Working Hard

This week we worked hard. Really hard. We filled our days up and wore them out. It felt so good. We are working with two investigators with baptismal dates (well, three), but none of them have a lot of spare time to meet, and two of them are from Nepal so the language barrier is pretty strong. We do all we can, but the rest is up to the Lord and them. I hope that they will make it to the starting line. 

Because we don't have a lot of investigators that can meet we spent a lot of time this week finding. We literally spent hours just talking to people on the street and at their doorstep. Yesterday was the pinnacle of it all. We worked hard knocking doors and talking to the people on the street, and (I do not feel at all responsible for this) we found three new investigators. The Lord really does see us and know our hearts and know our efforts, and He really does bless us with mercy and with kindness. I do not feel like anything that I have done has been up to par, but I want to do what He wants of me to do, and He blesses us with great blessings. 

He also has a sense of humor I think. Yesterday we found a golden investigator, (or so we thought) she stopped us and said that she had some interest and wanted to know why we were serving our missions. To our astonishment she asked us to meet, and asked if it would be alright if we exchanged numbers. We were understandably excited. Today we met her with the sister missionaries so that we could make a good trade off, and quickly found that she was actually a missionary from a sect of Buddhism that aggressively teaches their own doctrine and is know for their zealous work. :)  I learned a lot about what my calling really is.

We are called to preach the truth by the power and Spirit of God, and not by any other way. HTere is no other way that we can take this message to the ends of the earth, except we have that Spirit. I pray, and hope, and work that I can be worthy of that Spirit. I am grateful for it. 

The day after tomorrow I will transferring to Nago in Okinawa. I will miss Nagasaki. 

I know that this is the Living Gods church and gospel.