Merry Christmas!!

December 21, 2016

Hello family and friends!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

It is a great time to be a missionary! I love it because here in Japan
the girl that I baptized a few weeks ago, Himawari chan, has a big
school test on Christmas!! Despite the fact that it is Sunday, and
also CHRISTMAS!! I couldn't believe it. So everyone be grateful that
In America and other places Christmas is so widely recognized, here it
is not too much! But despite that, there are a lot of members feeding
us, and we will be ha I a very merry Christmas here, as missionaries!!
Also we had our ward Christmas party is last Saturday, and it was so
fun to be able to sing I. The choir, and also to play Santa Clause!!
Super fun!


We were able to go to the temple again today, so that was really
special! It is crazy that elder Graham and I have gone to the temple
together since the first time the missionaries were allowed to go;
right when it opened! It was our 4th time! We are very lucky.


It has been a great opportunity, and experience to be training! It is
so fun to watch someone who hasn't experience Japan get to experience
things and get all pumped about things that have unfortunately become
normal for me. We cracked a raw egg into a bowl, and ate this meet and
vegetable mix, where you take it and dip it into the raw egg, and then
eat it. It had oysters in it and a lot of other really good stuff, but
my comp had a really hard time with that! Haha it takes some time to
get used to I guess, especially if you don't like sea food!

I know that this Church is true. I know that we can be healed and
become clean again through Christ. I love President Uchtdorf's warning
to not take the gospel for granted. We are so very blessed, and we
should never allow ourselves to become numb to the blessings of church
and temple attendance, Book of Mormon, and prayer, and following the
commandments. I love you all so much and I love Jesus Christ. I am so
grateful for him, and for his birth. Take some time and really reflect
on what Jesus has done for you, and try and give him the one thing
that you can give him; your will.
Have a great Christmas!!
Love,
コノバー長老
Elder Conover