Life as a Sister: Konnichiwa!!!

Hey all! Konnichiwa!!

So this week was better, but it was still SOOOO hard! Everyone was right, after Sunday it does get better! Everything's a little more comfortable, and you just accept the fact that you don't understand anything the sensei says. So the worst week of the week: Pinzon Shimai left us :( She was fast tracked so now she leaves for Japan in 2 weeks!! So now, it's just me and Cook Shimai in a room that was made for six, so it's nice and spacious.

So a little about my doryo tachi (companions) Pinzon Shimai is from Tennessee, but was born in Colombia and didn't move to America until she was 15, she lived in Japan for like 4 months, so that's why she knew so much and left us. She's 26. Cook Shimai is from St. George! She's 21, and she's really fun. We laugh a LOT which helps with all of the class, but I think we laugh a lot because we're sitting for like 16 hours a day and are kind of going crazy haha.

My district is great!! We have 3 other companionship's, 2 from Utah, one from Guatemala, one from Arizona, Hawaii, and one from Vegas, he went to some weird online high school, but played from Sunrise Mountain football! So he's been to the fair, and always just calls me "Logandale"

So you asked about a normal day. It usually goes as follows: Wake up at 6, or if we feel behind we will wake up at 5 and do some additional language study. Then we go to breakfast, have some personal study time in our class, have a 3 hour class, eat lunch, do some online language study, then have PMG study time, then another 3 hour class, followed by language study, and then companionship study, and then we plan for our next day! Oh, and we have gym time or personal exercise time everyday, and our personal study is usually like 2 hours long, our PMG is usually 2 hours long, but there is still so much that I want to study while i'm here. We committed Yamaguchi-San to baptism! But we will never teach him again, and SURPRISE he's our second sensei. So we have Sheehan sensei who has been our sensei since the beginning, and Taylor sensei who played as Yamaguchi-san. So in class we always call him "Yamaguc---uhhh Taylor sensei" haha it's hard to remember!

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL OF YOUR PRAYERS! They have helped SO MUCH! and I can't believe I've made it to my second p-day. Please still pray for me! I'm praying for you :)

I got to see Sister Mecham the day she came in! She gave me like the best hug ever ( I don't get to hug much here..our sensei's hug our Elders, and can only shake our hands so that stinks.) But her hug was so tight, and she said this is from your mom and dad! It was sad, you could tell she wanted to cry, but was trying to be strong. I could relate to her, I told her it would get better, and and think she was just happy to see a familiar face, I know I was! I FINALLY GOT TO SEE ELDER TERRIL! I ran into him at lunch, he's already doing in-field orientation and gets to leave Wednesday! So we scheduled a meet up at dinner so we could bring our cameras and take a picture! He's DL! I've seen Elder Sullivan a couple times and I always get so happy when I see him. I see Elder Roemer all the time! Like 3 times a day! Taylor sensei was actually Josh Roemer's companion!!

You asked about what classes I like best, I have 2, 3 hour classes a day, and their the same thing, so I guess those. Sheehan Sensei can tell really good stories that bring the spirit SO MUCH it's insane, so I like it when he talks English :)

We just did laundry, the hugest laundromat i've ever seen. Hopefully we can take a nap, then eat lunch and then go do an endowment session at the temple! Then we have dinner and more class :( Well I don't know what else really happened this week, I forgot my journal again :( next week i'll remember so I can tell you what really happened this week. haha Have a great week! Thank you for your prayers, they help SO MUCH. I hope Moapa beat VV on Friday! Thank you for your DearElders, they mean the world to me when I get them! I'm only allowed to write letters on P-days, so even thought I don't reply really fast they make my day go by SO MUCH better, so please keep sending letters and DearElders, seriously they make my day!! I love you so much, and miss you tons!! Ai shitte imasu!