Still in Kumamoto... Mom's questions

Halo everyone!

I said last week was transfers but didn't say if I or my companion transferred.  I am still in Kumamoto. Elder Pettit is still my companion. We are getting along. I am still trainer. there are four missionaries in our ward, and I love the members here. Unlike America it is very rare to get member refferals, and it is kind of hard to work with peopls scheduls to teach with them, but that is no worry I love the people and they are fantastic. I love them becuse they are all so strict to give ear to the word of God. They desire to do what is right, and work hard, and are concerned for the lives of those they work with. Of course, as is everywhere thre are many who go less active.. how I wich that were not so! but there is smuch good in the hearts of the people here.
my arm is all healed up and no one is the wiser for it. We are on ou bikes all of the time that we are not teaching or studying. Today we went though a kind of country like area... that means that there are a few fields... and I could smell the manure and felt at home... it smelt like good old work.:) But even the most country areas of Japan I have been in are more suburban than Emmett.

I have been studying that for the past while  about the strengthening power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. I will have read the Book of Mormon through, studying about that subject, by the end of my mission.
I have though a lot and prayed about filling the responsibilities that I have been giving as  a missionary.... how can I do the things that I have been given to do? I have been able to see a little clearer that I will be able to do the things that I have been asked to do in one way or another if I will rely on the Lord.
I have been reading through 2Nephi lately and have come to learn a lot about the power of the Atonement of Christ through the Isiah Chapters. What wonderful lessons! Christ is our light and our water, He is our food of life. If we will rest on him he will give us the things that we stand in need of.... Those symbols are used over and over in Isiah (in one form or another) and I love it! One of the ways that Christ enables us to do his work is mercifully giving us knowledge... and I think all good missionaries have seen themselves be guided be revelation to do things that they needed to do. He doesn't just do this but He is our sustenance. When we rely on him we are given strength to go forward.

I love you all!Thanks for everything,
Elder Bevan'

Awesome week

This week was Awesome! I am so grateful for the miracles that the Lord is doing here, and for the chance that I have to be a part of them! I am learning to have faith and trust the Lord. I am learning about the things that the Lord wants me to do and how He expects me to work. I am doing everything I can. I work as hard as I can and try to all that I can to be what I need to be. I try to be exactly obedient and to do everything that I am asked to do. I learn every day about how I can improve, but mostly we trust the Lord and simply do what He asks of us, and then we get to see miracles happen.
I wrote this to the mission president about what is happening in Nagasaki:

We had 9 investigators at church! What a miracle! For me it is even more of a miracles because almost everyone we teach knows enough English for me to be involved in the lesson and help teach them. I am never not involved, and I am seeing how much the Lord has blessed and helped me with the language so far. What miracles I have seen!
We thought we were going to have to cancel a baptism this week. Zan, a Chinese College Student living here in Nagasaki, had not learned or committed to the law of tithing, and then he stopped answering texts the day before his baptismal interview. We were to say the least, worried. We were worried especially because he has only had the time for the past few months to meet with us once a week. We prayed for him. Elder Coelho and Elder Malcom, our roommates and zone leaders fasted. Zan made it to Sacrament meeting, and told us that he had dropped his phone and broken it, and that is why he couldn't reply. He then read the tithes and offerings pamphlet, and, in our lesson after sacrament meeting, shared how much it meant to him. He expressed the truest Christian sentiment I have ever seen towards helping those in need, and helping the poor, and committed whole heartedly to living the law. We went over the interview questions, and we held the interview with no scruples. He will be baptized on Tuesday 28 January 2014. 

We really do see miracles every day.

Other things make living in Japan good too. Everything here is beautiful. The mountains/hills are covered in green, and the city is beautiful. The people are better.

Yesterday, the day of Zans interview, we had a lunch after church. It was wonderful!!! Everyone is kind and considerate. They are so loving, and in such a small branch they really love each-other. It really was just amazing. I love these people!!!   ...The food was great too :). I really cant express the love I feel for my people. I love them, and am so grateful to serve them.

I'm out of time again. My love to all.

Elder Bevan

Elder Harvey and Bevan

JAPAN!!!!

Japan is awesome!! I arrived in Fukuoka after something like over a full  24 hours of traveling.... I`m still not exactly sure  :) We slept that night in the mission home (which is underneath the temple), were trained a little, had a lot of Japanese food, and then went out to do some work with some of the more experienced missionaries.
The particular missionary that I was set up with had a lesson to teach to a couple of guys from Nepal who spoke a little English and a little Japanese. We taught the message of the restoration to them and were astounded at how prepared they were. Before they came to Japan they had studied Christianity and they had a lot of questions. During the lesson I asked if they had any about what we were saying and they said "no, you just gave us a lot of answers".... That was my first day here, and they committed to baptism. I have never seen such a miracle, I really cant express quite how amazing it was.

After we "streeted" for a while we had dinner with the president and his wife, and then found out our new areas and our companions. I was sent to Nagasaki, and my new companion is Elder Harvy, from Utah. He is awesome.

I met him the next day, and they took us to our apartment and showed me around.

Everything is narrow and small. We "housed" yesterday and it was probably the craziest thing I have ever done, ever. There are like a billion houses all scrunched together with crazy winding cement pathways threaded between them and stairs and just craziness... It`s hard to tell the front and back doors apart and for like the first hour I wasn`t even sure that we were even like supposed to be that close to peoples stuff, but the sidewalks that thread between the houses are totally their "streets" and it`s just normal. Besides that, sacrament was awesome, we had five investigators there, and four of them have baptismal dates!

I dont have time to write more but I love this. I love it so much! I love the people here more than I ever expected! I am anxious to be about the Lords work. I am grateful that I can be here serving Him and His people.
Love to all! 

Elder Bevan