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Begin Purification

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Hello! What a crazy week! Not much time to email so this week will be short! So one cool miracle: so once a week we go to this main shopping center and hold signs that say "ask us 3 questions" and people come up to us and sometimes it turns into a gospel conversation. It's like fishing rather than hunting haha. (hunting being stopping people and trying to talk to them) Anyways so this couple came up to me and Elder Takaku and so we talked about why we were in Japan and what we were doing. It ended up turning into a way spiritual conversation about how the gospel blesses families and the wife started to cry! We weren't able to set an appointment, but I know that they are being prepared to one day accept the gospel! We had interviews this week with the mission president and we're learning a lot on building our areas with activities and different things we can do to introduce people to the Gospel. I've been trying to think of different ideas. So far

The Longest Ride

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This week went by so fast! One highlight! So we visited this less active guy that Elder Arpellida has been trying to meet for awhile and he wasn't home so we called him. He said he was at the train station so we go and meet him there. He was super nice! We bought cheesecake tarts and walked to the church together and ate while talking. First time he'd been in a church building in like 20 years! He joined the church when he was in high school and joined the military soon after and hasn't gone to church since. He's now in his 40's. He's had a tough family situation. He doesn't really remember much about the church either but he's willing to learn again. Way solid guy who we are focusing a lot on now. This week we also biked probably the farthest I've ever biked to visit a member. So this ward actually used to be 2 units and a lot of the members that came from the other unit live super far. So I didn't think it was that far, but it was a lon

Happy New years!

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Happy New Years everyone!! Can't believe it's 2019 already! Where has the time gone... Well the last of 2018 was pretty crazy. I'm excited for this new year and the opportunity to reflect on how we can improve this year! This week was a lot of fun! So on Christmas we got together as a zone and played games and ate Costco food together! Then we went caroling at the place in Hiroshima with a ton of lights! It was so much fun! We also did exchanges in Kure this week. It was crazy being back in such a rural area, it reminded me of Hofu. Zone conference was also this week and it's crazy how many people were there that I've never met before. Being on Okinawa keeps you pretty isolated from the rest of the mission. It's also getting way cold! Anyways, so the mission is focusing a lot on online procelyting rather than streeting and housing. So we got a lot of training on that. Hey by the way everyone please like our English conversation class page on Facebook and