We are Randy's Mom and Sister, we are keeping tabs on Randy while he heads out on one of the biggest adventures of his life. He is going on a mission to Kobe Japan to teach the world about the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints and we are so proud of him!
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Sleeping without even knowing it.....
I'm not sure what to say other than I love my missionary!!!
Dear Mother, Father, Brothers, Sisters, Family, and Friends
Yo! Yo! Yo! This is me from the east side of the world! How`s everyone doing!?
I`m going completely insane. My work load over here has gone up about 100 times. I never realized how busy being a district leader is or how difficult it is to train a new missionary. I`m just all over the place as I`m trying to settle into my new positions. On the bright side I have never slept better on my mission. I go to bed and I just pass out completely and don`t wake up till the next morning and barely realize that I had been sleeping. Scary thing is, I`m actually having dreams, which I never usually do. But it`s all fun.
Ummmm.... Let`s see I`ll just drop off a quick email because we gotta head out as soon as possible to hit up the Zone activity. so I apologize for the short letter. Basically, my new companion is Elder Wilkes from Cedar Hills Utah. He comes from a family of 13 kids and he is number 9. He`s a way cool kid and really working hard. His japanese is about 10 times better than mine was when I came into the field and he is trying to jump in at every opprotunity. I love him and we`re going to see miracles this transfer.
Other than that I`ll just say that I`m busy, running left and right trying to make sure everything gets done. Taking care of Elder Wilkes and also my whole district of 4 other elders and 2 sisters, my investigators, my members, and trying to find new investigators. Let`s just say that because of all this I spend a lot longer on my knees at night before I go to bed. I just know that the Lord gives me a couple more ounces of strength to make it through one more day. Especially since I failed last week and didn`t buy enough food to last us the week and we have been scrimping and scrounging for the past couple days.
Highlights: Stake Conference
We had stake conference and just had lots of fun there with the mission president and our investigators and everything. Was way spiritual and I felt the Spirit very strongly as I listened to some of the youth testify and also President Zinke speak.
Elder Tateishi`s Gospel Message of the week
Short and sweet and to the point:
"Jesus wept."
Why did Jesus weep? Because he loved the people he was working with, and in the case of the Nephites he wept because of the joy that filled his heart, he saw the people following him and saw that they were filled with joy and that they were a great and righteous people.
Elder Tateishi Wept
Because as he sat in Stake Conference and looked around him at the hundreds of faithful members and saw the light in their eyes he was filled with joy. As I saw in particular a family sitting together, parents holding children and taking care of them showing love to them and testifying to them I realized how beautiful the gospel is. My joy was full as I saw many faithful people in a country that I have come to love.
We hold something precious, we hold someting dear. What we have is far more precious than silver or gold. Joy without end, love everlasting.
In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen
With Love,
Elder Randall KK Tateishi
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