Week 35- I'm Lidully Thorfinn

 Wasssuppp 皆さん、

How's everyone doing? This week has been better! Had some fun times, an awesome exchange and we getting back on the grind.

This week I've been focusing on bettering myself as a missionary and as a person as well. As soon as I focus on this aspect of my life the area presidency decided to drop a ton of new rules on our mission BAHAHA. Anyways they just told us we are going back to the 6:30-10:30 schedule no longer using the 7-11 schedule which sucks a little but there is nothing we can do about it. They also made our District reports only 1 hour now and unless your entire district is in the same building (luckily mine is) you can only have it in person twice a month. It was a shock especially since everyone felt that 2 hours was barely enough time to get everything done and it got cut in half. Our district has been focusing on making this more effective especially concerning our time so at least we got a bit of a head start. There were some other minor rules and because of some of these changes there was a lot of push back. I won't lie I was also a little bit taken aback and definitely had doubts but also really wanted to focus on being a better missionary where obedience isn't really a question but more of a nature. IT'S SO HARD, I can say there are some rules where I really am just like “this is stupid why should I follow this” but even those rules are the ones I especially need to follow. Because I know that through my devotion to God and wanting to be more like Jesus Christ I can become a better person. And obviously change isn't fast, and it's definitely HARD. It takes a long time and it's only little by little that you can actually make progress but over time that progress builds up. 

There's this anime Vinland Saga and the main character Throfinn is like this crazy insane warrior that basically grew up in war and has killed like a bunch of people. Later in the anime (spoiler alert lol) he ends up becoming a slave and is overcome with all this guilt about all the things he did and people he killed. So much so he has constant nightmares about all the things he did. Sometimes I feel like Throfinn in the sense like I feel like I've done so much wrong or I'm not enough, and I wish I could change instantly. But for Throfinn and for us it takes time. And a deep desire to actually change. I wish I could just say that I want to be a better person and that's all I would need or just change with the snap of my fingers but I can't. It took Thorfinn an insanely long time and a yearning to be kinder and a lot of reflection to finally change. But yeah recently this past week Medeiros 長老 keeps saying “bro we are literally Thorfinn just trying to be better ya know?” And it's so true. It's hard but I want to become BETTER, I want to become KINDER. 

I have no enemies 🗿

anyways highlights:

-Exchanges

-Zone conference SOON

-Grinding the workouts

-Chicken szn

-becoming more effective 

Exchanges:

Bro the dynamic duo of the century that has been due for a hot minute. FINALLLYYY was comps with the cuzzo for a full day and it was awesome! We met with this one German friend that said he'd take us out to ramen at like 6pm but also wanted to meet around 2pm to chat. He is protestant so he wanted to see around the church and talk about beliefs. Then he stayed longer than expected and our other friend who's Japanese and believes in science walked in and it turned out great! We all just talked about different things and our beliefs and we got to teach them. Eventually we all went out to ramen and our German friend payed for us ALL!! He was super nice and it was awesome. We also did some one piece stuff together and taught some awesome lessons! I really enjoyed Exchanges! I hope we can be comps soon….

Zone confrence:

We have Zone confrence tmrw so I'm super excited. That's all for that for now. Also got to see a bunch of awesome Elders so bless up. Saw all my dokis today except Johnson 長老 I miss you man.

Grinding the workouts:

YESSUH we back on the grind. I slacked off for a week but we BACK. We also are taking transfer progress photos so that'll be good. Hopefully I can stay with it even if I move and have no bench.

Chicken Szn:

Ate 8 kilos of chicken this week. Dubs.

Becoming more effective:

I have no time this week so I'll talk more about it next week (if I remember) but basically been working heavy one making Fukuoka more effective as a district and as a ward. It's been great. 

Okay Das all SHOOTS!

愛してるよ！

エリス長老

TheRisingSon