army of mabu dachi

Dear Friends and Family.

This week has been good as well.... the week has flown by again. The mission has been amazing. I just got back from Urawa (Saitama) where we had a 3 zone specialized training. So lots of missionaries came to this. After the good training, all the missionaries talked with one another, just mingling. Since I knew practically No one, I decided to just start greeting people left and right. By the end of the day I had an army of my new MABU DACHI so that was really fun. Got some laughs from everyone and made my presence known ha

So back in Mito it’s been great. Elder Abe and I made cookies for the entire ward and their families (on Saturday) and gave it to everyone on Sunday. With the cookies we also put in a spiritual message and a clever answering card to the missionaries. (So we could get referrals ha-ha) we have been doing a ton of other little things but overall, the ward has gotten extremely genki and I can’t wait for the next fast Sunday (fruits basket day) because we will probably get a ton of food from the members. Also I can’t wait for the fast and testimony meeting too. I just want to drop a spiritual bomb to those people haha.

OH! And I gave a talk at sacrament meeting about love in 9/12/2010, and man, I just blew those people away. Basically I told them that "If you don’t say and express love to your family then you can’t go to the celestial kingdom, god wouldn’t allow you to"　I said a ton of things like that and just destroyed people (that was me and Elder Abe's intention, but rebuild them afterwards) It was a pretty darn good talk I gave, and I wrote my talk down writing it in Japanese, so I copied dozens of copies and put it on a counter for people to take, and freak…. They were gone by the end of the day. The intention of writing the talk and making copies was to give it to less actives and people that didn’t come to church that day, but everybody wanted it! So that was nice. ]

We are really working on these Chinese investigators of ours (gotta love the Chinese) and we are making good progress with them so far. And for sure on of them will be coming to see the GC at church with us (in Chinese though haha) but Tthis general conference that is coming up will be a great chance for us to really make a push for the restored gospel and the authority that is back on the earth now.

Interesting thing happened the other day, I was in the train and we were talking with some people from India, and also a Chinese man was with them and my companion started trying to talk to him in Chinese, and I heard him trying to talk in Chinese behind me so I turned around and just started introducing myself in Chinese and that I am a missionary here in Japan and what not, and IT WORKED! He totally understood me Haha geez. That was fun

Well here in Japan I am learning daily and I am having a good experience. I hope all of you back home are doing well…. I miss you all and I hope to hear from ya sometime

Elder Young