HAPPY BIRTHDAY PARKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hope you have a great day!
Everyone who reads this email should text Parker Happy Birthday.
This week was pretty different. So we still don:t know Sister Smothermans situation aka if she is going home or not but we are hoping to hear about it today.....or at least by next tuesday which is transfer call day! We have had the opportunity to work on our patience!
So we had a huge miracle in the form of a wheelchair!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh my gosh it has been such a blessing. Since Sister Smotherman can:t walk around, and crutching is hard on her arms, we use the wheelchair to get everywhere! Its a little bit slower than normal, but I am so happy to be mobile! We have not done a ton of proselyting this week, but I know that missionary work comes in all different forms. We did a bunch of service projects and visited a lot of members. We are working on strengthening the ward and developing better relationships with them so we can know how best to help them do missionary work and grow as families. We also took a lot of trains this week which helped, i just carried the wheelchair on the train and brought the crutches. Sister Smotherman is so great for crutching as much as she can- it is really hard to do and the crutches here (motsubotzui) are not easy to use.
So we had to send some xrays and ct scans to the doctor in Tokyo, but something hapened with the mail so he didnt get it. We got an anxious call from President and he told us to go to the hospital and take some pics with a camera. Me and sister Sharp speeded to the hospital on our bikes and took pictures of the xray with my camera. I asked the hospital nurse if this was legal an she was like...no but lets do it! hahaha so I probably broke some laws this week.
We have a member in our ward (actually 2) that used to be in the mob. Shinji Kyodai is one of them, he is really hard to understand and mumbles a lot but both he and Tateishi Kyodai left the mob for the church. You have to cut off your pinkie if you leave the mob so everybody can know you are a traitor. WHat? yeah so he doesnt have a pinkie. Tateishi Kyodai has all his fingers, so Im not really sure what that means about him. Maybe he was like given an honorable discharge or something...
We were supposed to teach a lesson on friday night at the church, but he never showed up. What did happen though was a manifestation that God knows everything: we ran into the custodian for our building and he was having a really hard time with some buisness stuff becasue it was all in english. We were able to translate it for him and help him get his paycheck. I know that we were supposed to be at the building for that reason, even if we didnt get to teach an investigator we still fufilled our misionary purpose.
One of our members has cancer and she was in the hospital this week. We went to visit her and were talking about places that our grandparents had served missions and when I told her that G and G went to Africa she freaked out and was like what the heck they went there! its so scarry and all the people are naked!
.....oh Nakomoto Shimai......
Also yesterday at church Fujitake shimai came up to me and was like hey so I need to talk to all of you sister missionaries and I know sister Sharp is the area sempi but she doent understand me when I talk and you do. oh man I was like...oh um okay haha. I guess my japanese is doing okay then. (I dont mean to toot my own horn, my japanese is far from stellar) but it was a funny story.
Well I will let you all know what the situation is when I figure it out, but keep Sister Smotherman in your prayers. Also Mitch and his new bean. :]
As we are preparing for Thanksgiving I just wanted to say that I am so thankful for your support!
Love you!
Sister Nelson
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