JUNKAIS!!!

December 14, 2014

HEY! Happy day! Is it cold in the US? It sure is getting cold in Japan! We love living by the ocean, but boy does it make it cold!!! But it is ok, Doi Shimai and I bought matching fleece night gowns, with matching slippers, so we stay warm at nights. 

The highlight of our week was JUNKAIS!!! I think English speaking missionaries call it exchanges or splits! I got to go BACK TO FUKUOKA!! Spend the night in my old apartment, visit my old investigators, and ride the streets of Fukoka! it was way fun! We decided to ride our bikes to the Fukuoka Apartment since we are just the neighboring area, and live close the the border. We were riding as fast as we could to try to make it before 9, and we turn a corner by a college we like to street around and BAM there is my old investigators house. Wait a second...but Mori san lived in the Fukuoka area, right? Wrong, comes to find out me and my companion had 2 investigators in the Fujisaki area, and we would go streeting and housing in the Fujisaki area all of the time. We had no idea! It was right by our apartment. Surprise! The Fukuoka Sisters apartment is right by the border. Nobody even knew! hahah so we are going to go try to visit some of my old investigators who are in OUR AREA! how cool is that?

This week we got to go the busiest part of Fukuoka, Tenjin, and sing with some missionaries! It was way fun, we sang on a stage in this covered area between two super big departments stores. It was a lot of fun, and Michiko san, an old Fukuoka investigator, was able to come and I got to meet her! yay! 

We were able to meet with Yamamoto san a couple of times. We just love him, he helps us out so much! He gave us a tour around his house, well the area around his house (not inside his house) we all 3 hopped on our bikes and rode through little streets, and had a lot of fun. He also came yesterday to the church and we talked, we were even able to skype with an old missionary who just went home, Williams shimai and she followed up on some lessons she had taught him while she was in Japan. It was a lot of fun!

Try not to freeze this Christmas season! You are all amazing! 

Messer Shimai

Preparing to send family their packages

With Elder Stump at Brother Heaton's fireside.  E. Stump is from Logandale too!