The Power of Prayer

Hey mom!

That's great that you got to go to the temple! I’m so blessed to have the opportunity to go every transfer! Speaking of which I will be going next week Tuesday! How is Jenifer and Bill doing?

(I had to ask him about any paper work about his return. I don’t want to distract him, but just curious when we will start hearing about return stuff) Haha we don't call them trunkie letters, but yes I do know what you are talking about! Elder and Sister Loftus are really chanto about sending letters on time so I don't think you will receive them late. But I don't know when you will get it. I know I will get a letter once I am 6 months away from my return date, which is in about 1 month. 

So ya the P-day schedule changes were announced but President Warnick is still making changes and will announce them sometime in the near future. Basically we can start P-Day from 8:00 am. And then on the other days we can move studies to whenever and then lunch is now 30 minutes! Lunch will be hard. But we will live and I know there is a reason so we will work with it! 

(The little boys were in Haydon’s room and found a mysterious box, well not that mysterious) I'm so glad they found my treasure chest! Darn I should have hidden things in there for them specifically for when they found it. (There is another treasure box but it has a lock on it) The box Granddad made me is full of knives. I locked the keys inside on purpose so I could always keep up on my lock picking skills. Every time I wanted to get inside it I pick the lock haha. There is a little red and yellow tin box somewhere in the shelves that says like fireball or something on it. There are lock picking tools in it. A hair pin and an allen wrench. Good luck! Man those boys are so cute! 

I was reminded about the power of prayer this week! I read recently in a talk that prayer isn't like ordering groceries (not that I've ever ordered groceries before but,) where you call, order and forget about it until they come. Prayer ought to be always in our hearts and we ought to be doing all that we can to accomplish it, to be doing the right things at the right time so that we can be where we need to be for God to bless us. This week on companion exchanges we went from our apartment to the church. That morning we said a prayer that we could find someone who would listen to us. And from that point I kept that desire in my heart and let it guide my actions. We said another prayer before we left the apartment and within 10 minutes we called out to a guy who had a lot of interest in who God is and how he can receive help from Him. The day before we also were housing, the first guy whose door we knocked on was actually a potential investigator the other investigators always met on the streets but never knew where he lived. He is from Nepal and fluent in Japanese. Just yesterday we went out to the ocean, a place called Umi no koen or in English "The Park of the Sea". There was no one out there at all. A couple guys fishing. We decided to go housing. No one there either. Well they were there but they were all old rich people who all gave us the same excuse. After 60-70 houses we decided to go to a place closer to where we lived. On the way there is where things started getting good. Just from the old rich people housing to the nearest station we were able to meet 5 or so people who initially didn't have very much interest but throughout our conversation started pondering the purpose of life and the existence of God. We made it to the station and decided to pass out flyers for English class. We met several people who had a lot of interest in English who said they would come. Then we met Kishor! He is 18 years old and from Nepal! He is the man! He is so nice and wants to learn about Christianity! I know that God loves his Children and he will guide us to help them if we just be obedient and faithful and prayerful. Thank you for all of your prayers, they help so much!

I have been cleaning out my suitcases because they each way like 70 pounds somehow! I had like triple the amount of clothing I needed and I will be sending some shirts and ties home somewhere in the future. It’s amazing, I have worn the same pair of shoes almost every day of my mission and they are still going strong! I walk tons and bike tons but the sole and the seams are still good! It's a pretty awesome blessing! 

I love you so so so so much!

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