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This week was way fast... Yet it was still rough... Like I said mission time is sooooo weird! But I deff learned a ton this week. Mostly about what kind of person I want to always make sure I am being no matter how frustrated or mad or tired I am especially as a representative of the lord. I think too many times missionaries forget that. Here's some nonsense from the week! 

We were at the train station and walking out and we said hi to someone. He was like wait have we met before? We were like no, we just thought you looked cool! Before we even told him who we were he said my brothers Mormon. He lives in Utah now! What!? He then said he is actually taking lessons from Jehovah witnesses but he said I have no intention of joining their church. If I came back to church it would be to this church. He is actually a less active member! He told us he's been kinda dealing with his mental illness but he is doing a lot better. He said he's actually thinking of coming back! He gave us his address and was like come visit me! That was crazy! Seriously such a cool experience! Many times I've witnessed that God puts people in our path for us to help!

The kid who called us after we gave him our number a couple weeks ago Mizuki came to the church and we gave him a church tour and had a way good talk. He kept on asking the perfect questions and we were able to explain the whole plan of salvation with him! When we ended in prayer he said thanks that was cool! Now let me show you mine and he pulled out a fan and said some stuff and said that's our prayer for showing thanks! It was kinda weird but kinda cool! He told us after that he had some time Sunday and he was really stoked to come to church! We were really excited it seemed like all our hard work finally got us someone to help! But he texted us Saturday night and told us he liked talking about religion but his family is very Buddhist and he couldn't do anything with the church anymore even though he really wants to... That would happen...

We had zone conference this week and we talked a lot about the power of one. It reminded me of the quote I may only be one.... But I am one. The difference one person, one conversation, one flyer, one word, one smile can do is crazy! We never do things all at once if we think like that the task ahead seems impossible! If we do it one by one, step by step we can succeed and through each step we can make a difference! Also... #WEAREONE! #john17:22

One day the wind was way strong and we were out on the street and we saw this old woman fall over. We rushed over to help her up and her head was bleeding! I grabbed some tissues and gave them to her to hold her head. She kept saying thank you and I'm ok I'll just go home. I asked her if there was anyone to take care of her and she said no so I was like no I'm not gonna let you go home! My comp said well the bleeding stopped I think she's ok, but there was a giant crack in her head! He also said some other stuff and well I told him to call the ambulance. She kept saying no please don't I don't want to go back to the hospital and I was like please you need to at least get looked at and cleaned up by the paramedics and she was like no it's ok but she was pretty calm. I then told her well I'm not going to leave you and have to think about if you're ok later so can you stay for me please and then she agreed. There was another lady that stayed and helped her too and they kept looking at me and kept saying isn't he cute and so nice :) She kept on saying thank you thank you random people helping me so nice thank you thank you. She was so sweet! I won't tell you what happened with my comp because it's really sad but idk he just said something's that should not have been said especially in the tone of voice. It really made me think of who we are representing and we need to be careful at all times. It really hurt me... I told him that later and we had a talk. I asked him if that show he would want someone to treat his grandma like that if that happened to her. And what the Savior would do. He said sorry and he needs to learn more patience and stuff so it was good... 

The past few weeks I've been working on strengthening my testimony and my relationship with my Heavenly Father and Savior. I'm gonna be honest it's been hard recently. I've been confused as to why things are happening or not happening especially when they do or don't...Gods plan for me has been really hard to understand right now. I know it's perfect and it's to make me stronger and for things to come but this has been the hardest time in my life to be able to understand that.

Challenge of the Week!

We have those times every week at least where our patience is tested when we lose our cool. Whenever that is about to happen step back and think about what you are about to do. If you think that you will still be ok with your choice after you do it then do it... But if you think even a little bit that you might regret it... It's probably not something you really want to do and you're just tired or frustrated. If we control what we usually can't control we can discover our true character. The opposite is true when we can't control something often enough... That becomes our character. Idk if that made sense. It makes sense in my mind but idk... Anyways in simple terms.... Take a chill pill! 

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Super sketched out about the letter I sent to Honduras.... Hope they find between the boulevard and price smart.... the post office lady was like yeah... There's no guarantee it gets there like if it gets lost there's nothing we can do... #bestokedforyouletterin2monthskenz! 

I need to learn to write shorter letters.... #novels #sorry! #wentHAMonlettersthisweekthough #allcaughtup!   

I bet Valentine's tweets are down 80% cuz im not on Twitter! #singleawarenessday 

You know on like action movies how there's like a montage of someone who is like really good at something... What if there's a missionary like that? Like he "accidentally" falls in front of people to help them or like grabs their wallet and then yells out sir you dropped you wallet! Idk stuff like that... #thisiswhatidaydreamabout #superheroesarentathing #supermissionariesare! #missionaryman! 

We played telephone for English Class and I was up and a sister whispered in my ear will you be my valentine? It was probably the weirdest thing in the world to hear. I was like wow! This is so sudden! We're missionaries sister! Haha #dangerousterritory #33paigi! #page33!

Have I ever mentioned that Shin is the coolest? I gave him a little note and a picture of us and he looked at it and just said takaramono which means treasure :) 

Shoutout to mom for sending me the biggest package of awesomeness ever! #arigatou! 

The trains are magic... Straight up witchcraft! They literally are endless and it doesn't make sense to me! They come like every 8 minutes and only go one way... #nooneexplainittome #itwillruinthemagic! 

Love you lots never forget it! 

Love, Rice, and TRAIN MAGIC!

Elder Kengooooo!