I Love Being a Missionary
This last week was my last full week and boy was it a busy one! We are trying to meet as many people as we can! We literally had someone take us out to eat at least once a day every day, sometimes twice, and I now appreciate a nice home cooked meal... I literally haven't felt hungry since last Thursday haha!
Some things that went down:
So we had district meeting in kumamoto and a member there that I met during exchanges wanted to meet me before I left. So she met us at the train station and we got donuts and talked. She's kind of a special member because her husband is a stake high counselor and very active, yet she feels like she has no testimony. So she goes to church all the time, but struggles with her own conversion. So we had a nice long discussion on how she can receive her own witness. She also has some bad relationships in the ward she's in so she doesn't always enjoy church. I guess the missionaries there don't really talk to her, so she felt like she hasn't been able to talk about this with anyone until me. I'm not sure why she felt so inclined towards me, but I'm glad I was able to help more people, not just in Yatsushiro.
We kind of had a rough lesson with one of our investigators this week. She read 3 Nephi 11 and I asked her what she learned. She said she learned needs to get baptized. So I was like, cool so when do you want to get baptized? She said that because of her role in Buddhism, she like has some role I'm not sure what, she could never get baptized. Even if she knew it was true. That was kinda frustrating, but I still think one day she might be willing to sacrifice that and enter the waters of baptism.
Yesterday we went housing for the first time in awhile and we found our first new investigator housing together in Yatsushiro! This lady said she was Buddhist, but she loves learning about Christianity and she just about burst into tears when I gave her a Book of Mormon! Way awesome experience!
I gave my last talk on Sunday and I wasn't sure what to talk about until the meeting started. While the speaker before me was speaking, I was reminded of a line a heard in a talk somewhere. But it goes something like this, "a religion that doesn't require the sacrifice of all things, doesn't have the power to produce the faith necessary for salvation." I truly believe that to be true! Sacrifice is necessary for our salvation. Necessary for change and growth. That's why I think sometimes God asks so much of us. In another talk given by someone in general conference mentions that Sacrifice, the word itself, means to make sacred. God wants us to be perfect and sacred. So he demands all we have, even our very wills. In return we receive more than we could ever give, true joy, true freedom.
I always hated goodbyes and endings. This is one of the hardest I've ever had to make. I have fell in love with this place and these people. It's such a bittersweet end. Mostly bitter. Haha I still don't feel like I'm leaving! I'm sure it will hit me eventually. However I will not take a single moment for granted. I know this church is God's only true church on the Earth today. You can hold the evidence in your hands, the Book of Mormon. I have read it, I have prayed to know if it is true, and I have received my answer. I promise that you can do. Even if you have received an answer before, I encourage you to ponder and ask again. I love God, and I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!!!!
Love
Elder Lim
P.S. My son Elder Kimura is training which means I have a grandson!! 😆
- Jinbei
-last district meeting pictures
-donuts with member in kumamoto
- lunch with member
- Lunch with English Class student
- dinner with less active and friend
- made cake with member
- dinner with member
- polaroids
- raw horse meat 😋🐎
- death picture...
- last branch picture
Some things that went down:
So we had district meeting in kumamoto and a member there that I met during exchanges wanted to meet me before I left. So she met us at the train station and we got donuts and talked. She's kind of a special member because her husband is a stake high counselor and very active, yet she feels like she has no testimony. So she goes to church all the time, but struggles with her own conversion. So we had a nice long discussion on how she can receive her own witness. She also has some bad relationships in the ward she's in so she doesn't always enjoy church. I guess the missionaries there don't really talk to her, so she felt like she hasn't been able to talk about this with anyone until me. I'm not sure why she felt so inclined towards me, but I'm glad I was able to help more people, not just in Yatsushiro.
We kind of had a rough lesson with one of our investigators this week. She read 3 Nephi 11 and I asked her what she learned. She said she learned needs to get baptized. So I was like, cool so when do you want to get baptized? She said that because of her role in Buddhism, she like has some role I'm not sure what, she could never get baptized. Even if she knew it was true. That was kinda frustrating, but I still think one day she might be willing to sacrifice that and enter the waters of baptism.
Yesterday we went housing for the first time in awhile and we found our first new investigator housing together in Yatsushiro! This lady said she was Buddhist, but she loves learning about Christianity and she just about burst into tears when I gave her a Book of Mormon! Way awesome experience!
I gave my last talk on Sunday and I wasn't sure what to talk about until the meeting started. While the speaker before me was speaking, I was reminded of a line a heard in a talk somewhere. But it goes something like this, "a religion that doesn't require the sacrifice of all things, doesn't have the power to produce the faith necessary for salvation." I truly believe that to be true! Sacrifice is necessary for our salvation. Necessary for change and growth. That's why I think sometimes God asks so much of us. In another talk given by someone in general conference mentions that Sacrifice, the word itself, means to make sacred. God wants us to be perfect and sacred. So he demands all we have, even our very wills. In return we receive more than we could ever give, true joy, true freedom.
I always hated goodbyes and endings. This is one of the hardest I've ever had to make. I have fell in love with this place and these people. It's such a bittersweet end. Mostly bitter. Haha I still don't feel like I'm leaving! I'm sure it will hit me eventually. However I will not take a single moment for granted. I know this church is God's only true church on the Earth today. You can hold the evidence in your hands, the Book of Mormon. I have read it, I have prayed to know if it is true, and I have received my answer. I promise that you can do. Even if you have received an answer before, I encourage you to ponder and ask again. I love God, and I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!!!!
Love
Elder Lim
P.S. My son Elder Kimura is training which means I have a grandson!! 😆
- Jinbei
-last district meeting pictures
-donuts with member in kumamoto
- lunch with member
- Lunch with English Class student
- dinner with less active and friend
- made cake with member
- dinner with member
- polaroids
- raw horse meat 😋🐎
- death picture...
- last branch picture
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