC0p-nVmlK3FQh-Hc0_IbPoJMC56PH84oWfsTB0MY/s1600/76.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxQfZCyKF7q-faecOaxXgoOddkvzGdEXfauuElNZn-ukrqJ1p5zMXrLbNXiKvkAi-EZMFz0aUIC4wqXJk66IerohXmhkyDcap1y7nC0p-nVmlK3FQh-Hc0_IbPoJMC56PH84oWfsTB0MY/s640/76.PNG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;">Last Day in Okayama tradition</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKSb6-8iuKZG2u2gJRZ4jVnfST2auuc1bYhL8_zHuSBpHjFY2tPnOXab74XigYE89i1piThPKzB_ExeH3beCY1DwIhnwAEHuD7BmVmTPcvYgzexdefpmjt6xCuQA-1lwCNI-rYs65Vvu0/s1600/77.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKSb6-8iuKZG2u2gJRZ4jVnfST2auuc1bYhL8_zHuSBpHjFY2tPnOXab74XigYE89i1piThPKzB_ExeH3beCY1DwIhnwAEHuD7BmVmTPcvYgzexdefpmjt6xCuQA-1lwCNI-rYs65Vvu0/s640/77.PNG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">They made this awesome cake!</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2EtVD6Y5DEBqgcPMyZ9QRsOgWULwSlFWjQHLxAs7p-wr2SxDFYmHj7tpV1sAHv7d6Furshf4zRzhU0xvoGW5kqCFWBCd15iXZTnaWCE_BFO1B8I_M06bU_amunaERl9a-_DzVr9QXwSs/s1600/79.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2EtVD6Y5DEBqgcPMyZ9QRsOgWULwSlFWjQHLxAs7p-wr2SxDFYmHj7tpV1sAHv7d6Furshf4zRzhU0xvoGW5kqCFWBCd15iXZTnaWCE_BFO1B8I_M06bU_amunaERl9a-_DzVr9QXwSs/s640/79.PNG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">And put it in my face...</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuAFnicDs0yzA7JKTViET2AATkE-wFz1Kd2PvgmYiSz041tAsq8E19yTpmg6sVfR7EKPPdC7P1OEp9Gom3rdeuF-tUf4K-uKNiJC6ZerHapJQVdbzRRd8BwnsTofVBiF6SNFu-OUahC6M/s1600/80.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuAFnicDs0yzA7JKTViET2AATkE-wFz1Kd2PvgmYiSz041tAsq8E19yTpmg6sVfR7EKPPdC7P1OEp9Gom3rdeuF-tUf4K-uKNiJC6ZerHapJQVdbzRRd8BwnsTofVBiF6SNFu-OUahC6M/s640/80.PNG" width="640" /></a></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc5Ij-pvVepm1XEinmZNxi_IOIMzmH2zVt-iF5-xavUpCSuAUYCKxvO6Yy6u9bm1roFjJnIVhnrrqa9YS-MDC5dfXEM7EPk7uEBxG77l9M2xBxKBQeslTB0ygsk_sa79kT7AOS1jnitJ8/s1600/81.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc5Ij-pvVepm1XEinmZNxi_IOIMzmH2zVt-iF5-xavUpCSuAUYCKxvO6Yy6u9bm1roFjJnIVhnrrqa9YS-MDC5dfXEM7EPk7uEBxG77l9M2xBxKBQeslTB0ygsk_sa79kT7AOS1jnitJ8/s640/81.PNG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">That's the tradition.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuCkpSd4Q209iZaZYFnItPjXn4M0dX7hUHFpp7T6QfXu0-arV8s8F65cqNXytdGMU_7AnmGL8Y08MM4i9v9R49-0P91QOzmFTJAXA_iANY5HXGk7jTgGOex_bounDRXMQEYSwghK64-9o/s1600/82.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuCkpSd4Q209iZaZYFnItPjXn4M0dX7hUHFpp7T6QfXu0-arV8s8F65cqNXytdGMU_7AnmGL8Y08MM4i9v9R49-0P91QOzmFTJAXA_iANY5HXGk7jTgGOex_bounDRXMQEYSwghK64-9o/s640/82.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">Last lesson with this less-active member, his investigator mother, and our member present! Elder Ray and I started teaching her and she is really progressing and the less-active member has teaching opportunities too. Awesome situation there.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3hez-HtvGPLjDY6rE2ffnnNSqOJDNefHw8Uz5BUH42N92M413O8-yWO46hBZUGevwBT8V6YW4wxgB7vixFTu6YZty7Bx09Qg4jT28_a4d_2N5S8PlOMsTf6Uwbn-PcDTm1B35ynM3sOE/s1600/83.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3hez-HtvGPLjDY6rE2ffnnNSqOJDNefHw8Uz5BUH42N92M413O8-yWO46hBZUGevwBT8V6YW4wxgB7vixFTu6YZty7Bx09Qg4jT28_a4d_2N5S8PlOMsTf6Uwbn-PcDTm1B35ynM3sOE/s640/83.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">Last trip to "Happy's" supermarket. We bought ingredients for a Takoyaki party.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXDqpjIpbjAcCsy57sxrvu5Tbsbb7uNPTo8sWJDiEpxgFBWKb5zmgBVzCvx9FbUPXGq5_YNj_t7hpdWoYaseFJVAN6PKXIlWr9wiv8Fuag-2LI094ldB6-oEVNj8HxN49ix1j3weaVtV0/s1600/84.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXDqpjIpbjAcCsy57sxrvu5Tbsbb7uNPTo8sWJDiEpxgFBWKb5zmgBVzCvx9FbUPXGq5_YNj_t7hpdWoYaseFJVAN6PKXIlWr9wiv8Fuag-2LI094ldB6-oEVNj8HxN49ix1j3weaVtV0/s640/84.JPG" width="478" /></a></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBLMUkT3mxUbF_r-fii3niL0JLXBjWmYePdSULgSJgz7xKoAyWTUsD6qiCAk_Pz6ehQi4p-aKxH-wruYdr2a92mbBNvx56zWJu7AEdQMsV4a3pM09QJu7cWq_ulKgWJvu8OjEbvt1haSI/s1600/85.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBLMUkT3mxUbF_r-fii3niL0JLXBjWmYePdSULgSJgz7xKoAyWTUsD6qiCAk_Pz6ehQi4p-aKxH-wruYdr2a92mbBNvx56zWJu7AEdQMsV4a3pM09QJu7cWq_ulKgWJvu8OjEbvt1haSI/s640/85.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">I have a special seat. Ra-mu-ro-kku-su Choro. (Making fun of my name because of the silent X.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOe0y5XucRkxaXKOcWO08yhOD4tv2dET1heYPoFjhpA5UPNKzgdTZYRbT7rCHei_Pwjav5NLSoi3ehZET56Sq7b0b_8yDEq34RrxBXea_w8BpJlGfJYMlC3VVKudNfbe0K8BTTGKOoGKc/s1600/86.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOe0y5XucRkxaXKOcWO08yhOD4tv2dET1heYPoFjhpA5UPNKzgdTZYRbT7rCHei_Pwjav5NLSoi3ehZET56Sq7b0b_8yDEq34RrxBXea_w8BpJlGfJYMlC3VVKudNfbe0K8BTTGKOoGKc/s640/86.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">Early morning seminary for the last time. These members came to say bye to me.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<br />
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZOBD1OEo2MEsmtf6BW2NuTeuz8__dNSWvtPjQQHj5_hCUc6AB19mKA-LYIhl5goGqOuEgNC-qN8T7x_0PpChzX54v5ads8aO6qQDnfWiBGv3oeiZsg0IAzqWgCn4jaLDnn-4xWd1HFY8/s1600/88.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZOBD1OEo2MEsmtf6BW2NuTeuz8__dNSWvtPjQQHj5_hCUc6AB19mKA-LYIhl5goGqOuEgNC-qN8T7x_0PpChzX54v5ads8aO6qQDnfWiBGv3oeiZsg0IAzqWgCn4jaLDnn-4xWd1HFY8/s640/88.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">My drop off at the train station. I love these members so much. I will definitely miss them. I felt a ton of love and support from the Okayama ward! 岡山は最高!!!</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOjhFVef7uhIhavODObdsbkqqAc3oFAFfg1ePksSQkNv5bxQiPzqJMWSaOfmvUIcS0NLtNr8fyBvmAQJltHLdMoCNH8z0xkf7T1gMp6cjMMMeHcSRK-BCJz4BtEIfLvDOR0nZkAYoVy5A/s1600/89.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOjhFVef7uhIhavODObdsbkqqAc3oFAFfg1ePksSQkNv5bxQiPzqJMWSaOfmvUIcS0NLtNr8fyBvmAQJltHLdMoCNH8z0xkf7T1gMp6cjMMMeHcSRK-BCJz4BtEIfLvDOR0nZkAYoVy5A/s640/89.JPG" width="478" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">Moose! One of my best friends from the mission.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU-7PHwtpOE_LGAj3YsCw86nLOSJZAITF8ZvkzFgToua70coe54mj2ClteC87vyzMDxacNYQgj3eKroCaJd9cLNFIbdHnFpv0c_MssqlTxJ2vHTeg7AgKPCy_0inX0sRVf5DHMJZwdAQA/s1600/90.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU-7PHwtpOE_LGAj3YsCw86nLOSJZAITF8ZvkzFgToua70coe54mj2ClteC87vyzMDxacNYQgj3eKroCaJd9cLNFIbdHnFpv0c_MssqlTxJ2vHTeg7AgKPCy_0inX0sRVf5DHMJZwdAQA/s640/90.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">We took the Shinkansen (bullet train) to Kobe! It took 30 minutes to get from Okayama to Kobe! (Normally it's 2.5 hours!)</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYTmr1wTeZoOlWUrcpdpPKi7AjFSXHtw8cDWMRXhyphenhyphentFCG5SviqVprKQgNS82JpWSUk-_snBgpOqC4hC_gO6tHmpbaRgPExSbu9WM81K7Xws8ZufS_jnqPxp0xFzSZ6PoDAyTCNqxAdLNg/s1600/91.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYTmr1wTeZoOlWUrcpdpPKi7AjFSXHtw8cDWMRXhyphenhyphentFCG5SviqVprKQgNS82JpWSUk-_snBgpOqC4hC_gO6tHmpbaRgPExSbu9WM81K7Xws8ZufS_jnqPxp0xFzSZ6PoDAyTCNqxAdLNg/s320/91.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">The Kobe crew!</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665849321724163626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150051264560172425.post-17373444330873539552016-08-22T19:57:00.000-07:002016-08-22T19:57:07.991-07:00JT - Sapporo Japan Temple Dedication-Perfect end to a mission<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Dear Everyone,</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">My bags are on their way to the Airport, and this is my last </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Preparation day as a full time missionary. I'm going home on Friday. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">So weird to think that my mission is just about over. I still have a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">couple days, but, the past couple days have been an awesome book end </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">to this part of my life.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">We had the wonderful opportunity to watch the dedication of the brand </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">new Japan Sapporo Temple; the third temple in Japan. It's the very </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">northern part of Japan, so far from my mission, but the impact of that </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">temple is still felt down in the Kobe mission. There were a few </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">moments where I truly felt moved by the spirit and have been able to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">reflect on my mission experience thus far. I will mention a few.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">The general authorities that came to dedicate the temple were </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">President Russell M. Nelson, Elder Gary E. Stevenson, and the Asia </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">North Area presidency; President Whiting, Elder Yamashita and Elder </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Choi. I loved that because I have met every single one of them since </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">I've been in the Japan Kobe mission. Last March, President Nelson </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">visited our mission. January, Elder Choi came to speak to us and this </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">May, we had a big conference where Elder Stevenson and the Asia North </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Area Presidency came. I've heard them speak in Kobe, specifically to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">our mission and I've shaken their hands. It was a special moment when </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">I saw them all in white in the temple, dedicating this for the people </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">of Japan. Super cool. Also, it was all in Japanese! Everyone (besides </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">President Nelson) spoke in Japanese. I am really going to miss </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">speaking and hearing Japanese everyday. It's such a fun language.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">The other thing is, we had the opportunity to watch the Cultural </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Celebration the night before. Every time a temple is dedicated, youth </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">from the area put on a show for the general authorities. The spirit </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">that was felt there was amazing. It was weird because when the kids </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">were doing a traditional Japanese dance, tears were falling. I just </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">felt so much love for the Japanese people and so much desire for them </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">all to receive the gospel. We had an investigator there and at the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">end, even he was crying! Such a special feeling.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">My love for the Japanese people just sky rocketed because of the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">dedication of this beautiful temple. I haven't felt this kind of love </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">for them until now, the last week of my mission. The Japanese people </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">are so pure and so kind. There is so much good in them. They are all </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">so close to fully receiving the gospel. A few more seeds to be planted </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">and soon, really soon, the work in Japan is going to explode. I know </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">that will happen. It's already been prophesied by many prophets and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">apostles. I long for the day when we have a temple in Kobe, Osaka, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Kyoto, or Okayama. When that day comes, I and many others will be </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">insanely happy and you know I will be coming back to see that </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">dedication. There are so many members here who are trying so hard to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">follow Christ in a non-Christian country. The closest temple to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Okayama is in Fukuoka, and 8 hour drive. They need a temple and the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Sapporo temple is one step closer.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">I just feel insanely blessed to have my last Sunday in Japan a temple </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">dedication. I am so grateful for the hand of the Lord in my life. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">During these two years, I had some hard times and some really great </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">times. I know that it's all been to my benefit and I have learned so </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">much because of the experiences. I haven't seen that much "success", </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">but I know that my mission was a success. I love the people that I </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">have been able to serve these two years. Shout out to my five areas, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Nishiwaki, Kitarokko, Maizuru, Higashi Osaka, and Okayama. Those </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">places are like my home. Those people are like my family. Thankful for </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">my companions and thankful for my Mission President, President Welch. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">The mission is great and I will miss being a missionary in Japan.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Just a reminder, I will be speaking at my home ward this Sunday the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">28th at 9:00 AM. The address is 1122 Grand Ave. Provo, Utah. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Afterwards, there will be lunch and stuff at my house. Address is 1124 </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">N Independence Ave, Provo Utah. You can also visit that address </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">anytime during the day if you want.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Love you all! Remember, Keep Smiling and give 'em Heaven. Always. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">愛している皆さん!お元気で!頑張る日本!</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Love,</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Elder Lamoreaux ラムロー長老</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Japan Kobe Mission 日本神戸伝道部</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxvemMSCfiOfo4_84QTrA9Cs30FUPgAzHXbZ7cd9IB8_OSsfNTM0ZaN2JX_UlJMo_cjRuXUjQdjYKhelrp2g_rllOy9AlArRDocKvkPG0mCTSXbIfq_-Z1rfpEi11qWlW2yc-SE_CJIsM/s1600/33.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxvemMSCfiOfo4_84QTrA9Cs30FUPgAzHXbZ7cd9IB8_OSsfNTM0ZaN2JX_UlJMo_cjRuXUjQdjYKhelrp2g_rllOy9AlArRDocKvkPG0mCTSXbIfq_-Z1rfpEi11qWlW2yc-SE_CJIsM/s640/33.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Japan Sapporo Temple</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjffEY2GmjLJB-7Tn_4tH6mOY7wO-c50GX3x5E3PWW2k96JPKcj4NzmOeYVFVmdUMYWVK0geJd59AzPRuRGsUccJyoJBoX4co94cHULYYYyEUZ0_cKlj1G5izlqHlz9PBAkDDbd35xlx_8/s1600/18.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjffEY2GmjLJB-7Tn_4tH6mOY7wO-c50GX3x5E3PWW2k96JPKcj4NzmOeYVFVmdUMYWVK0geJd59AzPRuRGsUccJyoJBoX4co94cHULYYYyEUZ0_cKlj1G5izlqHlz9PBAkDDbd35xlx_8/s640/18.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eating Sushi with an investigator!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span><br />
<div style="font-size: x-large;">
<br /></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRGaDMOrBfWVzOLcmCmf9kMt7oJ8QbzZVG0Fb_2rcRWQglq0tHmJ0lUPOMM2GUoBgKPrSHygyovPb2eAVBKHClEN5bDw7y7naq0e3SLl8Dm8_2RlaUYR_hh5s-J0-3LKFkHEfo4nLfq_U/s1600/19.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRGaDMOrBfWVzOLcmCmf9kMt7oJ8QbzZVG0Fb_2rcRWQglq0tHmJ0lUPOMM2GUoBgKPrSHygyovPb2eAVBKHClEN5bDw7y7naq0e3SLl8Dm8_2RlaUYR_hh5s-J0-3LKFkHEfo4nLfq_U/s640/19.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On Kokan in Izumo with Madruga Choro.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="font-size: x-large;">
<br /></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie_LFrlrGSpubc5VXv2M2YXXf-pGTjETWZeUQMk_KD3h271jP1YhFXG85qQxtjuhTcYgYUSPmFMoPMc1gYZmhfRnKDrTri6Il7OofaG7f88E0aTen_2KOTtaGNiuxZn2mhvRKBIHE155w/s1600/20.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie_LFrlrGSpubc5VXv2M2YXXf-pGTjETWZeUQMk_KD3h271jP1YhFXG85qQxtjuhTcYgYUSPmFMoPMc1gYZmhfRnKDrTri6Il7OofaG7f88E0aTen_2KOTtaGNiuxZn2mhvRKBIHE155w/s640/20.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Long story short, we had a very rare opportunity on this Kokan. A sister finished her mission last week and her companion transferred out, so their apartment was messy and not being used. They asked the Elders to clean it up for the next Sisters that will be there in 2 weeks. So, we took this opportunity to do something that no other Elder had done before. We slept in the Sisters apartment for a night. Don't worry, we had permission and everything was according to the rules. Crazy story though.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="font-size: x-large;">
<br /></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic4igK5-aLCMaSayoWtur-TUwvdsr050LjJ1LWw0D_Mv9WCY63_lNWG3VlsHii4u-c9WB4gKjfkA3e3_ZonEvcQy8QHYmKIrh3vEMNBXIwXeuGVQw0KISBfUXZPhLS0327pMkRrO1pI5A/s1600/21.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic4igK5-aLCMaSayoWtur-TUwvdsr050LjJ1LWw0D_Mv9WCY63_lNWG3VlsHii4u-c9WB4gKjfkA3e3_ZonEvcQy8QHYmKIrh3vEMNBXIwXeuGVQw0KISBfUXZPhLS0327pMkRrO1pI5A/s320/21.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Had lunch at a member's house and they brought two friends. The guy is from Texas but is full Filipino. Lost of fun and so much English.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="font-size: x-large;">
<br /></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijEc8KWS5cWjOAUNonMTRWhMwf07algLid7cL2MgKWZfMBKSwNc2w5MW3OqTdiO9NLjCQGYf4i4ALwusWBXqIJvLiFRn72Rb3lU46gNtowLz5-nGRt350B2gL_u3wnj4iIEh0uXw6IMRs/s1600/23.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijEc8KWS5cWjOAUNonMTRWhMwf07algLid7cL2MgKWZfMBKSwNc2w5MW3OqTdiO9NLjCQGYf4i4ALwusWBXqIJvLiFRn72Rb3lU46gNtowLz5-nGRt350B2gL_u3wnj4iIEh0uXw6IMRs/s640/23.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last time with a member at the usual restaurant.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="font-size: x-large;">
<br /></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYCEk4uGteG8mF8TbhMigvXg5CsWfFqGt0Tcey-Omyu9OjGhMlsNpabi-eKQsszRuMJQ4PjGF7LaxbJdgY4cjJojrxMp5dACogsJnd1iNx1p8pea99uUOUAWsH1BbTV8u3AFdODBsxFhc/s1600/24.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYCEk4uGteG8mF8TbhMigvXg5CsWfFqGt0Tcey-Omyu9OjGhMlsNpabi-eKQsszRuMJQ4PjGF7LaxbJdgY4cjJojrxMp5dACogsJnd1iNx1p8pea99uUOUAWsH1BbTV8u3AFdODBsxFhc/s640/24.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A bunch of missionaries right before the dedication of the Japan Sapporo Temple.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="font-size: x-large;">
<br /></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWbk61ERgr_oynNCLjJpmqWfokkmof5inKYsXENQRFumBayffc8gGxovEdLi829EqBoDRixhVaoBOBBXiOJJYQpgrSxfHHIw6WRUxUqo_MegqpMzUugsSl1J6Xx84pclOku9r9IYYEkQA/s1600/25.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWbk61ERgr_oynNCLjJpmqWfokkmof5inKYsXENQRFumBayffc8gGxovEdLi829EqBoDRixhVaoBOBBXiOJJYQpgrSxfHHIw6WRUxUqo_MegqpMzUugsSl1J6Xx84pclOku9r9IYYEkQA/s640/25.JPG" width="478" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo bombed their picture</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="font-size: x-large;">
<br /></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAfD484u2r2CiZPnY6Ko721F_DR3ovz8s2xrrEpK6c9oovZGAe5QOApbG_m8AX0akMUra76cGgRf6COQBnqUiPBbKYxmxeYUwEwV3AESaSZUIg0GxyZUQg2t7IVk5A4mmcX3A0eo1jpP4/s1600/26.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAfD484u2r2CiZPnY6Ko721F_DR3ovz8s2xrrEpK6c9oovZGAe5QOApbG_m8AX0akMUra76cGgRf6COQBnqUiPBbKYxmxeYUwEwV3AESaSZUIg0GxyZUQg2t7IVk5A4mmcX3A0eo1jpP4/s640/26.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture with one of my favorite members.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="font-size: x-large;">
<br /></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB4WR06EH3hQbo0XpWO_XCvx839n0Ns4gMCAPgCDRYtURMHjz7JN2xR9zu9i_xSgkrUUX1iYBTizIoPOzmmMqw6TdKHLqXzN5mvNvr3Sycw5DhOQUSoricWKV_aHCeux2K-cn_NrtYMSw/s1600/27.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB4WR06EH3hQbo0XpWO_XCvx839n0Ns4gMCAPgCDRYtURMHjz7JN2xR9zu9i_xSgkrUUX1iYBTizIoPOzmmMqw6TdKHLqXzN5mvNvr3Sycw5DhOQUSoricWKV_aHCeux2K-cn_NrtYMSw/s640/27.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We hiked the mountain for District Meeting! Love these missionaries so much!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="font-size: x-large;">
<br /></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhevvTGO8cGg1Ni_cby0ZL8wPIj_XM1dYd5osA1j0MN9BvedwAFTsUzTQgtsOGV1UT9bTkumhbMwP9gfaV08HjrC6oVOBPOCi3AxfoPtuaXgh3tRl1wenL9KXqR2JQNKlaNQSJnYoKbbGw/s1600/28.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhevvTGO8cGg1Ni_cby0ZL8wPIj_XM1dYd5osA1j0MN9BvedwAFTsUzTQgtsOGV1UT9bTkumhbMwP9gfaV08HjrC6oVOBPOCi3AxfoPtuaXgh3tRl1wenL9KXqR2JQNKlaNQSJnYoKbbGw/s640/28.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They killed me!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="font-size: x-large;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW-zplfpWfwfeHTBJGnJzBiJnuCM8nv5XODeQW6bGAQQ5dUtnh7A8UgUCmuqWOctRK9kH4NsDl8qMPNI9wmtTLqSpNkBvQeQ6RKsDQdqyE6Uu4PveHCOrqDvGl2XjTdsfIhfuiQ5MXDx8/s1600/29.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW-zplfpWfwfeHTBJGnJzBiJnuCM8nv5XODeQW6bGAQQ5dUtnh7A8UgUCmuqWOctRK9kH4NsDl8qMPNI9wmtTLqSpNkBvQeQ6RKsDQdqyE6Uu4PveHCOrqDvGl2XjTdsfIhfuiQ5MXDx8/s640/29.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
<div style="font-size: x-large;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRIlhNP7LbdkW1V65qsgz_j84AxZ6k-Wzfb8rGBKroHYjvD5irijQeb8PlU0NsyYxwEQyPf6VgKJHcwthfpdqHY3LKTiP4lR1Ad9wZRejXyY5jmXBr96bxFa0VoQ3KTlhvLbk_NUtcqh4/s1600/30.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRIlhNP7LbdkW1V65qsgz_j84AxZ6k-Wzfb8rGBKroHYjvD5irijQeb8PlU0NsyYxwEQyPf6VgKJHcwthfpdqHY3LKTiP4lR1Ad9wZRejXyY5jmXBr96bxFa0VoQ3KTlhvLbk_NUtcqh4/s640/30.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
<div style="font-size: x-large;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjucTNSHsmHHl-vLQ4V5IdA1KJ8PmghW6T9XN8OohOyHNkGKSLtcrgUnb7KfKsewTh2CKT_oktz53ZuNlF7nCGCVG-bargZBfaOgBoMUkriQrwB2ZrTYaZY1_PCyziTkh5XoliHexqDsdk/s1600/31.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjucTNSHsmHHl-vLQ4V5IdA1KJ8PmghW6T9XN8OohOyHNkGKSLtcrgUnb7KfKsewTh2CKT_oktz53ZuNlF7nCGCVG-bargZBfaOgBoMUkriQrwB2ZrTYaZY1_PCyziTkh5XoliHexqDsdk/s640/31.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
<div style="font-size: x-large;">
<br /></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh48IfNIJ8-9yQFyjrHSF_x8aCrPFHyRq1Ur7w6sby2EopKdYiLZt1fRbYEnhqeLFeqsgAOtqBEYC3C9ZYaZSVwuzRXlBJuPxfaq7qagbLT0i3MMcrpIGCilgcKDV3u7Ps6NsTrYb8P8vM/s1600/32.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh48IfNIJ8-9yQFyjrHSF_x8aCrPFHyRq1Ur7w6sby2EopKdYiLZt1fRbYEnhqeLFeqsgAOtqBEYC3C9ZYaZSVwuzRXlBJuPxfaq7qagbLT0i3MMcrpIGCilgcKDV3u7Ps6NsTrYb8P8vM/s640/32.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We all had matching glow sticks too! We are so cool!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="font-size: x-large;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665849321724163626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150051264560172425.post-8199411538222259562016-08-15T12:34:00.000-07:002016-08-15T12:34:41.401-07:00JT - Missionary life: a roller coaster ride.<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Dear Everyone,</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Time is ticking down. This week, I went to Kobe for the last time</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">until I'm actually done with my mission, and it felt weird saying</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">goodbye (for now) to all of my mission buddies. Had a really tender</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">District Leader Conference where we talked about the issues going down</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">in the mission and about a bunch of other things. I am very grateful</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">to be where I am right now. One of my biggest desires for the rest of</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">my mission is to be a good example for the members of my district. I</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">love them all and they have become awesome friends of mine. I hope I</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">can make these last two weeks something that could change their</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">missions.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Anyways, we had a really eventful week this week, which ended pretty</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">hard. So, this is a story about the sisters' investigator.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">One Sunday last month, a member brought a friend to church for the</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">first time (yay for member missionary work!). She stayed the whole</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">time and the member gave her a Book of Mormon. She came again a couple</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">weeks later and from then, the sisters took over and started teaching</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">her. Last Sunday morning, she texted the sisters saying, "I've read</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">about 150 pages of the Book of Mormon and it's really good! I learned</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">that I really want to follow God in my life and I feel like the church</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">can tell me how to do that!" Any missionary's dream text. So, that day</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">after church, the sisters committed her to get baptized for the next</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Sunday and she accepted! The plan was to meet with her everyday this</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">week, get her interviewed, baptism and confirmation on Sunday morning,</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">and then she can go to the Sapporo Temple Dedication next week. It's</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">such a miracle story. So, because I am their district leader, I was</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">privileged to do the baptismal interview. In the interview, she passed</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">with flying colors. She is golden. I had to do a little bit of</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">teaching, but her desire is there, her testimony is there and she</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">knows much more than I did when I was 8 years old. The sisters and</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">their investigator even wanted me to baptize her! But, the thing is,</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">she is 20 years old. She is above legal age, so she doesn't need</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">permission from her guardians. However, talking with our ward about</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">it, and they said it might be a good idea to at least talk to the</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">family about her being baptized. Long story short, they talked to her</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">family on Saturday and they were against her being baptized.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Therefore, the baptism on Sunday was cancelled. There are quite a few</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">frustrations about all hat happened, but, in the end, its in God's</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">will and timing.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">The funny (not really funny,) thing is, that Saturday morning in my</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">personal study, I read a talk by Elder David A. Bednar entitled</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">"Accepting the Lord's will and timing." He told a story about a newly</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">wed couple who three weeks after their marriage, the husband was</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">diagnosed with a life threatening cancer. This couple had great faith</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">and they knew that he would be healed because they have so much to</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">live for. One day, Elder Bednar came to visit and they asked him for a</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">blessing. Elder Bednar felt inspired to ask them one question. "Do you</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">have the faith not to be healed?" As I read that story, I couldn't</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">help but apply that to our situation. During the interview, I was</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">positive that this person would get baptized on Sunday. But, after</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">reading that talk, I got nervous and felt that, maybe she won't get</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">baptized. Do I have the faith that she won't be baptized? A lot of</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">times in life, we don't get what we want. The point of that talk was</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">to accept what god's will is, even if it's not our desired result.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">I feel like I have had to learn that lesson again and again,</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">especially in this area. We have had so much potential. We had a goal</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">two transfers ago to baptize 5 in one day. Now it's gotten to the</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">point where they all will take a long time to get baptized. As a</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">missionary it's hard to keep an eternal perspective, because we are</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">only here for 2 years. It's a short time compared to a lifetime. But,</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">that is why we need to trust God and accept his timing. He knows</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">everything and all we need to do is align our will with his.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">So, that's the lesson I learned this week. Pretty painful lesson.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">She's not even my investigator haha. But, things happen that are</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">sometimes out of our control. We just need to keep pressing forward</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">and do so while feeling the joy that comes from missionary work! Love</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">you all! Have a great week, and stay tuned next week for the</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">dedication of the Sapporo Japan Temple and my last Preparation Day</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">email of my mission!</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Love,</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Elder Lamoreaux ラムロー長老</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Japan Kobe Mission 日本神戸伝道部</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBZU0aThmybIrsGB0idCSWu-t6h0zqU8KMa5FR3GFqHqwMAYz2pc6A-hzuu-zQMjbCpn2gVbxe6V3BpzoYISQj3n19vNhx1NKFqvQ2aKzT_aZ-AdkiPeOtqVbZ4g5ha8_XBL-ar25RvMk/s1600/013.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBZU0aThmybIrsGB0idCSWu-t6h0zqU8KMa5FR3GFqHqwMAYz2pc6A-hzuu-zQMjbCpn2gVbxe6V3BpzoYISQj3n19vNhx1NKFqvQ2aKzT_aZ-AdkiPeOtqVbZ4g5ha8_XBL-ar25RvMk/s640/013.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">DLC. District Leader Council in Kobe. So many of my mission friends</span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">here. So blessed to have been able to go to this meeting-my last big</span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">meeting on my mission. These people are the best.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span></span><br />
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW4LnCNKI3_tSl8V2IulHDiandj5NTkph3yXtZI-TU42W5PzSwSHWYch3ACWukL_2i-h1rP8uXg99xH3t9t6pV5bJ4rJdAlXCb3eSn_WSJfQWM4o9ox4wsy3it1dhT943TE3WDYtrwKLI/s1600/014.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW4LnCNKI3_tSl8V2IulHDiandj5NTkph3yXtZI-TU42W5PzSwSHWYch3ACWukL_2i-h1rP8uXg99xH3t9t6pV5bJ4rJdAlXCb3eSn_WSJfQWM4o9ox4wsy3it1dhT943TE3WDYtrwKLI/s640/014.JPG" width="478" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My only son, Elder McArthur!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu0MpadGVkDqSd8Y5-PUH5nvCSaR4i4TYfyqAc4MEBTyk1iKS74XQ-nGixiUfUu8ApvH0MqQnyIh-fW7S9BRn619ZW8dVK7mOluGijdzV2ZYspoWFYkxMKE0Xqa5ZpbSBoWiVxvpIfNeY/s1600/015.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu0MpadGVkDqSd8Y5-PUH5nvCSaR4i4TYfyqAc4MEBTyk1iKS74XQ-nGixiUfUu8ApvH0MqQnyIh-fW7S9BRn619ZW8dVK7mOluGijdzV2ZYspoWFYkxMKE0Xqa5ZpbSBoWiVxvpIfNeY/s640/015.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elder Bateman and my adopted son, Elder Brailsford!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtKFyJUAl-ZbTAUcTHHpDUdWWeiRFlt31bLy5GYAzNWQh4y0NBiBB-88ZQIrrLtYy5NOm3JPL30Q3qkfmEXB7tnI1xAaEFROr_JVNOu58Jpvpg6Tco3uMaYGm3OWgTRvohPkzhmbzZFes/s1600/016.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtKFyJUAl-ZbTAUcTHHpDUdWWeiRFlt31bLy5GYAzNWQh4y0NBiBB-88ZQIrrLtYy5NOm3JPL30Q3qkfmEXB7tnI1xAaEFROr_JVNOu58Jpvpg6Tco3uMaYGm3OWgTRvohPkzhmbzZFes/s640/016.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The best 4 in the mission. Go Okayama!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipLbQ3fWpTiNSwDKaiV6UuzI5Ik0mF-rMVyuz20O8ETVs5lyaTinkCZabh4YsgX4z44-4Kghv3HtOUZ3h4kqCLcbn2nWzLryLTd6h5vX1WEA0PbM4z-_ugO0EkQPzBDndd3-HWHLJdJJ0/s1600/017.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipLbQ3fWpTiNSwDKaiV6UuzI5Ik0mF-rMVyuz20O8ETVs5lyaTinkCZabh4YsgX4z44-4Kghv3HtOUZ3h4kqCLcbn2nWzLryLTd6h5vX1WEA0PbM4z-_ugO0EkQPzBDndd3-HWHLJdJJ0/s640/017.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The district and their grandma glasses.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665849321724163626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150051264560172425.post-71782542749189260992016-08-08T16:55:00.001-07:002016-08-08T16:55:50.973-07:00JT - Weird Kokans and Last ZTM<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Dear Everyone,</span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Not much time to email this week. In a little bit, we are going to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Kouraku en for District P-Day.</span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">I got a call from the Zone Leaders this week saying that they were </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">going to do a crazy companion exchange because of some things going on </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">in the zone. I ended up being with Elder Miller, who is also on his </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">last transfer. We started the exchange on Tuesday and ended it on </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Friday. Longest Kokan of my mission. It was also a ton of fun. We </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">talked about everything under the sun and also taught a lot of good </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">lessons.</span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Had my last Zone Training Meeting as a missionary. It was a pretty sad </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">moment. As a tradition, the missionaries who are "dying" the next </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">transfer bear their testimony at the end of a zone meeting. They call </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">it their "final testimony". So I gave that this week and it was an </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">awesome experience. It will be a moment that I won't forget. Standing </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">in front of everyone, thinking back on my mission realizing how much </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">these last two years have changed me; it was one of the most spiritual </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">moments of my life.</span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">In that testimony I shared a scripture, Mosiah 27:25-26. It says "And </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">the Lord said unto me: Marvel not that all mankind, yea, men and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">women, all nations, kindreds, tongues and people, must be born again; </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">yea, born of God, changed from their carnal and fallen state, to a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">state of righteousness, being redeemed of God, becoming his sons and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">daughters; And thus they become new creatures; and unless they do </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">this, they can in nowise inherit the kingdom of God." I know that the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">gospel is a gospel of change. Change is good. Repentance is good. I've </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">done a lot of repenting over the course of my mission and I know now </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">that I have changed for the better. My future will be so much brighter </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">now because of my two years spent in Japan just trying to do my best </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">for Heavenly Father. Mistakes happen. It is our responsibility to turn </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">those mistakes into growth. I learned that weakness and mistakes will </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">be for our benefit if we turn to Christ. Through his Atonement, he can </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">make those weak things become strong.</span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">That's about it for the week. I only have two more preparation days </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">before the end. My homecoming talk will be August 28th at 9:00 A.M. In </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">my new ward. The address is 1122 Grand Ave. Provo, Utah. It would be </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">great to see you there! But until then, there is still lots to do.</span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Love you all!</span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Elder Lamoreaux ラムロー長老</span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Japan Kobe Mission 日本神戸伝道部</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAj_04UZjZJ3R6upmAVV8AYb7EwZqA4nct5SycHLvvkk4uapJOg2vBaf_nPzHo8mpADznUqiGECIp3t-wKtoMUSB5-sogjQk-nn5Uw2q0bBmVCFGKtzrj01EgcN1UuBLAcAEjKK7n7cKU/s1600/12.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAj_04UZjZJ3R6upmAVV8AYb7EwZqA4nct5SycHLvvkk4uapJOg2vBaf_nPzHo8mpADznUqiGECIp3t-wKtoMUSB5-sogjQk-nn5Uw2q0bBmVCFGKtzrj01EgcN1UuBLAcAEjKK7n7cKU/s640/12.JPG" width="478" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Lamoreaux the Lamanite"<br />Yeah, we did it!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFXKpcEfF-6NXlsgDXTauUtsq_enZohN_Q7bE7psgndVoBv38j1j1Fs52f4WRxXntfO6pl93lf7hroXa8FfxlcR1fa8htkHQJSFj0abv9L2xeEswMnzSoNvi7Nxk-VIaWTwJyn0DmEp_Y/s1600/11.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFXKpcEfF-6NXlsgDXTauUtsq_enZohN_Q7bE7psgndVoBv38j1j1Fs52f4WRxXntfO6pl93lf7hroXa8FfxlcR1fa8htkHQJSFj0abv9L2xeEswMnzSoNvi7Nxk-VIaWTwJyn0DmEp_Y/s640/11.PNG" width="480" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTYXFjf47xL1pTWCnAWGK9cplZ282hjfC-ll1fkavLLMb1ZyatQcWb1jamP16n8YeKejXd-MRUGr9htr4x4ZEOff1EIJZGhGXcM5d0LQQCsINxWlGw8sBcTd8eA1wGuoDdpROu3EO5Rf4/s1600/05.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTYXFjf47xL1pTWCnAWGK9cplZ282hjfC-ll1fkavLLMb1ZyatQcWb1jamP16n8YeKejXd-MRUGr9htr4x4ZEOff1EIJZGhGXcM5d0LQQCsINxWlGw8sBcTd8eA1wGuoDdpROu3EO5Rf4/s640/05.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin80hk6UneyJHjKIydZ2wm4SjI9IBAeaw1jiU0OaPCc89gicYEQBTpFV0R-OCrT0xFAdaBFYxYHihBfMz-XEBovksQEZhbF25rtiD4ena1LaEoFwRvLTS9pOyzUnTXtZDPwVuVISZ8tPo/s1600/01.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin80hk6UneyJHjKIydZ2wm4SjI9IBAeaw1jiU0OaPCc89gicYEQBTpFV0R-OCrT0xFAdaBFYxYHihBfMz-XEBovksQEZhbF25rtiD4ena1LaEoFwRvLTS9pOyzUnTXtZDPwVuVISZ8tPo/s640/01.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seminary with Elder Miller!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJn7EAU-hv6R_yMjBcwK1566JeUCZPD-TwfcIoeaK41wDUf_d7r_v_bGQphrZstXNMZS3JV-jZ6S92ZjWXBn2F3YOFElxnES-CyP9Cn63vk5QKm2l-6aPEs66Nxy3g3FHhnAGavXQUJjw/s1600/03.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJn7EAU-hv6R_yMjBcwK1566JeUCZPD-TwfcIoeaK41wDUf_d7r_v_bGQphrZstXNMZS3JV-jZ6S92ZjWXBn2F3YOFElxnES-CyP9Cn63vk5QKm2l-6aPEs66Nxy3g3FHhnAGavXQUJjw/s640/03.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Seminary kids did charades for Seminary and here were their props...</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGKQNLjRJoK8RhkkWtJ-Dnz54bES0DVgSMIR1M24GrQB6SOf_ve1ZEoiWvPNMsnJ1ALGTUMLa63BTP7C211u2bCX4K107JemttO2oEVu1HzZMWNWbcFyNe-iSLEQEQ0mrVU_euQHJQflM/s1600/04.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGKQNLjRJoK8RhkkWtJ-Dnz54bES0DVgSMIR1M24GrQB6SOf_ve1ZEoiWvPNMsnJ1ALGTUMLa63BTP7C211u2bCX4K107JemttO2oEVu1HzZMWNWbcFyNe-iSLEQEQ0mrVU_euQHJQflM/s640/04.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On our way to a Matsuri, (Summer festival) and fireworks show!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz3XbQC25Q2mF7sxgbn2qDobpKDoRven7LiKAzGyGD_YxBzKDT5odSvquFvHauSC64LU_-qQK_3ISZg8yRhQavG4i7OkusyEvL1-RZUVvsJp1vGUk92txh7q_RLmYYTbT6SsdCgOE_T1Q/s1600/06.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz3XbQC25Q2mF7sxgbn2qDobpKDoRven7LiKAzGyGD_YxBzKDT5odSvquFvHauSC64LU_-qQK_3ISZg8yRhQavG4i7OkusyEvL1-RZUVvsJp1vGUk92txh7q_RLmYYTbT6SsdCgOE_T1Q/s640/06.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last Zone Training Meeting</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3XROHVL_9F9hc7JEjQ4YwdcckGeOD-7bpGJE3u4gdF4sfz23m2kX9Tn7ETkIczI_naf1jAydCu2B46NpBjo03b0mJPtizueQc7hy-nQaeK_lrmh-0CPyuTP1oMvONBFDII5voUJpVjmU/s1600/09.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3XROHVL_9F9hc7JEjQ4YwdcckGeOD-7bpGJE3u4gdF4sfz23m2kX9Tn7ETkIczI_naf1jAydCu2B46NpBjo03b0mJPtizueQc7hy-nQaeK_lrmh-0CPyuTP1oMvONBFDII5voUJpVjmU/s640/09.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The ones on the ground are the "dying" missionaries.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT9At_ba7erorj_nHXGf87N78Fv9RCA3ZrZ7M84uaAeoU7DjkEzUMrt1GP2oHkfOHJPFIH1eUQtq7ADioeoReGn7cBHRFG9R1nBPeZCNKWq4SZkAX0lj16pbnOTqUgIhXbhAixC0s4HKQ/s1600/10.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT9At_ba7erorj_nHXGf87N78Fv9RCA3ZrZ7M84uaAeoU7DjkEzUMrt1GP2oHkfOHJPFIH1eUQtq7ADioeoReGn7cBHRFG9R1nBPeZCNKWq4SZkAX0lj16pbnOTqUgIhXbhAixC0s4HKQ/s640/10.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We've been killed...</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665849321724163626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150051264560172425.post-33125747344132521512016-08-01T18:16:00.000-07:002016-08-01T18:16:58.322-07:00JT - Sweat, Bats, and Disappointments.<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Dear Everyone,</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">It's August 2016... I never thought this month would come. I can't </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">believe that I will end my mission this month... Done thinking about </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">that!</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">So, August is the hottest month in Japan. Humidity is kicking my </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">trash. I sweat so much, it's so gross. As soon as you leave the room </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">with Air Conditioning, you just hit a wall of water and you start </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">sweating from everywhere. So bad... 持ち悪い. (Not good feeling.) I am </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">constantly wiping sweat off of my face and arms... Ugh</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">So, this week on Thursday, I was awakened at 4:15 in the morning to my </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">companion saying that there is a bat in the apartment. I didn't </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">believe him, but I look up and what do you know, there is a bat flying </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">around in circles right above our heads! There were also like 4 bats </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">outside of our apartments screeching to the one inside maybe trying to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">tell it to go outside. We were able to lead it into the kitchen so it </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">could fly out of the window. It's not working, so we decided to find a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">badminton racket and try to push it out. Came back to the kitchen and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">it was gone. We thought it had flew out of the building. However, we </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">came back that night after everything was over and again, the bat was </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">flying around the apartment! So, we were able to get it out of the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">window with a badminton racket, but unexpectedly killed it... But, we </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">come back on Saturday night after a long day of dendo and ANOTHER bat </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">is flying around our living room! We have no idea how this is </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">happening and why in the world a bat would want to come into our </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">apartment. Anyways, we locked it into a room and came back the next </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">day and it was gone... We called Sister Welch about it though and so </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">everything will be okay. I will send an interesting video of us and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">the first bat. (Ps, we didn't mean to kill the first bat...)</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">We've had a couple disappointments with our investigators this week. A </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">few of our Vietnamese friends are going back to Vietnam for a month, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">so this past week was the last time I would see them. Also, we haven't </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">been able to make any contact with Moose, our 18 year old college </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">student investigator, for 2 weeks, until yesterday when he came to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">church! It was so cool to see him come to church! (Even though he dyed </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">his hair Orange....) However, he left right after sacrament meeting </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">because he "had something." But then we invited him to a BBQ we had </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">later that day at a church member's house. . He met us at the church, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">but because there weren't any other investigators coming to it, he </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">didn't want to come and just went home. It seems like his interest and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">desire to join the church has just died. It was really sad to see him </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">biking away as we were heading to the BBQ.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">With what has happened this week and a lot of my mission, I have grown </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">to love these words from PMG, "When people do not accept the gospel, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">do not be discouraged. You have raised a warning voice. You have given </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">them a clear choice. Disciples of Christ feel sorrow when people </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">choose not to repent, but they maintain a vision of who they are and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">what they are doing. They continue to diligently move forward." People </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">have their agency and it is hard when they use their agency in a way </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">that you know isn't right. However, our responsibility is to teach, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">instruct and love these people. If they choose not to follow, that </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">doesn't mean you are not doing a good job. I am confident that most, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">if not all, of my investigators that I have taught will get baptized </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">someday. Maybe not while I'm here, maybe even not in this life, but I </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">know that because of the work and care of the missionaries and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">faithful church members, somehow, they will come to feel that this </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">church and this gospel is true.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Well, that's the week folks. It's already August, I've only got a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">little bit of time left, but that won't change what I do each day. I'm </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">gonna live it up in Japan for as long as I've got. Love you all! Have </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">a great week everyone! Keep smiling and, well, you know the rest!</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Love,</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Elder Lamoreaux ラムロー長老</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Japan Kobe Mission 日本神戸伝道部</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxLtzBc2HmiMjTAVBFNV1n7QZ0D5UsnHjDCJt5qKiHdhn8IURHZ_p3tnxrHu6QK6dZC7iqycaxvTHCRBPd6uA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF6WDti__sp3AYYEICXP2JHgRKrL_fG9jEzKRKV0jLoUuTU8b1OhdFSUm0FGGh9os-yjtspeFbMuAWw-fhEGoufoDWF57XGdlz6LL71cjieB6NLf3ciEx57CDaN7ZesKWUacegr7tDanE/s1600/67.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF6WDti__sp3AYYEICXP2JHgRKrL_fG9jEzKRKV0jLoUuTU8b1OhdFSUm0FGGh9os-yjtspeFbMuAWw-fhEGoufoDWF57XGdlz6LL71cjieB6NLf3ciEx57CDaN7ZesKWUacegr7tDanE/s640/67.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seminary!!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMVX64ns8_5YX-N23XE6D5E9uLfmsFyZ1zNQKwTteDHcVQBAdrwVHS8Flt-3Cp9Icz7CAEg_v38zZ_9LM8xBBZ9brVg1WLbQS_dUFgkliZF80AYnPsXAEg4HPJv7FJXrSietkQ9G_DbAg/s1600/71.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMVX64ns8_5YX-N23XE6D5E9uLfmsFyZ1zNQKwTteDHcVQBAdrwVHS8Flt-3Cp9Icz7CAEg_v38zZ_9LM8xBBZ9brVg1WLbQS_dUFgkliZF80AYnPsXAEg4HPJv7FJXrSietkQ9G_DbAg/s640/71.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1UjCb-SrpThQJ03nPdD0gmR6FvJBHmy2IbV4rrV4LZD8oq7LJE2IgLf2Y76Icw8SIIonnAjoWgA8utgU0r-lOtK3vFWKdV1_jcV1HQkwvOexS-Kdd59AHVnFgI-fgmkOgGQ6hXieftn8/s1600/72.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1UjCb-SrpThQJ03nPdD0gmR6FvJBHmy2IbV4rrV4LZD8oq7LJE2IgLf2Y76Icw8SIIonnAjoWgA8utgU0r-lOtK3vFWKdV1_jcV1HQkwvOexS-Kdd59AHVnFgI-fgmkOgGQ6hXieftn8/s640/72.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEive0VIiPLx-LKpWBT0sDyQ4I2KyoaDOOUAVISaN3GYV9ELwNnc8G4HcHDvPmZgxBA77gFd3ZvGRZx-K7feRwFb763Dn1KP5qc2VQiDUPV4rn11xcT_OQjcQUHcD6kegbKnOMVAIxO1qTA/s1600/74.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEive0VIiPLx-LKpWBT0sDyQ4I2KyoaDOOUAVISaN3GYV9ELwNnc8G4HcHDvPmZgxBA77gFd3ZvGRZx-K7feRwFb763Dn1KP5qc2VQiDUPV4rn11xcT_OQjcQUHcD6kegbKnOMVAIxO1qTA/s640/74.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At a baseball activity with the ward!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv5sAanl3G201W98Q3hwcjI0UU4IxcBgJwnvk1a9pic5Bv4alP1M7EVq39-r9wkArD0BDeFuCm3xwP8QPEb-hipHjRXJVdTQyWYkDwm6Fzf209TKQ6hX2nVxXeeewFSk7wmxT3lVZ9YTs/s1600/77.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv5sAanl3G201W98Q3hwcjI0UU4IxcBgJwnvk1a9pic5Bv4alP1M7EVq39-r9wkArD0BDeFuCm3xwP8QPEb-hipHjRXJVdTQyWYkDwm6Fzf209TKQ6hX2nVxXeeewFSk7wmxT3lVZ9YTs/s640/77.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzZK4_byiRgH5ACR4YmXcHw28bSAyV4eBwsGtd1Jk9PpfDx_4y_jdlkCD2K7O_veIVWzdYGubMGF6gU4ohoj7dpRK8VA7gOuH85lWszvZgjQgpZaRFE19_RoHh3u1_yyA5vz8qOJ8Z240/s1600/79.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzZK4_byiRgH5ACR4YmXcHw28bSAyV4eBwsGtd1Jk9PpfDx_4y_jdlkCD2K7O_veIVWzdYGubMGF6gU4ohoj7dpRK8VA7gOuH85lWszvZgjQgpZaRFE19_RoHh3u1_yyA5vz8qOJ8Z240/s640/79.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">BBQ activity at a member's house after church! I love this ward so much!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXhzLscwVg4omTtsbqYtANDd3aDLCClzOI0j5ecYlUef9pe2cluwMw5GB05sUsk5TV7-0b-vm2FPt7MCBWvmlnalqRUMAL78A-k4hRg6XBdyKfyfCzm3AYj2gsU5lFmMZDTlCQmZi96C4/s1600/81.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXhzLscwVg4omTtsbqYtANDd3aDLCClzOI0j5ecYlUef9pe2cluwMw5GB05sUsk5TV7-0b-vm2FPt7MCBWvmlnalqRUMAL78A-k4hRg6XBdyKfyfCzm3AYj2gsU5lFmMZDTlCQmZi96C4/s640/81.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;"> </span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665849321724163626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150051264560172425.post-5523734439514938182016-07-25T19:03:00.000-07:002016-07-25T19:03:08.327-07:00JT - Final Interview, and a test in Seminary!<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Dear Everyone,</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">How is everyone this week? It was a really good week for Okayama and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">for our district. We taught a huge number of lessons as a district! </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Everyone hit the standards and more! I am very proud of the district.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">So we had a really good lesson with a less-active member's non-member </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">mother who has started to listen to the lessons. We had a member sit </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">in on the lesson and she was perfect for this investigator. They </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">became good friends. We were planning on teaching about the Gospel of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Jesus Christ, but we were led to change it completely and teach the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Restoration through Joseph Smith. This investigator was really into </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">the lesson and asked many questions that were perfectly answered by </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">the Restoration. The coolest part of this lesson, however, was the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">less-active member. He listened intently to all that was said and he </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">was even reading in the Book of Mormon a little bit during the lesson. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">I think he felt the spirit and was thinking hard about what he was </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">feeling. It was cool to see. I learned the power of having members </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">join you in the teaching. This is what missionary work should be.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">On Thursday, I had my final interview with President Welch. That was a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">bitter sweet moment. Sweet- I had an extra long time to talk to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">President Welch one-on-one, got a new Temple Recommend, and I was also </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">able to learn a lot of advice that will help me out for the rest of my </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">life. I am truly grateful for all that President and Sister Welch has </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">done for me. I can feel their love for me and the other missionaries </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">everytime I see them. These things that were said in this interview </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">will be with me for the rest of my life. I am so grateful for this </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">mission. The bitter was that this is my last interview!.... I could </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">talk to them for hours.. I only had 40 ish minutes. It was such a cool </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">experience. After the interviews, President and Sister Welch came into </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">our apartment and had a look at it. That was scary, but we passed!</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">We go to Seminary every morning here in Okayama. Now in the seminary </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">course, the students need to take a test in order to pass seminary. I </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">never had to do that when I was in Seminary. Well, on Friday, they </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">took the Old Testament test and my companion and I decided to take it </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">as well. It was obviously all in Japanese, but I was actually able to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">finish all of it in time! We'll have to see what score I get!</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">I'm really grateful for the mission. I'm grateful for the church. I've </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">learned so much about the important things in life. Scripture of the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">week is 3 Nephi 13:22 "The light of the body is the eye; if, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">therefore, thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">light." When we are faithfully living the gospel, it will show in our </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">appearance. The light of Christ will shine in your eyes and others </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">will see your example. Truly, modest is hottest.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Love you all! Have a great week!</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Love,</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Elder Lamoreaux ラムロー長老</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Japan Kobe Mission 日本神戸伝道部</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis-v981Cf7iCKICjzjlvll0JJtLy0NmjiATLcsggwZM15wIQTP0PYPEKKgaG0TmYDt0lQ3Ph_a4GIhkjvNos6RB1YnffBrbfMIbWtgIxSzTGpS7cvPmTYytXwxqgS7Cw_9cuWpqj7SbyA/s1600/45.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis-v981Cf7iCKICjzjlvll0JJtLy0NmjiATLcsggwZM15wIQTP0PYPEKKgaG0TmYDt0lQ3Ph_a4GIhkjvNos6RB1YnffBrbfMIbWtgIxSzTGpS7cvPmTYytXwxqgS7Cw_9cuWpqj7SbyA/s640/45.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The District this transfer! Left to right; Elder Yardley, Elder Van Cleave, me, Elder Miles, Sister Baird, Sister Nielson, Elder Korth and Elder Anthony. Great missionaries, we killed it this week!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span></span><br />
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTe-2z0RrG13NXaRQfTz5HhQMSfi6ZjvI-Rzcj4RVRkIRVKwBReEWlZ0O3wcwsBNd9cK9kcQl7u7fPDXNaXs3-SZZM9h91hABcHJsJYzqahuWzawqHUsNS7iJ9qO1kQAkQu5mhVMXBl5E/s1600/46.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTe-2z0RrG13NXaRQfTz5HhQMSfi6ZjvI-Rzcj4RVRkIRVKwBReEWlZ0O3wcwsBNd9cK9kcQl7u7fPDXNaXs3-SZZM9h91hABcHJsJYzqahuWzawqHUsNS7iJ9qO1kQAkQu5mhVMXBl5E/s640/46.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sushi Roll for Elder Yardley's year mark!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7-marrICJNUcCcqya6XNXqqON0p9uu_cbU2MObIeBYF6gnpUxRW7991-Ati9nN5epac461m72tuZoeQyhbYPx9cbknsxPijSepqwFdJKQ6gqGfrebSdCGaWYNGKpqhHliFh0gbRP5pjo/s1600/47.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7-marrICJNUcCcqya6XNXqqON0p9uu_cbU2MObIeBYF6gnpUxRW7991-Ati9nN5epac461m72tuZoeQyhbYPx9cbknsxPijSepqwFdJKQ6gqGfrebSdCGaWYNGKpqhHliFh0gbRP5pjo/s640/47.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bad picture... We took a hike early in the morning and watched a sunrise with an investigator and the Sister missionaries! Fun time!<br />Here's some cool pictures!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzwO1vq7OgVfArcZGnpZu-jPQZ6_iSB6RMkNrUkiW6h836Vfb4QtLjCQo_r7xmIs6NC_3J-j9JSpWZ7jXWbuY0DKBAqh7FyGMs-XoU_foa8PdQiDdMmvkcJlK_f3AEEN07N56EfQgO320/s1600/48.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzwO1vq7OgVfArcZGnpZu-jPQZ6_iSB6RMkNrUkiW6h836Vfb4QtLjCQo_r7xmIs6NC_3J-j9JSpWZ7jXWbuY0DKBAqh7FyGMs-XoU_foa8PdQiDdMmvkcJlK_f3AEEN07N56EfQgO320/s640/48.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjmg9x4m3ex-3Md8SQHK2JMWJG_UxRL_xF6vxel6wFd_6qr2JvQtZ9Urkx6QnN8Q4J4YSxgXzowCDftm-fiiVGOqJ-vEk5ZGgQnCtzg7IPNLjgfUMmZbHfHdwXfGnClgUoqXw1tm94dvE/s1600/52.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjmg9x4m3ex-3Md8SQHK2JMWJG_UxRL_xF6vxel6wFd_6qr2JvQtZ9Urkx6QnN8Q4J4YSxgXzowCDftm-fiiVGOqJ-vEk5ZGgQnCtzg7IPNLjgfUMmZbHfHdwXfGnClgUoqXw1tm94dvE/s640/52.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">LOVE!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpHOAn1s0n3PsLciuNmq26pJlG-YldlgZ9U5mliIN921Q3JRKiRh5ctQwf15wRlffyXZoOWYBgtafmwKqNfJb2FDPrHh4TPLmGnqJzceX9R5BDwqruTFl-dDJPqbJYXqwndpxxRRLydQE/s1600/54.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpHOAn1s0n3PsLciuNmq26pJlG-YldlgZ9U5mliIN921Q3JRKiRh5ctQwf15wRlffyXZoOWYBgtafmwKqNfJb2FDPrHh4TPLmGnqJzceX9R5BDwqruTFl-dDJPqbJYXqwndpxxRRLydQE/s640/54.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">JESUS</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc1NnkH2TLfdRIJMys01eTHtFNuzlB0m72e9DfWnaAVqANKMTTNLnuTf56NgaFnSrgwbHJRcoJ3SyqhyZUAHBgWvImIKtiEwlsX75DP2_ICp7IvfguQ4eRwb4bOcFzCxhA301dOHMvDV8/s1600/58.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc1NnkH2TLfdRIJMys01eTHtFNuzlB0m72e9DfWnaAVqANKMTTNLnuTf56NgaFnSrgwbHJRcoJ3SyqhyZUAHBgWvImIKtiEwlsX75DP2_ICp7IvfguQ4eRwb4bOcFzCxhA301dOHMvDV8/s400/58.JPG" width="298" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjISbdgY6x7QFe6x8qgrcB1JNguq83n0rE3lKIOo-MSvDys2X0X2mWAseiehwHHYIffvkO6treBbOPJphAwMUPK_HJSMZEYyi_v2RkQRqhbEF01VrkkyZGr7tMIDCCcqy3h4UzzBJW-YI/s1600/59.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjISbdgY6x7QFe6x8qgrcB1JNguq83n0rE3lKIOo-MSvDys2X0X2mWAseiehwHHYIffvkO6treBbOPJphAwMUPK_HJSMZEYyi_v2RkQRqhbEF01VrkkyZGr7tMIDCCcqy3h4UzzBJW-YI/s400/59.PNG" width="225" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF5xS9ewIyPG8f4BTeE-vpedGCJ8mP_l7NKxrX2zED1HGj7MiUO5goeRU8Oj1UhZsNpN8s5haANFaBYK_YpDB9rmUpv8SjmzM7rPfHDzP0dB5zfe-vmtRpmAchoLSjvK3MLM_k5r9-JsQ/s1600/60.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF5xS9ewIyPG8f4BTeE-vpedGCJ8mP_l7NKxrX2zED1HGj7MiUO5goeRU8Oj1UhZsNpN8s5haANFaBYK_YpDB9rmUpv8SjmzM7rPfHDzP0dB5zfe-vmtRpmAchoLSjvK3MLM_k5r9-JsQ/s640/60.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhush_kaA0IasMVdfwI-Z26x13hygsjlHI-lN13R7nhv_ulR_jJauxBRzFvGARfA0jN59P5VE8b-VkVRA8bBnd_w6j3_MUQtg3o567MJFTPW-fv-tiWb3BlES-e3F1UoDpg51ZGK7dxG9U/s1600/64.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhush_kaA0IasMVdfwI-Z26x13hygsjlHI-lN13R7nhv_ulR_jJauxBRzFvGARfA0jN59P5VE8b-VkVRA8bBnd_w6j3_MUQtg3o567MJFTPW-fv-tiWb3BlES-e3F1UoDpg51ZGK7dxG9U/s640/64.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGtsU4ZnEipuSOJpReh5RpKZTEpG15Tfn-3bD-RecWD91Nvdd8T9d_0hSwCmg2q-uSSl_X5fD6OP87gbRRYpF7vFt8KIINLitr8Kmf0j-dleDHb80jzigxVv0nCwVhrmKGBmFjcCXeshw/s1600/65.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGtsU4ZnEipuSOJpReh5RpKZTEpG15Tfn-3bD-RecWD91Nvdd8T9d_0hSwCmg2q-uSSl_X5fD6OP87gbRRYpF7vFt8KIINLitr8Kmf0j-dleDHb80jzigxVv0nCwVhrmKGBmFjcCXeshw/s640/65.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIptjIT1IlPBGKIU_sSwtwjQ50glpQKtEnUI8R_2mdqJpBIiqF4w4BWk4BzJPdxtTuLrVW-W1KiYducEbmIfAay1BFKmpwST6W0gFaQQnSaA3jMAH6iPi2i7yTD4RANjXADP6J88ivyBQ/s1600/61.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIptjIT1IlPBGKIU_sSwtwjQ50glpQKtEnUI8R_2mdqJpBIiqF4w4BWk4BzJPdxtTuLrVW-W1KiYducEbmIfAay1BFKmpwST6W0gFaQQnSaA3jMAH6iPi2i7yTD4RANjXADP6J88ivyBQ/s640/61.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dinner at the Bishop's house yesterday!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665849321724163626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150051264560172425.post-61907139067790121972016-07-18T16:22:00.000-07:002016-07-18T16:22:17.534-07:00JT - Staying in Okayama 'til I die<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Dear Everyone,</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Transfer calls came and.... We're both staying in Okayama! Super </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">exciting! We have a lot of really good things happening this transfer. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Hoping to see a baptism here this transfer. Not much changed here but </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">I am now the District Leader. I am really looking forward to this </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">opportunity. We are already seeing a lot of miracles this transfer. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Let's start with a few of them.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">First big miracle: we were biking to our Vietnamese friends house </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">while randomly on the way there, we ran into Moose on his bike. It was </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">so random because he was really far from his house. He was going to go </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">shopping. He then asked if he could go with us to visit the Vietnamese </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">people (they are all friends.) He came with us but when we got to the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">house, there was no one home. My companion and I were wondering what </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">to do. We decided to wait a few minutes in case they come back. We all </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">sat down and started talking. During our planning as a companionship, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">we felt like we should try to give Moose a baptismal date as a goal to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">hit. We thought of how Nephi "went... Not knowing beforehand the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">things I should do," if he has a goal, miracles will happen. So we </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">taught a lesson about that and he agreed to shoot for baptism on the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">21st of August, my last Sunday in Japan. Then, literally as we </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">finished teaching Moose, our Vietnamese friend comes riding along </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">coming home from shopping. We taught a good lesson with the both of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">them and it was way good. The timing was too perfect, it couldn't have </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">been just random. Way cool miracle.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Next miracle: after a lot of helping out with missionaries </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">transferring, we were stuck waiting for a missionary at the train </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">station near our church when out of the corner of my eye, I see </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">someone waving to us on his bike. I look and it just happens to be a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">less-active who we have been trying to meet with all transfer. He has </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">been super busy and I hadn't seen him for probably 2 months. We talk, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">teach him a lesson and we set up an appointment with him the next day. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Such a big miracle.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Last miracle to mention today: we had a lesson with the Less-Active's </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">non-member mother about the Plan of Salvation. It's crazy how the Lord </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">prepares people because somehow, she believed in just about everything </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">that it says! She accepted the plan of salvation easily and agreed to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">pray about it in the way we pray. She's got really good potential. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Hopefully she can accept everything that the gospel has to offer her.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">There was a lot of really cool experiences this week. We were able to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">teach a lot of lessons; the most that I've had in Okayama. My </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">companion and I have a lot of goals that we want to accomplish this </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">transfer. It's gonna be a great one!</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">The church is true! I have a stronger and stronger conviction of it </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">every single day. God answers our efforts, but not only that, he </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">blesses us far beyond our expectations. I know that because I am </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">experiencing that. Last six weeks are gonna fly by, but we will work </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">hard. Love you all so much! Keep smiling and give 'em Heaven.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Love,</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Elder Lamoreaux ラムロー長老</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Japan Kobe Mission 日本神戸伝道部</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjZQc6kpmEqQ2PYfhZ3xu7hyphenhyphenUbLPubqnZAOOyBZ8kljP9VPFzYSY6DFWnnyXgTUxtHt41fbFUr_19H-TUkFGueP74rZ1KCG8qZXkgz71NEjEegzxCeSReI8Syz0RhT0aNfj04V7Oo-WHY/s1600/42.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjZQc6kpmEqQ2PYfhZ3xu7hyphenhyphenUbLPubqnZAOOyBZ8kljP9VPFzYSY6DFWnnyXgTUxtHt41fbFUr_19H-TUkFGueP74rZ1KCG8qZXkgz71NEjEegzxCeSReI8Syz0RhT0aNfj04V7Oo-WHY/s640/42.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A missionary who used to serve in Okayama came to seminary on transfer morning.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQW3Fy_p0_iWxgadh_tfALM_luJxq74HmUMtGsNcojc4pPmdQotlsnDDh4HGAa-9aq8g7xPsgf_mwNwjt-BjO2PoThT6NxBHth3bzdEz9nnb7d2a-_aJwJw0GcM-176UddnT3oMRholIw/s1600/43.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQW3Fy_p0_iWxgadh_tfALM_luJxq74HmUMtGsNcojc4pPmdQotlsnDDh4HGAa-9aq8g7xPsgf_mwNwjt-BjO2PoThT6NxBHth3bzdEz9nnb7d2a-_aJwJw0GcM-176UddnT3oMRholIw/s640/43.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Creepy sign. It says "raise your voice! Protect the children!"</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDLf_efQEeAbRFGLT9e1wEbC2lHHsOokCR0qEEbmT-f16cdbCcLyEoHlLX_FoxCSbczU0CLzu2KMW0YlOnjXafcZe2f7fWfW_lSfMEFlGxhN6C7AnjRiZdAnXIAzPDJZEA1H2MKzBb5Jk/s1600/41.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDLf_efQEeAbRFGLT9e1wEbC2lHHsOokCR0qEEbmT-f16cdbCcLyEoHlLX_FoxCSbczU0CLzu2KMW0YlOnjXafcZe2f7fWfW_lSfMEFlGxhN6C7AnjRiZdAnXIAzPDJZEA1H2MKzBb5Jk/s640/41.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chums! A huge brand of clothing in Japan. Straight from Hurricane, Utah. It's so weird to see people in Japan with a shirt or hat that says "Hurricane Utah."</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665849321724163626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150051264560172425.post-52703750783420143542016-07-11T19:52:00.000-07:002016-07-11T19:52:59.815-07:00JT - Okayama Castle!<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Dear Everyone,</span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">I don't have too much time right now. We just got back from a fun time </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">in Okayama Castle.</span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">This week is the start of the new transfer. Still don't know what is </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">happening with us. This will be my last transfer, so we are going to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">work hard and make this he best transfer of my mission.</span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Well, I am out of time, so I'll send you a quote from a conference </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">talk that I've been sharing with members recently. It is from </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">President Uchtdorf's talk "He will Place you on His Shoulders and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Carry you Home" from last conference.</span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">"Our Savior, the Good Shepherd, knows and loves us. He knows and loves </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">you. He knows when you are lost, and He knows where you are. He knows </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">your grief. Your silent pleadings. Your fears. Your tears. It matters </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">not how you became lost--whether because of your own poor choices or </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">because of circumstances beyond your control. What matters is that you </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">are His child. And He loves you. He loves His children. Because He </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">loves you, He will find you. He will place you upon His shoulders, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">rejoicing. And when He brings you home, He will say to one and all, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">“Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.”"</span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Love you all! Have a great week! Sorry it's so short!</span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Love,</span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Elder Lamoreaux ラムロー長老</span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Japan Kobe Mission 日本神戸伝道部</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiipc7bLmxiNG8kjtSsH3mRyM_wx-YNb628D1uXKd_WwwEfTl8ALJAAyuHmEXRUw7QWrC-oVNjexNR9Ggm03_nVIOAGOxUOZC8zWyGVG30sRgZtLPo3caz-zATimyNpJ49dTB-qLAOQ9xI/s1600/29.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiipc7bLmxiNG8kjtSsH3mRyM_wx-YNb628D1uXKd_WwwEfTl8ALJAAyuHmEXRUw7QWrC-oVNjexNR9Ggm03_nVIOAGOxUOZC8zWyGVG30sRgZtLPo3caz-zATimyNpJ49dTB-qLAOQ9xI/s640/29.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Okayama Castle!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-GMB4z0wq45NjQqbL8LO4L_mtdwFCuRumB_e174IERwzfgsdlg3kJcSz_gzc_V8IsauS1lGh4PkI91Y-j-gTPC7lQJThZaThxfBGqEWcP89cPZFMqoCCJXR8CyjOjpMc6JlhYWoCV1cw/s1600/22.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-GMB4z0wq45NjQqbL8LO4L_mtdwFCuRumB_e174IERwzfgsdlg3kJcSz_gzc_V8IsauS1lGh4PkI91Y-j-gTPC7lQJThZaThxfBGqEWcP89cPZFMqoCCJXR8CyjOjpMc6JlhYWoCV1cw/s640/22.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from the top!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN1AMadQ-4ySkrE5NHf1Rt6Fd28xucx3_ijtWoSy7JU1CWpCGsjBhwsizs9SypqWdbszQIFGSzCwYwMELuvJ8J4Po-2EqvBoJsiOQjqpCW1MuQaXKrN1N_5xUtilxR4t-z-rx8yK583kY/s1600/23.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN1AMadQ-4ySkrE5NHf1Rt6Fd28xucx3_ijtWoSy7JU1CWpCGsjBhwsizs9SypqWdbszQIFGSzCwYwMELuvJ8J4Po-2EqvBoJsiOQjqpCW1MuQaXKrN1N_5xUtilxR4t-z-rx8yK583kY/s640/23.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHDwsr_tocLBGGaOBAIF2yaIUegrTvY-YD8FSlqvoPfpZ2Iib8CaQ4oSzUnnoEGk20V45FnzHq0BVGfw9SR9WeUukf_Zgidg5KJBxhAJPnHAqhEAAxuEvA-eqchGLocqM7AxmDRX5rJxw/s1600/26.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHDwsr_tocLBGGaOBAIF2yaIUegrTvY-YD8FSlqvoPfpZ2Iib8CaQ4oSzUnnoEGk20V45FnzHq0BVGfw9SR9WeUukf_Zgidg5KJBxhAJPnHAqhEAAxuEvA-eqchGLocqM7AxmDRX5rJxw/s640/26.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRTa6RVcj8eRYem0anhr3ULiko8fEEqEFO7Rx-xuEvWMKoUlqvsBUJQCioi-mIvGQycr05JT1xUDAZES1gdVgYZ1V0qSU7tJxi4y_3bOpE4E5BCfbFe1YrKUGBzKy-jZ6VTe5t6xRvY8E/s1600/27.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRTa6RVcj8eRYem0anhr3ULiko8fEEqEFO7Rx-xuEvWMKoUlqvsBUJQCioi-mIvGQycr05JT1xUDAZES1gdVgYZ1V0qSU7tJxi4y_3bOpE4E5BCfbFe1YrKUGBzKy-jZ6VTe5t6xRvY8E/s640/27.JPG" width="478" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUC5VP28J-FvvJ5JLmMKhyTKVmM3lg4oIpZznSpFGSMCTMYiXStxMF74cVrXGgNElaC5lyw3r1F4dbwW_H1s-BCT_X3FjTmjV9YWwMJzdHNmIUv1Pd0bcaDvHbIRbnp-N8GGsHvfTdKjw/s1600/28.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUC5VP28J-FvvJ5JLmMKhyTKVmM3lg4oIpZznSpFGSMCTMYiXStxMF74cVrXGgNElaC5lyw3r1F4dbwW_H1s-BCT_X3FjTmjV9YWwMJzdHNmIUv1Pd0bcaDvHbIRbnp-N8GGsHvfTdKjw/s640/28.JPG" width="478" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9gJ9hEU_SaQ3oeglw9XTP8xu-agWqXbnLFxBdX3k2DA2ohQnEDpO-Ju0SAky4VbanxIYDsVKn33jSwXjd4hrtuR6DKZUrd0jB24d_JiEP9yMzpJm4FpDaW0TdkvF_cUUl4Yf8wS_2XUE/s1600/30.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9gJ9hEU_SaQ3oeglw9XTP8xu-agWqXbnLFxBdX3k2DA2ohQnEDpO-Ju0SAky4VbanxIYDsVKn33jSwXjd4hrtuR6DKZUrd0jB24d_JiEP9yMzpJm4FpDaW0TdkvF_cUUl4Yf8wS_2XUE/s400/30.JPG" width="300" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJdZxeyWVEv1sRQX9CMichyphenhyphenJ9AA-zW_Gvu46qY-kGvXzBvDjMu6lFVD4QhYH5fhBpjJV8PJRVb-A7rNNzBI80EkXdtJRaFucCzqC6-pREixhOSDFvnsI2JlVYg4jDOqfjLidx09RQvs0Y/s1600/31.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJdZxeyWVEv1sRQX9CMichyphenhyphenJ9AA-zW_Gvu46qY-kGvXzBvDjMu6lFVD4QhYH5fhBpjJV8PJRVb-A7rNNzBI80EkXdtJRaFucCzqC6-pREixhOSDFvnsI2JlVYg4jDOqfjLidx09RQvs0Y/s640/31.JPG" width="480" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-rDK3JSnQa9GYtp_GngiuJuOgdKMBX-HA26ugUJdZublcvU9YpXa216EMxZ_C2uuQqwmZqFju8gRMaro09oUhWI0xQKJ9IYejSwxxiFozBqC1VL_zFURlJhx7CTGhCvhBtXV8t708K5w/s1600/33.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-rDK3JSnQa9GYtp_GngiuJuOgdKMBX-HA26ugUJdZublcvU9YpXa216EMxZ_C2uuQqwmZqFju8gRMaro09oUhWI0xQKJ9IYejSwxxiFozBqC1VL_zFURlJhx7CTGhCvhBtXV8t708K5w/s640/33.JPG" width="480" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcbc_MEMklRwWJvhkXZeoKECFpXpOcHpCI7N-MEltIwhbeHhJt5KgjoIi49sN8J2gRYntHRqz1eVHNIaBDWE_b8m1THglKsQv6JRPcDi6U1NMn-3Re8Wkkb4bxINadmH4rcyfWEEt-znA/s1600/32.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcbc_MEMklRwWJvhkXZeoKECFpXpOcHpCI7N-MEltIwhbeHhJt5KgjoIi49sN8J2gRYntHRqz1eVHNIaBDWE_b8m1THglKsQv6JRPcDi6U1NMn-3Re8Wkkb4bxINadmH4rcyfWEEt-znA/s640/32.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ran into some Filipinos at the Castle!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOd-SCpIE7VHKcyk2Cg0HA0h8wlJ-9ZelOJCZXsw97KLL7nHELJeMky5uz_7BfqIHSXyJFJSy6DJcpWs2SWb7Kywq6SmXWrqvNvRDmrL2C9Sw0Ovr5U1EIqKqiT-PM2p_7QvyLlpZ1UAc/s1600/17.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOd-SCpIE7VHKcyk2Cg0HA0h8wlJ-9ZelOJCZXsw97KLL7nHELJeMky5uz_7BfqIHSXyJFJSy6DJcpWs2SWb7Kywq6SmXWrqvNvRDmrL2C9Sw0Ovr5U1EIqKqiT-PM2p_7QvyLlpZ1UAc/s640/17.JPG" width="480" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG4lsRFVt7ZLtksdaB2Mf2gdcqyqhMFDp6MFTU0zfSI11kLvX6V8esSF1jwYg_CF9vLWnmNQOQKSU644AtdtmYWFT59ALwE2UWIsBAtII6I-HrC-k0aitn2coZy2esuEu6bWW8rX5jmac/s1600/18.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG4lsRFVt7ZLtksdaB2Mf2gdcqyqhMFDp6MFTU0zfSI11kLvX6V8esSF1jwYg_CF9vLWnmNQOQKSU644AtdtmYWFT59ALwE2UWIsBAtII6I-HrC-k0aitn2coZy2esuEu6bWW8rX5jmac/s640/18.JPG" width="478" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Working in a Convenient store!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpMkA00rls0_0isceTzjjgducplqH5GjQTAJGX-SRtrdk48WU_VAAiwSUrDZeiLrMHPXVyrp92fAkoqO_xz8vXXTmc9O9J_pvH6aUq9BGWY9nGPTXGz9e7cCVowmQsduTeSNwpMpbBb4E/s1600/19.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="488" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpMkA00rls0_0isceTzjjgducplqH5GjQTAJGX-SRtrdk48WU_VAAiwSUrDZeiLrMHPXVyrp92fAkoqO_xz8vXXTmc9O9J_pvH6aUq9BGWY9nGPTXGz9e7cCVowmQsduTeSNwpMpbBb4E/s640/19.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The left picture is our AP's. We decided to recreate the picture. Pretty good right?</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibtuF48FLaShWRPtwYvHU0fZMVMypa4FpmnOuaOBw1v3UxQNQ7ffKy5QUoaqaSCrHZVm0n1gxaz1Y8C5ibDAQc7BV7iUgE8D1UnrQF9SuAEagn-Rg67Q3OFqdhIPDu0O822XB0BqYOFNA/s1600/36.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibtuF48FLaShWRPtwYvHU0fZMVMypa4FpmnOuaOBw1v3UxQNQ7ffKy5QUoaqaSCrHZVm0n1gxaz1Y8C5ibDAQc7BV7iUgE8D1UnrQF9SuAEagn-Rg67Q3OFqdhIPDu0O822XB0BqYOFNA/s640/36.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zone Training meeting.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqvIXxXLsj45pg_LAKNgUExZPG74Brqk0_9yp1MD83abcfgCxUKkPYQX6o95WkYJooLgis_hZtllJW7f7hAB9sZNjLo70H6ACT1eGtPo-vgZxGBcOFksy2kwtNy8qSV1NiTOznSnMUzbQ/s1600/20.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqvIXxXLsj45pg_LAKNgUExZPG74Brqk0_9yp1MD83abcfgCxUKkPYQX6o95WkYJooLgis_hZtllJW7f7hAB9sZNjLo70H6ACT1eGtPo-vgZxGBcOFksy2kwtNy8qSV1NiTOznSnMUzbQ/s640/20.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The best district!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdfN7a7JCoeXyMsDE0ytbZn0-RyNinNPpde8mtLv2mrrzLTTlFyPkhwHF2aTbxFBMqOp7kESPyKUrNs1kQXDBnhmhuL-p_hAEY-2AvQF1pNv3NOj-51qYBPkFIe2Ax2krA6pcQfLfLRmw/s1600/37.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdfN7a7JCoeXyMsDE0ytbZn0-RyNinNPpde8mtLv2mrrzLTTlFyPkhwHF2aTbxFBMqOp7kESPyKUrNs1kQXDBnhmhuL-p_hAEY-2AvQF1pNv3NOj-51qYBPkFIe2Ax2krA6pcQfLfLRmw/s640/37.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665849321724163626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150051264560172425.post-1754909880377233142016-07-04T10:22:00.000-07:002016-07-04T10:22:00.632-07:00JT - Happy 4th of July!!<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Dear Everyone,</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">It's the Fourth of July!! To celebrate, we sang "America the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Beautiful" for companionship study and we prayed in English! Oh man, I </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">miss America! Later today, we are going to go to Okayama Eki as a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">district and represent America by doing something... Not sure yet, but </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">it will be great! Believe it or not, they don't celebrate the Fourth </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">of July in Japan. I wonder why...</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">This was an up and down week. We had ups and we had downs. A couple of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">appointments fell through that were really disappointing. For example, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">we were housing an apartment building when we knocked on this college </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">student's door. We talked to him about Heavenly Father and how we can </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">get help from him. He seemed to like it and we asked if we could come </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">again to share about how to receive help from God and without </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">hesitation, he said yes. So we set up an appointment for the next day. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Well we went there right on time for the appointment, but he never </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">answered the door. We knew he was inside. We waited for about five </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">minutes, went to a nearby convenient store and ate ice cream then </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">tried again 15 minutes later. Still no answer. Super disappointing </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">because we planned a great lesson for it and everything. I hate when </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">that happens.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">However, we've had quite a bit of success in our finding efforts this </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">week. We were able to get a few return appointments and were able to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">teach a lot of lessons while doing so.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Cool things that happened this week: playing basketball with </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">investigators and gaining 6 more potential investigators who are all </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">young college students. Got all of their phone numbers too. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">We taught a short lesson about Temples in Primary on Sunday. We showed </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">pictures of the temple and the kids got so excited. We asked "what do </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">you feel in the temple?" And one kid, maybe 5 years old yells out, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">"JESUS!" Yes little kid. Yes. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">We had an awesome dinner at a member's house yesterday where 3 </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">investigators came and we all and a fun time. It was one of the best </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">times I've had on my mission. I haven't laughed that hard in a long </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">time. I love moments like that and this ward is so awesome. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">The Eikaiwa investigator who we gave a Book of Mormon to last week </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">came to church this week! The ward did a really good job with </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">fellowshipping and helping him feel welcome. Hopefully he had a good </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">experience and he can come again.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Scripture of the week: 2 Nephi 1:7 "Wherefore, this land is </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">consecrated unto him whom he shall bring. And if it so be that they </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">shall serve him according to the commandments which he hath given, it </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">shall be a land of liberty unto them; wherefore, they shall never be </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">brought down into captivity; if so, it shall be because of iniquity; </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">for if iniquity shall abound cursed shall be the land for their sakes, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">but unto the righteous it shall be blessed forever." God Bless </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">America!</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Love you all! Everyone eat a nice burger or a steak (or both) for me! </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Have a fun and safe Fourth of July! Don't forget all of the blessings </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">that you have received from our Heavenly Father. Don't take your </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">circumstances for granted. Have a great week 皆様!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidjpVdjErO1y8tTkIPko8dagkDKDw9Ki3iNfms99n5YQk3y1eFh4cJOjJ7azO7Gh4cimSZGk6OfukA3T2X1lzsMP54gMd-tynRk9Bo1jlNlQ-p4X5u6mrSbOjK-951BE54h-5UI2TNnZY/s1600/16.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidjpVdjErO1y8tTkIPko8dagkDKDw9Ki3iNfms99n5YQk3y1eFh4cJOjJ7azO7Gh4cimSZGk6OfukA3T2X1lzsMP54gMd-tynRk9Bo1jlNlQ-p4X5u6mrSbOjK-951BE54h-5UI2TNnZY/s640/16.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwAvbJML07E_xyF_S1UUldMRMLdoMc55eH16f7iQ8J-8_poUhdtprM7laQtvr21Fx_429AKICiGxDtPcfS0L1GA-c2XTwDRmOB6AeAJzQhJTkdK0HFNs9ZE268mfDAdO-qf8xOxRpfTaY/s1600/45.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwAvbJML07E_xyF_S1UUldMRMLdoMc55eH16f7iQ8J-8_poUhdtprM7laQtvr21Fx_429AKICiGxDtPcfS0L1GA-c2XTwDRmOB6AeAJzQhJTkdK0HFNs9ZE268mfDAdO-qf8xOxRpfTaY/s640/45.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKiOAYOJow9OmRiqh4DZrBtObprREVa42XwNjeyPE1RsZHNxKN3wFnoCpN6HIYIlu2vRyTMGGWbNBthVY8Y2MhZTWAClxCSi1yNcgdCHUDXM43LCZWy6mbdDFgXhlJIUAYeArrhjhy-o4/s1600/46.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKiOAYOJow9OmRiqh4DZrBtObprREVa42XwNjeyPE1RsZHNxKN3wFnoCpN6HIYIlu2vRyTMGGWbNBthVY8Y2MhZTWAClxCSi1yNcgdCHUDXM43LCZWy6mbdDFgXhlJIUAYeArrhjhy-o4/s640/46.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kibi Dango! The famous food of Okayama</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKHwQd16qL3zqJw0xIkFH-33tl02OndCDPFBb-1bp6bLRKibJgLE0xQGQb-Q_4kjLeQRAaDgKVmeVQmvKM2dPjWQUcuzrXkY1-lYpBfGKqFlJsulbEtMZjxt9J9Yury02iv8l3dAUap9g/s1600/47.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKHwQd16qL3zqJw0xIkFH-33tl02OndCDPFBb-1bp6bLRKibJgLE0xQGQb-Q_4kjLeQRAaDgKVmeVQmvKM2dPjWQUcuzrXkY1-lYpBfGKqFlJsulbEtMZjxt9J9Yury02iv8l3dAUap9g/s640/47.JPG" width="478" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sometimes, you just have to eat your ramen on the floor while using a chair as your table. Dendo does that.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9NNpfQCNs4h5-zPIXMmd16nExiTyxZzAntWZTv1NiIWyXPls_UmUqvs1vJjIRhWz7XkEDbryxR0Yv7IxzqJjqfApZxIPjbFjFgzLEbS1xCn2PEqods2miq5sgCmAWXGanGPF8ICF6mTs/s1600/01.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9NNpfQCNs4h5-zPIXMmd16nExiTyxZzAntWZTv1NiIWyXPls_UmUqvs1vJjIRhWz7XkEDbryxR0Yv7IxzqJjqfApZxIPjbFjFgzLEbS1xCn2PEqods2miq5sgCmAWXGanGPF8ICF6mTs/s640/01.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gotta love Japan! This was a pretty cool experience. I was having a hard day one day. It was so hot and I didn't have desire to go out. But, on the way to a place that I haven't been before, we pass this and other places that were so beautiful. Seeing this nature helped me calm down and enjoy life again. It was like Heavenly Father saying "hey, it's okay! You're doing great! Here, enjoy some nature."</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjp14gangn6ccV7EEn6yRLqKG7-1ZtQBrcAJHCIkHuC-yb17ZgUTVuJvezIieXVLotmO7SgJhUAWlQV8nouefxE9KOGrq5oaQ2h-u0U3VcvOJGNpCJAMrPvhyphenhyphenZCvGzxvREZybjh1FhMbg/s1600/03.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjp14gangn6ccV7EEn6yRLqKG7-1ZtQBrcAJHCIkHuC-yb17ZgUTVuJvezIieXVLotmO7SgJhUAWlQV8nouefxE9KOGrq5oaQ2h-u0U3VcvOJGNpCJAMrPvhyphenhyphenZCvGzxvREZybjh1FhMbg/s640/03.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcXWsN8nN6G0_58yKgEgB3syTPrdSFHdyxoUZra74RoA5CEGxRRBXaUcwlcnTNOmNrIFxLfT87VhtDOgZAOCdJPPYRpyzaOnEhAzsYrk1h1GUrVmPjG_uvjD9Pp92xs9iJkgTy6glkqpY/s1600/04.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcXWsN8nN6G0_58yKgEgB3syTPrdSFHdyxoUZra74RoA5CEGxRRBXaUcwlcnTNOmNrIFxLfT87VhtDOgZAOCdJPPYRpyzaOnEhAzsYrk1h1GUrVmPjG_uvjD9Pp92xs9iJkgTy6glkqpY/s640/04.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We played basketball with a couple investigators and at the court, there was a group of 6 other people who was already playing. They all went to the same university as our investigators and we were able to play basketball with them, teach them a lesson and got all of their phone numbers. It was cool!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimeDgr8ns-xCQUjHyVrP1dcZs3JeLzzPB09j3jvqWsLnkUo1sPu5bO8U6rmV5UmyXn7Wla6dm0xj17AKfohN1KzyKLSacuMG8g4TGNTuIfISVQudkIRzXqk9V2S88HIs7iTiyQyS9ueeo/s1600/06.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimeDgr8ns-xCQUjHyVrP1dcZs3JeLzzPB09j3jvqWsLnkUo1sPu5bO8U6rmV5UmyXn7Wla6dm0xj17AKfohN1KzyKLSacuMG8g4TGNTuIfISVQudkIRzXqk9V2S88HIs7iTiyQyS9ueeo/s640/06.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijqEpr0B1W6DCuGmRAuWZ991-7v4vpYav-80Fc0ky6bBTW23P53oqpBgsHrdrMVHErGqQki4ydxTB_otdTVCVIHgMuOJTsYrLpgislPPhZ9Rqt30BwIaAZayWnDsYvLgGT6UVt_aUjFzM/s1600/09.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijqEpr0B1W6DCuGmRAuWZ991-7v4vpYav-80Fc0ky6bBTW23P53oqpBgsHrdrMVHErGqQki4ydxTB_otdTVCVIHgMuOJTsYrLpgislPPhZ9Rqt30BwIaAZayWnDsYvLgGT6UVt_aUjFzM/s640/09.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dinner from last night.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665849321724163626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150051264560172425.post-5274054154230774952016-06-27T18:49:00.000-07:002016-06-27T18:49:46.087-07:00JT - I feel like a pioneer (kind of). Walking for days!<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Dear Everyone,</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Well, I am pretty exhausted this week. With many different </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">circumstances occurring, my companion and I walked instead of biked </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">for most of this past week. Also, we had quite a bit of success while </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">walking the first day, so we decided to do it some more. It was a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">pretty good week, but my legs are feeling it. In total, we had to have </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">walked upwards of 16 miles the whole week. I guess when I write that </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">down, it doesn't seem like that much, but it feels like a lot... </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Anyways, we had a few experiences this week that were awesome and some </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">that were not so awesome.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">We went to try to talk to a less active member who was on our records. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">We went to the house, but a different guy answered and said that this </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">person was never part of any church. Well, we get to talking, and he </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">just keeps talking and talking. (He is an old Japanese man, so when </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">they talk, they don't stop. And I can only understand maybe 60% of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">it.) He talks about how he doesn't believe in God and he doesn't </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">understand how anyone could believe in something they can't see. We </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">basically told him, "we can't force you to believe, but we invite you </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">to hear. We know for ourselves that this is true. After you hear us, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">then you can decide for yourself if it's good or not." He understood </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">that and, well, we have another lesson with him today! We'll see how </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">that goes.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Another really cool experience was Thursday night, after Eikaiwa. We </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">have a student who found out through the Internet that we had an </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">English class and came for the first time a month and a half ago. He </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">actually has interest in the historical aspect of Christianity and so, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">just about every week after Eikaiwa, we talk about religion with him. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">He rented a bunch of different books about Christianity at a library </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">and says he wants to study those. For the past month, we've been </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">trying super hard for him to accept and read the Book of Mormon. Every </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">time, he would think about it and say he's super busy, he wants to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">read the library books first and he would not accept the Book of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Mormon. Every week until last week. We taught a powerful lesson on the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">power and importance of scriptures and he finally agreed to taking the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Book of Mormon and reading at least a verse everyday. Hopefully he </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">will do so and his heart will be softened and he will convert. Way </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">cool miracle!</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">My companion and I recently watched "Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Restoration". If you haven't watched that yet, I invite you to watch </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">that as a family or by yourself. It is an amazing movie about our </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">beloved Prophet Joseph Smith. It was the first time I've watched it </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">and my testimony of the restoration was strengthened so much. I know </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">that Joseph Smith saw Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and that the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">true gospel of Jesus Christ was restored through him. I know that the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Book of Mormon is the word of God. Reading the Book of Mormon after </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">watching that movie was one of the most spiritual confirmations I have </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">had. Because of Joseph Smith, we have this beautiful gospel, this </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">church, and the Book of Mormon. I know it's true.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">I hope you all have a great week! I passed my 22 month mark last week, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">and I can't believe how fast time is going. I don't have a lot of time </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">left, so I am going to give my absolute best. These exhausting weeks </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">are good. Miracles will happen soon. Have a good week, keep smiling </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">and give 'em Heaven. "The church is true, get married in the temple </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">and have an awesome day!" -Brother Frost.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Love,</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Elder Lamoreaux ラムロー長老</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Japan Kobe Mission 日本神戸伝道部</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIS-mgaq5rjh6hr3FrJMvaonEu0-0Y_Uw80SkeCs22DLOG_ayd_FedZfu18taxYgljXHrOTEGYIwesNgf89PdDxAqE1zi_0EHjHNqC9C1kxFGr1eWrRSLvlrpFyes4fV6d-9DSD31EAPU/s1600/41.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIS-mgaq5rjh6hr3FrJMvaonEu0-0Y_Uw80SkeCs22DLOG_ayd_FedZfu18taxYgljXHrOTEGYIwesNgf89PdDxAqE1zi_0EHjHNqC9C1kxFGr1eWrRSLvlrpFyes4fV6d-9DSD31EAPU/s640/41.JPG" width="478" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All day, every day!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDY4tFH_fdiE9hj8vSJZl8nGuUGACtWZEdjMgWOgGq0FwKNtZx-FZSqmmRG1D-ahpDczT_Le4620oLuZ1FXL-ex2PhzmFaNH_C8zTIXpDgvGZoOFBkjv6yLx2cbtORYLlTAcLgirI-CbA/s1600/36.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDY4tFH_fdiE9hj8vSJZl8nGuUGACtWZEdjMgWOgGq0FwKNtZx-FZSqmmRG1D-ahpDczT_Le4620oLuZ1FXL-ex2PhzmFaNH_C8zTIXpDgvGZoOFBkjv6yLx2cbtORYLlTAcLgirI-CbA/s640/36.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kokan in Tsuyama with Elder Anthony. We ran into a beautiful Japanese garden. All that green is Lily pads on a lake. Super pretty!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span></span><br />
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTqj9HNQ_PQkKrjEj84StqwI2B2fX2CqNyFfKOTX5BdneAf2ici4S0j6NtcC4X2I3jgbcAGgohrTDY9obwrgc2sU_S9KSIWJ2Ymi25p8RaP2GZfQ-xik8sWLaJ6E82Wr-t4a0Tz1x1RCA/s1600/37.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTqj9HNQ_PQkKrjEj84StqwI2B2fX2CqNyFfKOTX5BdneAf2ici4S0j6NtcC4X2I3jgbcAGgohrTDY9obwrgc2sU_S9KSIWJ2Ymi25p8RaP2GZfQ-xik8sWLaJ6E82Wr-t4a0Tz1x1RCA/s640/37.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We found dinosaurs</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjID-E6SPpM47cZtnYfn2wjDCZtvUVa_-P5TDkZczHfdrYuV29u6bFDaR-Rwj72cHAnolgTYEd-0sScFpURmSJ_7EO4GCS2j3E9FekLxhqFDabnbHG2iR3z3opQSEhUtXKO4tyiLj8gWIc/s1600/38.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjID-E6SPpM47cZtnYfn2wjDCZtvUVa_-P5TDkZczHfdrYuV29u6bFDaR-Rwj72cHAnolgTYEd-0sScFpURmSJ_7EO4GCS2j3E9FekLxhqFDabnbHG2iR3z3opQSEhUtXKO4tyiLj8gWIc/s640/38.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our district! Acting out the story of Momotaro.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">As a district, we decided to perform a play of the story of Momotaro. </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">This is a famous Japanese story that came from Okayama! It's all in </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Japanese, so you probably won't understand. Basically, there was a </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">grandma and a grandpa who didn't have any kids. One day, the grandma </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">saw a giant peach floating down the river. They brought the peach home </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">and as they cut it open, a baby popped out! They named him Momotaro. </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Later he grew up and he went on an adventure to destroy the "Oni" or </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">demon. Along the way, he meets a dog, a monkey and a bird and together </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">they fight the Oni. In our story, we teach the Oni about God and he </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">gets baptized. Super fun!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;"><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiBEc0kDt6ve13SGadObhCG-xKuh9lvh35aPnZViFHACsxigpDNm0Jv8xDY9CmYqKEfO9NTUahNC9e6TH2oZe9sPGjWLGumJHaLDmjazBONXboiMPJnf_ZrJbSnN8Ak3Wb79VtmDMoRJI/s1600/42.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiBEc0kDt6ve13SGadObhCG-xKuh9lvh35aPnZViFHACsxigpDNm0Jv8xDY9CmYqKEfO9NTUahNC9e6TH2oZe9sPGjWLGumJHaLDmjazBONXboiMPJnf_ZrJbSnN8Ak3Wb79VtmDMoRJI/s640/42.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi83-kd9fF17Ce_ydxrRMPfBW18kgViO-yFFbSh6bzW7yjPou5l1rlgT5hxH6t1MqZr-pgwkmz27dsRR1jSDGGBUPaVVSHH7rYzc_Z6PsCNrMijp6dl2I_Ss0G8hyphenhyphenh7RgHQQAoPtEB1MF8/s1600/44.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi83-kd9fF17Ce_ydxrRMPfBW18kgViO-yFFbSh6bzW7yjPou5l1rlgT5hxH6t1MqZr-pgwkmz27dsRR1jSDGGBUPaVVSHH7rYzc_Z6PsCNrMijp6dl2I_Ss0G8hyphenhyphenh7RgHQQAoPtEB1MF8/s640/44.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Subway!!! Not like America... Give me an American sandwich please!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665849321724163626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150051264560172425.post-60162857539882670052016-06-20T09:42:00.000-07:002016-06-20T09:46:56.235-07:00JT - Wicked Stake Conference!<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">Dear Everyone,</span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">We started teaching this one new investigator that we found last week. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">This guy seems pretty golden. We met him while housing and we set up </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">an appointment with him the next week. We met with him and he had a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">lot of questions about who God is, what the purpose of life is, what </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">happens after we die, etc. All of the answers are found in the Plan of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">Salvation, so we taught him that. He was glued in to it and and a lot </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">of questions at the end. We taught him that baptism is the first step </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">in getting to the Celestial Kingdom. He then said "if these things are </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">true, then I will be baptized." It was way cool and hopefully he can </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">pray and find the answers that he needs in order to choose baptism. We </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">should be meeting him again this week.</span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">So, other than that, the work has been just the same as always. No big </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">changes in our investigators' status. Moose is doing really good. One </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">day, he called us and asked if we could read the Book of Mormon </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">together, so that was awesome. I just want these people to get </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">baptized, but it's all in the Lord's timing.</span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">Cool experience from this week. We rode our bikes a long way to try to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">visit a member that the bishop asked us to visit. We went (about 11 or </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">so miles) and he wasn't there... (That's happened so many times on my </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">mission.) We were lost at what else to do. We decided to visit an </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">active member who lived about 15 minutes away from this member's </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">house. We weren't planning to do so at all. So we went and it turns </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">out it was the sister's birthday!! Crazy coincidence (or is it?) God </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">is truly in the details of each of our individual lives.</span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">So, regarding the title, Yesterday, all of Japan gathered for a "Stake </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">Conference". We had an opportunity to hear a few general authorities </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">speak specifically to Japan over satellite from Salt Lake City. Elder </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">Maynes of the Seventy, Sister Burton of the Relief Society, President </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">Whiting of the Area Presidency and Elder David A. Bednar of the quorum </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">of the twelve apostles speak to us. I learned so much from this and it </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">was definitely one of the best conferences I've been to. President </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">Whiting gave his whole talk in Japanese, so that too was amazing to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">see. I know that the leader's of our church are guided and chosen by </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">God himself. They all spoke about things that the members of Japan </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">needed to hear. Things that I as a missionary have been trying so hard </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">to teach these members and many ways that Japan needs to improve. In </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">particular, Elder Bednar went up there and started listing all of the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">things that Japan needs help with. He hit the nail in the head with </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">that. Everything he said was so good and so applicable to Japan that </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">if these members apply these things, the work in Japan will explode. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">Always a great opportunity to hear our prophets speak to us. I also </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">learned a lot personally about the Sabbath Day. I learned that after </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">my mission, I need to do a better job of truly appreciating the gift </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">of the Sabbath, because it truly is a gift. Such a good conference.</span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">This area is amazing! I'm loving it! The people are awesome. All of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">you are awesome! Remember that God is always first. If God is in the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">front of your mind all of the time, you will make the right choices. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">It might be hard, people might not like you, but all those are small </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">in the world of eternity. Life is eternal and if we always choose the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">harder right instead of the easier wrong, your life will be where it </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">is supposed to go. Love you all! Have a great week! Keep Smiling and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">give 'em Heaven!</span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">Love,</span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">Elder Lamoreaux ラムロー長老</span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">Japan Kobe Mission 日本神戸伝道部</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHeU0rgPgHBw0DzZmxFfQLQ9hbSBIBpIWupCuS1JPYex3Yl5ZZDbhLHndCMEYsqX-dDV9e76F3b0KiZ54OvQ_jG_wxTmcg7-ddj_sk6PvRFO9YT70yfFOVJT0u9xab-aApDbfcmiMD-kw/s1600/28.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHeU0rgPgHBw0DzZmxFfQLQ9hbSBIBpIWupCuS1JPYex3Yl5ZZDbhLHndCMEYsqX-dDV9e76F3b0KiZ54OvQ_jG_wxTmcg7-ddj_sk6PvRFO9YT70yfFOVJT0u9xab-aApDbfcmiMD-kw/s640/28.PNG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Found a way cool place next to the water. Had to take pictures...<br />
We got creative...</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLSt3tQnekXkpFFqDj0NCBh2EItNXZ5iNlfLi-NTW5mFH-wOm6Lxsd2d_RzCvQglUzBEk6kcFqV1N6GKQRQ_F6BDLSwS1K0njNU6zigcFDTOFZJ7vFJvQpI3zI99e_BrXTJ69jwbhfIJ8/s1600/23.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLSt3tQnekXkpFFqDj0NCBh2EItNXZ5iNlfLi-NTW5mFH-wOm6Lxsd2d_RzCvQglUzBEk6kcFqV1N6GKQRQ_F6BDLSwS1K0njNU6zigcFDTOFZJ7vFJvQpI3zI99e_BrXTJ69jwbhfIJ8/s640/23.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7IbJZDVH1sGJV8F1Y3jQ6pzSdclhQKtA2r499dPnRL-wP0TvCVNeOtLTZvCn1kfSDe5EhFP_KZ1i-MfW4iAXYnC5au4f_gWs2w3uC_M9rpZbmHAJtCjgcuXCTqGFn4S_LhnDrA1RHOcw/s1600/24.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7IbJZDVH1sGJV8F1Y3jQ6pzSdclhQKtA2r499dPnRL-wP0TvCVNeOtLTZvCn1kfSDe5EhFP_KZ1i-MfW4iAXYnC5au4f_gWs2w3uC_M9rpZbmHAJtCjgcuXCTqGFn4S_LhnDrA1RHOcw/s640/24.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEBNZhwUqSfKCnwAYKokP4094wDkeJNZIwCckCzZ25xKg7vX4sUq98xmkaiFduHeS9ZIDHk6peycKMFZ5KofKno1L2VyNCOc8IV4tow0XJHfd9pSutFiy5VE0AFgiyC43anCmv_MqfYj8/s1600/26.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEBNZhwUqSfKCnwAYKokP4094wDkeJNZIwCckCzZ25xKg7vX4sUq98xmkaiFduHeS9ZIDHk6peycKMFZ5KofKno1L2VyNCOc8IV4tow0XJHfd9pSutFiy5VE0AFgiyC43anCmv_MqfYj8/s640/26.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbhQNdUIYSj8vi7x8Qr1FrMdV1ylAtUXsKK2JaarsZsk9IbWZCLlJz-gzq-Lu_OsO2U2ghN_8D8rZpHKM-_xA67NO1JS0GOw0bdA-zELv4Q5JXfJH3PIy2i-150zoc75pNaj-7bTuV27g/s1600/30.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbhQNdUIYSj8vi7x8Qr1FrMdV1ylAtUXsKK2JaarsZsk9IbWZCLlJz-gzq-Lu_OsO2U2ghN_8D8rZpHKM-_xA67NO1JS0GOw0bdA-zELv4Q5JXfJH3PIy2i-150zoc75pNaj-7bTuV27g/s640/30.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1sfVE7v0HhnGRner9kxZrsmmIZ71Zc3JR3PiX1xQ6F4IiuBMNlj3IKk-_WeAnutYXT6zu3OC7O6-cvGn07ATWjqumcpaXPjApyJuEFr8rcxHkdT803GVjs9exKFikljhsvkHnpUePtcU/s1600/19.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1sfVE7v0HhnGRner9kxZrsmmIZ71Zc3JR3PiX1xQ6F4IiuBMNlj3IKk-_WeAnutYXT6zu3OC7O6-cvGn07ATWjqumcpaXPjApyJuEFr8rcxHkdT803GVjs9exKFikljhsvkHnpUePtcU/s640/19.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUoweI7gVQYsJOW7x5MXllgjsDYlmWulgMzIsZd7q_UK7uxOWZrfRF6i8PHnD-6krpkajtShwlul-VELuPN0PNL1ghB1OKW2iPUFCSdou_xI4CEU5mS6S3xQqr8xyoz3bWjz9toM-68rs/s1600/21.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUoweI7gVQYsJOW7x5MXllgjsDYlmWulgMzIsZd7q_UK7uxOWZrfRF6i8PHnD-6krpkajtShwlul-VELuPN0PNL1ghB1OKW2iPUFCSdou_xI4CEU5mS6S3xQqr8xyoz3bWjz9toM-68rs/s640/21.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The District</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgjOn5EsTtcNAqRQDfkF3ZzlZWhtA62QMD3m2mZqYVHtw3Ns5naqjRoCzw9JRs7ThtV2ZCcqNxwCfnG4QELjRFrcnYgyZqV4JBwdgqTmukboSNbjtK-X4TSSLgEferCwz-IyC3Ia_c0kU/s1600/31.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgjOn5EsTtcNAqRQDfkF3ZzlZWhtA62QMD3m2mZqYVHtw3Ns5naqjRoCzw9JRs7ThtV2ZCcqNxwCfnG4QELjRFrcnYgyZqV4JBwdgqTmukboSNbjtK-X4TSSLgEferCwz-IyC3Ia_c0kU/s640/31.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elder's Quorum activity yesterday! Cutest little daughters in the world.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5uwKYbpyrVPLlm3Elnr3lW4zDXQeaF8y0OXiA9ahiAYzTdai3ovz8432N4_gQuC0KgUGB24J_1iWQrtSVlUpWl68Xk3DACjOtTHXw8BnzGSb9hejZnmpWvRlf9eT4mvPxvwUvQSSUTIY/s1600/34.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5uwKYbpyrVPLlm3Elnr3lW4zDXQeaF8y0OXiA9ahiAYzTdai3ovz8432N4_gQuC0KgUGB24J_1iWQrtSVlUpWl68Xk3DACjOtTHXw8BnzGSb9hejZnmpWvRlf9eT4mvPxvwUvQSSUTIY/s640/34.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Awesome family who had us over for dinner last night. The dad made this model of a famous Japanese movie that I never seen, but everyone knows. It's called Castle in the Sky.<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<br />
<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxlW20kwVXjqI60QoDP6UjqUb5oCCReJHxLnAbsjaQjPB3bXNzAN3t_aWcLrjlNV8pGrZcw5tARFX2PoaLe' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">We showed the Seminary class us eating an egg and so they wanted to do it too... Haha, the influence missionaries have on others. It's real... We might have started a challenge in Japan like the ice bucket challenge. Raw egg challenge...Missionaries, watch what you do! Haha, enjoy.</span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwt1SALhDSVEqFvTjaj2zjpusegcHSIAQXEeEIQLEAPgS9VyeI7AurfJs5Ka8bJ8kEahbr_1TduC100iM0YMw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I love Japan!</span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwQz9k9-CB-A2Q5WMhz47o8DmLD9SPCh4ej_uCkteavJNxXrNeEknhsiTTNN_cNZyHXlZ8u5EAn6HAV-OMwpg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665849321724163626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150051264560172425.post-1703295715865578322016-06-13T18:44:00.000-07:002016-06-13T18:46:09.129-07:00JT - Long bus ride, new glasses, hard work.<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">Dear Everyone,</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">This week, we didn't have much change in investigator's progress, and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">there isn't much to report. However, I'll talk about some of our </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">experiences this week!</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">On Wednesday, we took a long bus ride to go on Kokan with the zone </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">leaders. (One of them is Elder Madruga from my MTC district!) it was a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">4 hour bus ride to a place called Izumo. It has one of the coolest </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">kanji's I've seen (出雲). It is a rural place, with not many tall </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">buildings. There are also a lot of Brazillian people there, so the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">missionaries that serve there are usually ones who can speak </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">Portuguese. I went with Elder Matsumoto (who was trained by my second </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">companion, Elder Scowcroft.) We had a pretty successful day and I </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">learned a lot that I have been trying to apply to my own Dendo. I also </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">learned a lot about faith from him. It was really cloudy, but the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">weather for cast said that it wasn't supposed to rain, so we didn't </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">have any rain coat or anything. We went into a restaurant to eat food. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">As we were waiting for our food, we see that it is raining hard </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">outside. We were very worried about going out there, because we still </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">had a good 4 hours left of dendo time. So, we finished eating and went </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">outside of the restaurant and it was still raining. In my head, I was </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">thinking, "I don't want to go out there. It is gonna be horrible." </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">But, Elder Matsumoto said "ahh, I want to help people! It will be hard </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">in the rain." So, we put on our helmets and went. I was pretty amazed </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">because as soon as we started riding out, the rain got lighter and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">lighter until it stopped. The rest of the night, we went to a few </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">different apartment buildings and every time we were inside knocking </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">on apartments, the rain came back. Every Time we finished an apartment </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">and got back outside, the rain stopped! </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">Now why did that happen? I thought about the attitudes of me and Elder </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">Matsumoto. My attitude was focused on myself. "I don't want to do </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">this. I'm gonna get wet." Whereas, Elder Matsumoto's was "I want to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">help THEM." Because of that selfless attitude, God allowed the rain to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">stop while we were outside, allowing us to better help those who need </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">it. Faith is a principle of action and power. Therefore, we look </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">outwards, rather than inwards. We act on faith and then God will </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">provide the way for us to accomplish his works. If it was according to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">my attitude, we would have still gone out and knocked on apartments, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">but I'm sure that the rain would've poured and we wouldn't have talked </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">to those that we talked to. It was a cool experience and I learned </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">that there is a lot that I still need to work on.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">We had a cool lesson with our man Vietnamese investigator, and Moose </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">with a couple members present. We taught the whole plan of salvation </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">in an easy to understand way and related it to the Gospel of Jesus </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">Christ. I love how it all just connects and makes so much sense to me </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">now. We used a whiteboard and a cool diagram of the Plan of Salvation. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">(I don't know who drew it...) I'll attach a picture of it.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /> </span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsFBkNG9m0ZBu5j1gB25iOBdUKF1cyT4Vt68PHiZw9jFcInJm9dwkg0aBfcloPFr69J6FPPsI9jKi72490sZte8RJMoOvEB8EgMfV7wxsQFybWSF2buH2qBtlphoncyz6kB4SZLBqf6zk/s1600/11.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsFBkNG9m0ZBu5j1gB25iOBdUKF1cyT4Vt68PHiZw9jFcInJm9dwkg0aBfcloPFr69J6FPPsI9jKi72490sZte8RJMoOvEB8EgMfV7wxsQFybWSF2buH2qBtlphoncyz6kB4SZLBqf6zk/s640/11.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">It was a busy week and despite being out of our area for almost 2 </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">days, we were able to teach more than 20 lessons. It was a good week; </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">a week that really increased my faith. Miracles will happen here, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">soon. Love you all! Have a great week!</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">Love,</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">Elder Lamoreaux ラムロー長老</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">Japan Kobe Mission 日本神戸伝道部</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeNZLieL5W7kCB_dZ-oV3hGyKL0yjc0a4hSSwBxTWAm23gWYUT9a1lmrkJO-9yRAVLOh5P8rLNBHQRyZ7ReprP6msduQOEs-Muvxh5LTNzrvcvd_n4XLm1NOaW6Pfn_5wCmXDSo-nOD6U/s1600/12.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeNZLieL5W7kCB_dZ-oV3hGyKL0yjc0a4hSSwBxTWAm23gWYUT9a1lmrkJO-9yRAVLOh5P8rLNBHQRyZ7ReprP6msduQOEs-Muvxh5LTNzrvcvd_n4XLm1NOaW6Pfn_5wCmXDSo-nOD6U/s640/12.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I bought glasses! (They are just sunglasses but clear lenses.) What do you think?</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span></span><br />
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIYUE1Vev70RL3V6IsXgHQHqmAAfJYotD4QbqiFbinIwBPrlLgK0y4oFWhcL2CcP-HQSCeW-HvTItjlaO8r3pcDiIr2pXvlnWktaiOxs56TICNoiob21p5105iVw-wPVqP0vXlfRlEVtA/s1600/13.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIYUE1Vev70RL3V6IsXgHQHqmAAfJYotD4QbqiFbinIwBPrlLgK0y4oFWhcL2CcP-HQSCeW-HvTItjlaO8r3pcDiIr2pXvlnWktaiOxs56TICNoiob21p5105iVw-wPVqP0vXlfRlEVtA/s640/13.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We went to Seminary with my zone leader, Elder Matsumoto, who served in Okayama a year ago, when he was a young missionary. They remembered him.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim13kLkZN6IFJf93kYQRNFk1OSXnjcQ6zrVA6Gits1rktS0UONzyFB6-IjAVi8TRd-xbVlUPqci3QSWctSWS1jYEIgQeShQGshjTL56RuZC17kiUQKhq6vQafRMSPzByl1ApOIFZHHpYc/s1600/14.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim13kLkZN6IFJf93kYQRNFk1OSXnjcQ6zrVA6Gits1rktS0UONzyFB6-IjAVi8TRd-xbVlUPqci3QSWctSWS1jYEIgQeShQGshjTL56RuZC17kiUQKhq6vQafRMSPzByl1ApOIFZHHpYc/s640/14.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhegsRPrTbToBbnWWCg7Kt7eo6E1L_glS6533rMXSXn_XrZ51WWhDQjfJCPCQeYoBjwar2ZZTmQ2PlkqWL-3L4BEIITNzTUlKFJyF49E0qsadlnFyWWlj4yIgzNE56UjIslJ6B379oZ82Q/s1600/15.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhegsRPrTbToBbnWWCg7Kt7eo6E1L_glS6533rMXSXn_XrZ51WWhDQjfJCPCQeYoBjwar2ZZTmQ2PlkqWL-3L4BEIITNzTUlKFJyF49E0qsadlnFyWWlj4yIgzNE56UjIslJ6B379oZ82Q/s640/15.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Okayama Zone! I love us.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMG3GWjeFaP36x6aDAoRJv8qsFiG2m6V-9EUih-3gnBp0qutFaoCOvIBr1eNp4G5Ewa8wZWIo1ib7ZSAGwUMT5bxjXI6NQ_MblxzeVzCKpTBv2nRYwCldrlecGHgTfNi5G5szreQ5-Tyw/s1600/17.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMG3GWjeFaP36x6aDAoRJv8qsFiG2m6V-9EUih-3gnBp0qutFaoCOvIBr1eNp4G5Ewa8wZWIo1ib7ZSAGwUMT5bxjXI6NQ_MblxzeVzCKpTBv2nRYwCldrlecGHgTfNi5G5szreQ5-Tyw/s640/17.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We watched "The Testaments" and had a lesson afterwards.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwzvyBx-jC4dHugwWWZPkRMRIwaEsu5q5L17NrYDkLBfJPFJtsO3Ab_W60pmmLM-o9tmVlmMWDd4fEQDAns_Q' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Japanese people eat raw eggs all the time. Yup...Don't judge me.</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"> </span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665849321724163626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150051264560172425.post-8415856597875767592016-06-06T19:53:00.000-07:002016-06-06T19:53:08.982-07:00JT - Still in Okayama!<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHJJyTNr-KWp4Ul1rI-fwQXo3LGAVw2bvWu5zmy8YPrbhD7PDvaQyBr4mBAaBsvmYgQ7dt3WutnIQ-W0GEibuZoMJYRCOGvdET9ibvVNUmAuG2v-cMwbkzt59iyGyFJ1XtKeO1iKdW6Xo/s1600/10.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHJJyTNr-KWp4Ul1rI-fwQXo3LGAVw2bvWu5zmy8YPrbhD7PDvaQyBr4mBAaBsvmYgQ7dt3WutnIQ-W0GEibuZoMJYRCOGvdET9ibvVNUmAuG2v-cMwbkzt59iyGyFJ1XtKeO1iKdW6Xo/s320/10.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My new companion drew a picture of me...I think it looks the same.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dear Everyone,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Transfer calls came and I am staying in Okayama! I will most likely </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">end my mission here, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Elder Ray </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">transferred out to my first area Nishiwaki!! I told him all about that </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">area. My new companion is Elder Yardley from Enterprise, Utah. He is </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">now 7th transfer and we knew each other back in Osaka zone. It'll be a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">great transfer.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">So, along with transfers, Elder Ray had to say goodbye to a few </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">people. We had a cool experience with one of the people we visited. We </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">visited a less-active member who we have been teaching. We were saying </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">bye and sharing testimony with him when his mom came to the door and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">started talking with us as well. We commented on her beautiful garden </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">and she then goes off and talks about how she believes that God has </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">created all of this and she really has a belief in God. We asked her </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">"how did you come to believe in God?" She says that she used to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">believe in Buddhism but that didn't make any sense to her so recently, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">she has come to believe that God is the creator of all things and she </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">is so grateful for God for everything in her life. So, we told her </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">that we teach people how to get closer to God and she seemed to really </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">enjoy some of the things we were saying. So, long story short, this </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">person is going to be sitting in on the lessons that we have with this </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">less active member. She really seems to have interest. This </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">strengthened my testimony that God truly is preparing the hearts of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">the people to hear the gospel. Hopefully we can both strengthen this </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">member and help his mother to accept the gospel and be baptized.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">We picked up two more Vietnamese investigators who are friends with </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">the other six that we have. They were a little scared to go to church </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">meetings yesterday, but after church, we met with them and gave them a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">tour of the church and taught them about prayer and Jesus Christ. They </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">felt something, but they are still kind of confused because it is all </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">new to them. It seems like they have a desire to come to church from </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">now on.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">I keep learning about how hard it is to teach people when they don't </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">have a Christian background. They don't even believe and haven't even </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">thought about God. Before, I had no problem with teaching people about </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">God and Christ, but usually those conversations have just been to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">people on the street who don't continue hearing the lessons. Now, we </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">are getting people who want to hear and have potential to become </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">baptized. That means we as missionaries really need to help them </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">understand and build their relationship with a God they have never </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">thought about before. It's hard to help them understand especially if </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">you want them to be comfortable with accepting a baptismal invitation. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Faith is such a needed, powerful thing. Teaching people to have faith </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">(believe in something that they have never thought about before) is </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">harder than it seems. That's why it's so important to have the Spirit </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">when you teach and testify. Without the spirit, having faith is </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">impossible.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Awesome scripture that I gained a stronger testimony in this week. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Alma 13:24 "For behold, angels are declaring it unto many at this time </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">in our land; and this is for the purpose of preparing the hearts of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">the children of men to receive his word at the time of his coming in </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">his glory." This is true. There are people all around you; friends, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">family, neighbors or coworkers who need the gospel. They could even be </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">active members who need to gain a stronger testimony. They are being </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">prepared by angels to receive the gospel. Have faith that they are out </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">there. Seek for the spirit to know who they are, what they need and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">where to find them.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Love you all! Have a great week! Keep Smiling and give 'em Heaven!</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Love,</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Elder Lamoreaux ラムロー長老</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Japan Kobe Mission 日本神戸伝道部</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEist0pELTpze8jEo08I4rTgEC0NPFSLvsBk4Mb3iGE1IU3MeUAgFVVgJfeIJkyidzJY9Gw3-XMoUs61VGW1zzmcMhxH-nMfKUHf7D4ahnn5OuuJRBTFgQIiqRsdXhth_0gkSBZ8COBj6c4/s1600/02.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEist0pELTpze8jEo08I4rTgEC0NPFSLvsBk4Mb3iGE1IU3MeUAgFVVgJfeIJkyidzJY9Gw3-XMoUs61VGW1zzmcMhxH-nMfKUHf7D4ahnn5OuuJRBTFgQIiqRsdXhth_0gkSBZ8COBj6c4/s640/02.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elder Ray's last couple of days</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOeUuTn-WThcq_0XQeProhOs6why0wN9jseyo19yy4vGTwdRNMsiqWYPD425s4ejcXIee7Df9YONgFQ2dnmEcK9lj4o0f9zQH7uX5-7cdYf4Sz9P6vAYqC0qqbK3MXqDzu0T6SCSVprlI/s1600/01.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOeUuTn-WThcq_0XQeProhOs6why0wN9jseyo19yy4vGTwdRNMsiqWYPD425s4ejcXIee7Df9YONgFQ2dnmEcK9lj4o0f9zQH7uX5-7cdYf4Sz9P6vAYqC0qqbK3MXqDzu0T6SCSVprlI/s640/01.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUxDCrv5fbpDSvyH5KBpjTgCqBWvkE92V3kkSWJ9DWLUfqrrfDLRaiqPW5eEmkV-tLe-n4wofKT8lLDjxaTaJVsGC8H1vd7jEqOMjaQYsg3fnHOzzTs76rn1pgxl2vsYidGSfixyNi6Mc/s1600/03.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUxDCrv5fbpDSvyH5KBpjTgCqBWvkE92V3kkSWJ9DWLUfqrrfDLRaiqPW5eEmkV-tLe-n4wofKT8lLDjxaTaJVsGC8H1vd7jEqOMjaQYsg3fnHOzzTs76rn1pgxl2vsYidGSfixyNi6Mc/s640/03.JPG" width="480" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9pyiDn_6apnwLZWUGSIA4lFAXdboLDM2oW9Qw0HHu1SUGkmQNijxsoQ5MpPs2EH4rCERgfVAK3SQqWVbBMAL3v6hWpsvhby__dxi-x8IJVNS_NoLhqsetNZuNkYh1OfONe0_HCjcGBXw/s1600/04.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9pyiDn_6apnwLZWUGSIA4lFAXdboLDM2oW9Qw0HHu1SUGkmQNijxsoQ5MpPs2EH4rCERgfVAK3SQqWVbBMAL3v6hWpsvhby__dxi-x8IJVNS_NoLhqsetNZuNkYh1OfONe0_HCjcGBXw/s640/04.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ugh, so blurry...</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg9g2Naggaz1JOD4WYFDuFsoF0FBhHiKOOOU5bZ4OjocrCFV88VGg34ErFikfwN8HXSU83wnsehRO4hF-BpYJQ6d-oTK9bJBnChCDxGOpATtCue3pM1S-H8yS3IBzjdUuNdmOUIovS8V0/s1600/05.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg9g2Naggaz1JOD4WYFDuFsoF0FBhHiKOOOU5bZ4OjocrCFV88VGg34ErFikfwN8HXSU83wnsehRO4hF-BpYJQ6d-oTK9bJBnChCDxGOpATtCue3pM1S-H8yS3IBzjdUuNdmOUIovS8V0/s640/05.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They got us with whipped cream pies...</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgypnxZr50lqQ7089OZkStNP0op4usiF6UB83q1wuTU87Qsk130XJgO8KIgKxxVkSkXzjggPSNBrUEwgJ_tTcTWuPURcv6UR4s6_TzbqtpjuS-0btdtyc4iGc3Y1Nlj4QPFHfIYW6H8c7s/s1600/06.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgypnxZr50lqQ7089OZkStNP0op4usiF6UB83q1wuTU87Qsk130XJgO8KIgKxxVkSkXzjggPSNBrUEwgJ_tTcTWuPURcv6UR4s6_TzbqtpjuS-0btdtyc4iGc3Y1Nlj4QPFHfIYW6H8c7s/s640/06.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bye bye Ray</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwWmUgKFL-SI4ucoBIjaq_bGhBaxdZQwun5-bqsjIlm7hyodjiDFuWXxv1N2s7NkFd4-TihPTEvhgzXlYoJrQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">This is the language I'm supposed to understand. On Our way to dinner in a Taxi with three of our friends. They are trying to tell the driver directions. Crazy right? Yeah, Japanese is fun! They didn't teach me this in the MTC...</span></span></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYgc8zbLIIO-9RvMVqerkCr6rz7xHKeYbGOJ6I2JqHCguo8nhVy2DPNnKuHp84RFGDYwEH_j_Xn1MvSWfCwjiEMpiPsEBu_hJXZdOCAjAVLFv834OgtSmcV3Pe69Im1u5zcvwActUT1HI/s1600/07.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYgc8zbLIIO-9RvMVqerkCr6rz7xHKeYbGOJ6I2JqHCguo8nhVy2DPNnKuHp84RFGDYwEH_j_Xn1MvSWfCwjiEMpiPsEBu_hJXZdOCAjAVLFv834OgtSmcV3Pe69Im1u5zcvwActUT1HI/s640/07.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">While waiting for our new companions, we had a flashback to when we were companions in Maizuru. McDonalds with Elder Van Cleave!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIiJEUFS3VReMXf_hZG-l48BDuTQageGRYBtgxmXhge75LzUwVp_WvSKL1u08io_rnzhAq-qaEsBmvzJu99ujietrrUadKaIgIj5iSwn5PwgZr9aS4mqVtTPAQQMVjKTCtW-DGHxwYL60/s1600/08.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIiJEUFS3VReMXf_hZG-l48BDuTQageGRYBtgxmXhge75LzUwVp_WvSKL1u08io_rnzhAq-qaEsBmvzJu99ujietrrUadKaIgIj5iSwn5PwgZr9aS4mqVtTPAQQMVjKTCtW-DGHxwYL60/s640/08.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bought some sweet backpacks with Elder Johnson for super cheap!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidsa638lSbkyZNxOs2trxscRR4p4bnWTjMxKNqFXuT0q5ONb4psIKKO8yWnrcyxSeaPgBcq06aZ33ebzONt1LJ7YLiQfM1h3aiLSo8NajqJ_jz9_37he5ppwQjgigjL53z0yj8OG145hs/s1600/09.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidsa638lSbkyZNxOs2trxscRR4p4bnWTjMxKNqFXuT0q5ONb4psIKKO8yWnrcyxSeaPgBcq06aZ33ebzONt1LJ7YLiQfM1h3aiLSo8NajqJ_jz9_37he5ppwQjgigjL53z0yj8OG145hs/s640/09.JPG" width="478" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These hats are legal now as missionaries...Weird... (Actually, mine's probably not legal...)</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665849321724163626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150051264560172425.post-40861005115329164042016-05-30T08:35:00.000-07:002016-05-30T08:35:52.832-07:00JT - Another transfer in the books.<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Dear Everyone,</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">This week is the start of the new transfer already... So fast! I am </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">now a 15th transfer missionary. If you don't know what that means, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">I'll tell you. I'm an old missionary.... My trainer was 15th transfer </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">when I became his companion, and I thought he was such an old </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">missionary. And I still don't know Japanese... Yay!</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">We still don't know anything about transfers, but I am pretty sure I </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">am staying. We have no idea what my companion's fate will be. He has </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">just about a 50/50 chance of transferring or staying. I guess we'll </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">find out some time this week. (Still hate that we need to wait to find </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">out.)</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">This week was just another week in the mission. Had an Exchange in </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Tsuyama, came back, taught lessons, helped a member move, played </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">basketball with the ward. Pretty normal week. I'll give an update on </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">the people that we are working with.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Moose is our 18 year old college student friend. He was supposed to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">get baptized last week, but because of parental opposition, he was not </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">able to get permission to get baptized because they feel that he needs </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">to focus 100% on his schooling and work. However, he is committed to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">coming to church every week and following the commandments and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">basically acting like a member who hasn't been baptized. In fact, he's </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">been helping us with teaching a couple of our other investigators. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Having non-members fellowship your investigators and teaching them </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">gospel principles is really cool. He's a great guy and hopefully </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">someday, his parents will allow him to take this step.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">We have his solid network of Vietnamese people. There are now 7 of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">them who we are working with. The cool thing is that that number keeps </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">adding because they have other Vietnamese friends. Three of them have </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">a great possibility of getting baptized soon. However, like most </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">people, there are a few things that are stopping them from fully </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">committing to baptism and choosing a date. Everything from word of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">wisdom issues, no free time, can't wake up to go to church, and the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">fear of getting judged by his future coworkers that he doesn't have </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">yet. So many little problems that if they understood and felt the joy </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">of the gospel could be solved instantaneously. However, they are all </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">"thinking about baptism" and they realize that yes, the reason we </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">visit them is because we love them and want them to experience the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">blessings that only come from Priesthood Ordinances.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">I've come to learn that the real joy and power that comes from the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">gospel is found only in the ordinances of the priesthood. I love the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">quote by President Monson that says "Until you have entered the house </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">of the Lord and have received all the blessings which await you there, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">you have not obtained everything the Church has to offer. The </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">all important and crowning blessings of membership in the Church are </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">those blessings which we receive in the temples of God.” I testify </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">that that is true. Baptism is the first ordinance of the gospel and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">until we enter the gate of baptism, we do not experience the great </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">blessings. So, we are pressing forward. Doing all that we can to help </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">these people commit and make the first step to receive those blessings </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">of the temple.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Love you all so much! Hopefully we both stay in Okayama for another </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">one, but we'll find out some time soon (maybe). Have a great week and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">know that the Lord is in charge of all!</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Love,</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Elder Lamoreaux ラムロー長老</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Japan Kobe Mission 日本神戸伝道部</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMyvkXOJQqosXxykmtbnTAdvT8gNqOuFWSCg6Ov7fMYCQfcqCr6gzMD40zcKGTD65GjO3YVjaEXHWe9xDNtlbpOkjMlBLnE0dwxzdzPkeZtlIseT8NBnmHIbbvA2rK1rLbj63q9_8Cobk/s1600/51.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMyvkXOJQqosXxykmtbnTAdvT8gNqOuFWSCg6Ov7fMYCQfcqCr6gzMD40zcKGTD65GjO3YVjaEXHWe9xDNtlbpOkjMlBLnE0dwxzdzPkeZtlIseT8NBnmHIbbvA2rK1rLbj63q9_8Cobk/s640/51.JPG" width="478" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My new ride!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdE1ulRghvPBsW89pUUOL8kX9MBbqZKMndquK7nz6EF3cWK8TSlBVOjJ3y4PmM1safgRu82l5nT-5kUWzspVCRTk4L3HKt_55TiIcaCdRUe0Cp5dGl2StbSGQRwpEzJ2nDLQAeBgisr5U/s1600/50.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdE1ulRghvPBsW89pUUOL8kX9MBbqZKMndquK7nz6EF3cWK8TSlBVOjJ3y4PmM1safgRu82l5nT-5kUWzspVCRTk4L3HKt_55TiIcaCdRUe0Cp5dGl2StbSGQRwpEzJ2nDLQAeBgisr5U/s640/50.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After District Meeting; the last one of the transfer! So fast!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSmgMRpqkfjbn5CXwI8yxvokreYpeHARffpXNCv7raWXwZzMEVRXHIhWMLOFx6XgtzRgJhmX14t6IfKfCOe0iMmA6XHVFeM8FVv9B5RID2PxoYAWLg5v_ijQeUQHsFpo8J25dpiYxYyHo/s1600/52.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSmgMRpqkfjbn5CXwI8yxvokreYpeHARffpXNCv7raWXwZzMEVRXHIhWMLOFx6XgtzRgJhmX14t6IfKfCOe0iMmA6XHVFeM8FVv9B5RID2PxoYAWLg5v_ijQeUQHsFpo8J25dpiYxYyHo/s640/52.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Curry party with our buds!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6sOrKVA5TxNn2ZHFuvvEe43JD5tyn_gtbCAw8nHDE-NI32_Yw6PBi4TCT5k7OnNX8NCbtMMhw6dx-5vO7iSI2ANz_i6bzwY94B7rGpb9QDmO3YVidEd6OagE3Y5Q1KmELMLOJah_tXMM/s1600/54.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6sOrKVA5TxNn2ZHFuvvEe43JD5tyn_gtbCAw8nHDE-NI32_Yw6PBi4TCT5k7OnNX8NCbtMMhw6dx-5vO7iSI2ANz_i6bzwY94B7rGpb9QDmO3YVidEd6OagE3Y5Q1KmELMLOJah_tXMM/s640/54.JPG" width="478" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We taught the lesson for Gospel Principles and we were teaching about the war in heaven. We made a play and had these members (and Moose) act it out. It was great!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665849321724163626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150051264560172425.post-60839813659039897642016-05-23T07:54:00.000-07:002016-05-23T07:54:37.366-07:00JT - Mission Conference Week!<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Dear Everyone,</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Whoooooo, crazy week! We had a few highlights and only one low light. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Let's talk about the low light first.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">So, because of the aforementioned Mission Conference on Sunday, we </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">weren't able to go to our own ward for church this week. So, we get a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">call from Moose, our investigator who is supposed to get baptized this </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Saturday. Well, he said that he talked to his parents more about his </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">decision to be baptized and unfortunately they are now against him </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">being baptized. They say that it's too fast and that he is too young </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">to make this big decision in his life. So, for the time being, Moose </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">will not be getting baptized this Saturday... Very disappointing, but </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">hey, it happens on a mission. He'll still get baptized. He says he </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">will still go to church and everything else, so it will all be good. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Sometimes, it's frustrating that things like this happen, but I know </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">that God has a plan and everything happens so that we can learn and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">become better from it. Ugh.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Well, now for the high lights!</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">On Thursday, we had Zone Conference and we we all taught by President </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">and Sister Welch. Ahh, I love Zone Conferences so much because we get </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">together with the zone and we listen to President Welch talk. I always </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">learn so much from them. The main thing I learned this time was the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">power of the scriptures and the importance to really know them. In the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">training, we made a list about all of the things that we as </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">missionaries struggle with. There was a big list ranging from personal </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">weaknesses to investigators progress. President Welch looked at that </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">list and then pointed us to the scriptures to figure out how to fix </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">those problems. He pointed us to 1 Nephi 3-5 and we had a discussion </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">on it. We honestly spent 2 hours talking about a couple verses from </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">that section. I never knew you could go on and on and on about a story </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">that we have heard ever since we could talk. And we were able to talk </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">about all of the problems on the list and all found ways to fix those </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">problems personally. I learned the importance of treasuring up in your </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">heart the words of life. If you do so, the scriptures will have new </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">meaning and it becomes fun. It was so cool. Another cool thing that I </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">learned was "don't prepare a talk, prepare yourself." Before my </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">mission and the start of it, I needed to have every word of my talk or </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">my lesson written down so I can read it word for word. But, now I can </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">go up there with a couple notes and can talk for a long time, in </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Japanese even. Crazy stuff. Mission changes you.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Then, on Sunday, we had the amazing opportunity to gather as a mission </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">to hear Elder Gary E. Stevenson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">speak to our mission. It was the first Mission Wide conference we've </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">had since Elder Nelson came last March. This was a really short one </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">though, only 2 hours. It was so nice to see everyone in the mission </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">and old friends from the mission. Really, friendships among the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">missionaries are one of my favorite things about the mission. I love </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">everyone in the Japan Kobe mission.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">The biggest thing that I learned from this conference was an answer to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">one of my questions that I had for it. That was "how can I make these </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">last three months the best of my mission?" That answer came very </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">directly to me. I learned that all I have to do is to my best that I </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">can do everyday. Put it all in. Love God and serve him with all my </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">heart, might, mind and strength. Focus 100% on my mission. See </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">baptisms. If I just trust God and give it all to him, he will bless my </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">life after the mission and everything will work out. It was so </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">comforting to know that everything will work out. So simple, but for </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">me now, that was so reassuring. Everything will work out in the end. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Don't worry about it. It was a great conference and a special </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">opportunity.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Well, that's the week! Probably no baptism this week, but we are still </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">working hard and the baptisms are going to come flowing into our area! </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">I know that! This church is true. So, so true. Joseph Smith is a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">prophet. Revelation is real. Book of Mormon is true. Have a great </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">week!</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Love,</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Elder Lamoreaux ラムロー長老</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Japan Kobe Mission 日本神戸伝道部</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnAzq-eag75nIU14pW3DQMALKYC9D0RZyqdc6rEeEMvzLUJrEKxTCijXAvv_1MnxTGf8pXC217iWPQcDFgmDi20W-b03LPwTqALFjtvSAGPloph7yw3kSycDYJ5olfOPQgT-TTo_czeF0/s1600/31.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnAzq-eag75nIU14pW3DQMALKYC9D0RZyqdc6rEeEMvzLUJrEKxTCijXAvv_1MnxTGf8pXC217iWPQcDFgmDi20W-b03LPwTqALFjtvSAGPloph7yw3kSycDYJ5olfOPQgT-TTo_czeF0/s640/31.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">P-Day last week, Elder Racker came from his area and we went to a mall in Okayama. Elder Racker served in West Okayama last year, so he wanted to come visit some people.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigLMpX8yM4Ml8U4CkgDm38CnVNmTgjTF-ITMWOG87gxsviYgwlBP80_r5irKAFNhAkLd8YfRDKcz7tKj5JkbHqj_VVzM75SwkKnuM1ISS6vrADfPEUIDslkSfNejBju92C6GCgN3EP7iI/s1600/33.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigLMpX8yM4Ml8U4CkgDm38CnVNmTgjTF-ITMWOG87gxsviYgwlBP80_r5irKAFNhAkLd8YfRDKcz7tKj5JkbHqj_VVzM75SwkKnuM1ISS6vrADfPEUIDslkSfNejBju92C6GCgN3EP7iI/s400/33.JPG" width="298" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">This is sad..... ¥118=$1.18... For an absolutely tiny piece of crappy</span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">pizza. That's about the size of my index finger. I could easily eat</span><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">that in one bite. Ugh... Never take pizza for granted America.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZtvEzt9jRsRRmaJyOQJ72QfLtKJDDXUTiKHG4M7GyQglXXoYgl8_Uinyk_4jqd8K_sTWb5XUVqqV1O-PGtn7PBrZP30QPZMmh8X5O6czpRLIIgCDQDQPr5M3zihyphenhyphen7tsWn3rJ9qlBUQFM/s1600/34.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZtvEzt9jRsRRmaJyOQJ72QfLtKJDDXUTiKHG4M7GyQglXXoYgl8_Uinyk_4jqd8K_sTWb5XUVqqV1O-PGtn7PBrZP30QPZMmh8X5O6czpRLIIgCDQDQPr5M3zihyphenhyphen7tsWn3rJ9qlBUQFM/s640/34.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">McDonald's with a recent convert and a member! Taught a sweet lesson about scriptures afterwards.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span></span><br />
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizgPYbldGIBnZjUGkGtO7vfWzx5wOXcm5wHoWSi8BewbLcJY2m1sJa3vKreYnoUHTmVApnHfHZtPuY6ZLAC1y4Sk1WDYkKR4BJcGuS48eRoXzR_5LAa2n0I-ThqXZ1ZKygD37-VqMvbYU/s1600/35.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizgPYbldGIBnZjUGkGtO7vfWzx5wOXcm5wHoWSi8BewbLcJY2m1sJa3vKreYnoUHTmVApnHfHZtPuY6ZLAC1y4Sk1WDYkKR4BJcGuS48eRoXzR_5LAa2n0I-ThqXZ1ZKygD37-VqMvbYU/s640/35.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We used Skittles from America to teach our investigator about Tithing in seminary! Nothing beats Skittles in the early morning!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuhjkTPg9LEAycdcgeox0CPf42cYlNb6dKfB4SFzGL0yzemLv3CPW5ci_SkNeVeLRQdCOHxA6fzom5PU0fWN12GM0I03QzMD5l38TcZnl9-zFCmg8qZa6Ri5RJNJYRjVr9_xrS1Rl2i4g/s1600/36.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuhjkTPg9LEAycdcgeox0CPf42cYlNb6dKfB4SFzGL0yzemLv3CPW5ci_SkNeVeLRQdCOHxA6fzom5PU0fWN12GM0I03QzMD5l38TcZnl9-zFCmg8qZa6Ri5RJNJYRjVr9_xrS1Rl2i4g/s640/36.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zone Conference</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivuyleQG14oucU82yF2-C3sQaL9ilzKtZqaRSZAPU7JNOKbaiwdIoYXU5466DnG1WGk5SX93hExIFnwOvEDalLVynoAo940fV26Sf3wGKJwi2WkpCQkXeHo8z-UoZ72GE7ZALttvZ4mHE/s1600/39.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivuyleQG14oucU82yF2-C3sQaL9ilzKtZqaRSZAPU7JNOKbaiwdIoYXU5466DnG1WGk5SX93hExIFnwOvEDalLVynoAo940fV26Sf3wGKJwi2WkpCQkXeHo8z-UoZ72GE7ZALttvZ4mHE/s640/39.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Baseball with the Ward! It was a ton of fun!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwlasoIsXZD5mYSk2XXi1cLRi-raM2JunWJ8IqggaKyUwryFwdCZ38qGXuyg-tazdUvIRqvs-7OVgavuMY6nQN6pU2fZhAMbDDATTcyhcPXwCn7uUb_Ony2syVR61mcyolPwIehYFHObg/s1600/40.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwlasoIsXZD5mYSk2XXi1cLRi-raM2JunWJ8IqggaKyUwryFwdCZ38qGXuyg-tazdUvIRqvs-7OVgavuMY6nQN6pU2fZhAMbDDATTcyhcPXwCn7uUb_Ony2syVR61mcyolPwIehYFHObg/s640/40.JPG" width="476" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7SKS0ziI_bRZvE4331DcmIJhpYLgXX-sggeZ8bpvZUyiNEIddx8VtCyl_vkCnRWPM2kQJ3svCInbyWKa5K2yEEeFgiPyAzAkRDQv7KMuklvyTkMqxuzZ-6uBR7U_aauCsbBvZ6SFER84/s1600/41.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7SKS0ziI_bRZvE4331DcmIJhpYLgXX-sggeZ8bpvZUyiNEIddx8VtCyl_vkCnRWPM2kQJ3svCInbyWKa5K2yEEeFgiPyAzAkRDQv7KMuklvyTkMqxuzZ-6uBR7U_aauCsbBvZ6SFER84/s640/41.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I made Lumpia for the lunch after baseball! Look how good it looks! It tasted great and all 60 were gone super fast.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxFgBFH-vQMckFwnN4esCHGezQIQWnWrXJX98t6lGWw_9SL4zl6PnCEGQ-ya3VINNqMUpXAM-dFAFf9EVNxKcfg1tFTBo4bYddUXhq9mJab8MGdKNaMFu5Njv_CTmNhoJIouMMidvoQ9U/s1600/43.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxFgBFH-vQMckFwnN4esCHGezQIQWnWrXJX98t6lGWw_9SL4zl6PnCEGQ-ya3VINNqMUpXAM-dFAFf9EVNxKcfg1tFTBo4bYddUXhq9mJab8MGdKNaMFu5Njv_CTmNhoJIouMMidvoQ9U/s640/43.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Whipped Cream finger?</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRhRqC24PhAQHDFu5DAODVPjpdialWtG0O7tOWEHidxHQMYidGGYBnJE75QbveQq70TQPLi-QSlcXmq9rEMhVKJgGKsz4Db9Z9tRHspiu4PptRl2-CXuWRywAI-dlUhlGw6Mx8Qdacfzo/s1600/44.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRhRqC24PhAQHDFu5DAODVPjpdialWtG0O7tOWEHidxHQMYidGGYBnJE75QbveQq70TQPLi-QSlcXmq9rEMhVKJgGKsz4Db9Z9tRHspiu4PptRl2-CXuWRywAI-dlUhlGw6Mx8Qdacfzo/s640/44.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuu13eX2BK6VEn_s-KNRI7Ngj3lKsXvx6ae99YDo8K7xsviEwhDGweSj9d8dB83Rcry-DhTjjx9hB0EhPTNdgYi-Us86aVtfN4E4xnPJ1ldAW5j_hbuBhxDaRQHLFEnQP4fzh4mX2zUIY/s1600/45.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuu13eX2BK6VEn_s-KNRI7Ngj3lKsXvx6ae99YDo8K7xsviEwhDGweSj9d8dB83Rcry-DhTjjx9hB0EhPTNdgYi-Us86aVtfN4E4xnPJ1ldAW5j_hbuBhxDaRQHLFEnQP4fzh4mX2zUIY/s640/45.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We spent the night in Akashi so that we could make to to Kobe in time for the Conference that started at 2:30. We took a little walk in the morning to the Pacific Ocean!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhECJmRDSSLuy-viPvvGKSydQcqq1Y3o34yNwwBs26eiRN7GDJP0v4UDnIgZhNhp_j_F3jx3KIVvEEDUJiXaBgBqf0y22vzgnr0nHasDnjQUgoJJou07VD1sbGvovXgvBsafkikkjMWdsc/s1600/47.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhECJmRDSSLuy-viPvvGKSydQcqq1Y3o34yNwwBs26eiRN7GDJP0v4UDnIgZhNhp_j_F3jx3KIVvEEDUJiXaBgBqf0y22vzgnr0nHasDnjQUgoJJou07VD1sbGvovXgvBsafkikkjMWdsc/s640/47.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A bunch of us going to Church in Akashi ward. There were 16 missionaries here and we all sang a musical number during sacrament. The ward loved it.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfKscU1IHXUBYovfvQxu_JpIuhi7X2QM4IoghVIJRMqdvqOD_u92MU78RajaNhczjY-KtGLVOrJS2POpJpu48Xul-BcKYMt9uKlQiIjcS7zJuhmO3Tey0CZ4dCjGoZKbC-zWT-zo8Tef0/s1600/49.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfKscU1IHXUBYovfvQxu_JpIuhi7X2QM4IoghVIJRMqdvqOD_u92MU78RajaNhczjY-KtGLVOrJS2POpJpu48Xul-BcKYMt9uKlQiIjcS7zJuhmO3Tey0CZ4dCjGoZKbC-zWT-zo8Tef0/s640/49.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I translated Sacrament meeting to these three awesome Filipino members! The cool story behind this is, on day last year, I went on exchange in Akashi with the Zone Leaders and we went to go teach a few Filipino investigators/members at their house.(The two in the middle and a few friends) Fast forward to yesterday where i randomly came to Akashi and they came to church and I translated for them. They even remembered me and said I look like a Filipino. Also, the guy on the left just go baptized in January. The missionary that helped him get in the water was my last companion Elder Clarkson. It was sweet! They are so awesome. I also was asked to teach Gospel Principles class to them in Sunday School with no preparations. It went really well.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dz7fq_TliZmLuNcoZK4QmmIloixOci8M8sO_VxdoV0S0rfLQf4TQSojMxdEay6wsRYIja2PYjVxuiugy2bV-w' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Adventures in Okayama!</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"> </span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665849321724163626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150051264560172425.post-86824368515725253582016-05-17T08:51:00.000-07:002016-05-17T08:51:06.060-07:00Weston - May 16, 2016<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19.32px;">Last Sunday I was at the church and I found a book that they were trying to get rid of. It was Parley P. Pratt's Autobiography. I took it home and started reading it. I found the chapter where he meets a Mr. Lamoreaux who says, when he hears the gospel from Parley, "if this is Mormonism, than I am a Mormon." He then helps Parley shows him how to get around that part of the country. Parley said that no matter how much he tried to qu</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19.32px;">iet Mr. Lamoreaux he could not get him to stop preaching the gospel to everyone they came in contact with. He would apparently yell at people at a distance trying to get them to listen to the gospel. When I read that I thought about how bad I want to be like that ancestor. I've been trying recently to follow his example and teach everyone that I can. Because I know that's what he did and what he would do if he was still here.<br />I love you all very much!<br />Elder Lamoreaux</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665849321724163626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150051264560172425.post-10164724015726732202016-05-17T08:47:00.000-07:002016-05-17T08:47:47.283-07:00JT - Give me a Pizza and a Burrito and I will give you anything you want!<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Dear Everyone,</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">This week was a pretty normal week and so there isn't much to report </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">on. We are still working with our investigator on date and things are </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">looking good with him. We will finish teaching him the lessons this </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">week, get his parents permission (pray for that!) and then get his </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">baptismal interview next week (pray for that as well!!) and then </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">should be good for baptism on May 28th! It's getting really exciting </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">here. Also, we are working hard with one of our Vietnamese </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">investigators and he is currently praying about getting baptized with </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Moose on the same date! We've taught him all of the commandments and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">told him all that he has to do after he gets baptized and he totally </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">could get baptized on that date if he desires it. So, looks like we </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">will have at least one baptism on that day, likely two. Please pray </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">that all will go smoothly with Moose and that the Vietnamese friend </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">can receive an answer and testimony! It would be much appreciated!</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">So, other than meeting with those two, we were also able to find a few </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">more people to teach! A man saw that we had a free English class and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">he called us and came this week. Then, yesterday, he randomly called </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">us and said "I've recently been studying Christianity, could you teach </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">me stuff?" So we met and answered his questions and gave an overview </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">of our basic beliefs. He seems interested and wants to meet with us </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">more. He has a ton of questions and it's way fun to answer them and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">connect it all to the gospel and the restoration. This is missionary </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">work.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">So regarding the title, this week, we found a Mexican restaurant one </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">day a few weeks ago, so this week, we decided to go! It was the first </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">one I have seen in Japan, so we had to go try it. It was a cute little </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">place, but not worth it. Let's just say with the price that we spent, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">we could've gotten over 100 Del Taco tacos on Taco Tuesday and the Del </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Taco tacos would've tasted better... But hey, do it for the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">experience! I guess.... I miss Mexican food...</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /> </span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7brEiqUAzdAH_-_bYERc-_UNil6FmSd5Yv5pwXcs9j5ZWBbV1ZYqT047lElybxz2Svq7vYBFjRCOwuGNa3CkfTPYr9uUnbUTU9Gs6zPanPUPgYMPXV23Tnft6p2ifx4OePczeKeLYPRI/s1600/16.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7brEiqUAzdAH_-_bYERc-_UNil6FmSd5Yv5pwXcs9j5ZWBbV1ZYqT047lElybxz2Svq7vYBFjRCOwuGNa3CkfTPYr9uUnbUTU9Gs6zPanPUPgYMPXV23Tnft6p2ifx4OePczeKeLYPRI/s640/16.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">The next day, Moose wanted to go with us to a $5.00 pizza restaurant </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">that he found. We went there and ordered 3 pizzas. They were a little </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">bit bigger than my hand and they were barely thicker than a piece of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">paper. Two inches of sauce-less crust and barely any cheese. In </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">America, it would probably cost 15 cents... It tasted good at least... </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">It's definitely not your Hot 'n Ready Little Caesar's pizza...</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb5D9q1_7qFldBvuo5wkCwwjtq8nxM1lLXXYl95GhTuve89YieoeEgzeL0-eZT_rUwhQvzTT5L8ydm2qJe7PuUXsrRxCyjY-Zp20dxQUEvG16Vdfq0EeHX-Luh-yPHgB8Q52XV4leFL4E/s1600/21.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb5D9q1_7qFldBvuo5wkCwwjtq8nxM1lLXXYl95GhTuve89YieoeEgzeL0-eZT_rUwhQvzTT5L8ydm2qJe7PuUXsrRxCyjY-Zp20dxQUEvG16Vdfq0EeHX-Luh-yPHgB8Q52XV4leFL4E/s640/21.JPG" width="480" /></a></div>
<br /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">I just want real Mexican food and real pizza. Japan tries, it really </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">does, and they are so close. Their food looks cute, looks delicious, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">but the taste isn't always there and the size is tiny, for more </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">expensive. I would do anything for a burrito, pizza, steak, hamburger, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">even a hot dog. But, you know what, i have sushi and ramen and other </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">awesome Japanese food, so I can wait a bit longer. Maybe...</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Well, things are going great here in Okayama! It's been super fun and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">there are new experiences every single day. I love it out here. This </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">week, we have Zone Conference and we also have the Mission-Wide </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Conference with Elder Stevenson, Elder Whiting and Elder Choi in Kobe! </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">I am so excited for that! I have a feeling that something BIG is going </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">to happen. Update on that next week!</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Love you all! Have a great week!</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Elder Lamoreaux ラムロー長老</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Japan Kobe Mission 日本神戸伝道部</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmauL7090qD9LGSUQFaODwAIvPOwEgmU6F_rIS59tOSsA5wWZyDyS-rLvpZwOHy8SMyrOW_CWAl5xmS0z72qgeZNCjk8zyZ5I0-tHQFBE-APBgjEiYhz7VwMew58A17dXmQssO7B_KL9A/s1600/19.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmauL7090qD9LGSUQFaODwAIvPOwEgmU6F_rIS59tOSsA5wWZyDyS-rLvpZwOHy8SMyrOW_CWAl5xmS0z72qgeZNCjk8zyZ5I0-tHQFBE-APBgjEiYhz7VwMew58A17dXmQssO7B_KL9A/s640/19.JPG" width="480" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_Frg9Axk-irXlBVAko8c1b6tTGY1eUL7TOlhF6BVsd4uqWjoNNRGgmsYvo8uqdQvd7MjOFpuddb0eN3nhEYaP1sqBIv_Wh0eTUjJy1LDQQNFXhfeNKVK-8lLYsG3NBjDA9iFP9vyK4cI/s1600/20.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_Frg9Axk-irXlBVAko8c1b6tTGY1eUL7TOlhF6BVsd4uqWjoNNRGgmsYvo8uqdQvd7MjOFpuddb0eN3nhEYaP1sqBIv_Wh0eTUjJy1LDQQNFXhfeNKVK-8lLYsG3NBjDA9iFP9vyK4cI/s640/20.JPG" width="480" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz94NExNQSvsYShqTwO53Y-gvwigXsOLrfgR62oz6snK3PE-3Bb83NRMLhnn3ib3TQiGHqEvmZMUo1vjixGIoENXPFj09TyzHtdQ0o4mUVUTBrSPGKjxQKo17EgOZeQI6v0WZGEP3sP-8/s1600/22.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz94NExNQSvsYShqTwO53Y-gvwigXsOLrfgR62oz6snK3PE-3Bb83NRMLhnn3ib3TQiGHqEvmZMUo1vjixGIoENXPFj09TyzHtdQ0o4mUVUTBrSPGKjxQKo17EgOZeQI6v0WZGEP3sP-8/s640/22.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So we went to a nearby super market who was having a Costco Fair!!! We got real pizza! So, so good!! I miss Pizza...</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaKrHgvlhGR1oawxMQgb9PP7C7ZznuZyYLzSHAdcIh3KQ9TLBHuOXdimuJAx7KewfhosoSLkJjXUHTmkzwuWtpncs95pkGB04dn7bGdulWYmn7uaH9eZu5FrIkn9gUwguINjF-Ru9DdDM/s1600/23.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaKrHgvlhGR1oawxMQgb9PP7C7ZznuZyYLzSHAdcIh3KQ9TLBHuOXdimuJAx7KewfhosoSLkJjXUHTmkzwuWtpncs95pkGB04dn7bGdulWYmn7uaH9eZu5FrIkn9gUwguINjF-Ru9DdDM/s640/23.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sleeping on the roof of our apartment with the district!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6heRbbhwAE7PhlLMmbYe6fdg63pWdC_6Un2Zrcn8HMWNloBeBrp4BjhSAfubfJ_ujd4MfusftmL_R6uiNMdMTSiYenPgl1frd1a0WI2BBVywpsVzBrJ-aLacO0RKow4op3FK9UAKjucY/s1600/24.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6heRbbhwAE7PhlLMmbYe6fdg63pWdC_6Un2Zrcn8HMWNloBeBrp4BjhSAfubfJ_ujd4MfusftmL_R6uiNMdMTSiYenPgl1frd1a0WI2BBVywpsVzBrJ-aLacO0RKow4op3FK9UAKjucY/s640/24.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We made Curry with a less-active member who works at a Curry place.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi31pzJbXcRXFpVmwFZpGo_Mz09UY-f-K-emc2xH92aDtZFj6qGJlRQheP82elzsobMptHXnnm70h_xR5VUJYjVVeGNECbfRSW27jGOBltMcsNIbsRfq9pKKdzUL5y04nAhkOg8wmNZpZA/s1600/26.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi31pzJbXcRXFpVmwFZpGo_Mz09UY-f-K-emc2xH92aDtZFj6qGJlRQheP82elzsobMptHXnnm70h_xR5VUJYjVVeGNECbfRSW27jGOBltMcsNIbsRfq9pKKdzUL5y04nAhkOg8wmNZpZA/s640/26.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On Kokan in Tsuyama with the district leader. Taught this awesome member!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg90OLbouLXOpzxeEuJQoHdbpSIl_gmO2zQHcVnCgxVyQTb-TZzJnrIiBxm9fH-LDsIqW-QPIjFb-_F2nxxx2TJrdE01CfR1vAAWvrUouynKtumpye2kUpAjXaeFiUfrEwnQ5QAJ98agZM/s1600/27.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg90OLbouLXOpzxeEuJQoHdbpSIl_gmO2zQHcVnCgxVyQTb-TZzJnrIiBxm9fH-LDsIqW-QPIjFb-_F2nxxx2TJrdE01CfR1vAAWvrUouynKtumpye2kUpAjXaeFiUfrEwnQ5QAJ98agZM/s640/27.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This building is a turtle...</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwhA26VsbQPquPOQ_N3apWyj3kDmLfn4nR8KeJuh15kNpYvCTktavMsomvLEuwy9TsIDO1AtU6U7UzWd74v' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
So we got stopped at a railroad crossing and there were so many people stopped to take pictures of the train. There are a lot of people who love trains in Japan.</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"> </span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665849321724163626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150051264560172425.post-3975747355781946722016-05-09T19:50:00.000-07:002016-05-09T19:50:31.312-07:00JT - Another great week in Okayama!<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Dear Everyone,</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Wow what a week! Life is way good right now. I just Skyped with my </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">family and I am just めちゃ元気now. A couple awesome stories from this </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">week.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Wednesday was a day that started off pretty slow. We didn't have any </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">appointments so we had all day. We decided to bike pretty far and see </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">what happens. Well, this day was insanely windy, probably the windiest </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">that I've seen. It was pretty hard to bike around because the wind was </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">so strong. Every time we would park our bikes, we come back and see </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">that it fell over because of the wind. So, one time, we stopped and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">decided to knock on some doors. We did a whole apartment complex, but </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">only one person answered. She was Chinese and didn't know any Japanese </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">or English so we kind of awkwardly gave her a flyer and went our way. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Went back to our bikes and they were both fallen. We picked them up </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">and tried going, but mine wouldn't go. My chain had gotten super </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">tangled in my gear and pedal. We had to get our hands super dirty to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">fix it. We said a prayer to help fix it and after about 15 minutes, we </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">were able to fix it, but our hands were filth. We were in the middle </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">of no where with not even a 7/11 near us. We decided to go back to the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">only apartment that answered us and tried to see if she would let us </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">wash our hands. It was so awkward because she didn't understand a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">thing we were saying. We showed her our hands and waved them around in </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">washing hands motions and she understood and let us in to wash our </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">hands. It took a long time to get our hands clean, and the whole time </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">we were trying to teach her about our church. Bless her heart, she </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">thought we were crazy and had no idea what we were saying. After it </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">all, we gave her a Book of Mormon in Japanese and asked if it would be </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">okay to come back sometime with a Chinese version and she agreed. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Definitely one of the most interesting ways I've ever given a Book of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Mormon out. I also learned a lot about repentance from this </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">experience. The bike grease was so bad that no matter how much we </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">tried to wash it off with just water, it would spread. We tried </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">scraping it with our hands, but it just kept getting worse. Everything </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">that we touched turned black as well. It wasn't until this lady gave </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">us dish soap that the blackness started to come off of our hands. The </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">blackness of the grease is our sins and guilt and bad feelings. By </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">ourselves, there is no way that we can be cleansed and freed. It might </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">help a little, but you will spend a lot of time and it is really hard, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">almost impossible. But, if we apply the soap called the Atonement and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">help from Priesthood leaders, we will be cleansed and freed from all </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">of the blackness. Repentance and the Atonement allow us to be clean. I </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">really felt that after this experience.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">At the end of that same day, we decided to go visit our Vietnamese </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">friends. They let us in and we were able to talk to 3 of the 4 </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Vietnamese guys that live there. One of them has been to church before </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">but the other two have yet to come. They expressed their desire to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">come to church and they apologized for not coming last week. We taught </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">them about prayer and they said that they would come to church this </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Sunday. After that lesson, my companion and I were talking and kind of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">jokingly we said "ha, what if we got all four of them baptized on the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">same day as Moose? How crazy would that be?" We laughed and imagined a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">bit and then we stopped. We were like "hey, why not? That could </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">totally happen!" We thought about it and prayed about it and we </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">decided to make that our goal. 5 baptisms in one day. Absolutely </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">insane, but it is possible. Imagine having 5 guys getting baptized on </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">the same day!?!? We have Moose on date for May 28th and he looks </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">pretty solid for that date. We are now working on getting the others </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">committed for baptism.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Since that day, we have been working with them. Unfortunately, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">yesterday, only 1 of the 4 came to church, which kind of hurt their </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">chances for getting baptized on the 28th (because of the qualification </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">of being to church 3 times before baptism). But, they had legit </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">reasons for not coming. We went to their house after church and had a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">great lesson with 3 of them. We gave them a Book of Mormon in </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Vietnamese and taught them about baptism. We were able to commit two </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">of them (the two who haven't been to church yet) to be baptized when </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">they know that these things are true. The other one said he would </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">think about it. So, in regards to this goal of 5 being baptized, I can </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">honestly see 3 getting baptized that day. Moose has also become </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">friends with them and because he is committed to it, he will help to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">encourage the others to get baptized with him. So, I have faith that </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">on May 28th, 3 of our friends will start their journey to the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">celestial kingdom. How amazing is that! Please pray for this to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">happen!</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Things are exploding here in Okayama! I really love it here. Thanks </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">for all of your love and support! I have the best family and friends </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">in the world. Have a great week, and always remember that the best way </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">is the Gospel. It might not be the easiest way, but it is the way that </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">we can receive "never ending happiness." Mosiah 2:41.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Love you!</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Elder Lamoreaux ラムロー長老</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Japan Kobe Mission 日本神戸伝道部</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPrrwYYqMYBcKzynWJPBG2XBF__53uiYIO6oDMHq0ILJoug4z_tbk2yfrAt18kZ_bi0VEN-PngcfAtvueoGS8XFclnz47ZZGhP3nDkwjj-Wz7ZpxmwB7P7qE7qQ3CzbDACx7RNt-gfRdo/s1600/02.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPrrwYYqMYBcKzynWJPBG2XBF__53uiYIO6oDMHq0ILJoug4z_tbk2yfrAt18kZ_bi0VEN-PngcfAtvueoGS8XFclnz47ZZGhP3nDkwjj-Wz7ZpxmwB7P7qE7qQ3CzbDACx7RNt-gfRdo/s640/02.JPG" width="480" /></a></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5ZV-0xopm9g6S0QcZJMBCAjBNKriOzJMg_6F4KLwAhtQDmQw_d9Vk5OEk1vhU9z9xTVJVymhXlt-1icfLu3zKgPQmFeNfHnuj3fGX5BwU02_bwhFXnMN9-BzPKya_OU6TuxrAt6xifBQ/s1600/01.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5ZV-0xopm9g6S0QcZJMBCAjBNKriOzJMg_6F4KLwAhtQDmQw_d9Vk5OEk1vhU9z9xTVJVymhXlt-1icfLu3zKgPQmFeNfHnuj3fGX5BwU02_bwhFXnMN9-BzPKya_OU6TuxrAt6xifBQ/s640/01.JPG" width="476" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiheCkneNzF3MXzIY_yQevMGJ7OTgXfWkHFBIobq4Owm83Wx7_8RWFt0nGMuBTYAXtkjtWbvxqZ4QAtQRv2-wJqYSIpLupjd8sRAHSF288xLc2rutYwDdfRdYP5fmGGXhcrWPPGm7JGLfQ/s1600/04.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiheCkneNzF3MXzIY_yQevMGJ7OTgXfWkHFBIobq4Owm83Wx7_8RWFt0nGMuBTYAXtkjtWbvxqZ4QAtQRv2-wJqYSIpLupjd8sRAHSF288xLc2rutYwDdfRdYP5fmGGXhcrWPPGm7JGLfQ/s640/04.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1mro-KgWscPDU-4xeEtFRgi72duBN7sfYQUoMSDXNU6wIu75Cnjg2yHSo43PrMr6emO9_g8G7FdlMH3FIs9MP0eh-ntEP3YJmBdnU_qJ4j1cjHAQtt6Xm4Y5upUNQl3915pXs8w4hcJY/s1600/05.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1mro-KgWscPDU-4xeEtFRgi72duBN7sfYQUoMSDXNU6wIu75Cnjg2yHSo43PrMr6emO9_g8G7FdlMH3FIs9MP0eh-ntEP3YJmBdnU_qJ4j1cjHAQtt6Xm4Y5upUNQl3915pXs8w4hcJY/s640/05.JPG" width="480" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8kulY3VSRQjY19f_nWZQbPnhxcI_yYUdaWv3sPt9MKZj-9gzvLeZnT1twFsmGoAkZ-hmOwyJq1NeB0iy1vSjW4bScVZCvsCW1yX4PnbG-NLQjSQC0XQYfQyEUst-Bti6aFq0cHKNHC8Q/s1600/06.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8kulY3VSRQjY19f_nWZQbPnhxcI_yYUdaWv3sPt9MKZj-9gzvLeZnT1twFsmGoAkZ-hmOwyJq1NeB0iy1vSjW4bScVZCvsCW1yX4PnbG-NLQjSQC0XQYfQyEUst-Bti6aFq0cHKNHC8Q/s640/06.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Tuesday, the ward had a Day Camp activity! They do one every year. We had a BBQ and did some games and also went to see tomb of a former king. This is probably a little more than 1/2 of the ward. We also had 3 investigators come. Tons of fun.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Also, miracle with this one. The weather report said that it would rain on this day. The ward told everyone to pray that it wouldn't rain so that we could have a good time here. Everyone prayed and it ended up not raining. As soon as we started heading home, it started pouring. Prayer is real and it works everyone. If you have faith, anything can happen.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxQUBhK_UKmgkTgCYfDUB_Jg4SYWtX97QztO2DQeg9zf_T08OvmROz3hrscC-7huuHS-_ilt_o48GCeNEFgeg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghO3-MtGBZYh2Snc8Q8HB0dkvTEJETfzLeErfzLFweztF3RgWyscqMtn-fI3-V4cRwY8FjnOf_msBrBD18oRQA5lMC_qjRLhH9348g8b5Jhv4TRJCCYSHNdR-GGYzBIxyI1r89XsCYnns/s1600/07.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghO3-MtGBZYh2Snc8Q8HB0dkvTEJETfzLeErfzLFweztF3RgWyscqMtn-fI3-V4cRwY8FjnOf_msBrBD18oRQA5lMC_qjRLhH9348g8b5Jhv4TRJCCYSHNdR-GGYzBIxyI1r89XsCYnns/s640/07.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigPeDOvE4Fm-8Op3y2m4KBiyXepCojXrcKmjns2ag08NEtkAbQnphUw1V9yMc4trXbfxBFvcsvg7DKZ4BKOlL7Y_9EKB9JSa2vZOFV2Yga5MozAw4Ycw5wYKTdf1wTVd2bjQ2E9WkxR8U/s1600/10.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigPeDOvE4Fm-8Op3y2m4KBiyXepCojXrcKmjns2ag08NEtkAbQnphUw1V9yMc4trXbfxBFvcsvg7DKZ4BKOlL7Y_9EKB9JSa2vZOFV2Yga5MozAw4Ycw5wYKTdf1wTVd2bjQ2E9WkxR8U/s640/10.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Okayama Zone Training Meeting</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3wjLbAvl7wA1OTPetOXjwOgT2C7YuL1L5t6O5DMkiGVOrXS1bwUY0vIBDlBc_a9D_vXt39VgqshlTB01n4_pAnRQBDgIkXG2-ZzMLsMBYR1qPIP-myt6I16OeG33RfgWtXFWl4UprTf0/s1600/15.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3wjLbAvl7wA1OTPetOXjwOgT2C7YuL1L5t6O5DMkiGVOrXS1bwUY0vIBDlBc_a9D_vXt39VgqshlTB01n4_pAnRQBDgIkXG2-ZzMLsMBYR1qPIP-myt6I16OeG33RfgWtXFWl4UprTf0/s640/15.PNG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Love my family!!!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtMUMCX-PzHV8AkVC1lK_Y7oPTvh4bMHDJh4TAB9L-SlvYhbr51PYhL8pAVBqGHuQ1_usY2BB3eZ4VOH23aME8v0Vck2uMcaiXwXlRTjYUkzo7F8IWa6EYPa0PaIZ0Cn8LGDk2uuwsfz0/s1600/IMG_1081.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtMUMCX-PzHV8AkVC1lK_Y7oPTvh4bMHDJh4TAB9L-SlvYhbr51PYhL8pAVBqGHuQ1_usY2BB3eZ4VOH23aME8v0Vck2uMcaiXwXlRTjYUkzo7F8IWa6EYPa0PaIZ0Cn8LGDk2uuwsfz0/s400/IMG_1081.JPG" width="300" /></a></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665849321724163626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150051264560172425.post-41286452831740798082016-05-02T19:19:00.000-07:002016-05-02T19:19:52.540-07:00JT - Productive and fun week!<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Dear Everyone,</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Man, this area is killer. Pretty soon, we are going to see a lot of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">miracles. We already are seeing many! I went to my first real church </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">meeting in the ward yesterday and it was so much fun. Everyone was so </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">welcoming and happy. There are also a TON of kids here. Sacrament </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">meeting was really loud, which I haven't really experienced since </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">America. So awesome. Also, I think there are more young women in this </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">ward than there were in my home ward... It's been a lot of fun </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">recently. Also, we were able to have our investigators come to church </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">and had great fellowshipping from the members. There are a lot of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">members; about 100 every week, so getting names down is a work in </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">progress... But, everyone that I have talked to has been super nice </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">and I am so excited to be part of the ward family, because it feels </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">like a family. Anyways, quick update on this past week!</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">We had a cool day on Wednesday. It was raining all day, and no one </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">likes going out in the rain, so we really tried to visit some people </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">so that we have less time outside. We had a few hours and only a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">couple people to visit, so if they didn't answer, we would have a lot </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">of time on our hands. But we went with our plan and tried visiting </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">them. The first person we visited answered and we were able to talk </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">for a while with her about who we are and what we do as missionaries. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Not very interested, but worth a shot. Then we went to go visit one of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">our progressing investigators who is working on quitting smoking. We </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">tried it, but no one answered, so we went back to our bikes, a little </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">disappointed. As we were just about to mount our bikes, we see our </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">investigator biking toward his apartment! We were so grateful for </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">that. We were able to go inside his house and talk to him and teach </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">about how prayer can help him quit smoking. Smoking is the only thing </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">that's stopping him from getting baptized. We committed him to cut </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">down to a certain number the next day and we would follow up with him </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">on it. It was a really good lesson and he accepted the challenge. We </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">called him the next day asking how he did and he actually smoked less </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">than the number we challenged him to! Such a big step for him. I have </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">a lot of hope for him. He comes to church every week and has a lot of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">friends in the ward, so it's just a matter of time for him until he </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">gets baptized.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Our Vietnamese friends are also doing pretty well. We taught them </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">about prayer last week and they tell us that every night before they </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">go to bed, they try to pray. Those two also came to church with a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">member and I think they had a great experience. They asked a lot of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">questions and was dialed in to the Sunday School lessons (which I had </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">to translate again.) they will also be coming to an activity that we </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">have on Tuesday with the ward. And, get this, they just asked if they </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">could invite two more of their friends. So, if we could get them all </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">to commit to being baptized, that would be so cool!! Please pray for </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">them to accept the commitment!</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Also, Moose is doing way good. We went hard talking about baptism this </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">past week. he committed to get baptized, but still has some concerns </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">with it, so it was a pretty soft commitment. We don't have a solid </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">date for him yet, but we want to try for before May 22. However, we do </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">know that it is not our timing. As a mission, we are trying hard for </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">every companionship to have a baptism before the mission-wide </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">conference on May 22. We have spent a lot of time with Moose since </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">I've been here and I know that he will make the step. He just needs to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">gain a testimony by doing the little things; praying, reading the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">scriptures and going to church. He is still going to Seminary every </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">morning and we have played basketball with him and other investigators </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">this week.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Speaking of Basketball, we had a chance to play with a big group of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">people when we went with Moose. After a game, we would share a message </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">about Jesus. This is something that I've never done before, but it is </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">getting people interested. We are getting quite a bit of people to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">come play with us and it gives us a chance to show that we are normal </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">people, but we also have a special message that we love. People see </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">that and their image of religion changes. Many people in Japan at </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">least think that religion is scary and it only leads to war. But, as </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">people come and see what the church is about, they come to realize </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">that religion is a way of life and that the people in a religion are </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">normal, fun people. If church isn't fun, people won't want to come. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">That's something that I've learned recently. Missionary work is more </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">than just going door to door or street contacting.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Another thing that I've noticed about effective missionary work is </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">that if members are not involved, than the work is hindered. Members </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">and missionaries have to be united or else the work just won't be </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">done. It is so much more effective for missionaries to work closely </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">with the ward than for missionaries to go knocking on doors. A great </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">way to do missionary work for members is by setting up different kinds </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">of activities that the missionaries and members can invite people to. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">In the week and a half that I've been here, I've been to a handful of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">activities. Whether it be a special seminary class, a dinner at a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">member's house or even a sports night, it gives the missionaries a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">great chance to get investigators to meet the members. We had a Sports </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">night on Saturday where we were able to have 5 investigators come. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Then, when they come, the missionaries can teach them a lesson and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">they can have more of a desire to learn more and get baptized. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Missionary work without the members is honestly so ineffective. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Missionaries aren't having fun, the work is hindered and people won't </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">come. Just something that I've learned since coming here to Okayama </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">and since I've been a missionary.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">This was another long one! I'm sorry! I'm loving the area and the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">people that I meet everyday. Have a great week! Remember, keep smiling </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">and give 'em Heaven!</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Love,</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Elder Lamoreaux ラムロー長老</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Japan Kobe Mission 日本神戸伝道部</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij2ur3LWPsA0ORPaJFjmH7C93Qqpiev3Qnnp0xZEU-86kM5IgeDwBnFFAZRA0J52NlDQ6GKtmvQ03_V4JCTH1AdF96FkUOqhOx2d0smdDqJeYFiu8lTpPxQ_djcfE-JtLhMiaOMRS5luQ/s1600/82.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij2ur3LWPsA0ORPaJFjmH7C93Qqpiev3Qnnp0xZEU-86kM5IgeDwBnFFAZRA0J52NlDQ6GKtmvQ03_V4JCTH1AdF96FkUOqhOx2d0smdDqJeYFiu8lTpPxQ_djcfE-JtLhMiaOMRS5luQ/s640/82.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4EF034GFdmk-dxHSdJDVYhVA-nBHRmiqurD__alCxIp_JmuvKdhQ4U48Em2pAJdQZDSM7CdB7zw5ZuBRcGzsoQ84XlI5c3L_TUApYR-8I_QxG2oLqxE93ayKfkafms5WtPSZNE84YAag/s1600/83.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4EF034GFdmk-dxHSdJDVYhVA-nBHRmiqurD__alCxIp_JmuvKdhQ4U48Em2pAJdQZDSM7CdB7zw5ZuBRcGzsoQ84XlI5c3L_TUApYR-8I_QxG2oLqxE93ayKfkafms5WtPSZNE84YAag/s640/83.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The district for this transfer. You got the DL - Elder Johnson and Elder Trinca, Elder Wride and Elder Van Cleave (former comp!) Sister Nielson and Sister Uchida and then Elder Ray and I. Fun district!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqoxsU9PdsFMg_AJhl5nec3zadOI6nwcp5o-u6bUfdQR52G3pCQmW54bceLf0t3TL4YhOJYF9qWB1XdGuUHnrlDshAPROezGTyc9wJ1Y2xARAEh467sgrp0pnXLeQLqW9qtXszdnal7Cw/s1600/85.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqoxsU9PdsFMg_AJhl5nec3zadOI6nwcp5o-u6bUfdQR52G3pCQmW54bceLf0t3TL4YhOJYF9qWB1XdGuUHnrlDshAPROezGTyc9wJ1Y2xARAEh467sgrp0pnXLeQLqW9qtXszdnal7Cw/s640/85.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We had seminary activity on Saturday where the Elders had a chance to give a lesson. We decided to do it on the importance of families and Temple. We "copied" Elder Cook's talk "See Yourselves in the Temple" and gave each of the people a mirror with a picture of the temple with "See yourself in the Temple" (in Japanese) written on it. They loved it and it was an awesome lesson. This ward is so great! </td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKkWuWRBc1tXlaaLrxcjEvO4ATq05-MCIkGoZyJNT9GRnr7JwCII7XUM588CuLiK9f1XFLdX-KRsrv9_-P_LCQufor68GRYLbClW2DvIzyg3dSFy4d8awY4YD7_lhnnlkWgjt4uHvEwbE/s1600/87.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKkWuWRBc1tXlaaLrxcjEvO4ATq05-MCIkGoZyJNT9GRnr7JwCII7XUM588CuLiK9f1XFLdX-KRsrv9_-P_LCQufor68GRYLbClW2DvIzyg3dSFy4d8awY4YD7_lhnnlkWgjt4uHvEwbE/s400/87.JPG" width="298" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was another part of this seminary activity. Three young women are preparing to go on a mission and so they made missionary tags and they shared a lesson with all of us. (BTW, the one in the middle is not a member yet...Her parents are against the church, and won't allow her to get baptized, but she is still a very active non-member and so soon as she is able to get baptized, she will). It was way cool to see.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU8JDgkDLmyJK1rLGgUdH8GkTsfkg1Yt0aIB2OCSyhWsruCw-nInrzFCNOrDL0G2PksQHZbEso6iltQJJwqvAFjphKKn5oeyUjhpv0KC7GcMEq-k0Y0CM-oyP5aBa9p8n9f0PProQqZMg/s1600/89.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU8JDgkDLmyJK1rLGgUdH8GkTsfkg1Yt0aIB2OCSyhWsruCw-nInrzFCNOrDL0G2PksQHZbEso6iltQJJwqvAFjphKKn5oeyUjhpv0KC7GcMEq-k0Y0CM-oyP5aBa9p8n9f0PProQqZMg/s640/89.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We had a barbecue that we were invited to by some investigators. We had a few investigators and member show up and it was a great time. We were also able to teach a couple lessons to them. Missionary work is awesome.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQAPhTS77baxYQHx4WA1GXTl_gHLQG8jTAdjVP_0bAcI2PbcUYhkQRs0mh5K_oJUSkslTlwDxGLf1mWYF2xJ3bg5wZU4MErmhrRCSlBGRfIpjg3cDUIoq13qJFZu4EoGk1fBtpvgANzgU/s1600/90.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQAPhTS77baxYQHx4WA1GXTl_gHLQG8jTAdjVP_0bAcI2PbcUYhkQRs0mh5K_oJUSkslTlwDxGLf1mWYF2xJ3bg5wZU4MErmhrRCSlBGRfIpjg3cDUIoq13qJFZu4EoGk1fBtpvgANzgU/s640/90.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We got to ride in an investigator's Jeep! it was so cool!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Rb2SL0shrMhFH0SpQ0H5W_oYCkcmxYDvcFtREgme4jaSQh8I3pz7zuo8U0tpJnfVe6keeXC4H7LgZO2HjImk7dUEvoUStYIPxWSr2BKas8i2bl8QPRkeHsBNk7n3UA4zjR9yM6YcHoY/s1600/92.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Rb2SL0shrMhFH0SpQ0H5W_oYCkcmxYDvcFtREgme4jaSQh8I3pz7zuo8U0tpJnfVe6keeXC4H7LgZO2HjImk7dUEvoUStYIPxWSr2BKas8i2bl8QPRkeHsBNk7n3UA4zjR9yM6YcHoY/s640/92.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyhwJPiLOEbQrfmvoXfa6KDnl5kZIHisXOqMZ2cesMiK_0DbhMtMZSK2_nS4BAiE9b5JVcP-EUKlbf8dvy-ug' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665849321724163626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150051264560172425.post-80132818231999153842016-04-25T10:57:00.000-07:002016-04-25T16:19:15.992-07:00JT - I am now in Okayama 岡山!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br></div>
<br>
<br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFrLrSIHi0c0EMJufdcAmce7J3Im8I4s3EFEui3pKOPkoAfJrGhwu9ItAQGWq9nXTEYgZtOL0cbY4fOYjvRMMgbcXAkAxxjIs2F73Kg4EmYcB7Tb4M64v-e6Eb8C0W9sSk10LIuU4eByQ/s1600/76.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFrLrSIHi0c0EMJufdcAmce7J3Im8I4s3EFEui3pKOPkoAfJrGhwu9ItAQGWq9nXTEYgZtOL0cbY4fOYjvRMMgbcXAkAxxjIs2F73Kg4EmYcB7Tb4M64v-e6Eb8C0W9sSk10LIuU4eByQ/s640/76.JPG" width="640"></a></span></div>
<br>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dear Everyone,</span><br>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Pretty eventful week this week! I found out about transfers on Tuesday </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">night and they said I was going to a place called Okayama! It is a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">part of the mission that I haven't been before, so I was way excited </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">to go. Tuesday and Wednesday was filled with packing and saying </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">goodbye to members and investigators. It was a little sad, but I've </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">gotten used to it on my mission. I really love the members in Higashi </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Osaka and all of the friends I was able to make.</span></span><br>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirA6zjyRn2nvUQlkMKEMWfJ2u8wNGz57t1PSDTe6HQggmCyoHpxE9SgAsf0wUtnVYXp4N5UX-PLHI0Fk3DXU8kUSHg8ULfpykpFWjhXEQPRQLpcGL827ExV6U7seMaK3FdgmlsWJoo7Us/s1600/65.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirA6zjyRn2nvUQlkMKEMWfJ2u8wNGz57t1PSDTe6HQggmCyoHpxE9SgAsf0wUtnVYXp4N5UX-PLHI0Fk3DXU8kUSHg8ULfpykpFWjhXEQPRQLpcGL827ExV6U7seMaK3FdgmlsWJoo7Us/s640/65.JPG" width="640"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Saying bye to our Chinese friend and our Napalese friend. Ate lunch at this Indian Curry restaurant. Love places like this.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span><br>
<br>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW_TgCSdPQTEs0O0H_bfY1tyr8_cxqIKUrJzGfb8NXrB-zqm9XpeJfgwYOisgkvKCRcuRHo0z_P6Rgx-BYOB-pbaVXxcNElD8j4rEh5dX7nLcLVAItDLmfYH9ZhhdB9Warz6eOphNni9g/s1600/66.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW_TgCSdPQTEs0O0H_bfY1tyr8_cxqIKUrJzGfb8NXrB-zqm9XpeJfgwYOisgkvKCRcuRHo0z_P6Rgx-BYOB-pbaVXxcNElD8j4rEh5dX7nLcLVAItDLmfYH9ZhhdB9Warz6eOphNni9g/s640/66.JPG" width="640"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Saying bye to our Takoyaki friend! Last taste of Osaka Takoyaki... It was a sad moment...</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></div>
<br>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO_6Gy05OcWjeetAuR167rRWpnqCtyyQh-sgQ8GTCbfliG6p2lGBfVN0vxKhmaKd5McQPpRZ5OCBd9O6GpKC_d0bm7L8sQI-MziMy09Iuk95QaVkjL8f-VZ43pbE8VZ-WMwCkJgFpmaHU/s1600/68.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO_6Gy05OcWjeetAuR167rRWpnqCtyyQh-sgQ8GTCbfliG6p2lGBfVN0vxKhmaKd5McQPpRZ5OCBd9O6GpKC_d0bm7L8sQI-MziMy09Iuk95QaVkjL8f-VZ43pbE8VZ-WMwCkJgFpmaHU/s640/68.JPG" width="640"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is our Tuesday Eikaiwa people. They gave flowers to the transferring missionaries. Me and all three sisters transferred.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></div>
<br>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAQCVOZF2AmY0gBF2rv8G0uXpLdPF27Yed2dQC__DABXQannuAEN-ykuysV765sNlBWWBkoz6IPoQ-7KG9Ieo2MondWY369d-M5ppOIujTU2GIG6qDsABk3Fa2YS9i1QA_QCNPgVcaQZs/s1600/69.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAQCVOZF2AmY0gBF2rv8G0uXpLdPF27Yed2dQC__DABXQannuAEN-ykuysV765sNlBWWBkoz6IPoQ-7KG9Ieo2MondWY369d-M5ppOIujTU2GIG6qDsABk3Fa2YS9i1QA_QCNPgVcaQZs/s400/69.JPG" width="400"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The former Bishop of the ward. We paid a quick visit to say bye to him.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></div>
<br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_2_gqUJZIsVzwWJqfhTYtCGKADE1IIf-Rzisky2_zU0gzbbXzu8q4mCXvbuNK3jMM2kR0uaT_BoMYOzEHiHz7cPYDGj4xTjKrmnc17hV3FtuxDQ1t9UuPDF4jNgXt0dgSVovCqIrO4xw/s1600/70.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_2_gqUJZIsVzwWJqfhTYtCGKADE1IIf-Rzisky2_zU0gzbbXzu8q4mCXvbuNK3jMM2kR0uaT_BoMYOzEHiHz7cPYDGj4xTjKrmnc17hV3FtuxDQ1t9UuPDF4jNgXt0dgSVovCqIrO4xw/s640/70.JPG" width="640"></a></span></div>
<br>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcXZ7nRBhJNPyMgAlyo-fts7EbzMvBjA8y2-EH7qslSiZIx8gUFJ2ZXXJXLNvhpAmowojlr6axp61iZJCpm74gG19CCEHz_s2PgFDPyE1WN1eb40nxBUZZXy42aqwEWFl_krNYRTB33F8/s1600/71.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcXZ7nRBhJNPyMgAlyo-fts7EbzMvBjA8y2-EH7qslSiZIx8gUFJ2ZXXJXLNvhpAmowojlr6axp61iZJCpm74gG19CCEHz_s2PgFDPyE1WN1eb40nxBUZZXy42aqwEWFl_krNYRTB33F8/s640/71.JPG" width="640"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Love these two members!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></div>
<br>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3LZUZwez12vo2usFaLRr2sMI_YqC4_Z5ElxXdm6su-sOyap-v8Frsqi1LpKXo_PoZZSXmTpDii6hYPKfpslU6L498CKIorQOUIOUPULkWlnmHqSH42LYN5dAAE7TmUqxRigEeJrW6S6c/s1600/72.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3LZUZwez12vo2usFaLRr2sMI_YqC4_Z5ElxXdm6su-sOyap-v8Frsqi1LpKXo_PoZZSXmTpDii6hYPKfpslU6L498CKIorQOUIOUPULkWlnmHqSH42LYN5dAAE7TmUqxRigEeJrW6S6c/s640/72.JPG" width="640"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our Wednesday Eikaiwa!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></div>
<br>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDq1R6Lmr06GiT5TFMgiKXg9vk99W9-Oi11ikWtVLs39scAfHxHqC9ZSMuaHuSBgaxHUxwTRdYpiwnpmYryTdHHU5cFhphjGQ4OTDPI74Uu5BGfpbTHmcV6yCm0tn81F6XIwXzjE1m7Oo/s1600/74.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDq1R6Lmr06GiT5TFMgiKXg9vk99W9-Oi11ikWtVLs39scAfHxHqC9ZSMuaHuSBgaxHUxwTRdYpiwnpmYryTdHHU5cFhphjGQ4OTDPI74Uu5BGfpbTHmcV6yCm0tn81F6XIwXzjE1m7Oo/s400/74.JPG" width="400"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is one of our investigators! Awesome guy! He's from Iran!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></div>
<br>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb4rFESbowdmr0SlPODcayqLGRJFWwaqlSo2CI8jq3nGcNjhJVEbj2QBvDxCxl3UlQvIzn71OmZGA9E9hiksUG6sP5vvxl6w8MW9IV5PEmi1YNBm_gzqJ0JTXrFg8qmL97asfnbM5gZgY/s1600/75.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb4rFESbowdmr0SlPODcayqLGRJFWwaqlSo2CI8jq3nGcNjhJVEbj2QBvDxCxl3UlQvIzn71OmZGA9E9hiksUG6sP5vvxl6w8MW9IV5PEmi1YNBm_gzqJ0JTXrFg8qmL97asfnbM5gZgY/s640/75.JPG" width="640"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bye Higashi Osaka!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Transfers now are different than they were when I last transferred. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Now, each missionary goes straight to their new area by themselves! </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">So, I travelled all the way to Okayama (a 6 hour trip) with my bike </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">and a suitcase with no companion. It was crazy, but somehow I made it </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">safely and on time.</span></span><div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"></span> <iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyTkSroePhvc0Sa0tROTrkYrvpBBqHQnMHK8ERrWFX4cEm8r2tkNJJWbycYuGMhrj1rNNs0PGLLtDYUa9D6ig' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Okayama is a beautiful area. Back in the day, they had the Japan </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Okayama mission, so the apartment that the elders stay in now is the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">old Mission Office and mission home! It is huge! It's right next to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">the church too which is very rare. Wow I love how convenient it is. We </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">even have mattresses!! I'm not sleeping on the floor! There are only </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">two of us in the apartment, so we have plenty of space. Definitely one </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">of the best places a missionary in the Kobe mission can live in. We've </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">got a lot of cleaning to do, but we're getting there. My new companion </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">is Elder Ray from Nevada. He's half Japanese (almost a Japanese </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">companion like you wanted) and he is now 6th transfer (now the 4th </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">companion that I've had who was 6th transfer with me). His first name </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">is Utah, so that's pretty cool. He's an awesome guy and we are doing </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">well right now.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">This area and ward has a lot of potential. The three days that I've </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">been here have been amazing. This is a huge ward; about 130 active </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">members. However, I haven't been able to meet a lot of them because </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">this week was also Stake Conference! But, the members that I have met </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">so far have been amazing and they really help and love the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">missionaries. Also, we have a few investigators who are really </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">progressing. Let me just do a recap of the past few days.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Friday- We went to Early Morning Seminary at 6:00 in the morning. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Super fun! A couple young women and one of our investigators was </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">there. (Yes, an investigator went to Early Morning seminary.) then, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">after lunch, we helped the sisters with fixing their bike and then </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">tried visiting some investigators who all ended up not being home. We </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">then visited a member who warmly welcomed us in and we were able to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">have a nice talk and share a lesson with him. He is really </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">fellowshipping one of our investigators who is really close to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">baptism, so he gave us some advice to help this investigator. (this </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">investigator has been taught everything and wants to get baptized, he </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">just has to overcome a problem with the Word of Wisdom). Then we went </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">to try visiting a referral that we received from the sisters, but they </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">weren't home either. But, we were prepared! We went looking for a less </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">active member who lived close. As we were looking for the house, a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">couple of older women saw us and asked if we were looking for _____ </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">(an ACTIVE member of the ward). We said that we weren't, but asked </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">them to point us to where she lives. (These older women recognized our </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">white shirts, name tags and helmets and said that she sees us all the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">time.) we went to the less active house, but they didn't answer </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">either. We then decided to go to the active member's house and was </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">able to talk to her and share a message. Then, she said "hey, come </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">with me, I am going to introduce you to one of my friends!" So, we </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">went with her to a neighbor's house. This friend wasn't interested, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">but I was so impressed with this member's fire and desire to share </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">the gospel. So awesome especially because this is what I've been </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">trying so hard to do in my last area. After this whole thing happened, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">we decided to visit the referral's house again to see if they were </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">there. They were there! We were able to talk to 4 people from Vietnam </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">who are really good at Japanese and English. We talked to them about </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">church and they all said they wanted to come! We also invited them to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">an activity that the YM had the next day. Friday was a day filled with </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">miracles.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Saturday- We had a Young Men's activity at 9:00 where we played </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">baseball with the YM and the leaders and a couple of the Young Women </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">who came as well. 3 investigators showed up; 2 of the Vietnamese </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">people from Friday and the one who went to Early Morning seminary. Let </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">me tell you about this investigator. Let's call him Moose. Moose is 18 </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">years old, just moved to Okayama for college. Moose met the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">missionaries on the street last Friday. My companion and his last </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">companion found him and invited him to church. That Sunday he came to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">church in a suit and tie (which is super rare for investigators in </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Japan). He already acts like a member and all of them thought he was a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">member visiting Okayama. He really enjoyed church and asked the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">missionaries if he could go to the Early Morning seminary class. Since </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Sunday, he has come to Early Morning every day. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">So, we played baseball and then all of us helped clean the church. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">During this time, the Young Men's leader invited these 3 to dinner at </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">his house on Sunday night (MEMBER MISSIONARY WORK!!) After that, us </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">and the 3 investigators went to play basketball and we shared a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">message about prayer with them. We then invited them to go to stake </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">conference. (Stake conference was held in a place that is 2 hours </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">away.) they all wanted to come, so we set up rides for all of them to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">be driven by a member to it.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Sunday- Stake conference. Again, Moose came in a suit and tie. Moose </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">rode with us and a member family and the two Vietnamese people went </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">with that member from Friday who took us to her friend's house. They </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">all came to Stake conference and all enjoyed it. I translated the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">whole conference from Japanese to English for the Vietnamese people. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">(That was fun) Then we got back and went to the Sunday dinner. At that </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">dinner, my companion and I and the YM leader shared the first lesson, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">the Restoration of the Gospel. We showed the Restoration video and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">testified about the reality of Joseph Smith and God the Father and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Jesus Christ. We shared how we know this because of prayer. It was a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">powerful lesson, one of the best I've been in. We invited them to pray </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">about the truthfulness of the restoration and they all said they </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">would. (BTW, at the end of the video, there is a scene where Joseph </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Smith Sr. gets baptized. Moose, after the video, asks, "what's that </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">thing they did at the end?" This guy is golden haha) such a great </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">lesson in the perfect environment; investigators in a member's home.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Man, this was long, but I haven't had this much fun with missionary </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">work for a long, long time. Moose also came to seminary this morning </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">and said that the Joseph Smith experience was "すごいな〜" (it's so cool!) </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">very good hopes for this guy as well as the other two people. Desire </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">to meet, willingness to act, love and support of ward members. That is </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">what helps convert people to this wonderful gospel. God truly prepares </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">his people. Members are the key to missionary work. Without the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">cooperation and unity between the members and the missionaries, this </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">work cannot happen.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">I am so excited for this area and for this transfer. We also have an </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">exciting announcement as a mission. On May 22nd, we will have a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">mission-wide conference where Elder Whiting and Elder Choi of the Area </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Presidency as well as Elder Gary E. Stevenson of the Quorum of the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Twelve Apostles will come to talk to the mission. I am so excited for </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">that. Also, our mission president has challenged us to have at least </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">one baptism before that day. I truly believe that Moose and the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Vietnamese people can get baptized soon. Such a great opportunity to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">be in Okayama right now.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Hope I didn't bore you with this super long email. I hate long emails, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">so I'm sorry I gave one out.... This church is true y'all! Love you </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">all so much!</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Love,</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Elder Lamoreaux ラムロー長老</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Japan Kobe Mission 日本神戸伝道部</span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665849321724163626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150051264560172425.post-3322695345653631912016-04-18T15:24:00.000-07:002016-04-18T15:24:37.907-07:00JT - Last week in Higashi Osaka<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Dear Everyone,</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">So this was the fastest transfer of my life. Went by in a flash and I </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">can't believe it. As the title says, this was my last week in Higashi </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Osaka. I've been here for 6 months now, so it was very likely and I </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">wasn't surprised about it. However, I have no idea where I will be </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">going. My zone leaders just said I'm transferring and I'm not in Osaka </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">zone. We'll see where I go soon. I'm hoping it is somewhere "Inaka" </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">(English translation- countryside?)</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">So, the last week here was pretty crazy. Not exactly the positive </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">crazy either. Let's just say some problems arose and we have been </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">trying to work with the ward and try to be united with the ward. It </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">was a hard week. But, other than that, it was a normal week. Not too </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">much success, but 'Tis missionary work sometimes.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">We did have a miracle on Sunday morning. We woke up at 6:30 like </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">always and I looked at the phone and saw that we had a text from one </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">of our investigators (the one from China who came to conference last </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">week.) he said that he couldn't come to church, but he also said "I </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">want to talk to you missionaries about baptism, do you have time on </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Tuesday?" And then another text that said "also, I want to get </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">baptized." SWEET! I really think General Conference is what helped him </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">make the decision. So, we will meet with him and then pick a date for </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">his baptism. I probably won't be able to go to it, but either way, I </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">am so glad that he is willing to take this step. Miracles happen!</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">I've learned so much in my personal studies recently. Right now, I am </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">trying to find and write down connections from the talks of the First </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Presidency and Twelve Apostles and so far, I've expanded my </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">understanding of the messages we hear from conference. One talk that I </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">read that really had an impact on me was President Nelson "The Price </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">of Priesthood Power." I learned that I need to live worthy for this </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">priesthood power every single minute of everyday. Also, I need to seek </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">to expand my knowledge of the gospel and seek to receive spiritual </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">gifts. It is not enough to be a "Sunday Christian". True Priesthood </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">power comes from everyday choices and actions. Here is a quote that I </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">love "Only a man who has paid the price for priesthood power will be </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">able to bring miracles to those he loves and keep his marriage and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">family safe, now and throughout eternity."</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Yeah, I've learned a lot in this area. I feel like most of my time </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">here was for me to learn about myself and the way this church works. I </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">am grateful for my time in Higashi Osaka.</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Have a great week! The church is true! Always, keep smiling and give 'em Heaven!</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Love,</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Elder Lamoreaux ラムロー長老</span><br clear="none" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Japan Kobe Mission 日本神戸伝道部</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Dt-VYbpR7fBOprQD4zJnpSm0mcxmvpbdeASneYpCnuwEg_fL694sbsewVZ2mrzBBrqiEijYhGr7IGlzwcHM2EKRBJPW5_XKrql7gGB9XxMnLDy9nGxnRBsMTlr0NkypxQWiZjeCZ5L8/s1600/57.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Dt-VYbpR7fBOprQD4zJnpSm0mcxmvpbdeASneYpCnuwEg_fL694sbsewVZ2mrzBBrqiEijYhGr7IGlzwcHM2EKRBJPW5_XKrql7gGB9XxMnLDy9nGxnRBsMTlr0NkypxQWiZjeCZ5L8/s640/57.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiximtIHrz0AYSS8D5pvbKrB5nddQ7hPv9u1pgoxdp787PHY4Bg-5IU5Qyd_GTLwUGoh8M3XLhFeJfHaweYGxpdIAodq2BoPiu0j5BUAJF8_XQvDCrx1NKJHfMUbyyMyrYk5MQ7ompcGvc/s1600/58.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiximtIHrz0AYSS8D5pvbKrB5nddQ7hPv9u1pgoxdp787PHY4Bg-5IU5Qyd_GTLwUGoh8M3XLhFeJfHaweYGxpdIAodq2BoPiu0j5BUAJF8_XQvDCrx1NKJHfMUbyyMyrYk5MQ7ompcGvc/s640/58.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG0A8gZ-_fTt13J5_sz-sPABYaNbgetMfV6QNlDCUgNI6ysb8hrpvZt94b757mL-kYAUbGNq1rYSgBoLz0V32QG4QYjF9-OEMcGHVN-Pe4GNDlfakjT5QLJaOazepHVT6PH7OehLtp3l0/s1600/59.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG0A8gZ-_fTt13J5_sz-sPABYaNbgetMfV6QNlDCUgNI6ysb8hrpvZt94b757mL-kYAUbGNq1rYSgBoLz0V32QG4QYjF9-OEMcGHVN-Pe4GNDlfakjT5QLJaOazepHVT6PH7OehLtp3l0/s640/59.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last district meeting of the transfer. We are all so awesome and it shows in our awesome group pictures. The bottom one is something the Japanese school kids do to line up.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy9SDStReWMXnp1AUK-BtoYRTK1VNiAIw5hM_L9W7_60peuAT44ia804Eeboa7oZJSS-x8cTw5l4uc53CEEPhNJteBDODeXuGn1NR4DE4Tklgq1TRZVmTjsuCBHHfmP6k7r3YUPRq_7bE/s1600/53.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy9SDStReWMXnp1AUK-BtoYRTK1VNiAIw5hM_L9W7_60peuAT44ia804Eeboa7oZJSS-x8cTw5l4uc53CEEPhNJteBDODeXuGn1NR4DE4Tklgq1TRZVmTjsuCBHHfmP6k7r3YUPRq_7bE/s640/53.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPHZyIwg3W9BHJfYylN-GjrrP7q7rKx-grt6sOXEk_M8FNbswUICrdcaKgdw4QpEbWAmxOmNF0aE45lLgGO1gEqKdoESF42i6y0di1zX2BFRxPW3-lDkJDVAwZpOe8mMd_NimCploXPHo/s1600/54.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPHZyIwg3W9BHJfYylN-GjrrP7q7rKx-grt6sOXEk_M8FNbswUICrdcaKgdw4QpEbWAmxOmNF0aE45lLgGO1gEqKdoESF42i6y0di1zX2BFRxPW3-lDkJDVAwZpOe8mMd_NimCploXPHo/s640/54.JPG" width="478" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is our Ward Mission Leader! I love this guy a lot.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ77U36f2GuZ105TriyTOFGasGIJzl55EfrWKBVZoQRwzuU45ab8klpnF0jOqoec0-XHh7_GHR6lJ2p6OD-JSbdzxQ3rU7HMJ-etWBkHcduqmn0r90cP-WjALrz1H_JTPcanKrsirkWCY/s1600/55.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ77U36f2GuZ105TriyTOFGasGIJzl55EfrWKBVZoQRwzuU45ab8klpnF0jOqoec0-XHh7_GHR6lJ2p6OD-JSbdzxQ3rU7HMJ-etWBkHcduqmn0r90cP-WjALrz1H_JTPcanKrsirkWCY/s640/55.JPG" width="480" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMztTVS9YCiN-VpCRNFDstHze8pMGfKLXyWrFlXJ37YBv2GEkqM_uoJmISTJtKGSce3Mkk3ZYyACBNKRrVGzuQvD1VzEih0gbW5gbZ7wwsFMQp_R7dBzkx9DdkhkxAxgux4O-i1H3ZYG0/s1600/56.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMztTVS9YCiN-VpCRNFDstHze8pMGfKLXyWrFlXJ37YBv2GEkqM_uoJmISTJtKGSce3Mkk3ZYyACBNKRrVGzuQvD1VzEih0gbW5gbZ7wwsFMQp_R7dBzkx9DdkhkxAxgux4O-i1H3ZYG0/s640/56.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Went to see some Cherry Blossoms with some Eikaiwa students. So many people and so many Cherry Blossoms. Really hard to take good pictures though...</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYhQ_fyRyB9x6K0me1K0DZVwaJQKqxQ5RUGCZ9UPe-hw-PRbjlgiB79VE9q0tpeV1gMdTN3cHk-4wImqbIwc6u7zfomOoehowC1hciX_WTxhi2HBuPC5ISL0KG9aTuRaa-aVYCEh79Klg/s1600/60.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYhQ_fyRyB9x6K0me1K0DZVwaJQKqxQ5RUGCZ9UPe-hw-PRbjlgiB79VE9q0tpeV1gMdTN3cHk-4wImqbIwc6u7zfomOoehowC1hciX_WTxhi2HBuPC5ISL0KG9aTuRaa-aVYCEh79Klg/s640/60.JPG" width="478" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the last time I meet with this investigator. </td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPGmu9yywlTgaxy3XU5gRgHBieDV9bZwCPV5qDzDutMZ4gLtuwgmURtB59PV_Y_-mdZqKiXqEyJeKuYt_-9wGWGb3rKJ4OPMU2RtnecNjt2xFh0RtZhpUSa7CGdDKbRsKEsx6xtnHWV1I/s1600/61.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPGmu9yywlTgaxy3XU5gRgHBieDV9bZwCPV5qDzDutMZ4gLtuwgmURtB59PV_Y_-mdZqKiXqEyJeKuYt_-9wGWGb3rKJ4OPMU2RtnecNjt2xFh0RtZhpUSa7CGdDKbRsKEsx6xtnHWV1I/s640/61.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Love this guy so much! He is going to Utah the day after I go home, so he might go to my homecoming talk! We'll see.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665849321724163626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150051264560172425.post-47559436735012858902016-04-11T09:41:00.000-07:002016-04-11T09:41:23.373-07:00JT - Conference Weekend!<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Dear everyone,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Holy cow this church is true! I loved conference and I learned so </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">much! But, it was the fastest conference weekend of my life. I </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">remember when I was little where sitting down for 2 whole hours for </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Priesthood session was so hard! But, all 10 hours felt like it went by </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">in 2 hours. I want more! But, I've got enough to study and learn for </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">the next 6 months, so I guess it's okay. It was just so good.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">This week was an awesome week and we saw many small miracles. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Everything from a random Less-Active member finding us and telling us </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">why she hasn't been to church, to a bunch of other random people </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">wanting to talk to us. We were doing some finding at a nearby college </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">and in the span of an hour and a half, we were able to teach 8 </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">different people about Jesus Christ and what we do as missionaries. It </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">felt like every time we started walking, another person would say, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">"hey! Who are you?" It was awesome and we were able to make a couple </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">return appointments with people. It was crazy. The Lord's hand truly </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">is in everything and his work is hastening, quite miraculously.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">We were also able to have 3 of our investigators come to watch at </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">least one session of conference. It was a great opportunity for them. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">They loved it and they learned a lot about what they want to do with </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">their life. It was a special feeling to see them take notes during </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">conference and finding out what God wants them to learn. It's kind of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">like watching your kid finally grow up (I'm guessing... I don't have </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">any kids.) way cool.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Time is flying so fast. Next week is transfer announcements and it </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">feels like the transfer just started. I can't believe that I only have </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">4 months left on my mission. I learned a lot from conference that </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">charged me and will allow me to work hard these next couple months. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">One of my favorite parts of the mission is the chance I have to change </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">myself. I've gone through a lot of experiences on my mission that I </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">never had imagined I would go through and because of that, I am a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">better person now than I was a year and a half ago. I will continue to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">change and improve. The beauty of the gospel is that this improvement </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">and change never has to stop. We believe in eternal progression. Think </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">about that. Even Heavenly Father is improving. How can he, isn't he </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">already perfect? I don't know how, but he is, somehow. There is no </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">end. I love that.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">We are so blessed to have God's true church on the earth. Only by </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">living this perfect gospel can we find balance and happiness and peace </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">in this insane world. There are so many bad influences in the world </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">and we need the guidance and trust of our leaders and of the Holy </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Ghost. I know that the First Presidency and Twelve Apostles are called </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">of God and they know exactly what we are facing. I sustain them all as </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">prophets, seers and revelators. Thomas S. Monson is God's chosen </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">servant and he holds all of the keys of the priesthood, which keys </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">give us blessings without measure.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Love you all! Have a great week! Don't forget the things you learned </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">from conference! You have heavenly help!</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Love,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Elder Lamoreaux ラムロー長老</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Japan Kobe Mission 日本神戸伝道部</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh33crjcwiy_fZ6nIgGxwcW-SeZrULzSCCYFb4gYXNVm2ACfyS4-U8lGUegPdlFx3zqYBJ3GccmOQiCmPbs9TuApWb1MVVNOduca0nFpP6zFDSLiCShzz2ECa5lK5vdgHdnRe5q7Sy6J5g/s1600/12.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh33crjcwiy_fZ6nIgGxwcW-SeZrULzSCCYFb4gYXNVm2ACfyS4-U8lGUegPdlFx3zqYBJ3GccmOQiCmPbs9TuApWb1MVVNOduca0nFpP6zFDSLiCShzz2ECa5lK5vdgHdnRe5q7Sy6J5g/s640/12.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View of Kyoto!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKLvS2NbITOQTZx0uSsXATEH9_JJ02W4YmfN-c_zP1ZiDqbFPgfmYCzqIhdnuq7TAN-U4BHuhWv8WDeX3NKamv32Ro6lcTvvTQPw4kxCXaE4OBZ9HPW4NDrKm8dhZa6TVE3gFOG_BULM8/s1600/05.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKLvS2NbITOQTZx0uSsXATEH9_JJ02W4YmfN-c_zP1ZiDqbFPgfmYCzqIhdnuq7TAN-U4BHuhWv8WDeX3NKamv32Ro6lcTvvTQPw4kxCXaE4OBZ9HPW4NDrKm8dhZa6TVE3gFOG_BULM8/s640/05.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4oV-_uEluU-2UY1omvKdTNzM-WrXKE4dd2SdPc7YcXMjjdhQavD0Q-Ou56ZR2oQ8UbyF7E8Myl2ZV_QCO7nkq-re2WrqoCW3A6TFroumDs0H_7ctc5xpwExDNkdHcbr8VQ8rvKrcnABg/s1600/06.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4oV-_uEluU-2UY1omvKdTNzM-WrXKE4dd2SdPc7YcXMjjdhQavD0Q-Ou56ZR2oQ8UbyF7E8Myl2ZV_QCO7nkq-re2WrqoCW3A6TFroumDs0H_7ctc5xpwExDNkdHcbr8VQ8rvKrcnABg/s640/06.JPG" width="478" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Members from Nishiwaki!!! Ahhh miss it so much!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6ywO8RhOXxbd7FxsnkPSjWeeVLZm5VW1WutjOnKYpO2LNUdtqyaCJg-vH04P8d16Sr-yL9U0doAHuaUjt4LKIQ6r3pZqkY5GMHavhUePIPFzrcpH_tYJk-M_fmCBShtN9ZKUBONkxBbs/s1600/07.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6ywO8RhOXxbd7FxsnkPSjWeeVLZm5VW1WutjOnKYpO2LNUdtqyaCJg-vH04P8d16Sr-yL9U0doAHuaUjt4LKIQ6r3pZqkY5GMHavhUePIPFzrcpH_tYJk-M_fmCBShtN9ZKUBONkxBbs/s640/07.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhaWxKqYoH5k8MHT_FAVTcMDqwM6l54w4A2s5cfx4rR6RQOmvzxG-lf97mDW9k6GRTiWZYsAlMDU4_v3jY7-dmEurQflgSumz3ZeqkNSyVY1NTxj_bShvVVRD4eQreB2ywuVAEPLWFag8/s1600/09.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhaWxKqYoH5k8MHT_FAVTcMDqwM6l54w4A2s5cfx4rR6RQOmvzxG-lf97mDW9k6GRTiWZYsAlMDU4_v3jY7-dmEurQflgSumz3ZeqkNSyVY1NTxj_bShvVVRD4eQreB2ywuVAEPLWFag8/s640/09.JPG" width="478" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZESUGbN7s_MnnBWrGh7v-B74uLAJgmPrGkp2tkguhzmZbbZ9LlvX6zt0zG-0weHERISepGmVmbhvOG1fD5yNRJd0nQ7_hu9ycUcP5k4fpMOuG-6jckXoLSiB2gJUY8U1GYy3RtQ3k86Y/s1600/10.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZESUGbN7s_MnnBWrGh7v-B74uLAJgmPrGkp2tkguhzmZbbZ9LlvX6zt0zG-0weHERISepGmVmbhvOG1fD5yNRJd0nQ7_hu9ycUcP5k4fpMOuG-6jckXoLSiB2gJUY8U1GYy3RtQ3k86Y/s640/10.JPG" width="478" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCczRpj71JWcuGGw76eZuJQSHDQXw0NXvJdgoFQzGVBUf4ZJz_4IG8genpCJy2kPO2mw7WDPt3UCwLaYzOD3Be7c_spHXvGwDf-x9BNE1zTe-G_caupB9wrVGiSy7VUbLsgLta_oPexOw/s1600/11.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCczRpj71JWcuGGw76eZuJQSHDQXw0NXvJdgoFQzGVBUf4ZJz_4IG8genpCJy2kPO2mw7WDPt3UCwLaYzOD3Be7c_spHXvGwDf-x9BNE1zTe-G_caupB9wrVGiSy7VUbLsgLta_oPexOw/s640/11.JPG" width="478" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnktMCPF6AkOapcnDHQkdOm8hA-PrQ2y1NETlTMnPBD7WFbrNkQ8RMs7__T-gLz5KqemLx-ksef2o0dCoUc9aJFRFTPXHst95xzz2RH-GROoI67XS2hEZ6GBRdblOqG-qn-W8UAbblGnQ/s1600/13.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnktMCPF6AkOapcnDHQkdOm8hA-PrQ2y1NETlTMnPBD7WFbrNkQ8RMs7__T-gLz5KqemLx-ksef2o0dCoUc9aJFRFTPXHst95xzz2RH-GROoI67XS2hEZ6GBRdblOqG-qn-W8UAbblGnQ/s640/13.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sakura! (cherry tree - blossoms)</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEAO0bQjMlJlq1Xb6TA_Z1v-4zUNBOPt9-qqfxSZv49tmNPW42_NGnTvxSp_7eWvEnx4KlkTZkgHlZN_6oW507Oadirdaizfp9D8GCQxzlUoe5VhGdFJcnoNwP7mPXg0ko2dRiemVvLMY/s1600/14.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEAO0bQjMlJlq1Xb6TA_Z1v-4zUNBOPt9-qqfxSZv49tmNPW42_NGnTvxSp_7eWvEnx4KlkTZkgHlZN_6oW507Oadirdaizfp9D8GCQxzlUoe5VhGdFJcnoNwP7mPXg0ko2dRiemVvLMY/s640/14.JPG" width="478" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq0H2Ov79CFDTnN6sc7tRIt0Xp5bQh9iKt82dl8v0iUzQsEWl7v3UWCXrIPJW0j8S2VdcCKpiu2sCw5095yAyG1ZqGCvOLbId_1AHxYayuSs926OLV6y58oPc-bjYvrIRizA4p-5_-ASE/s1600/15.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq0H2Ov79CFDTnN6sc7tRIt0Xp5bQh9iKt82dl8v0iUzQsEWl7v3UWCXrIPJW0j8S2VdcCKpiu2sCw5095yAyG1ZqGCvOLbId_1AHxYayuSs926OLV6y58oPc-bjYvrIRizA4p-5_-ASE/s640/15.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjW6VnHus3pKY7DtGIIIg7c7LfJf_vj3KmaWZzE18UnEghuKRf3HgeB47qwyqZkflOQsXW77ZywzFQVrG6ESaS3GfrKFfIc08BFMukD3w4eb-ugqZHDTTs7bRnEtmaL7da2bQHravS7AA/s1600/16.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjW6VnHus3pKY7DtGIIIg7c7LfJf_vj3KmaWZzE18UnEghuKRf3HgeB47qwyqZkflOQsXW77ZywzFQVrG6ESaS3GfrKFfIc08BFMukD3w4eb-ugqZHDTTs7bRnEtmaL7da2bQHravS7AA/s640/16.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRTGHzjOxszHcidCxnxPl9aBASLY-3g4HIGhYC1XHnLkOfdLoJ3dGzW_QF5lvcaPw6pUz8XgO-r9zHteO1HiRjTDTef5CNn5sT3oMM9eXqfAhWe-WRHpItLFDIvv4Y3430cxhdpaoDr6Y/s1600/17.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRTGHzjOxszHcidCxnxPl9aBASLY-3g4HIGhYC1XHnLkOfdLoJ3dGzW_QF5lvcaPw6pUz8XgO-r9zHteO1HiRjTDTef5CNn5sT3oMM9eXqfAhWe-WRHpItLFDIvv4Y3430cxhdpaoDr6Y/s640/17.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnbc7niyBNR725eoS_lJa35sy_xp9pViNPRxxI1WoTk62LYtM9Vw2dm6SrPyhyphenhyphenGE-kUmfGv4zY8no-QMS2disITke046uJLO-LpL37ILaUx80MwCHSAQlOGJlKkV95gtafP92DbellIm4/s1600/18.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnbc7niyBNR725eoS_lJa35sy_xp9pViNPRxxI1WoTk62LYtM9Vw2dm6SrPyhyphenhyphenGE-kUmfGv4zY8no-QMS2disITke046uJLO-LpL37ILaUx80MwCHSAQlOGJlKkV95gtafP92DbellIm4/s640/18.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOfe-Y_BlJm58bl2uMhF7u1FredCgqeM6BKLL4vyH7w4s4mSGKXez13FtiG9Unbu_AuN0Xtub_CZGrBH-EVrjDxhZjG_pT4kZ5FqI1ejVldtKOu5pkrsKM-V_UvzvinTeWsz6EnQx2mVQ/s1600/19.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOfe-Y_BlJm58bl2uMhF7u1FredCgqeM6BKLL4vyH7w4s4mSGKXez13FtiG9Unbu_AuN0Xtub_CZGrBH-EVrjDxhZjG_pT4kZ5FqI1ejVldtKOu5pkrsKM-V_UvzvinTeWsz6EnQx2mVQ/s640/19.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixlLxjvWijvwk2YVtJl3j414rVWp5XkUo0q-PwNa40NyHuVtc3f3t8RiMVWMI8YTlBtqQl3D7V_smXPUByQf7_lfb2TXKnd-VT4SQZR8ZYB7tXZ2EvbYN-POgMflK6_9g8MXAxAEshCik/s1600/22.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixlLxjvWijvwk2YVtJl3j414rVWp5XkUo0q-PwNa40NyHuVtc3f3t8RiMVWMI8YTlBtqQl3D7V_smXPUByQf7_lfb2TXKnd-VT4SQZR8ZYB7tXZ2EvbYN-POgMflK6_9g8MXAxAEshCik/s640/22.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl6NECkDJweBreFrOeuisMrAsoo7vM4M_UufwaP16-eplM85nJItHbqbhGBju_RptPsuvsxkILsI1jRe3aL25-58Bup9_cvDqjoFlNB8VaVmrJMSRSecMI91yq8mzWs5TnEupIUKMJcyU/s1600/23.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl6NECkDJweBreFrOeuisMrAsoo7vM4M_UufwaP16-eplM85nJItHbqbhGBju_RptPsuvsxkILsI1jRe3aL25-58Bup9_cvDqjoFlNB8VaVmrJMSRSecMI91yq8mzWs5TnEupIUKMJcyU/s640/23.JPG" width="480" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsJfOPatoEu2FxWYEuVtCcfOjIeM3Xj12HlKIPAwJWUkQIClGPKon7_cct7OKYnIt4WU1XZaURLmC_VIr1VjaRIlZeuAJRCwRc71liMmRhB_uWM3V9q7_-xx_lXSOxM2TwCmPoFQS-R-w/s1600/25.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsJfOPatoEu2FxWYEuVtCcfOjIeM3Xj12HlKIPAwJWUkQIClGPKon7_cct7OKYnIt4WU1XZaURLmC_VIr1VjaRIlZeuAJRCwRc71liMmRhB_uWM3V9q7_-xx_lXSOxM2TwCmPoFQS-R-w/s640/25.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsWmna5a9ONgRmMudpUI-iSoP0WykSWZHXiUv7JK3SfPp71WP-m2PNWOwi0tApFLPXGSVjLM6HEU8bg70HVEXYOKFFteuBm8jPuRTxJbYeHRcH1PBUjiGiXcyyrDfDh6UDxiMT3QDpGVo/s1600/26.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsWmna5a9ONgRmMudpUI-iSoP0WykSWZHXiUv7JK3SfPp71WP-m2PNWOwi0tApFLPXGSVjLM6HEU8bg70HVEXYOKFFteuBm8jPuRTxJbYeHRcH1PBUjiGiXcyyrDfDh6UDxiMT3QDpGVo/s640/26.JPG" width="480" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRjD9YTVW61tAoR7ZR9ec2EXFMnZ6Gk14G5fm0CPptrgWblyL6b0Fhj8wH0KclUtdFOX2yt-xNimdDTxcyQYyh2_0lca_VKh6W4MiqiHtNXv9mozGN0rr50G6uLI0wqv9ej_R_8QD6AeA/s1600/27.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRjD9YTVW61tAoR7ZR9ec2EXFMnZ6Gk14G5fm0CPptrgWblyL6b0Fhj8wH0KclUtdFOX2yt-xNimdDTxcyQYyh2_0lca_VKh6W4MiqiHtNXv9mozGN0rr50G6uLI0wqv9ej_R_8QD6AeA/s640/27.JPG" width="478" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRuhd8HnFWl4D0g-bTSjI5nC7JRlIKqZLTeTR8sdpzqpjE2ID7rwts_HjkT40-QNFQlg34Zvz41bBtkI_NxfsyOfYZRgE2Sj1WZKrJqG0YdzdvTvPSO8dFdXgScYFZj40d_VBrCBfuLvg/s1600/28.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRuhd8HnFWl4D0g-bTSjI5nC7JRlIKqZLTeTR8sdpzqpjE2ID7rwts_HjkT40-QNFQlg34Zvz41bBtkI_NxfsyOfYZRgE2Sj1WZKrJqG0YdzdvTvPSO8dFdXgScYFZj40d_VBrCBfuLvg/s640/28.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2NOPcRCsdz3yf_1BUs6kUsW8h9EsThTvo5A7_qIpth-TPTyr5G5q5eJmWQPSq3WgVMTTe1QM-hPFRVyo7UON2L9KQ7ewMXoqGeTkz7-dJ_oVPTjuOmSPldyO-IE_hTah7QNpcJnHvZRA/s1600/30.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2NOPcRCsdz3yf_1BUs6kUsW8h9EsThTvo5A7_qIpth-TPTyr5G5q5eJmWQPSq3WgVMTTe1QM-hPFRVyo7UON2L9KQ7ewMXoqGeTkz7-dJ_oVPTjuOmSPldyO-IE_hTah7QNpcJnHvZRA/s640/30.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpP0-UsuWjvMn70B8jL8QjalmM49qDb6-VHUU8AXR_J2V8t8NEhA-LKrXvlzB-r2DTNPx2Jg27TRbt5AwVc2QJeMNiJh9Qm0L7WLWHEZh-aYHl5Duo38Z3rAl-tAGaoeQTquPlugxvSlI/s1600/31.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpP0-UsuWjvMn70B8jL8QjalmM49qDb6-VHUU8AXR_J2V8t8NEhA-LKrXvlzB-r2DTNPx2Jg27TRbt5AwVc2QJeMNiJh9Qm0L7WLWHEZh-aYHl5Duo38Z3rAl-tAGaoeQTquPlugxvSlI/s640/31.JPG" width="480" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjRVn1HERfnCbaAa4XcLZ9-yxbS2wLWxxGQ2H4Pgxi0xoz267Q0gZNmAp-TdS_o-n9MzS00C7DL33Wxe-cg28cLpF5zv2N9sQYomKJaRmB0X6OMeCX6g7CA0yQ3XSu2SVkpltLr85-jCc/s1600/33.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjRVn1HERfnCbaAa4XcLZ9-yxbS2wLWxxGQ2H4Pgxi0xoz267Q0gZNmAp-TdS_o-n9MzS00C7DL33Wxe-cg28cLpF5zv2N9sQYomKJaRmB0X6OMeCX6g7CA0yQ3XSu2SVkpltLr85-jCc/s640/33.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Kyoto ring!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrorGjfvClCvHSvkrAPyJ4cynlYgXlEw-8di12qsKJsD7uqEfrZ-vh0LHGwhULeiXHaRm9sv0KD6FXDXsLIdJ55meQVGYtMtP_Um0WUt2iUSvT-Ds5ZCCGDzRUol5m0VMyUOUCg8Z7u8E/s1600/34.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrorGjfvClCvHSvkrAPyJ4cynlYgXlEw-8di12qsKJsD7uqEfrZ-vh0LHGwhULeiXHaRm9sv0KD6FXDXsLIdJ55meQVGYtMtP_Um0WUt2iUSvT-Ds5ZCCGDzRUol5m0VMyUOUCg8Z7u8E/s640/34.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Randomly met a church member from Taiwan who knows Ben and Yumiko Sainsbury! What a small world. The was another miracle.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghvS-E_ZNrmzifqsUuIQdgUi39weyhafK1AeQ3hsHGjqaKh_SxAiY5VMn7YO1l-4E8k05MdtbLk2pGd-AlKpTrONLQor_qsLqmgCkBBVqzpfqOHm45bYC8u8rxB7pUEivzOsivKGJO36Q/s1600/35.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghvS-E_ZNrmzifqsUuIQdgUi39weyhafK1AeQ3hsHGjqaKh_SxAiY5VMn7YO1l-4E8k05MdtbLk2pGd-AlKpTrONLQor_qsLqmgCkBBVqzpfqOHm45bYC8u8rxB7pUEivzOsivKGJO36Q/s640/35.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A park near our apartment.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh95vt79KwK2inPeTVxTjh5gXW5NYSuIuvfwZh40J0lTBcgpMJxcWq-Ou1UMiWCdb2ZW5uF_unuB5fK7f-mfLuYNkg4ss-2d_3u6FDFGJWnINDmbBgQagsiUgQYWX4SW-AhD-BB4NqI6Lg/s1600/36.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh95vt79KwK2inPeTVxTjh5gXW5NYSuIuvfwZh40J0lTBcgpMJxcWq-Ou1UMiWCdb2ZW5uF_unuB5fK7f-mfLuYNkg4ss-2d_3u6FDFGJWnINDmbBgQagsiUgQYWX4SW-AhD-BB4NqI6Lg/s640/36.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoSo_CqWQ7I_fiXWjgpkFaR7BzLEksSaEc807bHXXV80y1P1PWl0eOlmW8QFXXcK-8NCcTUbWSTpsclYuxeP0V3JSqSTqPrIw3ro4iLQJe6WMZ1s4D4Uj2muEhLiN5caXC06h9lW092so/s1600/37.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoSo_CqWQ7I_fiXWjgpkFaR7BzLEksSaEc807bHXXV80y1P1PWl0eOlmW8QFXXcK-8NCcTUbWSTpsclYuxeP0V3JSqSTqPrIw3ro4iLQJe6WMZ1s4D4Uj2muEhLiN5caXC06h9lW092so/s640/37.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8yLMeQWc1KAdLwMG2n1aQJhuBDFT99jxlEGDV_GOJYhRHM2WVnP7QUat9lzSs1IZVYrAfsNTJRQnOSgX2C25r5ranKVoWXJUHwJO2TT704LEcHC0q17H9lUhVGoA966s43jyuPyTqZgU/s1600/39.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8yLMeQWc1KAdLwMG2n1aQJhuBDFT99jxlEGDV_GOJYhRHM2WVnP7QUat9lzSs1IZVYrAfsNTJRQnOSgX2C25r5ranKVoWXJUHwJO2TT704LEcHC0q17H9lUhVGoA966s43jyuPyTqZgU/s640/39.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Osaka zone and the AP's at ZTM. Elder Sano is dying.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig39bTZ-6zpHubif1tBlYlNZHTkX75jnmwOefP3BNRO7S-o49sWQCj1Duc6hwysU42fH9uP1cb38zBkYt8OmYu2YJyV6G9jQSkrXa1JOVlRE0Tpu7uyjg9JDkykKWTh5lxCI7jBZ8EPf8/s1600/40.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig39bTZ-6zpHubif1tBlYlNZHTkX75jnmwOefP3BNRO7S-o49sWQCj1Duc6hwysU42fH9uP1cb38zBkYt8OmYu2YJyV6G9jQSkrXa1JOVlRE0Tpu7uyjg9JDkykKWTh5lxCI7jBZ8EPf8/s640/40.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eating lunch with some of the zone.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBQsqtnaGo29NSRRpHGfsYCJFIupWLNc0xQezAgPCokuPn4_Lucghw_BXt547OfP-SQ_j_oavSkWENFbKw7iuREo3dogpMLBSZOHmaubkTTO4KNS_2aJ1EXwJ7wydFiFCaPFodspl0sy0/s1600/41.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBQsqtnaGo29NSRRpHGfsYCJFIupWLNc0xQezAgPCokuPn4_Lucghw_BXt547OfP-SQ_j_oavSkWENFbKw7iuREo3dogpMLBSZOHmaubkTTO4KNS_2aJ1EXwJ7wydFiFCaPFodspl0sy0/s400/41.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Random perverted college students.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgATa9c9els7mn6vfcNjsIuE-vVljGyCLjBD0dR2TUXsmRx0kLuUzlQOQvI_Lsg0D8r2m7i-FGWLIpb_nfigIn8rW2hGwplrctYVwofIqIfPf4CmVZuTPVBR_ZncTQeJu5fwjkzLx9svno/s1600/42.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgATa9c9els7mn6vfcNjsIuE-vVljGyCLjBD0dR2TUXsmRx0kLuUzlQOQvI_Lsg0D8r2m7i-FGWLIpb_nfigIn8rW2hGwplrctYVwofIqIfPf4CmVZuTPVBR_ZncTQeJu5fwjkzLx9svno/s640/42.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Left: normal American Pringles. Right: Pringles in Japan... Yup I like America.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOzwm3FTvaCAVDL8QidT8yvx3bnp9D3sUB81UJ2cpcRmiKWHZoy6OjxdB7mVC-ZlyMaaQ43VTEZMFWRrjm8I2oy2AZ5PDylRtiTUNHBcrdYcw0qskU8uFPzfhgFvRoy-1DgHiE-gyhYds/s1600/44.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOzwm3FTvaCAVDL8QidT8yvx3bnp9D3sUB81UJ2cpcRmiKWHZoy6OjxdB7mVC-ZlyMaaQ43VTEZMFWRrjm8I2oy2AZ5PDylRtiTUNHBcrdYcw0qskU8uFPzfhgFvRoy-1DgHiE-gyhYds/s640/44.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We went to Holland today! A cool park in the neighboring area that we went to today.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMgU4zTxaL3CC9OimHmbo4hSARBtSbe60_LxVYhymQcvXeW7ukQu93rHZ3iU8B0HEl0TOFwfWa11Z-E0Nkzvsb_63xxGG_QVgt5X6q-Sk2_o_-FpQnFqtQlGJMZWj0tB43r5iuyxwGyvg/s1600/46.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMgU4zTxaL3CC9OimHmbo4hSARBtSbe60_LxVYhymQcvXeW7ukQu93rHZ3iU8B0HEl0TOFwfWa11Z-E0Nkzvsb_63xxGG_QVgt5X6q-Sk2_o_-FpQnFqtQlGJMZWj0tB43r5iuyxwGyvg/s640/46.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTjj-oAg-xL_AQJ_00cK9wKTgdW5ciI_sPJGBlfiTijgbX7Wo9lLQso8h0CtLkcs06xrY8wvbPpZv5chPG6vmLaPOoGOHkc5sC8pSjl7z0ns1_igv-r0krgiJ9tFH02HQLdaTH9UNAyU0/s1600/47.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTjj-oAg-xL_AQJ_00cK9wKTgdW5ciI_sPJGBlfiTijgbX7Wo9lLQso8h0CtLkcs06xrY8wvbPpZv5chPG6vmLaPOoGOHkc5sC8pSjl7z0ns1_igv-r0krgiJ9tFH02HQLdaTH9UNAyU0/s640/47.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj71bH14AzvOsiApsciWyH_EBLIxSPJvMKGNESiu3XGexXD7yOu9Dv0fwwDSQSUuuGZfL6B_L781DVVhIbgA0GNkWp7KOPRPBGgyzLgLhEUJNmmQ7EUZopYdBjjWuX63wo0lEQP_M5C5sw/s1600/48.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj71bH14AzvOsiApsciWyH_EBLIxSPJvMKGNESiu3XGexXD7yOu9Dv0fwwDSQSUuuGZfL6B_L781DVVhIbgA0GNkWp7KOPRPBGgyzLgLhEUJNmmQ7EUZopYdBjjWuX63wo0lEQP_M5C5sw/s640/48.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-SRg_8mpPBa2SFW386F8C_We9i55xKuoiNEvXEaWsGOEoPbmbDaOCOMF4_BlWHkbn_0Qx2VEdN77lSfrFhdzVLV8TYfp8cIglp5ZnATt8EB1db1KjMb6HVIlax_uZZIyEW558rHnsJSU/s1600/49.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-SRg_8mpPBa2SFW386F8C_We9i55xKuoiNEvXEaWsGOEoPbmbDaOCOMF4_BlWHkbn_0Qx2VEdN77lSfrFhdzVLV8TYfp8cIglp5ZnATt8EB1db1KjMb6HVIlax_uZZIyEW558rHnsJSU/s640/49.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFitvfAyfxT0r6J6OUm_V2Yt636ban693J-1CSJano60eJMepU4RlxFnTqcLw5BK1uMt7Kd0M_3Gd9jPixWNXmb6oldPl1JYF5zhWZ_ZxsZgv6EfhMIL7TexgVeBWnEf_DHMkDnvacuts/s1600/50.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFitvfAyfxT0r6J6OUm_V2Yt636ban693J-1CSJano60eJMepU4RlxFnTqcLw5BK1uMt7Kd0M_3Gd9jPixWNXmb6oldPl1JYF5zhWZ_ZxsZgv6EfhMIL7TexgVeBWnEf_DHMkDnvacuts/s640/50.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHt4ciiCNI83oottrBGsJ_YI26qYst4V-PoP8alOfPjLpuQGrDPu-p6-bGPcnwbCeWF4QTJQ2oFBZ6UX004HWNQNHEekzGwSZW7MO05LA4XMj4u7RUlzeZeCCgfkPcXar6x72RUXmNVFw/s1600/51.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHt4ciiCNI83oottrBGsJ_YI26qYst4V-PoP8alOfPjLpuQGrDPu-p6-bGPcnwbCeWF4QTJQ2oFBZ6UX004HWNQNHEekzGwSZW7MO05LA4XMj4u7RUlzeZeCCgfkPcXar6x72RUXmNVFw/s640/51.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We found this, didn't make it...</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665849321724163626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150051264560172425.post-66705903354493793322016-04-04T13:52:00.000-07:002016-04-04T13:52:38.697-07:00JT - Sick week...<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">Dear Everyone,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">Yup, as the title implies, I got sick this week... Yay! But I'm fine </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">now. We spent a couple of days in the apartment because I couldn't </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">function very well. I spent a few hours sleeping and it felt really </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">nice to do so. All of Saturday was hard because I was so mentally </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">exhausted that I struggled to even lift my head. I haven't felt this </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">kind of tiredness ever. But it's good.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">We had a couple of road blocks with missionary work this week. The </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">biggest one involves the investigator who has a baptismal date. He now </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">can't get baptized for a while because of things that I cannot talk </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">about. So, that was really disappointing, but there is still hope. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">Repentance is real and I know that if he turns to his savior, he can </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">overcome these things.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">I don't have much time to write so I will end with a quick scripture. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">Mosiah 16:9 "He is the light and the life of the world; yea, a light </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">that is endless, that can never be darkened; yea, and also a life </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">which is endless, that there can be no more death."</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">Love you all! The church is true! Have a great week! I will give a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">couple pictures to prove that I had no time today.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">Love,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">Elder Lamoreaux ラムロー長老</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">Japan Kobe Mission 日本神戸伝道部</span></span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI4altsD7Q6l8eZWz6e_8LsjOKYKYorxhmmgr8VkknEpG0VW62K6r156S1dG4QCqRbEMSmB8C3mS-bvm8A8Hm-g5r0QmjZKEnvBnXNYr1_KyS3iLk-vU2Dlju0TLZCX4c5j1Ev7xz_usc/s1600/03.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI4altsD7Q6l8eZWz6e_8LsjOKYKYorxhmmgr8VkknEpG0VW62K6r156S1dG4QCqRbEMSmB8C3mS-bvm8A8Hm-g5r0QmjZKEnvBnXNYr1_KyS3iLk-vU2Dlju0TLZCX4c5j1Ev7xz_usc/s640/03.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-Td652qHc9PPywxkiIp6hXBwZTA_5Dt_qYJKL3qQMqzFQGh0_MJTsCZeSgRf1NJo4sM9s4PWmni4Lv2_4j_35y5hWNW5fj6wYV2qqRA17iPsnQr5sw01Lsytpas1I2ORXMglQfDI4zDE/s1600/04.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-Td652qHc9PPywxkiIp6hXBwZTA_5Dt_qYJKL3qQMqzFQGh0_MJTsCZeSgRf1NJo4sM9s4PWmni4Lv2_4j_35y5hWNW5fj6wYV2qqRA17iPsnQr5sw01Lsytpas1I2ORXMglQfDI4zDE/s640/04.JPG" width="476" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
</div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_z196G0T1ha3umicyV7xmkeJM55B1J-S_8JcjNnEQOXFXAbooV7GmQIL7x8sRUTiIYnNvd72PhO3vh0Ozt4yBJa8llHAe18cqui-skfl8E5n_QMO0A3efDEUNJm14YQRoJsbT9RHy4ZA/s1600/01.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_z196G0T1ha3umicyV7xmkeJM55B1J-S_8JcjNnEQOXFXAbooV7GmQIL7x8sRUTiIYnNvd72PhO3vh0Ozt4yBJa8llHAe18cqui-skfl8E5n_QMO0A3efDEUNJm14YQRoJsbT9RHy4ZA/s640/01.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The mask of shame... Yes, I got sick... The District! And the Zone Leaders!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9iomjdbpuW8r_UAI-325Q1Mb4IWXOlXt1BALfuFyqhcp2uf8VBpwWfdca08P9LHBtaizBcjQGdV30n2wFhtjlTukvl0_UcAmfiG0ShogDr29_KpIQWF0YRXFSXXodV7ELLcpJvncjrb8/s1600/02.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9iomjdbpuW8r_UAI-325Q1Mb4IWXOlXt1BALfuFyqhcp2uf8VBpwWfdca08P9LHBtaizBcjQGdV30n2wFhtjlTukvl0_UcAmfiG0ShogDr29_KpIQWF0YRXFSXXodV7ELLcpJvncjrb8/s640/02.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We went to Dominos pizza!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf4-tVp1SPa2OpsqcHspPfs9k_noGgnuBajMMuYyyr9435bSie2kUiD-63gCUJQedZtvR509xiM9PWiops5pVB8g0nG-2sUtk-hVWO6M6po-E7i2V3lEdxfFcUnRGt9E1hHH7dcZkt5Bc/s1600/65.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf4-tVp1SPa2OpsqcHspPfs9k_noGgnuBajMMuYyyr9435bSie2kUiD-63gCUJQedZtvR509xiM9PWiops5pVB8g0nG-2sUtk-hVWO6M6po-E7i2V3lEdxfFcUnRGt9E1hHH7dcZkt5Bc/s640/65.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some cool people at Eikaiwa (English class)</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br /> Last Monday, we went to a place called Akame 48 waterfalls with a member. It is a nice hike next to a river with well, 48 waterfalls. So pretty, such a great break from the city life of Osaka.<div>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'helvetica neue', 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU7Kziq_JLi-qsKU7FGK52fTwdp3EowaI-lYlkX3LoBaGWjuuPgScGufEAX8Wx0N4B18J3Yf7CynDskbXVTM8JH8GGaqbLLf88nVOCIwOrP0g8sxOOPrHIQwgXVLaL_BYq-3b0ljlbNWk/s1600/50.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU7Kziq_JLi-qsKU7FGK52fTwdp3EowaI-lYlkX3LoBaGWjuuPgScGufEAX8Wx0N4B18J3Yf7CynDskbXVTM8JH8GGaqbLLf88nVOCIwOrP0g8sxOOPrHIQwgXVLaL_BYq-3b0ljlbNWk/s640/50.JPG" width="478" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This place is also a Ninga Village!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoxEAjIWI7bzYRJsy0B-qJqy6n7cbSlpG_NyOqw37P5vkujzpDFRf0YsSrGDxbgxmT5OFOchHKjEGOKKoAizOVZvYKFrBp3avdNeVgBSJ-4fh_IiijzRthhpT8dlGrbDPFPR4bS0JjXbA/s1600/44.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoxEAjIWI7bzYRJsy0B-qJqy6n7cbSlpG_NyOqw37P5vkujzpDFRf0YsSrGDxbgxmT5OFOchHKjEGOKKoAizOVZvYKFrBp3avdNeVgBSJ-4fh_IiijzRthhpT8dlGrbDPFPR4bS0JjXbA/s400/44.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq7l8feOWwVCKS1aymSBi43ZqZEv9B73HgCNZWnO7puXAfMAItHN4H_o0QPsGVXjidBnlcqFVVOXhecN-FJ9vSsGWncmRkF-2DZuNkK1WdDPHKqqPsAyuOB7EOho63r6LpMDm-LgNHnZ0/s1600/49.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq7l8feOWwVCKS1aymSBi43ZqZEv9B73HgCNZWnO7puXAfMAItHN4H_o0QPsGVXjidBnlcqFVVOXhecN-FJ9vSsGWncmRkF-2DZuNkK1WdDPHKqqPsAyuOB7EOho63r6LpMDm-LgNHnZ0/s640/49.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbTkxuBT2WOsYA5Fs8Slm_zb1R6zdO2dI1CtCycLYZDqX9WzTb8FZtLOMQjFInCUWaX_1VeihV_5TZWiUybJz4laxKbG9XWYHoYwAzw71DEvKe0G4CCb5mIGS_Mw-xTp85HYGfuDmBJjY/s1600/42.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbTkxuBT2WOsYA5Fs8Slm_zb1R6zdO2dI1CtCycLYZDqX9WzTb8FZtLOMQjFInCUWaX_1VeihV_5TZWiUybJz4laxKbG9XWYHoYwAzw71DEvKe0G4CCb5mIGS_Mw-xTp85HYGfuDmBJjY/s640/42.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtoyKLkb52RD3aEbx8YafszDh_dhuvtNGbu5Z7kGrTCdDiPAk_q-oDqMsQoIwjsvuX3pigVNPcB0ZEiYTj1-Y6Cs1txwfJ6q5nvGsGxIOdCB0RWP4HomY5hZRiZncmwxmxHnSnXaS3y4g/s1600/43.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtoyKLkb52RD3aEbx8YafszDh_dhuvtNGbu5Z7kGrTCdDiPAk_q-oDqMsQoIwjsvuX3pigVNPcB0ZEiYTj1-Y6Cs1txwfJ6q5nvGsGxIOdCB0RWP4HomY5hZRiZncmwxmxHnSnXaS3y4g/s640/43.JPG" width="476" /></a></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz0reHASP446I7UU7Pqtzohtav6qlFxIBeVDamKom3hG8SToPRJwfpxkYxA_jvOywd9tZDlkm8GPncbyhabgkjN4XELa1kKhMr-8ngkxjeTQ4Joh0q-nkSVe6EbDYrdMuZkPy8wxN7dDk/s1600/45.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz0reHASP446I7UU7Pqtzohtav6qlFxIBeVDamKom3hG8SToPRJwfpxkYxA_jvOywd9tZDlkm8GPncbyhabgkjN4XELa1kKhMr-8ngkxjeTQ4Joh0q-nkSVe6EbDYrdMuZkPy8wxN7dDk/s640/45.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1cvzyK6tgNv7BvS1re9fmXTKshaPhmlhLywxJc8lEPaIUvQva1eLt6-8KrTkaoxnLUOaWRNAmbFotg17K36Em5WHqfYP6gS0Cgfbac7O7AYhIRot16HaxmxCzMwe8UrfQExsCxlwx3ew/s1600/46.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1cvzyK6tgNv7BvS1re9fmXTKshaPhmlhLywxJc8lEPaIUvQva1eLt6-8KrTkaoxnLUOaWRNAmbFotg17K36Em5WHqfYP6gS0Cgfbac7O7AYhIRot16HaxmxCzMwe8UrfQExsCxlwx3ew/s640/46.JPG" width="476" /></a></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWp6cPIg0brp1A_8hLG_hSpn5LfYTXeFq0JoRCIlPRN4_vNaXuVAkHmKEWmRObLgvXgYa6BZcMMKgo3E2VtA07X6X8yajQaJb6lpA-9PwxrSFi6vVRFz3jeuokbKr26bFwqQmnlU5ioZk/s1600/47.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWp6cPIg0brp1A_8hLG_hSpn5LfYTXeFq0JoRCIlPRN4_vNaXuVAkHmKEWmRObLgvXgYa6BZcMMKgo3E2VtA07X6X8yajQaJb6lpA-9PwxrSFi6vVRFz3jeuokbKr26bFwqQmnlU5ioZk/s640/47.JPG" width="478" /></a></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRkk2UbCEQtQCfDAbd8E2wM0lR7fJkp5qi0Gtk0glDWH-gd26yhjFYG0NtHFEk7f-aIohrhb6pHN1msvWi1POcYkxPi2vHpTrhP_yKcFKMfWaNdRUkD6x-OL00QcIJrZy_0qjkFmElsgM/s1600/48.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRkk2UbCEQtQCfDAbd8E2wM0lR7fJkp5qi0Gtk0glDWH-gd26yhjFYG0NtHFEk7f-aIohrhb6pHN1msvWi1POcYkxPi2vHpTrhP_yKcFKMfWaNdRUkD6x-OL00QcIJrZy_0qjkFmElsgM/s640/48.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9KhCMlL2vaJSoKaw_awvQjCVBWJgTW7LPmOsW199sBSHgUTsvWtjUwBGYW_pwnwPBA8rtBDjmXT5Rn7eJnNR3hR2FhnDrHym4JT3goPJfGSe819uzpDFGIDAPz4tGgKFdlvW7rUPq33M/s1600/51.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9KhCMlL2vaJSoKaw_awvQjCVBWJgTW7LPmOsW199sBSHgUTsvWtjUwBGYW_pwnwPBA8rtBDjmXT5Rn7eJnNR3hR2FhnDrHym4JT3goPJfGSe819uzpDFGIDAPz4tGgKFdlvW7rUPq33M/s640/51.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwEQafteNa4V1AKsIZzSfkQ88_agLgstGbzDKb4q53sDdpV1NSQ2Z98y1y5GGoR811DdZcFDINzIQQf71jwr-bsiz9DSo-JXoB8QvUmxDhhHG_RMoaiMZF_V38EPIU3qh76RKsVRBSFaI/s1600/52.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwEQafteNa4V1AKsIZzSfkQ88_agLgstGbzDKb4q53sDdpV1NSQ2Z98y1y5GGoR811DdZcFDINzIQQf71jwr-bsiz9DSo-JXoB8QvUmxDhhHG_RMoaiMZF_V38EPIU3qh76RKsVRBSFaI/s640/52.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiVStBWRA5EHRdZntTq2dGoC30EQqnDRtgCNI6jYQfzOKvh-7feFfufUMliiQPEJGi1UJrZ_uDIshymmTkG8ZABqVVvgHM3xKCXVx_eUQmvsdMYzk3QCid6E14EYUIQU0UBFnU8z4Q6-I/s1600/53.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiVStBWRA5EHRdZntTq2dGoC30EQqnDRtgCNI6jYQfzOKvh-7feFfufUMliiQPEJGi1UJrZ_uDIshymmTkG8ZABqVVvgHM3xKCXVx_eUQmvsdMYzk3QCid6E14EYUIQU0UBFnU8z4Q6-I/s640/53.JPG" width="478" /></a></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmF_sS7Ng_6sI9yOj_SRoi7qozZadpwOy972JKIjhMl-SYmt0lIEl8d4K-WbwFWbVGQCF3hwBTB_ayJvDbBLb6gbIVhrSgc49_i3SoR8YFOlS9S3z-P0sVHBjXnajMDarAvIvNgVffpNE/s1600/54.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmF_sS7Ng_6sI9yOj_SRoi7qozZadpwOy972JKIjhMl-SYmt0lIEl8d4K-WbwFWbVGQCF3hwBTB_ayJvDbBLb6gbIVhrSgc49_i3SoR8YFOlS9S3z-P0sVHBjXnajMDarAvIvNgVffpNE/s640/54.JPG" width="476" /></a></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKkOSwe9iS5I7SmrEBZaToQp0by675TemiLsrYAmeveB9Y_gYoIV9GgBXrIH5WGtGxbxUTyyrWu7gl-_tbBuIdeSGcldSv6wVke09gbLvdXPzlNTb6qbGIcXKPZRFR95kvmFsU4xxcT9k/s1600/55.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKkOSwe9iS5I7SmrEBZaToQp0by675TemiLsrYAmeveB9Y_gYoIV9GgBXrIH5WGtGxbxUTyyrWu7gl-_tbBuIdeSGcldSv6wVke09gbLvdXPzlNTb6qbGIcXKPZRFR95kvmFsU4xxcT9k/s640/55.JPG" width="476" /></a></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSie_JjNDYYe7WKxtCb1c-rgaut2GLrEWZoL8S_QMjbvt7NlEVXGMNnNLr7yozChECMRXQvN5zT2zEl5U1mG9yN0X7L6hdIK4kQsyx_7I30cau02v85P78NVKzjCkG-90AHJ3nzw8fwsE/s1600/56.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSie_JjNDYYe7WKxtCb1c-rgaut2GLrEWZoL8S_QMjbvt7NlEVXGMNnNLr7yozChECMRXQvN5zT2zEl5U1mG9yN0X7L6hdIK4kQsyx_7I30cau02v85P78NVKzjCkG-90AHJ3nzw8fwsE/s640/56.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivJ1hawfDSmeNbPk02nxSx2JaTMiOiqaQNZlnitO7M4mV9CUisvfdVQHvAyJj9Bc1hML9gpRjz1yHn1gwgZotv4hGDipODFziTvDHOmXRHnArxA-wEiAEvbKXNf97gIFX-ZjMLvgjUiBQ/s1600/57.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivJ1hawfDSmeNbPk02nxSx2JaTMiOiqaQNZlnitO7M4mV9CUisvfdVQHvAyJj9Bc1hML9gpRjz1yHn1gwgZotv4hGDipODFziTvDHOmXRHnArxA-wEiAEvbKXNf97gIFX-ZjMLvgjUiBQ/s640/57.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6C8CzC6L8o6iID_VwO8pXA9zHJYOWoS_tQmLg1oUH257p_QCdsxFnNxEdL0QllDabgSRjFNVm1wGuGtn5bH2K9SU9m1fgiqSrdSHRMdQ6IiNRMzINppAB6jXlivlUaxU4NV8G6zgxJv0/s1600/58.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6C8CzC6L8o6iID_VwO8pXA9zHJYOWoS_tQmLg1oUH257p_QCdsxFnNxEdL0QllDabgSRjFNVm1wGuGtn5bH2K9SU9m1fgiqSrdSHRMdQ6IiNRMzINppAB6jXlivlUaxU4NV8G6zgxJv0/s640/58.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBAbeSjPOBm1FgbfUjyKIX716lz2kV0B-GjGXM40Yz-iYrNhE6Fk1DH9aQpbCZj8DAdpDVWDidWrLUw5RktFCvnQGTtA-wbXO9Apq0TTigT26puPWy-I3tvaoGCr0qSsmlk3h1KuhB3Rw/s1600/59.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBAbeSjPOBm1FgbfUjyKIX716lz2kV0B-GjGXM40Yz-iYrNhE6Fk1DH9aQpbCZj8DAdpDVWDidWrLUw5RktFCvnQGTtA-wbXO9Apq0TTigT26puPWy-I3tvaoGCr0qSsmlk3h1KuhB3Rw/s640/59.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVExwFXGImwhqqSH5dT4Uch-IC5ngAiM681f3bfTBQXzJjCRDcvvJrii2k3N_P1azstw2n7yqk743zNvwA2e2nJP5HlK8zf3j957rwIpXZ0A9gaE4K6q7VW4Ez9uM4zxKx8r_1Oi075hg/s1600/61.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVExwFXGImwhqqSH5dT4Uch-IC5ngAiM681f3bfTBQXzJjCRDcvvJrii2k3N_P1azstw2n7yqk743zNvwA2e2nJP5HlK8zf3j957rwIpXZ0A9gaE4K6q7VW4Ez9uM4zxKx8r_1Oi075hg/s640/61.JPG" width="476" /></a></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ74v9H4miDxkx4ZyqoDr7psCRyiVtXLbmHaG16EPAKgBHCJ90_-5T99oiosN0IefWluQpe0bczlFLzvNuRafpiR2aQcKeeUZuJvu_naO87ADKyvuyYf3iO8jsVoMxoRPz6cAjwmvnnDU/s1600/62.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ74v9H4miDxkx4ZyqoDr7psCRyiVtXLbmHaG16EPAKgBHCJ90_-5T99oiosN0IefWluQpe0bczlFLzvNuRafpiR2aQcKeeUZuJvu_naO87ADKyvuyYf3iO8jsVoMxoRPz6cAjwmvnnDU/s640/62.JPG" width="476" /></a></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSsf3Xw9P4Fg7yDj7DdzCa43drYhkvCq8or-qNoUP2QiYb3Kd9Uty7aA_3297DBa-_K8gJNqTDrIlT-DLvagBZWlrfyEdEa6wPzxKx7qfIdjeXzIXQCZkrSRL5uVvLXo_0-n1K_1aUYiI/s1600/63.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSsf3Xw9P4Fg7yDj7DdzCa43drYhkvCq8or-qNoUP2QiYb3Kd9Uty7aA_3297DBa-_K8gJNqTDrIlT-DLvagBZWlrfyEdEa6wPzxKx7qfIdjeXzIXQCZkrSRL5uVvLXo_0-n1K_1aUYiI/s640/63.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicbF5pjUSTwOdWEmuQ-8I9GNcnqfP1IwGhdok-tN0Rw2Saz9hR46M2eRI72WGK_XT7Hr4cMjady5K-yU0OBHTg21Tv-5ssvBafu5yIavllZKwEa5Cp0441rBHMAaq_Wfab3sSePW6xy9Y/s1600/64.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicbF5pjUSTwOdWEmuQ-8I9GNcnqfP1IwGhdok-tN0Rw2Saz9hR46M2eRI72WGK_XT7Hr4cMjady5K-yU0OBHTg21Tv-5ssvBafu5yIavllZKwEa5Cp0441rBHMAaq_Wfab3sSePW6xy9Y/s640/64.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The creepy Nara Mascot...</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;"><span id="goog_1245147497"></span><span id="goog_1245147498"></span></span></span></div>
</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665849321724163626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150051264560172425.post-47183334046422304572016-03-28T18:08:00.000-07:002016-03-28T18:42:35.321-07:00Weston - The perfect Easter.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">The baptism Saturday was a life changing event for me. I remember the feelings I had when I was baptized. It was beautiful to watch in the faces of these daughters of god. The same emotions I experienced so long ago when I received the ordinance. The emotions and feelings that when in my memory called upon, helped me through the hardest parts of my life and brought me the most joy in the best times of my life. Now these sisters of mine have been given the same gift. I can't describe my Joy. I thank my God for allowing me to be an instrument in his hands.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Love,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Elder Lamoreaux</span></div>
<div class="separator" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;">
<img height="480" src="https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/1928997_10209258693094309_2601849170369968801_n.jpg?oh=811b0d35b2e8a4e5e3c416fbd5f0ef58&oe=578EC947" width="640" /></div>
<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="480" src="https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/12920411_10209258693774326_3992632425782584122_n.jpg?oh=9f8841a40cfb372dded149528fd9d498&oe=57852FDD" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The perfect Easter</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="300" src="https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/12376355_10209258693294314_1392484453465846276_n.jpg?oh=b5793d28ea4a6894041599ea40766b1f&oe=579564B9" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span aria-live="polite" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; outline: none; text-align: left; width: auto;" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Happy day for these hard working elders.</span></span><span class="fbPhotoTagList" id="fbPhotoSnowliftTagList" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span class="fcg" style="color: #9197a3;"> </span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="480" src="https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/12932908_10209258693574321_6048237872694310340_n.jpg?oh=51196af0179bbde8440f87f7e80f8953&oe=5782598C" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Yes...those are gang signs. </span><br />
<a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/missionaryworkinthehood" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">#missionaryworkinthehood</a><br />
<br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div>
</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665849321724163626noreply@blogger.com0