Jared's Mission

One AP down, one to go. You're next Johnson Choro. This week was great! We were super busy and did lots of great work! We eat such cool tropical fruits here, our branch President, Chibana kaichyo, works on a farm that grows papaya, dragon fruit, guava, jackfruit, mangos, bananas, passion fruit and probably more. We visited him today during work since its pday and he gave us a big shopping basket full of dragon fruit and passion fruit!  Nagao choro bye bye party We said bye to Nagao Choro after church yesterday! Also Nagao Choro and Johnson Choro welcome to the email list!   Teaching by Testimony  This week I started going through each lesson point in Preach My Gospel and writing out in english how I should introduce it. Through doing that and trying to make it simple but powerful I realized how much I'm growing. After studying about the Book of Mormon from PMG I started to write how I wanted to introduce it, thid is what i wrote "Today I want to share with you the gr...

  Yippee! Greetings from a different island! Today I'm on Iriomote Island!  4 Compaions OK I had exchanges twice with first the DL and then the ZLs wanted to come to Ishigaki so they came even though we didn't need an exchange, probably a waste of money but hopefully people learned! My other two companions are Elder Nagao and then our trio, Elder Johnson! Elder Nagao had been my companion then whole time, he goes home on Sunday! Elder Johnson was actually Elder Nagao's companion before me! They were APs together, I have so much I can learn from them! Elder Johnson goes home after this transfer so then I'll probably be here 1 or 2 more after that so I can show the new person around the Ishigaki!  Iriomote! Today since it was Elder Nagao's last pday we went to another island in our area (there's a bunch but 2 of them are really far so we can't take a ferry to them) it was fun! My companions decided to go further than was probably OK in the water but I stayed, ...

Hello from the other side of the world! I am going to give a paragraph life update so please read the "Infinite and Eternal" paragraph! We had Zone Conference! Super fun, volleyball, service, and said bye to President Hara. I'm doing good, focusing on having Joy in all things and showing gratitude like I did (but better) in the MTC. I got to say bye to Jack today (My dad went to his going away party while I was on the phone with him!) You are going to do amazing things Jack! I love you!   Infinite and Eternal Those are two big words. They hold such a high place because they transcend time and power. Nothing is bigger or stronger than something that is infinite and eternal. The power of Jesus Christ's Atonement is Infinite and Eternal. This Atonement holds power over all things, nothing we do is greater than the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. We can use this Infinite and Eternal power. We teach and talk about this limitless power so often, but this week it hit...

Hello everyone! It's officially June! I can't believe I started in January! Thank you to all those who send me emails every week, I love you so much!   Exchanges: Elder Barrus! Elder Barrus is amazing! He is our amazing district leader over the Ishigaki/Miyako Island district! Preach my Gospel teaches how we can use the Book of Mormon to teach the "questions of the soul!" Examples:  https://docs.google.com/ presentation/d/ 1p6bEI8qfYmEa3duCICeQ7FF5KD8ow 0JT9ccvO2E9rPs/edit?usp= drivesdk  Elder barrus was super good at helping our friends gain interest using these questions! I want to learn to do that!  Zone Confrence! Today we traveled to Naha for Zone Conference tomorrow! (we had service during pday time so now counts as pday) We played volleyball and a few games after the service project, the weather in Naha is perfect today! Like I was almost cold when we were waiting to be picked up from our flight. I had my first (and last) real interview with President Har...