I served my mission from Jan 2006 - Mar 2008 in the Sapporo, Japan Mission which encompasses the whole of the north island of Japan called Hokkaido. We were affectionately, though not enviously known as the 'frozen chosen' as temperatures could drop below even minus twenty degrees Celsius.
I love the people I was called to serve, and the members and missionaries I was called to serve with. I had so many unforgettable experiences ranging from seeing the people we were teaching enter the waters of baptism to being rushed to hospital in the back of a Japanese ambulance.
I am so glad I answered the call from the Lord to serve a mission because it's made such a difference in my life. There is not one day when I don't think about my mission and experiences in Japan. Although it did require a sacrifice on my behalf, I got so much more out of serving than what I put in.
3 Nephi 13:31-34
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32 For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.
34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.
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