Sacred Clothing

Video produced by the church explaining our sacred clothing.

A Brief Testimony by Sister Breksa

I know that God lives and that He loves everyone and is aware everyone. 

Down Time During the Typhoon

Widow of Nain

Japanese Proverb

 Darkness

reigns

at the

foot

of the

lighthouse.

Text: “Springs of Japanese Wisdom,” Hettinger, E.

Excerpt from a email home: Dated 12 October 2014

Thursday

Had a lesson with A. He did not want to meet at the church building so we had dinner at a restaurant. At first the music was loud and distracting. He had told us that when he watched The Good Samaritan video online [MormonChannel] and while attending a Christian Church, he felt something and wanted to know what it was and why he was felling it.  In response we taught The Plan of Salvation. While teaching the music seemed to disappear and the three of us focused on the lesson and the light of truth.

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Japanese Language: Tatemae

たてまえ

This is a concept that does not translate to an exact word or phrase in English.  At best, we can describe “tatemae” as being…

…the first thing you see, but you know there is more to see. What you are experiencing  at that moment in time is not all there is to that experience. 
What is in front - is understood to be a facade.

I Have Kept the Faith

Part of an email:13 October 2014

This past Monday.

We felt prompted to house [go door-to-door] in a certain area. We followed the prompting. We felt like we should go to a certain apartment. We go but it is Auto-lock. Hmmm…so we housed in the neighborhood. We met a family. We are scheduled to meet with them tomorrow. 

Whew!

Dear Parents of the Japan Fukuoka Mission Missionaries,

Good morning. The Typhoon passed by yesterday and all the missionaries in the Fukuoka Mission are all safe and sound. Thank you for your prayers.

Fukuoka Japan Mission

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Japan: Art of fixing broken pottery

Kintsugi = golden joinery or Kintsukuroi = golden repair, is the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with lacquer resin dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum a method similar to the maki-e technique.

As a philosophy it speaks to breakage and repair becoming part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.  Japanese æsthetics values marks of wear by the use of an object.

Not only is there no attempt to hide the damage, but the repair is literally illuminated.

As a philosophy kintsugi can been seen to have similarities to the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, an embracing of the flawed or imperfect.

Text: Wikipedia

Image: http://24.media.tumblr.com/7afbfc5d7b91a1e8baa74dbe0c50bca7/tumblr_mnlborkM4z1sr78veo1_1280.jpg