KINJIN

Zone Meeting

September 23, 2013 

HELLO EVERYONE! Isn`t life just fantastic? The weather is so nice! Has anyone seen the moon recently? This last week it was HUGE and yellow. SO pretty! What a great time to be alive!! 

Well things here are going pretty good. We met with M**** San this week a lot. Really, he is so solid!! I LOVE meeting with him! 

In one of our lessons with him we were teaching the Plan of Salvation. The Spirit was SO strong. I felt like both previous and future generations of spirits were all peering into the room watching him learn. Of course they desire his salvation, but they know that as he accepts this, then he will also help them get their salvation as well. We really aren`t alone in this work. 

On our lesson on Friday at the beginning he started bearing his testimony to us. He just said how he knows that God set up everything perfectly so he  would be able to be listening to this message at this time. He just opened up and said how he knows that God has been guiding his life so that he would be open enough to hearing this message and actually have time to study it. 

It is so true! The Lord is guiding our lives, helping us be exactly where we need to be so that everything will work out for our good. We have no idea how intimately involved he is. But it sure is a cool feeling when your investigator can recognize it. :) 

My favorite part of teaching M**** San was when we were teaching him the commandments this week.  We were able to teach him half of the commandments including law of chastity and word of wisdom in one lesson. Not the easiest commandments.  But he said he had no problems and from that day forward he would live them! Wow! 

At the end of the lesson we gave him some Book of Mormon homework. About 30 verses or so. He said, `Ok. I`ll read it. What else?` We just can`t keep up with how fast he is progressing! Yay! 

He has his baptismal interview this week and should be all ready to go next week. I can`t wait! :) 

We were able to meet with a previous investigator Ch**** Chan. I felt like we should just go visit her and see how she was doing. We knocked on her door, she came out gave us some fruit and then asked if we could meet again at the church. Um. Yes. I think we can handle that. :)

Honestly...the rest of investigators don`t really want to be contacted it seems like...I hate that. We will just need to find some more that do want to be contacted. 

I am doing great. I am sad at how fast my time here is winding down.  I love this work. I love the people here. I don`t want to stop working among them. 

I am not going to think about it. I`ll just keep working. 

Mom...you`d be ok if I didn`t come home...right?  (MOM SAYS NO!)

Well. I love you all so much! Have a great week! 

Love, 

Dobson Shimai 

P.S. This last week I was on an exchange and I found out that with in the last 2 transfers when I have been on exchanges with other people, the potential investigator families I found with them are now all progressing investigators! I think the total is now up to 4. I am so happy for them!

 

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