Week 22- Tiny Update

 Aloha 皆さん,

Sooooooo basically I'm going home for three months due to personal reasons. I'm not in Japan yet which kinda sucks, but life goes on. I'm sure some of you are curious about what I'm gonna do or what the plan is so yeah I'll talk about that. So I'm going home Tuesday to Hawaii for 3 months. After that I will be heading straight to the Japan Fukuoka Mission from Hawaii which I'm super hyped about. At home I plan to work with service missionaries, go to the temple (yes I still have my temple recommend), and work on my physical, mental, and spiritual wellbeing. But yeah just going to stay focused on heading back to Japan. So I might be taking a little break from emails maybe not we will see about that, but I'm stoked to go home and eventually get to Japan. It's been a little hard for myself personally but I know that Heavenly Father will help me through my trials. 

1 Corinthians 10:13 

13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

I LOVE this scripture, it helped me get through trials during college, it helped me come on my mission and it helps me continuously endure through any trials I may have and push past and learn from them. I KNOW that I have Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ as well as friends family and lived ones to support me. I also wanted to invite you all to remember that as you face your own trials as well. You are loved and through your faith Heavenly Father will give you a way to bear the burden so that you can overcome it and grow.

That's all I have for now, until next time though. No worries I'll make sure there's another email and it will most likely be in Japan. See yall in 3 months 

SHOOTS!

エリス長老
TheRisingSon

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