Sorry for the lateness of this entry, but I'm been busy playing Grandma to a brand spanking new little boy "Brady Edward Tateishi". Randy is so excited to be an Uncle and he can't wait to come home to play with him. That is probably the only thing he might be anxious about doing. Other than that, he is loving Japan. 6 months and he will be home ready to live the rest of his life, but what life lessons he has learned.
Dear Mother,
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I`M AN UNCLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HE`S SO CUTE!!!! GAH!!!!!!!
Ok..... got that out of me now. Yea, don`t worry about the whole not emailing me last week. I`ll live. But this email is going to be pretty short. We gotta run off here and climb a mountain. We`re going to the nearby Koya mountain and seeing what`s over there. I`m excited to go.
Anyway, Thanks mom for the messages about Brady and Hannah. I love the stories of Hannah and Tavie. Take care mum!
Dear Mother, Father, Sisters, Brothers, Family, and Friends
Well......... Let`s see, this week is awesome. Just awesome because it`s always awesome. Although it`s way to hot and I am anxiously awaiting winter.
Monday night we say fireworks. One of the largest firework shows in Japan. It was pretty cool. They had huge fireworks shooting off and the night sky literally turned to day. They shot off a whole lot of fireworks and I had a lot of fun watching it. We had to leave early though to get home in time, but when we were almost home we saw the finale because the whole sky turned red suddenly. WIsh I could have seen the actual fireworks though, I`m sure it would have been amazing.
The rest of the week went just normal as usual, running all over the place sweating our eyeballs out as we try to meet with people or find people to teach. Wednesday we taught English, Thursday I had a beautiful experience teaching Nishiguchi Kyodai again. It was a very wonderful experience as I closed the scriptures and put aside everything we had planned to teach in order to just talk with him and testify to his needs. It was one of the most powerful testimonies I have ever given and I could feel the spirit so strongly. After that lesson we had to race home, and made the usual 40 min. bikeride home in about 25 min.
Friday we had Zone Conference with President Zinke, and that was really amazing. I`m still studying all the notes that I took and I probably will be for a while. It was a lot of material and an amazing experience.
Saturday we rode far away again but nothing too much happened, other than spending a good half hour being yelled at by a drunken man about how I`m too young to be a missionary and all that jazz. Then Sunday rolled around like usual and we had fun at church like always. I got to bear my testimony which I always love to do and we had our investigator, Oyama come to church for the 3rd time in a row. He loves church and one of the greatest fellowshippers we have for him is a little 7 year girl named Taka-chan, who he played with for over an hour last week. We then had dinner with a member and him and Nishiguchi Kyodai both came and we had a great time. I just love fast sundays, a great time to feel the spirit in its fullest and to recharge after a long month. There is nothing better, except maybe the temple.
Sorry that this is short, but we`re heading off to go visit a nearby Bhuddist Mountain. Sounds like it`ll be interesting and very pretty from what I have heard.
Elder Tateishi`s Gospel Moment of the week.
Today I would like to talk briefly upon the Atonement again. The greatest of all miracles the the Lord Jesus Christ ever performed. The miracle that brought salvation unto all mankind and gave us the power to again rise from the grave with perfect bodies and stand before our God in judgement. It is the miracle that makes it possible for all of us to be forgiven of our sins and to remove that awful burden from our shoulders. But specifically I wish to talk about how it can heal all wounds.
The miracle of the atonement is that it can heal all our wounds. It can heal the wounds that have been inflicted upon us by cruel verbal abuse of those around us or can heal the even crueler self-inflicted wounds that we all suffer when we sin and forsake the Lord our God. It can go in and cure those wounds that seem so impossible to remove, so impossible to forget. It can purify our souls so that we can stand as a new being, pure and spotless before the world and before God. To me this is the greatest of all gifts.
So long as we throw our burdens upon Christ our lord we ca be freed from the shackles of sin and the be liberated unto righteousness. We can shake off the chains of Hell and put on the robe of purity, we can stand tall, no longer marred by the sins of the past, and as Isaiah said: "though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool."
Of this I testify, that all can be made whole in Christ. For many times he personally said unto those he healed "Thy faith hath made thee whole!" My faith has made me whole, and I have had it confirmed to me many times. In my blessing to be set apart as a missionary and even as I have prayed for forgiveness so many countless times. I know that this is true, and I testify of this in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen
Love,
Elder Randall KK Tateishi
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