Lesson mastery accomplished!

Konnichiwa! Ogenki desu ka?!

I hope you all had a marvelous week! We are all very excited in the Kurume apartment. Yesterday, one of our favorite ward members gave us NUTELLA!! Hirata Shimai has never eaten nutella before, so we told her it would be "too sweet" for her, so that we could eat more. Oh no, that sounds bad! I think I need to repent! Companionship unity!! I can't lie! But anyways...

This week was great!! In our mission we have a thing called "lesson mastery" where we all have to teach all 5 of the lessons in a 3-5 minute lesson, a 10-15 minute lesson, and a 30-45 minute lesson. ALL BY YOURSELF! NO companionship unity there! Anyway, it is way stressful and the last long lessons you have to teach to your district leader, zone leader, ward mission leader, and a less active member. Anyways, I finished YESTERDAY!! It took way longer than I would have liked to complete it, but I can now teach any lesson, any length without a companion. (which I never want to do, law of witnesses, anyone?) But we were excited

I saw a spider the size of my HAND this week while housing! I was walking down the stairs and Hirata Shiami just gasps, the apartments here are FILLED with spiders, and we like to blow on their webs and see them scuttle away so a gasp is normal, I just deck my head ( i am taller than all Japanese people, so i frequently walk through the webs..) but then i realize she stopped, I look up and there is a spider big enough to be in the Harry Potter movies. It was insane. I just covered my mouth, and like tears just came to my eyes I was so scared. I didn't know what to do, couldn't speak, my vision was going blurry (give me a break, I'm a sister missionary, we are SUPPOSED to cry a lot, it comes with the calling) and I just snatched my bag, took a couple pictures, and then ran away. It was a scary time.

BUT spiders aside, we have a really great investigator who reads the Book of Mormon for AT LEAST 30 minutes every night!! Plus one night he was so interested in it, that he read until 3 in the morning!! We are hoping to extend a baptismal date this week! So pray for him! Kinjo san! We love him! 

Went to Nagasaki, ate some Indian curry (which i think might be my favorite food), received some training, slept on the train. And I am glad to report that my hair is back to normal. Just a little shorter, probably about 6 or 7 inches! I get to go to Fukuoka this week for a training and I am SO EXCITED!!! have a great week! I love you!! 

Messer Shimai

Lesson mastery...check!