Sometimes God Requires Us to Walk by Faith Fully Relying on His Will to Make Us Great.

 Good Morning!!!!! And Night!!!!!

I hope that life is treating everyone alright. I don't have much to say, but here's something I really liked.

President Hugh B. Brown said, “Wherever in life great spiritual values

await man’s appropriation, only faith can appropriate them. Man cannot

live without faith, because in life’s adventure the central problem is

character-building--which is not a product of logic, but of faith in

ideals and sacrificial devotion to them.”

Sometimes God requires us to walk by faith fully relying on his will to make us great. This puts it better than I could put it.

I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year:

        ‘Give me a light, that I may tread safely into the unknown.’

        And he replied, “Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God.

        That shall be to you better than a light and safer than a known way.’”

I am grateful for the opportunity I've been blessed with to serve God's children in Japan. I know that I'm here for a reason and that we all have purpose and possibility in life. We can always find that in Christ.

Elder Frisch

 I forgot how much we play games in our family. Japan is all about technology. It makes me sick to see a lot of 40 year-old guys without jobs, living at home, playing video games, and watching cartoons. I'm glad we played games as a family to build good relationships. I'm doing good. We got dropped by two investigators, who I really liked, so that was tough.

That's so nice of you to visit the older people. One of my favorite things every week is visiting this old folks home. This one lady, named Nagasawa, is convinced that we met some other place before this and she is so funny.
I love you, too.
Love,
Eli

I'm pretending to eat Nakano Choro. He's an old guy missionary from Osaka.

Thanks for talking to me tonight. Thank you for your example and all

you have done for me.
I love you.
Love,
Eli

“You may have riches and wealth untold,

Baskets of jewels and caskets of gold,

But richer than I, you will never be

For I had a mother who read to me.”

Good morning everyone!
The snow has pretty much all melted and it's just raining now. Hail is just a normal thing here which is pretty goofy. Riding a bike in hail does feel not very good. We went to a family in the ward’s house for dinner last night, named the Kashiwa's. We had a tasty array of Japanese winter food like Oden and Shabu Shabu which are soup kind of deals. Super good. Here are some pictures. I love you guys, and say, “Hi!” to Savanah for me in a week!
I love you all!
Love,
Eli

The Honbu is where the mission president lives and the home base of the mission. Wow, right now I'm usually up around 6:15 exercise till 7 eat and get ready until 8 do companion, personal, and language study until 11, eat lunch, and get out at 12 and we have to be back at 9pm unless we have a member appointment. Here are pictures from this awesome sushi place we went to where we watched a guy make it. It came with the sushi, miso soup, egg stuff, tempura stuff, and a pudding dessert. Yum.