Hello I am doing great except is freezing but you know what? The church is true. if The pioneers can do it with no shoes and no food, I can do it with boots and lots of food. Even if its Senzai. (sick, I just threw up thinking about eating it.). Seriously Dad, its worse than Babybarf Cheese.
Okay this week was so awesome I dont even know where to start. I might just make a list.
- Tsugumi San is getting Baptized!!!!!!!!!!!!! She came to church the other day and had a really spiritual experience, felt members love, and built faith in Christ. We met with her 2x this week and taught about the restoration and about Christ. She loved hearing about the prophets and loved looking at all their pictures. She kept asking who is next!!? when we were talking about the ancient prophets in the bible. It tested my knowledge of the old testament for sure! We had a young womens class for her where we talked about the spirit and how to recognize it. It was so good- she is getting better at praying and has a desire to read the Book of Mormon. She really likes Moroni. (Who doesnt!) Anyways, please pray for her because she needs it!
-Yoshioka San is an avid SGI member but she recently called us and wanted to meet (she came to the Christmas party and loved it!) So we took a member and had a great lesson/ chat session about church and various things (okay they started talking about how tights make your stomach fat show....what the heck sometimes I wish my Japanese was bad. wellll...more bad than it is haha. ANyway she came to church on sunday and LOVED IT" she was like oh my gosh this is so easy to understand! So we have a lesson with her tomorrow. wahoo
- I sang How Great Thou Art in Sacrament meeting. Its called Waga shu yo Waga Kami in Japanese. Waga means my and Shu means lord and Kami means god.
- We had an awesome lesson with Ami about the Plan of Salvaion and read from Moses 5. It was awesome. Moses five explains the POS so simply and it makes it into a real story- ( i mean because it is, but you know what i mean.)
- I basicaly joined the secret service and felt like the Von trapp family escaping from Austria- okay this cutest girl wanted to her our message and totaly was into the Restoration thing but her mom was a huge opposition and was like no way. So since we had already made a meeting with her, obviously we went to that appointment. It was dark and we went to her house praying her mom wouldnt be home. She wasnt and we got to teach a short lesson and Give Naru Book of Mormon and stuff. Just as we were leaving, her MOM PULLS UP IN THE CAR!!!!!!!!!!!!....my stomach literally fell out of my body. But so the mom comes up and DOESNT EVEN RECOGNIZE US! she was so nice and just said oh you are church people? no thanks!. And then went inside. What? yeah. The Spirit of God like a Fire is Burning. It was way cool. And scary. But mostly just cool and I totally felt like I was an anti Nazi person delivering secret mail.
- We got this way awesome list of Vocab from the APs that is like 200 of the most used words. It has helped my vocab so much!!!!! Especially my Passive vocab.
- We had interviews with President this week. He said that we are doing a Good job and called me a stinker because we rode out fifty billion miles to reactivate the Tateishis. I am also area sempi.... no pressure. That just means that Ive been in the area the longest. So basicaly if anything goes wrong I get fired. Just kidding. President is the best. He had us read in D&C about Different names Christ uses for Joseph Smith. He then asked us to decide what name we wanted and what we need to do to be deserving of that name. It was really impactful and I loved seeing that side of Christ, the one where we get to be equal (kind of) to him because we are all children of God and have known each other for eternities.
-We taught this cool lesson with a new investigator family yesterday. We all knelt in the Genknon and talked about the Plan of Salvation. This NEVER HAPPENS. its usually just one person. But it was the whole family! They have really similar values to our church. They are shinto but I know that we totally prepared them to recieve the Gospel someday even though they aren't ready for it right now. Its a lot to think about you know?
- We had fun Nabe (soup) party for relief society and Tsugumi san and Yoshioka san came and had fun!!!! I love Nabe!
- We had a ward game night- here are some funny pictures. The tateishis are the ones with the bows. Love them. Their grandson passed the sacrament for the first time this week! Yay reactivations!!!!!!!!!!!!
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