Hello everyone,
This is definitely a short e-mail. So last friday was our weekly planning session and we wanted to focus on specific people, not a huge list. So we asked Heavenly Father and he gave us those people. One of them was a very subtle impression: all I got was `it starts with a u`. So I looked at our old potential investigator list and on the back of the last page was Ueda. We followed this prompting (climbing another huge hill, haha) and we were immediately blessed. Turns out he had been waiting for about a year for the missionaries to come by again and meet with him. He had some experiences that had brought a closer knowledge of God, and so he was way excited to listen to us. We ended up teaching him for a little over an hour, and he committed to reading the restoration pamphlet and praying. He even asked about Church, and hes coming net week!! It was amazing to see that kind of guidance and blessing from Heavenly Father: this IS GODs WORK!!!! I love it!
Weve got 4 other investigators, and a bunch of potentials. We prayed and set a baptismal date for at least one of them: it helps to focus our work more into a single work. One of them is also really close, so were working really hard with him. The hardest thing is getting them to come to Church because the japanese work a LOT. So were praying really hard!
Anyways we gotta go, but I love you all and always pray for you. Thank you for all your help and support, it means a lot to me!
Elder Mourao
Oi todo mundo,
Esse eh definitivamente um email curto. Entao sexta passada foi a sessao de planejamento semanal e a gente queria focalizar on pessoas especificas, nao uma lista grande. Entao perguntamos ao Pai Celestial e Ele nos deu aquelas pessoas. Umas delas foi uma impressao delicada: tudo que eu tive foi "Comeca com U". Entao eu olhei no nossa lista de investigadores potenciais, e na pagina de traz tava Ueda. Seguimos essa inspiracao (subimos um outro morro enorme, haha) e fomos imediatamente abencoados. Tornou que ele esteve esperando por mais ou menos um ano pelos missionarios voltar de volta e encontrar com ele. Ele teve algumas experiencias que trouxe a conhecimento de Deus mais perto, e entao ele estaca bem contente de escutar a nos. Ai ensinamos ele por mais um pouco de uma hora, e ele cometeu a ler o pamfleto de Restouracao e orar. Ele ateh perguntou sobre a Igreja, e ele estah vindo semana que vem!! Foi maravilhoso ver aquele tipo de guia e bencao do Pai Celestial: esse EH O TRABALHO DE DEUS!!!! Eu amo isso!
Nos temos 4 outros investigadores, e um monte de potenciais. Oramos e arrumamos um dia pro batismo pra pelo menos um deles: isso ajuda a focalizar o nosso trabalho ah um trabalho soh. Um deles eh tambem perto, entao estamos trabalhando com ele bastante. A coisa mais dificil eh tentar pegar eles pra vir pra Igreja porque os Japoneses trabalham BASTANTE. Entao estamos orando muito!
De qualquer jeito, temos que ir, mas eu amo todos voces e estou sempre orando por voces. Muito obrigado por toda a sua ajuda e apoio, isso significa muito pra mim!
Elder Mourao
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Called to serve the Lord as a full-time missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hiroshima, Japan
Map of Japan (for a complete map of where he's been, look at the bottom of this page)
Elder Victor M.S. Mourao
Called to serve the Lord as a full-time missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hiroshima, Japan
Hiroshima, Japan
Map of Japan (for a complete map of where he's been, look at the bottom of this page)
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Elder Victor Mourao
Japan Hiroshima Mission
Tottori-ken Yonago-shi
Nishifukubara 3-6-27
Mezon Pineru 201
683-0805
JAPAN
Japan Hiroshima Mission
Tottori-ken Yonago-shi
Nishifukubara 3-6-27
Mezon Pineru 201
683-0805
JAPAN
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Elder Mourao's favorite scripture: Alma 32:42
"And because of your diligence and your faith and your patience with the word in nourishing it, that it may take root in you, behold, by and by ye shall pluck the fruit thereof, which is most precious, which is sweet above all that is sweet, and which is white above all that is white, yea, and pure above all that is pure; and ye shall feast upon this fruit even until ye are filled, that ye hunger not, neither shall ye thirst."
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"Under the inspiration of the Lord and the courageous action of Joseph Smith, the first Latter-day Saint missionaries ever to serve beyond North America brought the restored gospel to the British Isles in 1837. Heading that first group of elders was Heber C. Kimball, who set a great example for all newly called missionaries. Humbled by the responsibility and fully aware of his limitations, he poured out his heart in prayer."
'O, Lord,' he cried, 'I am a man of stammering tongue, and altogether unfit for such a work; how can I go to preach in that land, which is so famed throughout Christendom for learning, knowledge and piety; the nursery of religion; and to a people whose intelligence is proverbial!'
"But rising from his knees and accepting his duty, he said, 'The moment I understood the will of my Heavenly Father, I felt a determination to go at all hazards, believing that He would support me by His almighty power, and endow me with every qualification that I needed' (Life of Heber C. Kimball, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1945, p. 104). Surely God responded to the faith of that young elder, because Brother Kimball and his companions were endowed, 'with every qualification' they needed."
-Jeffrey R. Holland
'O, Lord,' he cried, 'I am a man of stammering tongue, and altogether unfit for such a work; how can I go to preach in that land, which is so famed throughout Christendom for learning, knowledge and piety; the nursery of religion; and to a people whose intelligence is proverbial!'
"But rising from his knees and accepting his duty, he said, 'The moment I understood the will of my Heavenly Father, I felt a determination to go at all hazards, believing that He would support me by His almighty power, and endow me with every qualification that I needed' (Life of Heber C. Kimball, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1945, p. 104). Surely God responded to the faith of that young elder, because Brother Kimball and his companions were endowed, 'with every qualification' they needed."
-Jeffrey R. Holland