Elder Antonio Lim

Hello!  This week was awesome! We are really focusing on visiting members and less actives. It's always fun finding out the less active you're trying to visit actually died 7 years ago! It's crazy finding these less actives though that have been less active for 30 years and literally have no faith. We are doing our best to help them feel God's love for them again. Sometimes it turns into way spiritual experiences. Saturday we had some ward members and young men help us out at the old man ooshiro sans house and it was way fun. Usually we just help him out ourselves, but it was way fun getting some of the ward to help out making his bridge into his house. We played rugby for pday today and it was so fun to play again! It's been a year since I played in Yamaguchi. Crazy how time flies.  Not much to say this week. Still just doing our best to find those waiting for the truth! Since I don't have much to say, I will just bear simple testimony. I k...

Hello! What a week! They fly by faster and faster! It's still pretty warm down here in Okinawa so we're way blessed! This week was transfer week, but luckily we didn't transfer so nothing too crazy on our end. But the Oroku Elders are both new and it's been fun working with such great Elders. Everyone is from Utah haha!  So this week we weren't able to meet with any investigators. We've actually kind of had to put them all on the shelf and start fresh again. Our main focus right now is contacting less actives and visiting members. We've seen a ton of miracles from doing so! There are a ton of lessons actives here. We met this one old lady who didn't even know she was a member! She was like, "oh yeah I was baptized but I don't really go to church or anything, like husband was a member though!" it's pretty funny to see, that's back before they had a baptismal interview and requirements haha.  We did meet with one potential...

Transfer week! I'm transferring!! Just kidding I'm not haha. I'll be staying in Itoman with Elder Wheeler, yayyy!! Oroku Elders are being whitewashed so that's sad, but I'm excited to see what happens! Elder Barlow is finishing his mission and I look back and I wouldn't be the missionary I am today without him, and I'm glad for his love and support. He'll go home and still be the same great missionary he is. This week was an eventful one! The main thing is that we had a Halloween Party! Way great turnout and way fun! We had a lot of Eikaiwa students come. The ward went all out and there were a ton of games and a lot of great costumes.  This week we also were able to visit some former investigators that have a lot of potential and are starting to teach them again. One of them is a Brazilian lady with the cutest kids! She has a lot of Friends back in Brazil who are members and so she is interested in learning more.  ...

Another week in the books! It just goes by faster and faster! This week was good! We finally were able to procelyte without many disruptions and it felt good to get out there again and spread the good word of God! One cool experience was that we met these Filipinos that let us in! Way nice older couple. They are pretty devout catholic, but it was good to just talk about how Christ has helped our lives. People with even some knowledge of the teachings of Christ always have a special attitude about them. We were able to share with them the restoration and they were interested in reading the Book of Mormon so we'll see how it goes! Also we met this really nice lady who gave me a mango for the Book of Mormon so that was awesome  Another fun thing this week: we ate at the beach with a part member family! Turned out way good and we're planning on meeting the nonmember of the family today! Hopefully it turns out good.  We've been going out to eat to sushi a lot with in...

Hello! This week was super busy! Elder Wheeler finally got his bike! It's pretty sweet I must say.  General Conference was way awesome and I got to watch the Sunday sessions in Japanese which was very humbling and inspired me to study language more haha! General Conference on the mission is always a special experience. I am so grateful for a living prophet guiding us in these latter days. I know that he has been called of God, and that he is a true messenger of God. One of my favorite talks from General Conference was from Elder Ronald A. Rasband. He talked about how sometimes we can be like the disciples in the storm, fearing and worrying about all these different things. And we forget to trust in the Lord. The Lord has the power to calm our storms in life, but we also need to trust him that even in the storms, we can be protected and guided. I definitely feel like sometimes I have a hard time trusting and relying on the Lord so I hope to be able to improve.  ...

Hello from the beautiful island of Okinawa! Words cannot describe the joy and happiness of this week. SACHIKO GOT BAPTIZED! Being a part of her conversion and this whole experience has been the biggest blessing. I wouldn't trade it for the world. She has been so prepared and honestly all I did was teach. She was the one who searched and studied on her own and gained her own testimony. It's very humbling to be a part of such an experience. I am beginning to understand the scripture, "And if it so be that you should labor all your days in crying repentance unto this people, and bring, save it be one soul unto me, how great shall be your joy with him in the kingdom of my Father!" I feel like if I never am able to experience something like this again on my mission, I will still look back on my mission with joy, knowing that I was a part of this experience. The spirit was so strong at the baptism and the feeling indescribable. Sachiko is going to become such a stro...

H ello! What a week! First, Hisada and Sachiko passed their baptismal interviews! Hisada actually has to work this next weekend though, so she won't be getting baptized yet, but Sachiko will! I'm so happy for them!!  So Wednesday morning I took a flight up to Fukuoka to pick up my New Missionary! We had a training and I met a lot of awesome missionaries in the mission. One of my past companions, Elder Johnson, is the new Assistant to the President, so it was way good to see him again! Then we met our new missionaries! My son! His name is Elder Wheeler from Bountiful Utah! 18 and fresh out of High School! I feel so old haha. He's way awesome! Way humble kid, excited for the work and ready to learn! Should be a fun transfer! Thursday we flew back to our area and finally got back only to realize that we had left the apartment key with the zone leaders and they forgot to give it back to us. So I called them and they had left the keys in their apartment....