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Elder Samuel Mischa Chun
Japan Tokyo Mission
4-25-12 Nishi-ochiai,
Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
161-0031
Japan

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Thanks so much!

Week 67, October 28, 2014

Hello everyone! It's been a while since I wrote. Sorry! Things have
been quite hectic.

Miracles!

So Keisuke. Keisuke totally wants baptism, but lives in a different
area. The problem is that he goes to school each day through our area
and has a free train ride to our church. So we needed the Stake
President's permission to make it work. Literally 10 seconds after we
have a meeting with the Stake President about, there is a call in the
Stake President's office. Now this is rare. Very few people have this
number. Turns out, it's Keisuke's mom. True, his mom is totally
against him being baptized. But crazy ridiculous miracles like that
just are God saying, "Hey Elders. I got your backs. Don't stress!"

Dane. Dane is a referral from a different area. He's super incredibly
shy and self-conscious (he's still in high school). He wants baptism
before the end of the transfer. We met him on Sunday and he says,
"Hey. I want baptism by Saturday." And we're like "Well... Let us
check ourYESSSSS."

Interesting experiences: I got hit by the most deadening wave of
sadness this week. I've always been aware in my mind that this is not
my work, but I have never been grateful for that fact up until now.
One of our investigators has been tricked by the craftiness of Satan
where he is against a God of justice completely, due to crazy
extremists that commit crimes in the "name of God". After a very
intense meeting with Mahea (that's his name), I was overcome with the
greatest wave of sadness for the world. Satan is really good at what
he does. And the front lines of missionary work are a bunch of 18-27
year-olds that aren't relying on the "source of our hope" as much as
we need, ought, and should. It was an interesting night, being filled
with sadness and deep gratitude at the omniscience of God at the same
time. I can't explain how badly I want to share the gospel now. I
understand that a mission is a time of preparation for a more
excellent work in the home and in our communities for when we return,
but I have never desired to do the will of God more in my life.

To be honest, I don't really enjoy sending my real feelings and
experiences to people over email. There have been a lot of times I
have tried to share them in person, and even then I have been laughed
at. I can't even explain how sad I was this last week. But I really
hope that someone can sense a bit of the sadness I felt and pray a
little bit more powerfully for a chance to share the light of Christ;
the light of the World; the light of our lives with those who are
sitting in darkness, doubting that there ever was a light to begin
with.

And if not, oh well. I'm going to keep sharing until the end of time.

Love you all! Have an excellent week!

(
^)


MATSUDO IS...
100% WHITE WITH A FULL COURT PRESS
ワイネガー長老とチャン長老
末日聖徒
イエス・キリスト
教会


Week 66, October 19, 2014

Is there ANY way I can get maybe 4 or 5 names that I can do in the
temple here in Japan for our family? I really want to help our family
receive the gospel. Maybe can you mail me the name cards and I'll take
them once a transfer?

If not, that's ok. I love you!

(
^)


MATSUDO IS...
100% WHITE WITH A FULL COURT PRESS
ワイネガー長老とチャン長老
末日聖徒
イエス・キリスト
教会



Sami also sent several picture this week!

Week 65, October 12, 2014

Hello everyone! I guess I haven't sent an email to everyone for the
last few weeks. Whoops! I guess it's kind of hard when I'm trying to
respond to the bajillions of emails I get and I'm just hitting "reply"
and sending something. I don't have anything to reply to for the
blanket email, so I apologize!

For those of you who don't read this, you don't care! I can laugh at
you as much as possible bahahaha! Because the instant you read this
email, you are no longer one of the people I'm laughing at!!!

yeah. I'm in a weird mood. I'm wearing a sweater vest!

So this week, we had Conference. I learned a lot of things about how I
can repent. But one of the talks that hit me closest to home was Elder
Callister's talk. It said so many things and answered so many
questions of my soul. People who go and listen to that talk probably
won't get why it meant so much to me, but the Holy Ghost is so great
to me. And us all!

yeah, I don't really have much to write about. Well, I have tons of
stuff to write about, but I don't know what to write. There's still no
questions about what to write about, so I'm getting a little more
rambunctious until someone sends me a "No-Go" email haha. I can't tell
if anyone likes or reads these emails, so... Perhaps I'll cause a riot
in America with my inspiring writings!!!

Oh well. If you're reading this, I love you all! If you aren't reading
this.... You'll never know!



(
^)


MATSUDO IS...
100% WHITE WITH A FULL COURT PRESS
ワイネガー長老とチャン長老
末日聖徒
イエス・キリスト
教会
Matsudo - The ward name
100% - Faithful, obedient, diligent, good attitude
100% of the areas with a baptism by Christmas 
100 people baptized by Christmas

Next line: My name and my Companion's name

next 3 lines: 
    The Church of 
      Jesus Christ
Of Latter-Day Saints
                                                                                (^)




                                   MATSUDO IS...
            100% WHITE WITH A FULL COURT PRESS
                        ワイネガー長老とチャン長
                                       末日聖
                                 イエス・キリスト
                                          教会


Week 64, October 6, 2014

I had some things I thought about Christmas.

1: Did you ask Opa for glasses for me? I don't want to seem needy...
But I need them haha

2: I think I need (a) new suit/s. Has Grandma gone to Japan yet? If
not, maybe forget the sweats and just go with suits? I don't know how
expensive suits usually are... I was looking today and saw suits from
$100 up to $800. I'm not an idiot, so I wouldn't get an $800 suit on
my mission, but I don't know what's a good price range.

3: If you haven't sent the package yet, don't worry about putting
candy in! It's time to trim down for all the ladies waiting at home
hehehe (not really. I just have been feeling a little nauseous after
eating a lot of candy. Binge eating, you know haha)

I'm sorry again about always requesting pricey things!
お赦しください!

(
^)


MATSUDO IS...
100% WHITE WITH A FULL COURT PRESS
ワイネガー長老とチャン長老
末日聖徒
イエス・キリスト
教会


Week 63, September 29, 2014

I thought of something Opa could send me! Do you think he could send
me a cool new pair of glasses since all of mine are broken?

Also, can you google search "Philosophy + Metaphysic ethic" and see
what comes up? I'm trying to remember something from college. I think
it might be metaphysic (what is real), ethic (what is right) and
epistemology (I don't remember).

Sorry for just requests. I truly do love you.

--
全長老
(
^)


Week 62 - September 22, 2014

So. Time is short. This is the biggest miracle from last week.

We met this amazing guy named Olumide (We call him Mide, pronounced
Mindy). He's a refugee from Nigeria who was hunted by terrorists
because he witnessed an attack on the local police station and
reported where the terrorists ran. Because of spies inside of the
military forces, he became blacklisted. The terrorist group attacked
his home, killing his sister and making him run from country to
country. Eventually, he got to a Catholic Church that raised enough
money for him to fly to Japan and be safe. Once here, he was told to
go to Roppongi (which is rumored for it's awful environment), but he
knew within his heart that was wrong, so he slept in a park instead. A
kind man took him in for 3 weeks, but told him there were no churches
in Japan. So Mide walked around until he found a church. You have 3
guesses which church it was. And you fail if you don't get it right on
the 1st try.

He's on page 3 of the Book of Mormon, has been to church twice, his
every question is "What else need I to prepare for baptism" and he's
the most punctual African man I've ever met.

Love you all!
--
全長老
(
^)


Week 61 - September 14, 2014

Hello! Another week, come and gone. This week was Zone Conference.
President Budge taught us communication skills, so that we could get
along better with our companions. Yeah, you got that right. I cry all
the time because of my companion. He's just too awesome! I don't write
about him much, because he is like Superman, whereas I'm more like
"Donkey" from Shrek haha

Not really. We have a great time together. See some pictures!


Week 60 - September 7, 2014

Hey everyone! This week will be long. IF anyone reads these haha :D

Recently, I've been starting my study in a new way. I have a question,
I pray hard, then I flip open the Book of Mormon and read. Without
fail, I've been able to gain revelation that leads to a good,
heart-felt study. This sunday, a lack of sleep, a copious amount of
stress, and fast sunday all accumulated into a negative thinking
tendency. So I was trying to repent and cast off the sadness, when I
opened up the Book of Mormon to Alma 58:11. "Yea, and it came to pass
that The Lord our God did visit us with assurances that he would
deliver us yea, insomuch that he did speak peace to our souls, and did
grant unto us great faith, and did cause us that we should hope for
our deliverance in him."

I knew this to be an answer to my prayer, but my heart was still
heavy. I prayed hard and asked God for help to let go of the sadness,
and I opened the Book of Mormon again. To the same page. After reading
that verse again, my heart calmed a little bit, and I took the
Sacrament. Then, once again, negative thinking. I prayed for
forgiveness, and asked The Lord to lift the dark veil on my mind. I
opened the Book of Mormon and read the following words:

Yea, and it came to pass that The Lord our God did visit us with
assurances that he would deliver us yea, insomuch that he did speak
peace to our souls, and did grant unto us great faith, and did cause
us that we should hope for our deliverance in him."

Afterwards, I tried flipping open to the same verse without praying
and it didn't work, no matter how I tried. Accident? No.

Miracles.

Also, our friend Alex had an awesome experience the other day. He is
catholic, so he believes in Christ. He is searching for the true
church, and wanted to know about Joseph Smith. SO he ponders all day,
and goes to bed. Then he sees Joseph Smith in a dream in the Sacred
Grove being visited by 2 heavenly beings.

WHAT.

So we try to explain that's the Holy Ghost. Our member (who is also
Filipino) starts explaining the Holy Ghost, and we start talking about
how we feel it. My companion says he gets the chills. I say I feel a
warm feeling, goose bumps, and hear usually a sentence in my mind. Our
member present says, "I see dreams."

MIND = BLOWN.

So yeah. God prepares His people. Then Alex got stung by a bug in the
eyes, which swelled up until he couldn't see, so he couldn't come to
church. So pray for him! (b^0^)o

Love you all!
--
全長老




Week 59 - August 31, 2014



Hello everyone! This week was a great week.


So! This week, I had a very peculiar experience. I was feeling that no matter where I go, I wasn't doing a good job sharing of the Atonement; letting others feel the love of God. I'm not sure why, but on Saturday, I broke. Completely and utterly broke. My mind was shot; my heart was down; my spirit wanted to lay down and give up. And this was at 12 o'clock. I struggled through the rest of the day to not give up. There were a few moments while teaching that I felt a bit better, but for the most part I was down for the count. That night, I was up for several hours because I almost threw up. Then, Sunday rolled around and I was completely empty.


A thought came to me. "Get a blessing." I thought, I can't. I need to be strong. I need to keep going. But I just... can't. My mission President's words came to my mind. "The hallmark of humility is that we cast our burdens on The Lord." I thought to myself, "I got a blessing 2 weeks ago! And in THAT time, all The Lord told me was to keep going. Do I need another?"

Then came the gentle thought, "Draw near unto me, and I will draw near unto you." With those words, I got a blessing. And then The Lord said something that filled me with such wonder. He told me that He loved me; that He was grateful for the fact that I serve with ALL my heart, mind, and strength. He promised me, again, that my family would be safe (I wasn't even worried), and that He was protecting them so that I could completely focus on the work for the time I am a missionary. And then He said I had touched the lives of many, and would continue to do so. I was grateful for His comforting words.

And then, that day, an investigator from Maebashi area (2-3 hour car drive away) came to see me, tell me his girlfriend left him, and asked me to pray for him. I met this man once. And for some reason, The Lord helped me touch the heart of this man. It meant so much to me that God has guided me through a change and has let me be His instrument. He is the greatest!


Love you all! Everyone should at least send me a picture of you so I can see how much you've changed!


Peace. V(^0^)V
--
全長老

Week 58 - August 24, 2014



Hello! This week is a bit short on time, but some updates.
 
I am now in Matsudo. It's a little ridiculous. I went from a "ward" of
25 people to a ward of 250. The building (a picture is on my Facebook
page) is huge. 5 stories. Top floor is a gym.
 

 
Miracles:
we were streeting the other day and we ran into this guy that said, "I
am very confused. I'm looking for truth. I am hoping for change." So
we handed him a Book of Mormon and said, "This is the truth you are
looking for." He wants to meet us. But the biggest miracle was that
right before I met him, I was praying to God for a chance to love the
Japanese people more. THen as I saw him and testified to him, I felt
the Spirit powerfully tell me that Rentarou (that's his name) is my
brother and friend. The Lord answers our prayers VERY quickly
sometimes. And sometimes not.
 
Anyways, love you all! If you have any questions or requests as to
what you want to hear, shoot me an email and I'll see what I can do.
If not,
このままで続けます!You're great!
 
愛、
--
全長老