Dear Mother, Father, Brothers, Sisters, Family, and Friends
Wellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll, It`s been an awesome, adventure filled week. I`ll start with Monday, about an hour or so after I emailed everyone.
So we were about 30 seconds away from our apartment when I saw a member of the ward and waved and said "Hi!" While pulling to a stop to go talk to him. Well, Elder Wilkes wasn`t paying attention to me stopping and ran into me. I didn`t think much of it, because It`s happened much before, but when I checked my bike, the back wheel was all warped and unusuable. xD So that started my adventure for the next couple days.
That night we had to walk around the whole time as I didn`t have a bike, and needless to say it was very uneventful. Then Tuesday morning we started a Companion exchange and had to spend the whole day walking around. Needless to say, every appointment that we had fell through, so almost all of our walking was pointless and unneccesary. So I ended that day exhausted, and really tired with little to show for it.
Wednesday I got the dreaded phone call from the Mission Office about making flight plans to go home.... =( Which just makes me feel that much older. Then we had Interviews with the Mission President which were fun like usually. After that we just went home, studied and then taught Eikaiwa.
Thursday we did a lot of running around making visits and trying to get some sort of lessons in. It was lots of fun as I was borrowing a members bike, which was about 5 sizes to small for me, and the seat wouldn`t stay up at the right height so I kept sliding down and then having to stop and readjust it. Lots of fun! Then we went up to Mikunigaoaka and taught Eikaiwa up there as well. We even played "How`s your Neighbor" which was loads of fun.
Friday we did our weekly planning and did even more running around trying to get more lessons in and had a lot of fun. Saturday was the same.
Sunday, was a good day, we had 4 less active members come to church, well techincally 3 since we now consider Nishiguchi Kyoudai as an active member. He`s SO aweomse!! I was so happy because he got a calling on Sunday as the new Elder`s Quorum Presdiency`s first counsellor. He is also going to be attending our weekly Ward Missionary Coordination meeting from now on and helping us with that, so we get to work with him a lot more. It`s so awesome to see how much he`s changed been blessed as he`s strived harder now to live the Gospel. He`s found a job and just looks and feels so much happier.
That was basically my week. I also recieved a letter telling me that my return date is now confirmed as Febuary 3rd 2012. Time is moving far too quickly for me.
Elder Tateishi`s Gospel Message of the week
I`m running out of things to share! As I keep thinking about a message every week all I can think of is "I`ve already shared that one."
Well I guess I`ll revert back to one that I have shared much this week and worked on a lot this week.
God. Who is he? What is he like? What does he do? Why does he exist? What is his relationship with me?
God is that great and eternal being that lives in heaven.
God "knoweth all things, and there is not anything save he knows it." (2 Nephi 9:20) He is all powerful, all mighty, he is perfect, and has perfect body of flesh and bones.
God looks down upon all people and watches over them. He blesses those that keep his commandments and "[His] work and his glory is to bring to pass the immortality and Eternal Life of Man." (Moses 1:39)
God is our Father, we are his children. As God, he knows all things, he can do all things, but we - me and you - are the focus of all his attention and all of his power. He desires our eternal well-being and works with all his might to do so. He loves each and everyone of us and cares for us. We can communicate with him through prayer. He is willing to answer our prayers and listens to every single one of them.
This is who God is. This is who your Heavenly Father is. He is always there, never changing, never forsaking any. The creator of the universe centers all of his power on you.
I know this. I know he`s there. I know he`s here. I know that he is my Father, and that he hears my prayers. I talk with him every night, every morning, every day. I am filled with "the love of God... [which] is the most desirable above all things. Yea, and the most joyous to the soul." (1 Nephi 11:22-23). All can partake, "all men are privileged the one like unto the other, and none are forbidden." (2 Nephi 26:28) God is only ever a prayer away. Of this I testify in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
With much Love,
Elder Randall KK Tateishi
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