April Fools.....

Dear Mother, Father, Brothers, Sisters, Family, and Friends

I`m going to make this one really short, You`ll all be seeing me here in the next couple weeks so I`ll leave a lot of my story telling or experiences until then. Besides I don`t want to take up too much time emailing today.

This week, has been another good week. We had interviews with President Zinke and that was fun and went really well. Didn`t have much to talk about, other than just don`t go trunky and keep on working till the end.

We also managed to set a Baptismal date for our investigator Nomura Akisa. We set it for April 1st. I`ll be long gone but It`s really good to know that I was able to get someone moving along in the last few months of my mission.

Sunday we had a great time at church, I love this ward. We had our new years party and we talked with a lot of the members and just had a great time, along with our investigators. The ward is very supportive and way fun and helpful filled with lots of young people.

Elder Tateishi`s Gospel Message of the Week

Why are we so Blessed?

One member we visited last night had some very excellent insights and thoughts as we talked to him about the plan of salvation and God. He is actually studying Bhuddism and was at one point a Bhuddist Priest, but has long since joined the Church and is a very strong member with a great testimony. We talked about being blessed with so many things, with our families, food, shelter, clothing, the Gospel, and many other things. We also talked about why are blessed so much, and how maybe it`s because God wants us to share those blessings with others.

As a member of the Church, I hold the greatest gift God has given to Man. I know that the Gospel is true and I have a hope of obtaining eternal life and exaltation. I have peace in my life and the capability of overcoming challenges that come my way. This is a great gift, and a wonderful blessing that I have been given so that I might share it with those around me. God wants all of his children to be happy, and he finds joy and happiness in serving his children and their happiness. So we too can share in the Joy that God has by sharing the blessings that we have. As we give of ourselves we can find great joy and peace, we can lose ourselves and forget about the things that are wrong in our life as God will take care of the rest. Of this I testify in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen


With Much Love,

Elder Randall KK Tateishi