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