Hey mom and dad,

Sounds like your week was a good one. Stake conference sounded way awesome and way spiritual. Sad I missed it but my week was pretty good. My comp got better and we are back to doing our thing. I have been way tired lately and sometimes a little down but you know what, the lord really does answer prayers we say but prayers of the heart too. I also have a testimony of planning.

Saturday we got home late so we didn’t have time to plan so we planned Sunday after church. We planned to visit some less actives an old investigator and go to a park. The less active was not very nice. Her child actually said that she wasn’t home and started talking to use then his mom came out and told him to go inside and said that they were busy and they would come to church when they wanted to. We actually came to give them flyer to come to our ping pong tournament on Fri. but she wouldn’t even accept that. She kept saying that they were all busy when they were doing nothing right now. I started to bug me after we left there porch. I just don’t know how people can just not come to church or have some bad feelings toward the church. It is a small branch so you can’t really run away from those you don’t like. They will always be there. Anyways after that we didn’t get to meet with the old investigator and then we went to visit another less active but they weren’t home. And on top of that it looked like it was going to rain the sky was a gloomy gray. We had planned to go to the park but i didn’t really think anyone would be there but i decided to go there anyway. We had only about an hour left so we could kill some time and try and talk to any one if there was anyone there. So we go there and after about 2 minutes we find this family who knew the missionaries 15 years ago and haven’t met them since! They were way nice and we talked to them for a good 15 min. They invited us over. Yes they invited us over! That is very rare here in japan. It felt awesome. We traded phone numbers and they gave us there address. I think we will try to go next week some time. That just made the day so much better. That was a little miracle from the lord. Even though the weather wasn’t good i felt like i should go to the park and after a little trial and tribulation i receive a blessing. And what a great blessing it was.

This week has really been a good week. i went crazy on Thursday on a comp exchange and found a new investigator, met this crazy old guy who gave the elder that was with a back massage and did a lot of crazy stuff. It was awesome! And then we got pulled over by the cops. The first time that has happened to me in japan. He turned out to be way nice and he might come to English class. He stopped me to see if I was here legally and to check my foreigner card. There are so many blessings that we can and will receive. All we have to do is ask and then work way hard to get it. Only after we ask and then do will we get the blessing that has been prepared for us.

I love this gospel. When people reject us and don’t come to church I am saddened. It is sad to see someone miss out on all of these wonderful blessings. I wish i learned this a little earlier in my mission or should i say i wish i applied this knowledge earlier in my mission.

Life is great. It is a time to learn and boy is i doing just that. I love you all. You are always in my prayers
love

Elder Christian Price