The Best 2 Years: Elder Jace Thompson in Omaha/Japan: the one with the Tokuhara family

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Starting with Monday, we had a pretty good P day! We went with the other elders in our district to shabu shabu (which is a meat buffet and you cook the meat yourself in a broth) and then went to Nara Park which has hundreds of deer all over! They are entitled little fricks though, and they bite you if you don't give them food. Super fun P day! 😆😆🤣

Wednesday, we had a lesson with Ayane and another one with Mima! Which were both super awesome! After that, we went to dinner with Takuya (my friend from my first area), and it was a pretty good day.

Thursday, we went to a members house for lunch, and we made Okonomiyaki! It is like a pancake but with cabbage... It doesn't sound good, but it's pretty good. I've got some flicks if you're wondering what it is, so go check 'em out!

Friday was pretty normal with ping pong night, and other than that, it was a pretty regular day of streeting and talking to lots of people all day!

Saturday was more or less the same as Friday. Lots of streeting and then ended the day with English class and more ping pong. Also we are getting transfer calls next week on Tuesday and then transferring on Friday and I think I'm getting transferred (Pres told me I was in my last interview) so I said lots of goodbyes to people... I forgot how sad transfers are...

Sunday was super great! We started by having lots of friends come to church, and I shared my final testimony with the ward (if I don't get transferred, it's gonna be REALLY awkward 😬😬🤣). After church, we were able to give Mima the aaronic priesthood, and it was so great! It's been so cool being able to be here for some of the biggest changes in his life! After church, we went to the Tokuhara family's (they come to eikaiwa, and they love all the missionaries but haven't ever really progressed) house and ate sushi with all of them. It was another kinda sad day because I said goodbye to them as well, and they are such a great family. The dad loves classic rock music, and today, he showed me all of his super sick CDs!! 😆😆

Spiritual Thought:

Alma 34:32-35

For behold, this life is the time for men to prepare to meet God; yea, behold the day of this life is the day for men to perform their labors.

33 And now, as I said unto you before, as ye have had so many witnesses, therefore, I beseech of you that ye do not procrastinate the day of your repentance until the end; for after this day of life, which is given us to prepare for eternity, behold, if we do not improve our time while in this life, then cometh the night of darkness wherein there can be no labor performed.

34 Ye cannot say, when ye are brought to that awful crisis, that I will repent, that I will return to my God. Nay, ye cannot say this; for that same spirit which doth possess your bodies at the time that ye go out of this life, that same spirit will have power to possess your body in that eternal world.

35 For behold, if ye have procrastinated the day of your repentance even until death, behold, ye have become subjected to the spirit of the devil, and he doth seal you his; therefore, the Spirit of the Lord hath withdrawn from you, and hath no place in you, and the devil hath all power over you; and this is the final state of the wicked.

"We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbor, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil."

—J.R.R. Tolkien

Well, that's all I got this week! Feel free to email me!

That's all, folks.