Love From Japan: Last week of Feb!

Hello to the other side of the world.

Well this week was pretty full of miracles. First one.

We were trying to contact this referral that lives about a 2 hour bike ride away. And because I am so good at directions we obviously made it there in no time. NOT. We probably get lost at least once or five times every day. So we got lost. And nobody knew the area we were trying to go to so they couldnt help us. So what did we do? We tried our best to keep going. BUt then when our hearts were depressed and we were about to turn back...just kidding Im not going to pretend like I am the sons of Moronai. They are way better missionaries than me. Just wanted to add a little scriptural humor. Okay anyways we prayed and I had this overwhelming feeling of peace and the spirit said Dont worry, you are in my care. So I just started peddling and taking random roads. In about 15 minutes we were in a familiar area about 10 minutes from home. Okay here is the deal, we were 2 ours away from home and had crossed a huge river. We didnt cross a river on the way back and made it there in 15 minutes.

I have no Idea what happened. All I know is, the Lord makes up the difference after all we can do.

Another thing to share; We were about to turn onto this tiiiinnnnyyyy road that immediately goes down a 90 degree hill when I heard a voice say `theres a car`. I stopped my bike immedetly and right after that a car came speeding up the road. If the spirit hadnt told me about the car I would have probably died. It was pretty cool. Sister Southworth was like what how did you know that! But it wasnt me.

Here is a top ten favorite things for William:

Here is the deal, I am really bad at favorites so Its a good thing there are ten options!

1. The gardens! Everybody has awesome cutest gardens with beatuiful flowers. I also love terrace farms.

2. I love the trees!

4. I love the pastel cars. Almost everybody has a tiny pastel car. really cute!

5. 90 year old grandmas that wear leather suits and ride motercycles. We see this daily.

6. The food! I love tempura the best I think. And Nabe! Except not mochi. Its nasty.

7.The daiso. its this dollar store that is basicaly target and michaels and pier one except its a dollar!

8. The donuts. SO good. And the chocolate candy stuff. So yummy Ill have to send you some! look for a package soon! Everything is individually packaged though. Its frusterating at points. immagine all of the famous amous cookies in an individual wrapper.......yes. Well at least it will maybe keep me from getting fat or something.

9. The people are so nice and selfless and giving

10. The fashion here is insane- its awesome. You can wear a toothpick and nobody cares. Everybody is very fashionable becasue everything is fashionable. Its nice. Except for I still think its wierd when I see boys carring purses. THey are like fannypacks that you wear over your shoulder. Except for one of my english class students has a for real fanny pack that he sports every week. he is my favorite.

All the historic sites are really cool too. You should look up a picutre of a tanuki. Its everywhere in japan.....Immagine walking up to a house to knock on the door and then BAM one of those things is on the front porch-life size. that is a daily.

Good luck with your report william! it will be great!

This is us at the mochi tsuki!! I AM WEARING JEANS YAYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is us at the rich ladies lunch. We had that last week.

Our lessons were good this week- we had a great lesson with Yoshioka san and taught six commandments and reviewed the baptismal interview questions! I dont know how we did that. SHe is seriously the most prepared person ever. She was like yes I will pay tithing and fast and do everything else! ANd its not jsut to make us happy- she is for real. She totally understands the atonement. (okay nobody totally understands the atonement but you know what i mean).

I am so happy the snow is gone!!! I hope william gets my birthday card- let me know if you dont and I will send a new one!

Love you all, have a great day! Dont worry- the winter is almost over!!!!!!!!

Sister Nelson