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The adventures and misadventures of Elder Shaw as he teaches among the Japanese, and is no doubt taught in return.
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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.
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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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1.22.2011 / 3:03 PM
愛 する 家族 へ
Hey everyone! Sorry I didn't e-mail last week! Our P-day sort of
died... Sorry! And also sorry because I only have about 15 minutes for
today's e-mail. Which is really a shame because I have SOOOOOOO much I
want to talk about.
But because I'm short on time, I'll just sum up all the miracles.
1) Persistence pays off. We met an old lady 3 weeks ago named Horiba
San and visited her every other day for the last 3 weeks because she
lives really close to the apartment. She never let us in, and even got
angry at us one time, haha. But we kept on visiting anyways, because,
well, we had time. And now she's become a pretty strong investigator!
It's hard to control the conversation, but she's great!
2) Last e-mail I talked about some new investigators around the
college. One of them, Nozuki Kun, now has a baptismal date for Feb.
26th. Yay! Meeting with him is really hard, so the date is still
pretty weak... But he's progressing really well. Sorry that's all the
time I have to describe it!
3) The greatest miracle of all! So. Two weeks ago we met an Old lady
while walking in between appointments. Her interest was slight, but
after talking for a bit, we learned that she had a daughter who was
friends with a recent convert in our ward! But all we could get the
Old Lady to commit too was passing the message on to her daughter.
Pretty weak right?
But we figured we'd tell the Recent Convert (Sister Yagita) about it
and see what she thought. Then we forgot about it. Then, last week on
Sunday, we had a miracle! Sister Yagita and her friend (Miura San)
came to church! Sweet! So we talked to Sister Yagita about it
afterward, and apparently the first Old Lady we found was so impressed
by the missionary and the blessings we promised, and the change she
had seen in Sister Yagita, that she practically ordered her daughter
to come check our church out! Pretty neat huh? Then with the little
extra push from Sister Yagita, Miura san couldn't resist.
And the story gets even better! After church last Sunday, we had a
lesson with Miura San, Sister Yagita and the Branch Presidents wife.
The spirit was there in abundance and we were all blessed to learn a
lot. It was our first meeting with Miura san, but we were able to set
a baptismal date for Feb.13th! (Or sometime close to that. I forgot
haha. It's written down). Is that amazing or what? We've met with her
after that, and her interest is so strong. Unfortunately, we learned
that she has a real problem with smoking. That probably means that we
might have to push the baptismal date back a little farther (March
maybe), but Miura san has a real desire to work toward baptism, and
really wants to quit smoking and follow Jesus Christ. I am very
excited for the future and to continue working with Miura san :D
Pretty fantastic huh?
Also, this computer is doing weird things, so sorry if something is
typed wrong, or there's weird letters in funny places?
Oh gee! I'm really out of time! Sorry. I love you all very much, and
appreicate your support and letters! Thanks so much!
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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Sincerely,
ELDER SHAW IN ALL CAPITOL LETTERS!
