So
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday we were in Ebetsu and Sapporo. On
Tuesday we had splits and DTM in Ebetsu. I went with Elder Gubler, who
is from Las Vegas so we understand eachother pretty well. During that
split I was the language Senpai (higher level) which was really scary
when I thought about it. So I prayed to Heavenly Father to boost our
language skills so we could do his work. That day I understood 90% of
the Japanese that everyone spoke! It was really a miracle! (Miracles
always happen on splits by the way.) Wednesday we had to go to Sapporo
for a leader meeting at Honbu. Because Elder Hirata is a new District
leader he had to go. Because I am still a junior comp. I got to go on
splits with the other new district leader`s companion. And guess who it
was......ELDER HORNE! Ever since the MTC we always wanted to be
companions so this was a tender mercy from Heavenly Father:) So we went
to Shiroishi, the sketchy side of town, had sushi, talked about old
times and dendo, and went to work. Although it was a really short split,
I had a blast! That night we had to teach Eikaiwa without prep time,
which is not normal, but thankfully one of the members showed up and
really helped out a lot. She is a cram school teacher so she knows a
little bit of basic English and helped to translate what I couldnt. The
rest of the week just did some dendo (Missionary stuff):p
Spiritual:
In
relationship to the Holy Ghost again, we need to have the Holy Ghost
with us always. And how we can better do that is through obedience and
"prayer of faith"(PMG Chp.4) . If we do not pray with faith, with
earnestness, with desire, we cannot have the companionship of the Holy
Ghost. Sometimes it is really hard to pray for things that you
specifically want in a different language. I always pray in Japanese to
help me learn the language, but sometimes I give up what I want to say
because I am not sure how to say it right or I dont know how to say it
at all. So my prayers have been lame for a while. This week I am going
to really gonbarimasu and make my prayers meaningful.
Love all of you peoples and please, dont have lame prayers like I do!
Elder Swenson
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