Ok so our family has a favorite back up scripture to the question asked.."what is your favorite scripture?". Of course it rolls off the tongue quickly and it's easy to memorize. Where I am going is that this week Randy didn't have a Gospel Message so what did he use? Hahaha...not our favorite, but he could have...
Dear Mother, Father, Brothers, Sisters, Family, and Friends
Welcome to another week! They just keep on flowing by.
But nothing much has changed here at all. Still the same old same old. We went housing about everyday this week. Which was interesting to say the least. You get strange answers when you talk to people through little intercoms. And it gets strange when you talk with young kids but you don`t realize it until they say: "ummm my Mom`s not home right now." Or you get people that say: "I`m not interested because it`s late!" (Time: 5:30 PM). There are a variety of answers you get, but you just move on to the next house. It`s just annoying when you only speak with 1 out of every 10 people face to face (excluding unanswered doors).
We taught a Part member family this week, and saw some extremely talented artwork. All of the 3 daughters and the mother can draw like crazy good. Apparently the yougnest draws some pretty famous Manga as well, or so says my companion because he`s seen her manga before. That was a fun experience.
Let`s see....... we found an investigator on Saturday named "Sora" Meaning Sky in Japanese. He works at the Kansai Airport and is studying something about airplanes. He even came to church yesterday and liked it. Then after church we sat in on Ward Council and laid before them a new idea to help them with working with the Missionaries. That was fun trying to explain in Japanese. I find that I can get around here in Japan with little problems. Buying food, going places and doing things, but I can only handle basic simple conversations. Get into details about things like Manga, Video Games, Sports, Airplanes, or other non-church related items and it all goes right over my head. It`s the same with reading, give me a church book and I can read about 50%, but give me a warning label on a product and I catch a whopping 5%.
Anyway. Life just keeps on rolling, Japanese keeps on coming, people just keep on going. It`s all just one step at a time. Today is today, tomorrow is tomorrow.
By the way, I`m going to put together a Christmas video for everyone and send the SD Card here pretty soon. Don`t know when, but hopefully it`ll be before Christmas is over.
Elder Tateishi`s Gospel Message of the Week
Welllllllllllllll........... I have no clue this week.......
Really I don`t.
"And I said unto him: I know that [God] loveth his children; nevertheless, I do not know the meaning of all things." (1 Nephi 11:17)
"My God hath been my support; he hath led me through mine afflictions in the wilderness; and he hath preserved me upon the waters of the great deep. He hath filled me with his love, even unto the consuming of my flesh." (2 Nephi 4:20-21)
I`ll leave the message at that. Since Nephi Gloried in plainness, I shall too. I Do not know the meaning of all things, neverthless. I know that God Loveth his Children.
In the name of Jesus Christ, my Saviour. Amen.
With Love,
Elder Randall KK Tateishi
P.S. At least I didn`t whip out "And Jesus Wept."
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