DD 11.25 ... so I saw this Ice Cream vending machine and then I was all like ...

... so I saw this Ice Cream vending machine ...

... and then I was all like ...

Tell us all about the typhoon? Did you go out in it? How was it? Any damage? Did you take any pictures? Hopefully you didn't ride your bike in it??? Did the mission president put you all on lockdown?

We got red emails about it warning us to be safe. When we woke up it was raining pretty hard, and so I took an eVideo.  It got more clear as the day went on ... way lame!!

Did you receive the letter from your loving papa?

Not yet, it might be there when I get home though!!

We have been hearing that missionaries in other countries have seen the new movie, Meet the Mormons. Have you been able to see it yet?

No movie in Japanese yet.

How are your shoes and socks holding up? Do you have holes in your socks from the hole in your shoes?

Nope, my socks are just fine!!

Is your knee back to normal yet, or still healing?

It's fine, one morning I did like two hundred lunges and fifty squats. Like one-legged squats on each leg.

Did you get to see all of conference? Or just Sunday?

All of them were watched!!

Why do you want a picture of you being healthy?

We're doing a Facebook blitz every Monday ... 

We loved hearing about your miracles last week, even shared the entire email with grandma. Any miracles this week? Are all the investigators from last week still hanging in there?

Brother K mostly ... we meet like everyday.

Fudge, peanut butter fingers or PB cookies in your next package? Which do you think will survive the journey the best?

Fudge travels the best. PBFs taste the best and cookies are the things that I'm craving right now ... any way all three would fit?

What was your most exciting moment this week? most spiritual? most stressful?

I'll get to this later.

Dad ... Thanks for all the pictures! They help a lot ... I'm shocked that you still have all the ones that you sent me ... some are from like seven years ago!! I'm impressed!!

Mother sounds like you're one of the people in the ward that the missionaries love to work with!! Thanks for being so great to them!!  Crazy about Sierra getting married!! 

Sam silent movie ... I can't tell if that's way cool or not!! Let me know if it really is or not, sounds like it would be really interesting!!

Stormmageddon sorry that your week was really rough, that's no good, I hope that putting in grades was good, very low key. I learned something this week that might be interesting that I'll write a little shpeal on later, but I love the power ranger team running thing!! Way cool, I wanna do it next year!!

My watch broke, the metal part that you feed through.
Not to worry though, I bought a new one for a dollar.

So this week was interesting ... I was able to go on exchanges and that is always interesting, and then I was also able to have a really good talk with my companion. For those who don't know your little sibling very well, I really hate confrontation ... I try to avoid it at all cost! But sometimes, it's unavoidable if you want to have the spirit with you. With my companion it went really well.  Another has been struggling a lot recently and so I think that I was able to help out a little, that one wasn't so much confrontation, but they both had the same principles involved. When I was trying to understand their viewpoint it was easier to help them. It was easier to make myself understood because I could understand them and teach to their needs ... it was interesting ... I think so at least.

So this week we finally got to watch conference! It was so great, my favorite talk was Cook Choro's about choices in the priesthood session ... it was way cool, he talked about making choices, and not just the big life changing ones, but the small ones that influence our daily lives too! It was really cool!! But yeah, I really did like the rest of conference,  all the shiami in the room were freezing though and all the choros in our suits were so hot!  We felt like we were being cooked alive - hot ... It was really rough, but we pulled through to the spiritual side of things!!

The main thing that I learned is week was actually from a talk that Sam gave to me a long time ago. What it helped me realize this week was that satan always tries to get at us when we're doing well.  The better were doing the more he tries to get to us ... so when we're suddenly doing really great, naturally satan suddenly tries to make you do terrible things! It's no good for sure! And the thing that I learned this week was that if, in those times, we rely on God more, then we're just doing better and better.  Satan comes at us more and more, which only forces us to rely more and more on God ... which is just really, really great!! Anyway, my invitation to you all is when we recognize satan doing evil things in our lives, actively rely on God more and drive him out!! Trust it, try it and let me know how it goes!!!

Thanks for all you do!!

Elder Griffiths
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