Transfers and Things

Well today has been kinda hectic. We got transfer calls today and I will be getting a Nehonjin (Japanese) Companion! His name is Oshima. I will be staying in Nagasaki and Harvey Choro is becoming zone leader of Kumamoto Zone. My new companion will be Zone leader with Malcolm Choro... That means that when they go off and do Zone Leader things I will be working with Malcolm Choro's new companion. He happens to be a brand-new missionary from China.... 

It should all be fun. I'm looking forward to the next six weeks. 

The past week has been good too. Having Malcolm Choro as our companion changed a lot. Our focus shifted on certain things and it changed the dynamics of our companionship a lot. I learned a lot about the things that I need to work on, and what I would like to be better at. I think those lessons are probably what I needed for this upcoming change in the district, and getting my new companion. I hope that I will be able to continually learn and apply these kinds of lessons for the rest of my time here. 

I will miss Harvey Choro. He has been a great friend and support to me, and especially in these past few weeks I have realized just how invaluable He is. He will do fantastic in his role as a Zone leader and I am sure that He will bless many more lives as he serves. I hope that I can become the missionary that I need to be to follow his example of loving service, and ultimately the Savior's example. One of my friends wrote me recently and bore testimony of the reality of the Saviors life. Of that, I also would like to bear testimony. I know that the Savior's sacrifice has effect on us, and that it is real. I know that Heavenly  Father hears our prayers, and that this is His Church once again established on the earth. I love Him.

My love to all,

Elder Bevan 

  My tricompanionship:  Bevan Choro, Malcolm Choro, and Harvey Choro

                                   

The District

Zone Conference

Dec. 14, 2013

This week was awsome! It is increadable to see the Lord work through us as missionaries despite our many imperfections. This week, as weird as this may seem, or as small, I have been learning how to study. Whatever isn't spent in mealtime or exersize is more or less supposed to be spent in study. We study language, and then we study Preach My Gospel, and then we study the language, on the computer, and then we learn how to use Preach My Gospel, and then we study some more language. :) Actually that's not untrue at all. Our most precious time of all, though, is personal study time. 

My companionship just had a coaching on personal study that came as an answer to prayer. The Sensei said that personal study time is a time to recieve revelation, and I thought he was exactally right. I had been pondering how I sould study for all that past week, and what he said seemed to catch everything I learned in one word. When we study, and we seek with real intent, it is inevitable that we will recieve revelation. Of course it depends on where you study, and what your surroundings are like, and you have to be worthy, but if you seek revelation in your comunnication with God, and you do what is required, it will come. 

I also learned that you are also entitled to revelation for those over whom you have stewardship. I have thought a lot about Melchizidic in the past days. About his ordination to the high priesthood, and what it meant that he exersized mighty faith. He had a stewardship of those he served, and he was given the ability to meet his peoples needs, through faith, and through the priesthood. That has given me some hope and some understanding of my calling as a missionary. As I study now I seek revelation for myself, just in my own improvement as a son of God, and then in my calling as a missionary. I am also now a district leader, so I seek revelation for that too. 

 I am out of time so I'll close, 

I know that this is the Living Savior's Church.

-Elder Bevan