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The adventures and misadventures of Elder Shaw as he teaches among the Japanese, and is no doubt taught in return.

Head to the 'Profile,' section to read more about who I am, and what I believe in. For more information on where I actually am, please click here.

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My name is Brian Shaw, though you can just call me エルダーショー (Elder Shaw). As of the 19th of May 2010, I have been rigorously engaged in serving the Lord by laboring to bring the Japanese people back to their savior, Jesus Christ; and I will continue to do so faithfully until the 19th of the same month in 2012.

I belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and I have an unshakable testimony that this church is of Christ. I know Christ lives, and I know he suffered for my sins, so that I could return to live with my Heavenly Father after this life. I know that Joseph Smith, the founder of this church in the latter days, was called of God to restore Christ's authority to this earth, and establish the covenants and ordinances that were lost long ago. I also know that Joseph Smith was given a set of gold plates to translate into scripture called the Book of Mormon. I know the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.

If you would like to know this just as I do, please click here, or click here for a free copy of the Book of Mormon.

2 Nephi 25:26
"And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins."

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11.30.2010 / 4:45 PM

Tanoshinde imasu

Hey everyone! So today I have to go to Sendai early for Zone Conference, so I have a very limited amount of time! And I also can't send any pictures, because the computer I'm typing on (which is different than the normal computer), can't accept SD cards. So, no comic or photos for this week. Which is a shame, because I have so many good ones to share! This last week has been a ton of fun! Elder Swenson is really cool and we get along famously. Maybe too famously I suppose. But don't worry, we are working.

This last week we got lots done! We found 4 new investigators. I'll briefly illustrate them:

1) Yoshida Fufu (fufu = couple). They are great! They are massueses of sorts (spelling?). They also work a lot with NuSkin products and have always been impressed with the owner of NuSkin. Who's Mormon! So far we've only taught 2 lessons, by the wife of the house has already read up to 2nd Nephi 26! Which is pretty awesome. We haven't got them to pray yet, but things are looking good!

2) Satou San. She owns a hair cut place in Furukawa. And apparently she's loaded. She goes almost every other week to Sendai to go diving in the ocean! Crazy. Her son also used to be practicing for swimming in the olympics. But he couldn't quite make it, so he had to retire. She has met with the missionaries nearly 25 years ago, but remembers nothing! But she has a really old Book of Mormon. In Japan, newer translations of the Book of Mormon come out all the time, so her copy was ridiculous! It has all sorts of really old words that aren't used anymore and what not. So we gave her a new copy. She said she'd read!

3) Akana San. He was really close to baptism almost 10 years ago, and while scavenging the old records, I found him. We met and he seemed way nice. But he said that around the time he was about to get baptized, he had a serious nervous breakdown and had to quit his work and pretty much quit everything. He still suffers from serious panic attacks whenever he feels pressure. So giving him commitments has been... hard. But he remembers a lot about missionaries! Like he knew we had to be home by 9:00. Weird! Anyways, whenever there are a lot of people around, he feels severe pressure and panics. So coming to church is... at the moment... 'muri.' Which means impossible. But we'll work with him.

4)Koichi San. He is a way cool 31 year old guy. He lived in Canada for a year and is mostly fluent in English! He is unmarried and has no prospects. But that's normal for Japan to not be married till like 35 or so. He's really fun and a very thankful guy!

Anyways, that's all the time I have for this week! Which is too bad because I could say so much more! Oh well. Too busy. Sorry. Love you all lots. Thanks so much for your prayers and support!

Mate ne!

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Sincerely,
Brian (surprise!)

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To my friends and family... Write me! And I promise I will write back as promptly as reasonable.

First, please do not contact me through e-mail. I have an e-mail, but have been told by my mission president not to read e-mails from anyone (not even family!). Sure, some other missions might do it differently, but for Sendai, I'm not supposed to read your e-mails. Just write me lots of letters instead!

And please direct all mail to this street address:

While at the MTC
Elder Brian Derek Shaw
Provo Missionary Training Center
MTC Mailbox # 89
JPN-SEN 0804
2005 N 900 E
Provo, UT 84604-1793

While in Japan
Elder Brian Derek Shaw
Japan Sendai Mission
3-1-5 Yagiyama Minami
Taihaku-Ku
Sendai-Shi, Miyagi
982-0807
Phone:81-22-245-8851