Konichiwa!

Well it is starting to get hot! I am scared for the rainy season which should start at the end of next month. I need to learn to love rain fast. I am so thankful it was clear skys most of last week. That was a huge blessing.

 

i am feeling more comfortable getting around this area now- I am getting better at using the Maps to find peoples houses! its a little bit mendokusai (inconvenient) because I cant read kanji but its fine! we always get there eventually!

 

So this week we were at a members house and he gave me a really good perspective about how Heavenly Father feels about our eternal progress and salvation. He said

 

How would you feel if one night your family didnt come home..and never came home?

 

I was like...wow. That would be rough.

 

This work is so important.

 

 

This week we had threee investigators at church!!!!!!!!! We were able to teach Nozomi San about how the church is like disney land- there are all of these awesome fun things and blessings and many other similarities like idols (I made the comparison between micky and God...is that okay?) Anyways we talked about how all you ever hear about disney world land whatever is how fun it its but you never hear about what you have to do to get in. You have to buy a ticket. Baptism is the ticket- just the ticket. the blessings come after we get into the park. The best is after you buy the ticket, not just in having a ticket or buying it. It was a great lesson.

 

We met this new investigator who believes in this religion that is a branch of budhism. but they believe in alien gods. They call them The Elohiem.....and they fly around on UFOS...so It will be intresting to share the gospel with her. Wish us luck!

 

Good luck with Finals and

 

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MELISSA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its her golden birthday so everybody give her some gold!

 

 

Thanks for your prayers and support- Love you!!

 

Sister Nelson

Konichiwa!

Konichiwa! Okay to start things off I have a question for Grandpa.

If people accept baptism in the Spirit world, when do they get to move up to paradise? do they have to wait until the resurrection? Thanks! 

It was great to talk to everybody today!! 

So transfers happened this past week. Sister Kuchar transffered out which I am way sad about but its okay. My new companion is a BEAN fresh from the MTC. She is from Utah and is half Samoan and half English. She is awesome!! Her name is Sister Stevenson. 

My favorite part of this past week was going to Fukuoka to sing for the Stake Presidents in the mission. It was part of a Mock- open house to show the stake presidents what President Gustafson whats us to do every 3 months in order to give members a chance to bring friends to an activity. I am really excited! Anyway it was really great to sing agian. Me and Sister Bush did some Duets and then we sang with 3 Elders on a few songs. it was way fun and really good for my soul.

we had a referral a few weeks ago from a member who we hadent been able to make an appointment with but she called us this week so we met with her on Friday! it was so awesome. her family had investigated the church a few years back so she has even been to church a lot! She really loves the feelings she gets when she comes to church. She is a fitness instructor and does pilaties! we bonded over that. She is basically a taller version of Cassie Ho from Blogalaties! I love her!

We watched a movie about the restoration with Another investigator and she was like wow this is cool can we watch it again next week?! so we are doing that this week. She also is thinking about a baptism date. She wants to get baptized before she moves to America in the Early fall/end of the Summer. I love her! She asked what she had to do to be baptized. And so Ive been thinking a lot about the qualifications for baptism. sometimes we dont invite people to church because we think they wont be willing to make changes in their lives- but that is not fair because that is the whole point of the atonement. We just need a desire to become closer to Christ and the Spirit will help us do the rest! thank you for all the missionary work you have been doing! Please pray for the missionaries in your home wards that they can find investigators and people to teach. 

Good luck with finals and stuff- I cant believe Ive been gone for a whole school year already!!!!

Love,

Sister Nelson

Hello!

Hello!

Okay lets just get it out now. I AM GETTING A BEAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

yes. I am training. oh my gosh why me I have no idea. I dont know her name yet so that will have to come next week. We have transfers on thursday.

This week was pretty busy. We had some good lessons with Nozomi and Stamatia San. The Lord really has been guiding us - especially in our use of scriptures. 

I read a really good quote about when youth investigate the church, it says

Sometimes you hear adults say what is right or wrong. But when you have a friend your age who says the same thing, you follow that person. 

I was like oh my gosh that is so true! We hear about teens who fall in with the wrong crowd all the time because of their friends. So what if the opposite could happen? how many lives could we save? How many parents could sleep better if we reached out to the youth- reached out to friends our age?

We need to be better leaders instead of just standing alone. Make a posse people! 

Yay to Grant and welcome home to Jeremy! 

On Sunday we got to go to Fukuoka to the mission home so sister Cullison could draw characatures for families at the zoo (it was boys day on monday so it was a big holiday weekend.) We had a little booth outside the temple/mission home which is right outside the zoo. It was so fun to hand out ctr rings and filers and advertise for Sister Cullison! She is an amazing artist! After that we went to the mission home for dinner. Sister Gustafsen made us dinner just for us! it was so delicious and american! We were just sitting in the huge mission home eating dinner by ourselves. way fun. then the APs came in to make dinner and then President and Sister Got home so we talked with them for a while and then went home!

Sister Cullison is transfering to UBE!!! haha so funny I am so excited for her cause ube is the best! except for chikushino is the best too.

We had a fun dinner with our Bishops family yesterday- his wife is Edna Mode from the incredibles. except way cute. But she made us this AWESOME traditional japanese dinner for Boys day with lots of cool helmet and fish stuff. Ill send some pictures. But then we had this awesome picture taking thing where we made funny faces- Bishop said if I shared them I had to tell people he was my special friend and not my bishop. I love him. Also he freaked out when I told him I knew where branson was. he loves the Osmonds. 

Okay Gotta go- TALK TO YOU ON MONDAY FOR ME AND SUNDAY FOR YOU LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love, Sister Nelson

ps. thanks for the package and th cds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

also pps my clothes are holding out good- some are nasty but heres the best thing- thrift stores here are just as good as they are in america!!!!

​these are the helmets I learned how to make. 

this is sister Kuchar. Shes the best. 

When bishop was teaching us how to make them, he kept saying riyoho wich means both but we have this inside joke about yoho wich means nothing so we kept saying yoho! and bishop thought that meant like im done! in english or somehing so he wouldnt move on to the next step unless we said yoho! it was way fun. So now we call these yo ho hats.

this is an oragami helmet! so cool I learned how to make them! (actuallly a way simpler one....this kind is way intense.)

 yep.. thats my bishop!

This Week

So this week I had probably one of the coolest moments on my mission. We went to bring cookies to our sick investigator takahashi san and she was so happy- we had come at a time when she needed somebody to care about her because of some other problems. Anyway- she was like oh my gosh I have to show you something!!!!!!! So she runs to get her Book of Mormon. She was like you know how you asked me to pray and then just open the Book of Mormon to a random page and start reading! I did that and this is what I read! It was ether 4:18 that talks about baptism and how if we do this we will be shown what we need to do to achieve salvation

I was blown away. I am so thankful for her faith and that she was able to have that experience. It was beautiful to watch somebody go from having no belief in God to having him answer her prayer.  I am still freaking out.

I read a really great quote about families this week. it says

When we strengthen our family we also strenthen the church and the community and the world.

 Its kind of Like the Honey bee- their contribution seems so small but when compared to the whole, their portion is monumental.

We got to go to the temple today for pday! it was so great!

There is also a crazy story I would love to share, but I think it will have to wait until after I get home. It involves a Gay bar and Sex trafficking. If you want to know more you can write me about it.　we are totally fine-　nobody got abducted or anything like taken, dont worry.


We have a lot of people to teach right now and I am feeling very blessed! our members are being amazing with referrals!!!!!! We actually just got off the phone with a sister who told her friend about the gospel and she wants to meet with us!

Love to everybody- gotta go- Gomen this is so short again!!

Sister Nelson