GENERAL CONFERENCE WAS SO AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm not sure which talk was my favorite but I know each one was inspired of God because little gems of wisdom from God was woven into those messages to help me understand what I need to make sure my investigators understand, and also what I need to do to rely more on my Savior. IT WAS AWESOME!! The Spirit also taught me quite a few things I needed to hear and I just feel so happy and just this outpouring of love from Heavenly Father. Life is so good!!!!!!!!! 

I also especially loved the talks given by the members of the 70. It was incredible to hear them speak in their native tongues and I feel like they had a lot more confidence as they spoke and the Spirit was extra strong. I feel for them. But even when they had to speak in english before, the message was just as true. It was just really cool. It was super interesting and awesome how so many of the talks focused on gaining your own personal testimony of God and of the Book of Mormon and of the validity of the prophets through asking God yourself. And then continuing to strengthen our testimonies after they have been built. IT WAS SO GOOD! 

this week we also did quite a bit of service including HARVESTING RICE!!!!!!!!!!! THE DAY FINALLY CAME!!! We biked far, far away to our Ward Mission Leader's house with the elders and he had a barbeque for us, we ate the same disgusting shell dead gross things as last time because he thought our reactions were hilarious, and we went to work, harvesting rice fields half-destroyed by last week's typhoon. I learned lots of analogies and I will definitely be including them in future family home evenings. (; harvesting rice is my favorite thing to do ever. mostly because we got to use the sickles to their full potential and there was just something super eternally rewarding to harvesting rice and reciting Doctrine and Covenants 4 as you do it. 

There were lots of other really cool things that happened in this little miracle-city, but I also don't have much time, BUT I will end with a quote from Conference. 

''Knowing truth will not change your world unless you ACT.''-- Elder Eduardo Gavarret

I love you all!!!!!!!! The Mormon movie sounds super awesome!!! 

arigatooooo! 

Daniels shimai

p.s. from the pictures- the picture of the food on the grill depicts the one gross food I mentioned. They are the super beautiful-looking shells. But the insides is what I'm holding in the next picture. And it tastes bad. Super bad.