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| In front of LDS church |
Hello!!! Jan. 12, 2014
This week has been CRAZY!!! It's hard to believe I've only
been here for 2 weeks! Say what? It's felt like 5 months already! SO much has
happened, i've already seen so many miracles it's insane!! So I'll start with
last Tuesday. So while streeting that first day we were in Japan, Cook Shimai
was with Flake Shimai's old companion, and they found a new investigator! So
they set up an appointment for us for Tuesday at the church, and so we came all
excited, and she never showed up. But that's alright because a nice lady gave
us pastries as we waited probably because we looked so sad haha. But that day
we had to walk to the bike place to get me a bike!! WHICH IS AWESOME, I'll send
pictures! Anyway, so it was a LONG walk, so we were streeting and a lady just
yells out "SISTERS!!" *(yes, English) and so we were like what? So we
went up to her and she had been baptized 20 years ago in Utah, but moved to
Fukuoka and couldn't find a church and she was just thinking how she wanted to
go back to church, and so all she could find was the address to the temple, so
we gave her the address and she invited us over to practice our Japanese on
her, and to reteach her the lessons, and to help her at her English class, to
come eat dinner and all this stuff, so we're calling her tonight to set up
appointments and stuff because last week was hard with her work. It was
amazing, and she gave me a hug, I don't even remember the last hug I got from
besides Flake Shimai! So that was amazing!
Then on Thursday we went to visit a less active who had just
gotten surgery and we brought flowers, but we had to ride the train. Ya, we
went on the wrong train and were somewhere near the ocean 2 hours
later.....(good thing our area is huge) so we rode back, got on the right train
and where sooo behind schedule, but we got to her house, shared a message, got
on the right train to return and this lady was next to us at the station and
started speaking to us in English, she loves English, and she asked us if we
could meet again, gave us her information, and we are planning to meet again on
Friday! She was so concerned that we had to ride our bikes home form the
station, that when we got home she called us to make she we were safe! I'm
telling you, the Japanese people are AMAZING! They are all so nice, even when
they refuse you on the street.
I don't even know what to tell you all, so much has
happened, it's insane! Yes, everyone wears those face masks when they're sick.
I think it's so funny!! But it's soooo hard to understand them because it's
kind of muffled, and you can't read their lips or anything!! Oh mom, the kids
in the ward here LOVE the CTR ring! Like none of them had seen it before, so
they were like what? that's what it says? and so that was fun to be attacked by
children! They are so cute here! They have the
cutest little cheeks and their hair is just so straight, and they have bangs
and augh just adorable!!! I dont' really know what else to say, this week has
been A LOT of planning for the transfer, and setting goals, and then streeting
and housing for a couple hours each day. Today is the celbration for all of the
20 year old girls, it's like turning 21 in america, so we're going to go see if
we can watch that, it would be so cool! Sorry the letter is so lame this week,
i just realized how much planning in the apartment we did!
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| BEFORE getting lost on the train! |
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| MY BIKE! |
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| After getting lost on the train |
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| Our housing area |
Messer Shimai
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