April 9, 2017

A week even crazier than last! 

Remember that crazy promising 19 yo that I talked about last week? He came to the return appointment on Monday. And we met with him Wednesday. And Thursday. And Friday. And he came to the Sunday morning session of conference. HES SO AMAZING. 

He rides a motor scooter and it was raining HARD this week. Two of the days we met with him he showed up very wet and casually walked in with a little rag and dried himself off and sat down ready for the lesson. When he says he will come for an appointment, he comes! 

It was just miracle after miracle this week with him! In our Monday lesson we asked him to pray at the end and he agreed and remembered exactly how to pray! It normally takes people weeks or months to remember how to start and and a prayer but asayama san remember after being taught once! Too many cool experiences to share from his lessons so I'll just share one. On Friday we met with him and followed up on how daily prayer had been going. He said that he previous day after the lesson he had gotten frustrated with someone and was really irritated, but then he felt like he should pray, so he did, and he felt at peace! And the bad feelings went away! YEAH ASAYAMA SAN! The lesson that day was focusing on the saviors atonement and we were then able to explain to him that he experienced the power of the saviors atonement! It really clicked for him and we were able to testify that the power of the saviors atonement can be felt in little ways like that, and in big incomprehensible ways as well. At the end of the lesson we shared with him our testimonies and as I said 'I know this church is true! It's true!' And I nearly jumped up on the table we were sitting around and yelled it I was just so happy and excited! This church really is true. 

Asayama san came to Sunday morning conference, and every single one of the talks I felt were perfectly for him! We were able to teach him the first three missionary lessons this week, and the conference talks perfectly aligned with all we had taught. Even scriptures we had been promoted to share in lessons were used in the conference talks! It was such a testimony to me of the simple truths of this gospel. It is the basic things that are most important. Daily communing with Heavenly Father through prayer, feasting on the scriptures, showing our respect to our Savior by going to church every Sunday. The truths of the plan of salvation that give us hope for a better future tomorrow and in eternity. I was just so overwhelmed with love for the plain, yet sacred and precious truths of this gospel. 

Can't wait to continue listening to and studying the conference talks more! 

All my love, Sundell Shimai 

Sorry in advance for the most boring picture week...

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