Week 16! - November 11, 2025 - Chiba

 Highlights:

-exchange! 
-Seizeria (super cheap awesome food)
-Member meal! (best members ever)
-Somehow managed to get rejected saying hello (we had a good chuckle)
-Found out Sister Hanson is in my zone! (crazy small world moment)

READ THIS PART 

This week has been one of the happiest weeks of my mission so far. Despite an increased number of rejections! Mainly because of two things I've learned. 

#1 Trusting in God includes trusting he can use you (you are not a failure), and 

#2 Perfect love casteth out all fear. 

The beautiful truth is that the Savior and Heavenly Father love you. They know your future! They want to help you. They are not in Heaven, holding a clipboard marking down every mistake and compiling our sins in order to hold us accountable at the last day. In fact, the very reason we are here is to make mistakes! Jesus Christ has already paid the price, for us to be clean again. It's not locked behind any doors. It doesn't require any passcodes. We do not work for our salvation! That is why Jesus Christ is the Savior. 

The only thing that we have that has not been given to us is our will. All we have to do is want to accept it! It is honestly that simple. "As we fill our hearts with the love of Christ, we will awaken with a renewed spiritual freshness and we will walk joyfully, confidently, awake, and alive in the light and glory of our beloved Savior, Jesus Christ" ("Perfect Love Casteth Out All Fear, President Uchtdorf 2017). 

I love you guys!

Elder Wardle

Pictures! : Ocean, Chiba, Chiba again, Shrine, Seizeria!, lunch with the ZL's









Location: Chiba, Japan

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