Easter in Japan was great!

Sunday, April 20th, 2014

Hi everyone!

All cereal here is just Corn Flakes.  But, I found
Waffle Crisp...with Corn Flakes combined!

Easter in Japan was great! We were able to go to a families house yesterday for a big FHE activity with different families in the ward. The ward did a huge FHE extravaganza where different families went to a families house and had FHE together. We went to the Yoshizawa's house.

One of my favorite ward children!

Clothes swap and Easter egg hunt

Filipino and Japanese food!

My new scripture case I made

Doing some service road cleaning.  This road leads to our church.

 There were 6 other people there. We had curry, and salad and heard about their conversion stories and then talked around some weird jello dessert thing. It was great though, we were able to get to know some members we didn't know very well before. One of the people there was a returned missionary, he is fluent in English, it was so nice to talk to him! He actually understood me! ha! What a concept! It was a lot of fun though!

This week was baby english class! Since I am now the only American sister in Fukuoka I get to teach the Mommy English class and Baby English calss by myself! It was actually a lot of fun! This week after baby eikaiwa, we had "Kangaroo Club" where the young moms brought all of the the old clothes they didn't want and they all switched. I swear, they could have their own shop. They had different tarps for each category of clothes! Too bad they are all really short and belly shirts and mini skirts are totes inapro-pro. Then I explained what Easter was in Japanese, it was so scary, and we hid Easter eggs and little kids ran around finding them. Then they decorated the eggs with LDS stickers! hahahah it was fun! Japanese people don't really celebrate Easter. The members do, but since Buddhism is so big here, nobody else really celebrates Easter. 

This week we had TWO less active members come to church yesterday!! Such a miracle! We were so excited to have them come and feel the spirit of Easter! It is so hard for people to come to church because Japan is such a busy place!!

We weren't able to meet with our investigator, Ueha san because she was sick :( But we were able to meet with Michiko san TWICE! She LOVES reading the Book of Mormon! She reads it as a novel though. We are hoping she can apply it into her life somehow. She leaves tomorrow for her parents house for three days though. So we hope she can keep reading and feel of the power of the BOM! She is so great. She loves Americans. She had me teach a whole lesson in English so she could listen and try to understand English. She didnt understand anything, so we went back and repeated it all in Japanese. She's funny. She took us to a restaurant Marilyn Monroe ate at when she visited Fukuoka haha 

Oh mom, I met a lady on the street. She is 94 and she folk danced for 30 years! she started when she was 60, and was even on TV! I told her I did some folk dancing and she got really happy! She was so cute!

Well I hope you all are having a great Easter Weekend back home, and that you have an even better week this week! Thank you so much for all of your love and support! i love and miss you all!! 

Messer Shimai