Sieza Time - Week 8 - September 13, 2025 - MTC

Well I don't think anything too crazy has happened this week (other than homemade brownies from my aunt, Thank you, Amanda), but we started full immersion on Wednesday and it's been great! I love Japanese!

Highlights:

-Homemade brownies! (Thank you again Amanda)

-Devotional from Elder Johnson! (70)

-Actually learned how to ask good questions (Marks 兄弟 (Brother)  is goated)

Not Highlights:

-正座 (Seiza) (Storrer 長老 (Elder) and I decided to do it for 20 minutes everyday) (it hurts)

-Having the same food everyday

READ THIS PART(Thanks Wardle 姉妹 (Sister))

This week I spent a lot of time studying Lehi and Nephi's dream, and what it means to our missionary purpose to invite people to come unto Christ. We are inviting all to come partake of the love of God which is "most desirable above all things" (Nephi 11:22). 

This love is the gift of the Savior! Through Jesus Christ not only do we have an exact path back to our Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ provided a way for all of us to be succored (or to have someone run to the aid of) during our hard times. During the Savior's most excruciating time he, "called, yea, there was none to answer" (2 Nephi 6:2). He is the only one who had to experience complete separation from our Heavenly Father when he suffered for our sins, and our mistakes. 

Jesus Christ loves you so much that he would bleed from every pore for you. We experience this love as we choose to follow Him through faith, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. God loves all of His children! 

I would continue to talk about 2 Nephi 2, but instead I want to invite you to read it instead! 2 Nephi 2 contains one of the most powerful and clear explanations of Jesus Christ's divine mission. If you pray with the faith to be willing to act on the promptings you see I promise that it will bring a spirit of peace into your life, no matter the circumstances. Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ love you and so do I!

Elder Wardle