Day...one. Guess the movie? (JK its like day 400.)

July 20, 2013 

Hai ai! (fast)  Another week flew by. Literally.

I am having such a fantastic experience. Even though the days are SO LONG like about ten months each, the weeks go by so fast and I learn so much every day. I am exhausted when I come home and don't even mind that I am starving becasue I haven't eaten since four. Haha. Thanks for the Muddy Buddies mom! They have been GREATLY appreciated.

So this week when me and Bush Shimai went running around the temple (the coolest thing ever.) We just happend to run into JANICE KAPP PERRY. Casual.

She was so nice and was talking about how she sang in Japan in Fukuoka and loved it! It was so fun to run into her (literally, we were running.) Jodan desu! (joke)

Oh my gosh my humor is going down the drain.

Oh also gues who I saw yesterday?...Danny Gessel! (is that how you spell his name...?) Anyways he just started working in the MTC as a portuguese teacher. So fun! he was like Olivia? and I was like "ahhh who knows my real name??" and then... we shook hands. Thats about all we are allowed to do. No hugs. haha but thats okay. Also, no  high fives for the shimai tachi. Choto Hen desu ka? Hai. (strange? yes.) but its for a reason so I am fine with that.

Something we have been working on is exact obedience. I have been praying REALLY HARD to be able to be exactly obedient. because when we are exactly obedient we are promised that we will recieve miracles (kiseki). Though this past few weeks I have had a lot of opportunities to be exactly obedient which I am so greatful for. It has strengthened my trust in the lord and my love for the gospel and the atonement of Jesus Christ. For example, I kept waking up with the thought that I needed to do some meanial thing.. like write down a note or something that was irrelevant. In bed I would think "um...what the heck why am I getting prompted to do that?" But as soon as I would get up to do it, I would forget what I was supposed to do! After pondering why the lord kept repeating this experience, I realized that he was giving me the opportunity to practice being exactly obedient. So Awesome!

I have also been praying a lot for humility. All I am going to say about that is that if you pray for humility and to be shown your weaknesses..you will be shown your weaknesses! I've got lots of them!

Some great scriptures I read this week were Mosiah 4 and 1 corinthians 12. and enos. They really show the nature of god and how we can come closer to him. Lovee love love.

I got to teach a female investigator for the first time. it was so different! I loved it because we could be totally small-talky and have something to talk about. With the Choro investigators, it is slightly muzicashie node we dont have a lot in common. its like "where do you work?" at a store. "oh..cool.....I like cars?" We have been learning about how you need to know your investigators to understand how and what to teach them.

Yesterday (kino) me and Bush Shimai had a really awesome (sugoi) discussion about (ni tsuite) Why women in the church don't have the priesthood and how we need to teach our investigators from the best way we can as women using all of our gender's gifts. After reading Esther, we decided that we don't need the priesthood becasue if we had the priesthood, we wouldnt need to rely on the priesthood holders to help us, and they wouldn't have an opportunity to use their priesthood to help others if everybody had it. Also, in the for the strengh of youth I read this morning about how womanhood in itself is such a special and divine calling. We have the ability to create holy places wherever we are. We get to nurture those around us and help them. We are the catalysts for change and the priesthood holders help carry out that change. Why wish for another gift when we know what blessings we can have if we do our part to help consecrate all our gifts to the church and to the Lord. Everything we have been givin is an important asset to the Lord and his work. We are equal because we are different. There must be opposition in all things. This doesnt just mean opposition like trials. It means opposition like opposites. We have to work togheter or eles the church will become divided.

1 corrinthians 12 is such an awesome chapter to read about how everybody in the church is important. Our bodies are testimonies of how each part is vital to the survival of men, and symbolizes how each member and gender is vital to the survival of the church.

I hope this all makes sense, I kind of just vommited the short version of what we talked about. Anyway, if you are still confused, just read the proclamation to the family (shout out to Sister Cluff for giving me a copy to glue in my scriptures in seminary!...and also for the billion other awesome quotes I have in my scriptures from you! Especially the ones about womanhood.)

The world needs more women who are representatives of our Heavenly Mother on earth.

Thanks for your prayers and support. There have ben several times when I felt that somebody from home was praying for me, and that means the world to me.

 I love you all and hope that you have great weeks!

Nelson Shimai

Also, Savannah, Claire, and Sarah, How was your cousins retreat??

ALso, here is my address for those of you who wanted to know:

Sister Olivia Jayne Nelson

AUG26 JPN-FKU

2007 N 900 E Unit 4

Provo, UT 84602

This is where I live!

This is what campus looks like:

This is where I sleep!