HAPPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy Valentines day!!!! in Japanese, we say HaPi BaRenTainSu Day!!! In Japan, girls give chocolate to boys on valentines day. In March, they have white day where the boys give chocolate to the girls. Cute huh? I will probably give chocolate to myself on both days.
Okay HOld the phone! Bibba is E-N-G-A-G-E-D???? I Need to see pictuers and I need details!!!! Congratulations I am so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How about you get married after I get home?
Ps. Big When is your big day??
Okay is anybody else getting married?? Any big news? I live half way around the world here- not much information gets shared. I also live in Ube aka the middle of Kansas. But its a good Kansas. Kind of like Neverland combined with Kansas. Except in place of pirates there are statues of Naked Racoons everywhere. Its a Buddhist thing. We call it a tripple B. It is a boy and a girl racoon.
We had transfers. I transfered to the Moscow, Russia mission so Im actually in Russia.
NOT. Im still in Ube! for my fifth transfer! Sister Southworth is my same companion!
So this week was insane. We went to teach Yoshioka san and guess who was there? The prophet! Just kidding. She brought her BFF to study `mormon`. Let me just preface this story a little. We booked it about 30 minutes on our bikes to get to Fujitaki Shimais house so we could drive to the lesson cause she was jointing. In another life she was Yeezma from Empoeres new groove. okay anyways so we get there and she was like here is some hot chocolate! it was about as hot as the devils bathtub and then shes like okay we have to go! drink up! so I downed this enormous cup of cocoa in about three secconds and now I have to use a straw as an esophogas because mine burnt up.
Tonikaku. We go to the lesson and Ueda san is there! We were like oh shoot...this is wierd. because we were going to teach about the atonement. You cant just teach about the atonement on the first lesson ya know? So we prayed really hard. Fujitake shimai was great- she helped us so much. We asked Ueda san how she felt about religion andn she s said I love religion and families are important so we talked about eternal families- from that point we did the Plan of Salvation and the atonement- it was so good! She was so receptive. THen we gave her a book of Mormon and she KISSED IT! she was so exited! SO that was a huge miracle! She also was like yeah I totally want to get baptized!
We had a lesson with a new investigator named Mohhamed san. He is a grad student studying engeneering. So he brought 2 friends to the lesson- Ami Jointed and did such a good job! I am so proud of her! ANyway the freinds were totaly trying to contend with us. about the validity of the Book of Mormon. But we just kept smiling and testifying of what we know to be true. The spirit totally guided that lesson. ANyway we invited them to read the Book of Mormon and they said they would- and they want to bring more friends next time!!!!!!!!!! I got such a powerful testimony of how important it is to contend without being contentious. We are already on the winning side, so we dont need to send out snipers to attack the other side when they send out invesgitators to try to see what we are up to- we want them to be able to sneak over to our side because if they do, they will see by our works what kind of people we are, and that we have the truth, and that no matter what Satan does, we have already won!
Keep up the good work troops!
Love you!!
Sister Nelson
Just some things I ate this week....and this is Yoshioka san! and uede san is in the background. they came to a salsa class our bishop taught this week. oh yeah, you see those little squid guys? yes i ate them. This is called sashimi. It means raw fish. One of our investigators named Satoko (sugar child) took us out to lunch where she works at this traditional restaurant
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