DD 12.15 ... Moosen, Maple, and Curling! ...

Did you get the package with the shoes?? Could the man who drives the scooter fit it into the basket? Or did you have to pick it up?

Not yet, it should be getting here any day now.

Who is your new companion? Where is he from? How is it going? Did he get his bike? Any problems getting the money to buy his bike? Where is he from?

He is Elder Nicholas Dicastri, from Victoria Canada... I know, no more Canada jokes ... he's doing really well, he's a better missionary than I am, so it's really cool to learn a lot from him right now!! It's way sweet!! His bike was just fine ... no problems ...

Have you taken a picture together yet? Dad wants one you know ...

Will do so today, Budge Kiachou didn't give that picture to us btw.  He said that he would send it to all the parents!

How is it going in your apartment with you new roomies?

Great, we all get along amazingly well!!

How are your investigators doing? Anyone with a baptism date?

Not yet, we are hoping for two by the end of next week!

Are they still on schedule to finish the Abiko building the 1st week of December?

The middle of December ... I think they might be done earlier though.

How many wards meet in the Stake Center in Mabashi?

Six ...

This is a weird one! Have you ever been to an animal cafe where you can play with pets?? yea, I don't know where Sam got that from.

No ... I have not.

Vote on this for us. Should dad turn on the Christmas lights now and every day before Thanksgiving, or should he turn them off until after Thanksgiving??? Be honest!

Hmmmmm. How long should we show that we are cognizant of the fact  that this is the season of the birth of our Savior and Lord Jesus the Christ? Should we still our Christian pride by putting our lights under a bushel, or should we let it shine forth from the top of a hill, so that all man may see? You know what to do! The question is, will you be brave enough to stand alone? Brave enough to fight off the temptations of the world around you?  Your choice, but I know where I stand, with the lights on!!!

What have other missionaries got for Christmas that you would like? Any requests?

Meh, fudge ... lots of fudge ... it sounds so good right now!

Does anyone in the ward write you? How often do you hear from the stake president?

Once a month-ish

Any new and interesting food in your diet??

Not really, just furikake dried fish babies that you put on top of rice!! Way good!!

We can't remember, do you have an American Thanksgiving on Thanksgiving in Japan? Or is it just another day?

Just another day unless the ward does something! But we'll probably buy a pie at least!

Is it cold there yet? Are you wearing gloves? Coat? raincoat?

Short sleeves!

Don't worry about the suitcase missing its wheel. It is getting old. Will it make it through the rest of your mission? Can you buy a new one there??

It's totally fine.

How is your bike holding up? Need any new parts? Just curious, does it have a padded seat??

My tire is still going strong!! Padded seat, and I should replace my brakes, they just squeak, but they're not to bad yet.

So proud of you for cleaning. What do you have in the way of cleaning appliances that you can use??

Vacuum, kabi killer ... which cleans everything!!

Father! My request for my home coming is that kind of sacrament meeting ... maybe I'll give a little longer testimony, but, everyone loves sing a song Sunday?!!!!,!,!,!,!,!,!,!,!,,!!,!,!,!,!,! It's always been my favorite!!!!!!,!,!,!,! It sounds like it was awesome!! I can't believe that Brayden is already going on mission!! That's crazy!! I haven't heard anything from Ben yet, but that's really rough that his companion was released just a few weeks into his mission! That's a huge bummer!! I'll pray for him!

Mother! I heard that you made fudge for dad? Let's hang out alone sometime when I get home! Mom, also the sisters probably love meeting with you guys!! I'm glad to hear that you keep meeting with them! If you can't get anyone that wants to hear them that's not a member, maybe any of the young women that are looking to go on missions in the future, or any of the young men in the ward! We set up a bunch of stuff this week with all the people here in the ward! It's way great!!

Smashed down ... bowling and pizza, that sounds like a lot fun actually ... mainly cuz I rock at bowling, and I love pizza!! Sounds like a win win for everything involved!! I love it! And no, I don't see ANYTHING ON FACEBOOK. Not one thing from people who aren't living in Japan ... kind of sad, but this is life ... on the other hand, I see all sorts of spiritual uplifting stuffs all the time!! It rocks way hard!!!

Storm ... best picture ever!! I want that bear so bad!! I can't get over how big the bear actually is ... maybe you should get one for your classroom, and use it on people who misbehave in class!! You could have it be the ultimate punishment ... if you're bad in class you just might be eaten by a bear!?!?! How scary would that be? No one would ever be bad again I don't think!! It's fool proof!! I think my comp and I are doing alright! Things seem to be going really good. He's here to work, and he's really easy to get along with, I just hope that I'm easy to get along with as well ... that would be bad if I'm not!

This week was pretty sweet!! Sabat Choro and I met with some people, namely one named Brother H, who told us that he's been wanting to learn about Christ all the time, but didn't know that we spoke Japanese ... so when he found that out, he started asking all of these really great questions, and wants to learn more about Christ and all the things that he can do for all of us!  He's so great, he even ended up testifying to Sabat Choro that he knew there would be people searching for salvation in his next area! It was so cool!!! He's like the nicest guy I've ever met!!

Brother K is still at about the same place. My new comp, Brother Z, and I are going to try to do a bunch of member presentations with him, and get him to see that the ward is really great and that he should be a part of it ... hopefully it goes really well.

Dicastri Choro is from Canada, he's way great!!! He used to do ... like Glee Club in high school ... as well as play varsity basketball all three years ... he's pretty chill all the time. He's a way hard worker too!  I feel like we get so much stuff done because we're just out doing stuff all the time!, he's way good! He worked with the missionaries in his home ward.  Since he has gotten here he has put in a good effort.  He's super prepared to serve a mission!!! It's awesome!!

Back row:  Dicastro Choro and Griffiths Choro

As for things with me, I'm pretty good. I'm realizing now that God humbles us in the strangest ways. Just when you think you're doing good, maybe even great, one of your old companions comes back, and you get a trainee who kicks your behind at everything, and bam, you realize that you haven't been relying on God as much as you should have been and you've gotten lazy about ... well everything!! It's crazy what can happen when you don't have Abi or Sam or anyone pushing you on, you lose so much ground ... I guess that's one of my many, many weak points.  I'm competitive, which is good, I like it when others motivate me to work, but when no one is there to push me, I slow down to my own pace instead of setting other goals to make me work ever harder ... I really need to work on that.

I guess the spiritual moment for this week is probably what I studied this morning. I've been wondering about kneeling prayer for a couple days now, why it's needed, how it's differed from standing and sitting prayer, and yeah, this is what I think about all day. So I studied it today for a while. It changed my whole perspective on prayer. I feel that often times, especially in Japanese, our prayers are just things that we say, it's like oh it's lunch, lets bless this food. Or oh it's study time, and I'll ask God to help me have the spirit, or other good things like that.  Unless we're really pleading with God to help us do what he would have us do, then we're just saying token presentations.  We need to be one hundred percent engaged in our prayers, and expect a reply, just like we would when we talk to any other living thing. I feel that all too often we just send off a prayer to God, like an email.  Are there times when we don't expect anything to come back?  So ... when it does comes back, all still and small, like the Spirit tends to do, we miss it.  We lose all sorts of revelation from a loving God who wants to help us in all of our doings!!

That's my spiel, I hope that you all pray more sincerely from here on out. I know I really want to!

Well, I gotta jet, I'll try to send some pictures later as well!!
Love you all!!!  Griffiths Choro

Whoops!
Real quick funny story that just happened! Turley Choro, one of the guys I live with bought clippers to cut his hair ... he thought that seven was a little long, so he bumped it down to five and went straight down the middle of his head ... It's a little shorter than he thought it was going to be ... we got the whole thing in video as well. Here's a picture of what his head looks like mid process ... he's a little ... bummed you could say.

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DD 11.55 ... I've made so many of these ...

How are your suitcases for transfers? Do they go on the train with ease or are they awkward?

... We're allowed to ship two bags ... so I just carry my bike and a small bag ... I think the wheel actually broke on one of them ... like not bad, but it's like a shell over a smaller wheel, and the shell cracked and broke to pieces ... I feel really bad about it, but I don't know what I can do about it. The pieces are all over Tokyo.

How was your Halloween? Did anyone invite you in and let you share your message?We weren't in our apartment all day ... it was pretty fun day of dendo though.

Did you make the box maze? It looks like something you would engineer. And did, when you were a boy.

A member from Matsudo ward did it.

Are you being transferred? Where to? Oops, forgot, that should be next week's question.

Nope, this week, see below.

How are your futon mats? Still sleeping OK?

I'm fine...

Did you throw away the shoulder bag you took or is it just stored in your luggage?

I use it to go shopping for groceries... It's nice and big!

Do you ever wish you had more ties or do yo have enough?

I have sufficient. They also sell dollar ties here which are pretty nice as well.

Do any of your companions cut their own hair or do you guys all go somewhere to get it cut?

Not yet, we all go to hair cutting places.

Do you ever play rugby with your investigators?

Nope... Too dangerous.

Do you have FHE every week with people from your ward?

We might be starting one with Brother I, but we aren't sure, so far it's been every week for the last two weeks

Do you ever have zone P-Day activities? or is there not enough time? Is you do, what is your favorite activity? or activities?

Once a transfer. My favorite game is quidditch.... I wreck everyone with my snitch game, and I never lose... 

Have you been to any member's houses for dinner (other than the Tongan who plays rugby)??

Miyashita kyoudais house for lunch today. We went and weeded his house, and then had lunch and discussed the ward.

What are your interviews like with President Budge? What kind of questions do you ask him?

Well I go in, and he asked me what I wanna talk about, and then I read some questions that I've thought of before hand and prayed over, for example, why am I with the certain companion? What about this investigator? What is it I should be teaching others?

Do you have an interview with Sister Budge? Or like a training? about food, or hygiene or shopping??

Yeah, she's mainly just asks us about our spiritual progression, deep questions like what does faith mean to you? How have you acted on your faith more as a missionary? She asks a lot about our families too.

How are your investigators? Brother K? Brother Y?

Good. K is hesitant still, but he thinks he will get baptized, just doesn't know when yet. He wants to live life a little more without the viewpoint of  God in his life ... Y is good, we've have to refer him over to the elders in Narita soon.

Father. Thanks for all the updates on everything. I love it when we win! As for the Halloween party, I would say that that's the norm for the whole country of Japan ... year round. As for your Halloween getting busier than you expected, I see it, sorry that it wasn't as decorated as you would have hoped, next year, I'll come join, and help you deck out the house, I've been wanting to since I was way little ... we'll have the scariest house on the whole block ... I mean like the Dean's house! Way scary!

Mom, I too have heard that I'm here to find specific people and to be with this Mission President ... pretty crazy stuff I know right? I think it's really cool though, Budge Kaichou is a legit genius, and every three months we get to spend twenty minutes with him ... it's just so cool!! Thanks for sending me my shoes, I haven't quite had time to use my new card, yet, but I was going to use it to buy some new shoes ... but now I won't! What should I buy?

JanDee! Your kids are so adorable! I love Axton's costume! They're so adorable!! I'm so proud of Axton's choice in costumes ... pure genius (Axton dressed up as a dead Elk), did he really get dragged around in a wagon the whole night? Cuz that would be fantastic!!!

Smash, I couldn't resist sugar cookies either ... they're my weakness ... oh, so good!! Yes, I have heard of tinder ... a surprising amount of people I know use tinder ... like surprisingly all of my friends use tinder ... okay, well not all, but I hear some stories over email each week. To be honest, it sounds like a chat room  ... or a dating service ... or Russian roulette ... I'm all for not signing up for it, but then again I'm on the other side of the planet. I feel good about writing other people's profiles for them in an iambic pentameter verse or maybe even iambic tetrameter to mix things up a bit ... sounds fun!

Storm of darkness ... I'm glad that Halloween went well for you and your kiddies. It was never a productive day for me in school either. Your witch costumes sounds pretty legit, sad I didn't get any pictures from anyone this week ... except JanDee, thanks btw! But it sounds like the rest of your week was good, thanks for not watching said movie, I feel good about standing up for what's right! It's like that mormon message about President Monson in the navy, and how he had to stand alone and be a Mormon!

So this week is transfers. Sabat Choro is leaving. So is Phillips Choro. My old companion, Yoshino Choro is coming to be with Turley Choro. I'm not transferring, I'm staying in Abiko, and I'm training again. I don't know who my new companion is, I'll meet him on Thursday, and let you know next week, but I'm pretty terrified. I think that it should be okay. I don't know, I've learned a lot from the last time I was a trainer, but I'm still scared to train, I hope that he thinks I'm a decent human being and doesn't hate me ... that's my greatest fear.

Other than that, this week was pretty good. Right now our apartment is not so clean, so we gotta go clean it before transfers happen, hence the reason this is so short, but nothing to big happened this week. I went on splits with Chun Choro, and he blew my mind all day long, he's amazing, he's half Korean, and he's way hard core in everything he does. He taught me so much about goals and how to teach and about the gospel in general, it was so amazing. I haven't been with a companion whose as old as me in the mission, he made me stretch so much. It was so nice to be able to go and learn and grow. I really miss those opportunities.

This brings me to my spiritual thought for the week. Learning is a part of life. Ideally we're always learning how to become more Christ like. But we're all in different spots along the way. It's like a sphere around Christ, and although I may be on one side, others might be on the opposite side, but closer to Christ in some ways than I'm not, so although we should look at others and try to be motivated by them, we shouldn't be motivated to become them, we should take that motivation and try to become more like Christ. We should try to motivate those around us, and be motivated by those around us as well. Sometimes it's hard, and we lose sight of our real goal because we think so and so is so great, and we want to be like them, or we want to do the things that they can do, but in reality, the traits that we admire are all traits that Christ possesses, we just have to see Him in them, and then were able to be motivated by them and not to become them!

Well I gotta go, got's to clean ... not gonna be super fun, but it must be done!

Love you all, and thanks for so much that you all do for me!
Griffiths Choro!
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DD 11.52 ... Shibuya Street Party ... Happy Halloween ...

DD 11.46 ... Halloween Party ... Family Home Evening ... Urgency ...

How is your hand doing? did the magic bandaids heal it completely? Never got a picture of your hand btw!

It's fine, now it's just a scratch.

What are on each of the seven floors of your church building? Seems awfully big!

First floor is the entry way, the second and the third floor are one, it's the chapel, four and five are classrooms, and six and seven are a gym!

Who created your plan of salvation pictures? or where did they come from? they were awesome!!

Various missionaries!

Why was temple P-Day so early?

Not sure.

Does your knee hurt at all? Are you running?

Not running, and it just feels like I need to pop it sometimes ... not to bad.

Are your clothes holding out? Anything you need?

They should be good, could use some shirts if you're sending a something something in the mail. 

Is it annoying not to have a watch when you dendo? How do you know what time it is?

I have a cell phone!

How cold was it been in Abiko?

Not very cold ... I'm hot in a long sleeve shirt right know, so there's that.

Do you ever dendo outside the gambling place by the church?

It's not in our area, so no, but in Inage my first area, we dendod right outside it all the time.

How is your district doing this week?

Pretty good. We're going to have a training on urgency in district meeting this week.

Any new investigators?

One named Brother Y, he got sick and couldn't come to church this week, but we're meeting him tonight, and he just apologized for forgetting to wear a suit ... he's amazing ... it'll be my second time meeting him, but Sabat Choro said that he was way prepared, he's already progressing!!

It is nearing day light savings time here, do they have day light savings in Japan?

We don't!!

Dad! Happy birthday!! I hope that you have a great day ... whatever's left of it!! I'm glad the the girls and the family were so good to you in your birthday! It sounds like Sam is trying to cut out sugar, so maybe you can ask mom to make carrot cake all the time instead of normal cake ... worth a shot ... I think Sam would even be on board.!! Don't worry about the package! I honesty don't have a whole lot of time to eat of candy these days anyways! Love you so much though!!

Mother thank you so much for the reminder about all the prayers of all the people who want us to succeed!!  It really is amazing that the only people who are more prayed for then the missionaries right now is the prophet and apostles!! I love it!  I'm so glad that doing sealings at temple was so good!!

TeJay! The boys costumes sound adorable!! Scarecrows!! I want pictures! Ones that would be okay to show to people and say they are my nephews, aren't they adorable!?!? And then talk about eternal families with them ... if you don't have time, I understand, but if you do, I'd love it!!

Sam!! I'm quitting sugar during November, and I think that if no one picks up on my intake, the the universe might explode ... I think that you need to take my month of November off of your fast, I'll pick right up again in December, but for the next month ... for the sake of the rest of human life ... please eat some sweets for me!! I'll feel so bad if all the calories and pure joy that I would normally eat doesn't get eaten!!!  They would be so sad, not fulfilling their life's purpose like that, just sitting on the shelf!! Eat them! Sam! Eat them All!!!

Shmabbi I fully support buying a bear ... actually I fully support going hunting with Jaden and getting my self a nine foot grizzly bear, stuffing it, and having it in my living room as a table or a couch ... that would be so cool!!! I'm for it, I love bears!! Don't worry about being a helicopter sister ... I plan on being a helicopter brother when I get home ... I'll need lots of attention from you and Sam all the time, and I'll probably bug you guys constantly!!!

So this week I have an request!! I just sent it to Sam and dad!! Thanks for helping me out with this!!

Box maze for church Halloween Party!!

This week we met with Brother K a lot, he came to the Halloween party and then to church, he said that it was all really good. Then on Monday night we went to a members house for FHE with him. Brother I, he's Tongan and plays professional rugby ... he's pretty big, and we ate a decent amount of food there ... it was so good, and then Brother I threw down spiritually, in only the way that Tongans can do ... It was amazing!!!

Brother K, Sabat Choro, Griffiths Choro, Turley Choro, Phillips Choro, Brother I

This week was really good. I loved it a lot, we got a lot of stuff done, and I'm way excited for everything else to keep coming!!

So this week I'm learning about urgency. I only have sevenish months left as a missionary, and we only have eight weeks until Christmas ... so we need one hundred more baptisms by then too!! Some people look at life and think that they have a lot of time left, they can put off decisions until later, or put off doing things until later ... like getting baptized. What I realized this week is that we definitely can do that, but there's a drawback. It's like getting a membership at Costco. You have to pay a price for it right? Life's not easy, it's complex.  You save so much money from shopping at Costco, but you have to enter into this agreement. Same with membership, we do things now so we can have blessings into eternity. We want the cheaper prices, we want to enjoy the huge muffins and gallons of mango nectar, we want to save money, but there is this membership fee.  We can put off baptism, but if we do, we miss out on so many blessings, that we don't even know!  Since I only have like seven months left, I'm resolving now to work like I only have seven days left! It's such a short time, that I don't have anyto waste time, no time for unfocused actions, no time for things that I can put off till I get home. I only have so much time to do what I have been sent here to do, and I'm way excited to do it!!

Thanks for all the love and support that you have all giving me all the time!!

Love ya!

Griffiths Choro!

DD 11.35 ... Like a bear with chainsaws for arms!!!

How is your dollar watch holding up? 

I sent Sam pictures ... it's blue and yellow, and digital, and I'm not allowed to wear it while I dendo because it's a child's watch ...

Why did you use the boating picture dad sent you instead of the soccer one? Sorry, the soccer one was just so cute!

Because we all swam ... and I love Sam's face!! Took a lot of strength not to tag all of you.

Any typhoons hit recently? How is the weather there? Changing?

A lot actually. Now the rain isn't so warm ... kinda cold, but not bad. Refreshing when I'm riding my bike home at night!

Would you like us to send you some pictures to go with your plan of salvation lesson? Do you have some? 

We do!! There are only five lessons btw. Red is the gospel of Christ ... expect the lesson on baptism to be an in depth lesson. They should have already committed you to a date though!

Did you get the picture from Sister P that showed you in your Star-A class in primary?

I did ... it was adorable!!! I friended Collin on Facebook the other day. Randomly found him ... and he looks way different!

Back: Sister J, Sister P
Front: Elders Bawden, Paxman, Butterfield, Griffiths, Simms

Dad (who is losing his mind) is thinking of painting Clyde. What color would be good? Same as he is now? Black? May not happen but just in case! (I vote black or candy apple red,)

The exact same color he is now!!! Don't change my stallion!!! I'll just have to  paint him right back when I get home!! And I have friends who will help me!!

Any new investigators found this week? Brother K still going strong?

Meeting him everyday, and he's doing well. He loved general conference, he felt the power of the prophets and loved everything they said ...we gave him the gospel library app and he's reading everything he can find in it now.

Where is the building you meet in for church? Dad is going a hunting (by that I mean stalking) again. When will your building be done?

The beginning of December ... we go to church in Mabashi, right by a huge
gambling center ... the church is seven stories high, the biggest one in south Asia.

Where do you meet for you English class? In Abiko? or where your church is?

Abiko, there's just not enough room in our chapel for all the members to come on Sunday now.

In every area you seem to have a new favorite food, what is your favorite food in Abiko? Do you ever eat melonpon in Abiko?

All the time. Whenever we go into a convenience store ... I think I'm going to cut out sugar for November though, and then as a Christmas present to myself eat sugar again ... maybe

Did you know your blog broke ten thousand hits? it did!
Whooooooooooooo!!!

Dad ... I may have told him that you read his blog ... he was going to put Brother and Sister Griffiths, but I talked him out of it ... you are welcome ... he's disappointed you haven't sent the requested response yet though ... no lesson six, just one through five. Gospel library has them all in PMG if you wanna study them ahead of time ... all sorts of pamphlets too!! I'll show you what I use and maybe you can give it to them too! English and Japanese. I love the skeleton and the sending me package ideas!!

Mom ... Nate got married!?!?!? What?!?! That's cool. That cake sounds delicious ... I'll have to practice my  cooking skills when I get back. I really wanna learn how to cook awesome stuff when I get home BTW, not just desserts ... which are delicious, so maybe we'll start with those.

TeJay!!  ... remember when you would babysit me and by that I mean sit with a gallon of ice-cream and watch movies with me ... you're the best brother ever BTW, such a good example!! That's really sincere though, thanks for helping out the parents this week ... if dad dies, be content without putting the lights on the east side ...  Thanks for the letter and for all you do!! Love ya!

Crazy faced smashed potatoes ... it took all my strength not to tag you ... I honestly thought about it too, but you have to approve everything your tagged in before it goes on your time line ... so I decided against it ... I couldn't have all your friends seeing how much tanner you are than me ... that would be lame!! Good luck with the fast from sugar, I'm gonna do it next month to get in crazy good shape ... and then eat endless sugar for Christmas with the money that I'll have saved during November ... should be fun!!

Stormin Norman ... I feel good about the final draft that got sent ... oh gosh a family party sounds kinda rough! I can't believe you are moving out!! I loved living with the Parentals for years by myself, and now you're leaving after a few short months!! Apparently I'm just a tougher child than you ... just kidding, but really, when I'm up at Logan, come up and hang out with me all the time, I guess you can bring Sam if you want, but we'll go get tacos and everything! I'm way excited to go back to Logan btw, thanks for making my first year so great!

Sitting in a chair ... Nihongo Style
the benefits of becoming flexible ...
... does sitting like this make me look old?

Dear family, this week was interesting.
A man accidently assaulted me while I was riding my bike ... it wasn't too bad, but he got off a bus and as he swung his backpack up to his shoulder ... he smashed it into my hand ... ouch! ... not too mention that I was riding pretty fast and my hand got some good chunks taken out of it ... don't worry, life-guard me took over and found a cm store to fix it up real fast. Here's the lame part ... the closest store only had one option for band aids ... eight for five dollars ... way lame right?!? But I will admit, they are the craziest band aids ever! I used one for the rest of the day and when I woke up the next morning, the small crater that had been taken out of my hand has been magically healed to a slight scrape ... Magic Bandaids ... I found magic band aids ... they're pretty sweet!! I'll send a picture, cuz I'm pretty sure that mom is freaking out right now.

We met with our investigator like everyday this week, he is doing good. He already follows most of the commandments,  but he said that he wants to work up to following all of them ... he's going to go to UVU next year! For their pilot (flight training) program, and the girl that introduced him to us going to go to BYU too!! Its just cool that they're both moving to another country but are still going to be so close ... he doesn't want to get baptized yet because he's not ready to give his life to the church yet. We're going to get some members and show him what they seem like and what kind of life they live.

A different investigator, a young one, wants to know what the heck is up with Abraham and God commanding him to kill Isaac. Obviously we look at it and say it was a test of faith, but how do I explain that to someone who believes in a perfectly just God, how could he command someone to do something, without expecting them to follow through. If God wasn't going to let Abraham kill Isaac then was God lying, that is the  kind of thought process he has going on in his head ... he's part japanese, he's from China and he's hilarious ... but I need help with him ...

Spiritual throw down for the week.
This week I learned a whole lot about love. I'm trying to become a more loving leader, companion, and friend to those around me ... it is really hard and I didn't always know what to do, so I turn to the scriptures to study about Christ. It was very interesting. Whenever he met with sinners He showed them mercy, the kind that only the son of God could show and then instead of scolding them. He forgave them, told them to go, and to sin no more. He recognized that the sinner did something wrong, but also knew that they felt bad, He knew how to show the right amount of love and encourage them not to sin again; and now they try to be better out of love for Him instead of a fear of punishment. I decided that Christ must have been really, really good at reading people ... I mean the Son of God, obviously has the gift of discernment so that helps; but still, He must know each of us so perfectly that He can help us overcome everything that we need to. It really is amazing!

So my question to all of you is, who in your life needs more love? Whether it be a spouse, a friend, a neighbor, a brother or sister, who ever it may be, reach out, try to understand them more and then show them more love and in return feel more love from them!!

Love you all, Griffiths Choro
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