October 6, 2016

There is no way that it has been a week hahahahaha 信じられない！

Fastest week of my whole entire life...but also very rewarding! We had a pretty exciting week because of a typhoon that has been roaming around the mission...on transfer week. COME ON MR. TYPHOON! He could have come at any other time....but he had to come on transfer week! Oh well :) 

I learned a lot about planning this week, and making back up plans, and back up for back up plans. It was way fun! PLANS ARE AWESOME! We had 18 of the coolest new missionaries in the world come in this week! I love seeing new missionaries and their faith and excitement for the work, it increases my desire and faith in missionary work every single time! They are so humble, and willing to learn and willing to submit to their Heavenly Father and do anything, it is a wonderful example to me!

The good news is that miraculously the typhoon that was supposed to be a category 4 going straight at Fukuoka, decided to take a turn towards Korea...our prayers must have been stronger than theirs ;) It also weakened a TON, so there was basically no impact here. And now I am praying that everyone in Korea is very safe, I hope it wasn't their transfer week!

Our area is doing great, one of our former investigators who we taught for a while and had to pass because he was in a different area is getting baptized soon! And we have been able to start working with a couple other people! The Lord is constantly blessing us! 

I am SUPER excited for general conference! It is going to be tomorrow and Sunday here! WOW! I just love the opportunity to receive personal advice, and training from Prophets and Apostles, I am pushing right now to every day deepen my faith and testimony and I know that this will be an amazing opportunity!

I LOVE JAPAN! I love the people, I love this work, and I love the Lord!!

Thanks for all of your amazing advice and guidance to me in all of your emails! I definitely need it!

Elder Krebs

October 2, 2016

This week was all over the place! 

It is amazing that the Lord always knows how to push us when we are trying to improve on certain things :) This week I was focusing on Faith and Patience...both were tested hahahahaha I am grateful though, because I know that without trials there is no way that we can grow and progress. So it all works out in the end :)

Life is great here in Fukuoka, we are trying to do our best to stay in contact and continue working with our investigators here. Elder Yamanashi and I are putting together a plan to go out and work our bums off to find a person to baptize before next transfer ends! We are going to exercise our faith and talk to everyone! #FaithWithoutWorks=DEAD

Got to learn a lot of amazing things this week from my Mission President, his example is always a blessing to me. He is very particular and very detail oriented, which is a good example for me to learn from. This week I woke up in the middle of the night and was just had the thought come into my head "Man I love double checking things" hahahahaha I wrote it down in my journal and then went back to sleep, but if that isn't a sign that I have changed on my mission I don't know what is. 

All the new missionaries come in in a couple days! 18 new missionaries! So excited! and there are only 9 going home, so there is a couple of new areas opening up throughout the mission, which is really exciting! 

I love the Lord, this week as I was thinking about our roles that we have in this life. I thought that our most important role that we could ever have is being a Child of God, and a disciple of Christ. At all times and in all places being an example, through serving others. It doesn't matter what calling you have in the church, how much money you have, or anything. It is such a blessing that we have a Father in Heaven who loves us all equally. I definitely felt his individual love for me this week. I feel so blessed to have the restored gospel in my life!

Love you all so much!

Elder Krebs 

September 25, 2016

What a week! Got to go to heaven on earth at the beginning of this week! #OKINAWA

I absolutely love getting to go down to the islands! Got to go on splits with our beloved Elder Gorski, and our young blood, cold stone killer Elder Hardy! They were both AMAZING! I absolutely love talking to the people down there, they are so different from Japanese people hahahaha We saw some amazing miracles! With Elder Hardy we met just a ton of people that were way interested, the Lord was definitely guiding us, we made an effort to focus on our faith and following all promptings from the Spirit, and it was super effective. Go figure ;) 

We got back on Wednesday and it was go go go from there on out, doing all kinds of fun stuff. But it has started slowing down again a little bit here, which is way nice :)

I just wanna testify about the power of work. My favorite quote in PMG is from Elder Benson where he says "Work, work, work,- there is no satisfactory substitute, especially in missionary work" Pg. 121. I know that it is true, not just in missionary work but in life! I have learned that every single day on my mission. I have been focusing on putting in every single bit of effort to the work, to having faith, to following the Spirit. I have seen myself change little by little, and I know that Heavenly Father loves us and sees the effort that we all make every single day. He is waiting to bless us, and we can see those blessings as we work at improving ourselves every single day. All thanks to the atonement of Jesus Christ. WOW THIS GOSPEL ROCKS! I Absolutely love getting to share this with the amazing people in Japan. 

Companion is still an angel! Life is still amazing! AND I AM ALWAYS HAPPY!

Love you all,

Elder Krebs

September 18, 2016

This week was amazing, busy, and fun as can be!!

Elder Yamanashi and I this week have been focusing on learning, and growing, and pushing ourselves out of our comfort zones this week! With the language, dendo, and just everything! It has been amazing, we have seen a lot of miracles and success come from it.

Elder Yamanashi is a stud as always, he drove on a highway for the first time this week, started off pretty exciting, but he was a natural by the end! It was pretty impressive :)

We have found quite a few new investigators and potentials this week! It is way cool, we have started teaching this amazingly cool man named Seigaku, he makes shoes...by hand. They are a little bit out of our price range...like 2,000 dollars...but he is so cool and really interested has a lot of similar beliefs, and was recently just married and thinks the message could help! WAZZUP KINJIN!

It was fun this week, I got to see Elder Hanley one of my former companions! He is doing so well, it is amazing to see people change through the mission! There is no doubt in my mind that the gospel of Jesus Christ is true.

I have been studying a lot on faith! It is so amazing, so complex yet so simple. And sooooo powerful! I love it!

Love you all,

Elder Krebs

September 11, 2016

This week has been a party, we have been out of Fukuoka all week traveling, it has been great. I am excited to get back tonight and sleep in my own futon again :)

I just love what is happening in the work here! We have found so many prepared people recently. I have been focusing again on the aspect of faith and just having a belief that through Christ we can do all things, including find new investigators. And just the change in my mindset has changed everything! I feel so much happier every day, and just free. I know that Christ's atonement and faith can change anyone's lives!

I feel so lucky to have an amazing companion who is an awesome example to me. I have been blessed to learn from him so much this past few weeks, and am excited to keep learning from him. Elder Yamanashi is THE man! He is learning to love driving hahahahaha this week we had to drive to help open up a new apartment, and I had him drive the way back to practice. It was the first time he had ever driven on a free way, it was pretty exciting to say the least. But we made it safe and everyone grew because of it :)

Love this work, love Japan!

Elder Krebs

August 26, 2016

Transfer week hahahahahaha not much more to say it was pretty crazy! Big mission makes it easy for a lot of people to get lost no matter what precautions we take but it always works out in the end! Have to love the Lord's plan! I have learned that a lot recently, just strengthening my trust in the Lord and his plan rather than what I want and my plan.

This week has gone by pretty fast! I absolutely love my companion, he is the best, and we work well together, always pushing to improve and do all that we can to serve. He is constantly trying to serve and help others always. It is a good example.

This week we were WAY blessed to be able to watch the temple dedication of the Sapporo temple. It is so amazing to have a 3rd temple here in Japan and truly see the Lord's work progressing at such a fast rate! It was also awesome to see a member of the Quorom of the 12 of apostles speaking Japanese! Elder Stevenson has a special place in the hearts of a lot of the people here in Japan.

I have been studying a lot on consecration this week, and what it means. As a missionary we have so many rules and things that sometimes make it easy for us to think that as long as we follow those we are consecrated. And that is what I thought for a while, but throughout my mission I have seen that true consecration to the Lord means giving him everything. Focusing every bit of ourselves towards serving the Lord and building up his kingdom. As we forget ourselves and make Christ the center of our life we will gain so much peace and happiness. I am no where near perfect, but I know that every day through striving and through repenting anyone can improve. Even slow learners like me ;)

I absolutely LOVE Japan, I feel so blessed to be here. These are a special people, and I absolutely love everything about them. Feeling pretty blessed!

Thank you so much for all of your love,

Elder Krebs

August 19, 2016

This week has been a blur! hahahahaha but so many miracles it ridiculous! Uchino San came to church this week! He loved it, it was a special experience as he turned to me after Sacrament meeting, and just talked about the special feelings that he had and the peace and power that he felt! I know that this church is true, because it has blessed and changed my life and to see that happen in someone else's life is an amazing blessing, better than anything else. I feel so grateful to my Heavenly Father for allowing me to meet Uchino san. I love the Lord!!!

We have been really busy this week, it has been so good to work with Elder Yamanashi again, and continue to learn from him and his amazing example to me, I just want to be so much better when I am with him! Should be a fun 2 transfers!

I have been thinking a lot this week about consecration and what it means to consecrate yourself and forget yourself in the work of the Lord. And what impact and change that has in my life. I have on my mission learned that no matter how much you want to change it is hard to change unless you forget yourself, give your will over to the Lord and do all that you can. That is when true change comes. I have been focusing this week a lot on focusing on others every possible second. It is so hard and tiring, because I am naturally not like that at all, I am naturally selfish, but even though I am bad at it now I have already felt a difference and more love in my life. Gaining charity for all people.

I love this gospel and the blessings that it brings into my life! And the blessings that it has given to my family as well, we have the opportunity to live forever with my supah fly family! How cool is that?? Pretty neat huh??

Love this work! Love the Lord!

Elder Krebs