This week for Independence Day we had a big American culture
festival with games, food and a short skit on America gaining independence. It
was a good time, met some cool people. My man, Li from the 2nd ward, is prepping
a business presentation on bringing Chinese herbal medicine to the United
States. It was fun.
We just got done climbing Mt. Ooyama! We were above the
clouds. Also I sweat a ton.
We had dinner with the Hashimoto family and he made some
delicious pizzas. Brother Hashimoto lived in Idaho for a bit and just has a
very American personality, it’s really funny. He explained to us a bunch of
Japanese insults and had us teach him ways we would say the same things in
English. He loved it.
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| Hashimoto Family |
We also had interviews with President Warnick! He’s the man,
it’s always good talking with him.
Also we had a sweet MLC. We talked a lot about happiness.
There was a way it was described that I really like. It’s like a butterfly, if
you keep chasing after it, it will continuously evade you, but if you occupy
yourself with other things, and wait patiently, it will come to you. It’s like
if we keep thinking about it, it doesn’t really come. Happiness is essentially
the byproduct of living a good productive life, not necessarily the goal.
There’s another section of scripture that was shared to us in Matthew 14:13-21.
Jesus just heard that John The Baptist has died and as the scriptures say, “he
departed thence by ship into a desert place apart”. I think like a lot of us
after hearing some harsh news, we’d like some time alone. But the multitude
followed. But instead of saying, “Sorry, not today guys.” He had compassion on
them, he healed them, and he fed them. In order to recover from a hard blow, I
think that in turning outward and finding something to do that benefits others,
and turning our focus to someone besides ourselves, we can find a lot of good
out of life.
愛しています、
Elder Cuff
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