We are safe!

Hi!

We are safe! Dont worry the storm was way not even bad. We just had to stay inside all day so we did some weekly planning that was way overdue and made some cookies for all of our people and Translated some music. Me and Elder Malcolm are singing the Prayer on Sundayand we needed to translate it into Japanese so we worked on that. Over the phone, dont worry the elders were not in our appartment. It was fun. I was really suprised we were allowed to sing that in Sacrament meeting, but when we were practicing for fun the other day, the Stake President came in and was like when are you singing this? Its great! So now we are doing it for real! 

Yamaguchi San came to Conference! He said he was so impressed and that the things that were said really helped him to understand what he was reading in the Book of Mormon. He loved the music too. Also he read the first half of the Gospel principles book...all the way up to fasting. And then he was like  yeah Im great at that- I was homeless for a year! OH my gosh he is my favorite person ever! We taught him about the plan of salvation and he was like how could you not believe this? and he just has the cutest smile ever and just smiles all the time and wears this cute hat to church and I seriously just get so happy whenever I see him! The light of Christ is literally shining out of his entire being! Also the other day when we were teaching him, he said, you know what the hardest part about being homeless was? Typhoon season. 

How sad! we say Kawaiso! it means like pathetic in a cute sort of way. Like oh, you poor dear kind of thing. 

Conference was GREAT! I had so much personal revelation...but here is the thing- a lot of it came after conference when I was studying my scriptures and Patriarchal Blessing. It was a really neat experience and I feel really great about my future, despite being a transfer student and stuff, I know why I need to transfer now and I am so exicted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just want to encourage everybody to write what you got out of conference down in your journal so you can remember for later when you have a hard time and need to remember who you are and who is on your side. I know the Lord answers all of our prayers- even the very smallest and even the very biggest- Have the faith and you will see signs. Doctrine and Covenants 68;10. 

We went to a members house for dinner....I was in the midst of eating some fried rice when I noticed not all of the grains were the same size....and some of them had EYES!!!......THEY WERE BABY FISH! SICK!!!!!!!!!!.....You think youve gotten through a meal safe when a surprise goody sneaks up on you from behind and punches you in the throat! 

While in-between appointments, we had a few minutes to do some tracting. We decided to only contact people with red shoes (its a big city and lots of people(  and sister Lewis was like is this too specific and I was like Lets have faith!....The first red shoed person became a new investigator! We have a lesson on Sunday- please pray it goes well! Her name is Miho. Thanks!

Hope you have a great week! 

Konnichiwa!!!

Konnichiwa!!!

Here are some hilights from this week.

 We set a goal this week to have a member present lesson every day we werent doing splits- and it worked out!!
We didnt have an appointment for satuuray but then the elders joint for their lesson invited ius into their lesson to eat dinner so we ended up being present for that lesson so we still got to teach a lesson even thought it didnt count for us- God answered our goal and prayer.

Wet met with Yamaguchi san and he wants to join the church! He is the cutest smiliest old man ever. I love him. he is 63 and he was like yeah I wanted to run the fukuoka marathon this year but it was 100 dollars- Who has that kind of money!? I can just run it myself!
Anyways he is so receptive to the message and was so excited when we talked about the spirit- hes like yeah I think that was probably the spirit!!!!!!!!!! fushigi da ne!!?

So I woke up yesterday and had something in my throat. Swallowed- I was a spider. Sick. I coulnt even drink water because I was fasting.

We had a fun FHE last night with some cute families and investigators. It was a way intense discussion about how the church is different from other churches.  It was great for the members to bear their testimonies.

The weather has been cooling down- its kind of nice out I like it!

We had fun Splits with four sisters in our zone, it was fun and I got to work with Sister Smotherman again!


 Lots of miracles are happening! Please keep Aashrit, Yamaguchi san, Asami san, and Yamasaki san in your prayers!

Love you!

Sister Nelson

Konnichiwa!

Konnichiwa!

Okay this week was awesome too. We had a lesson with Aashrit san- we watched finding faith in Christ and afterword he was going on an on for like five mintues about how he believes in Christ now and that he is so happy and has this feeling he cant describe and he is so thankful for this knowlege. It was proabably the best lesson of my life. He had such an amazing experience with the spirit and converted me all over again. THE CHURCH IS TRUE!

We were able to meet with Asami San. guess what! SHe is a SHOEMAKER! how cool!

We met with Yamaguchi san again- Gues what! He read HALF THE BOOK OF MORMON IN A WEEK!  how does that make you feel seminary kids, when you are asked to read the whole thing in a school year. not so impossible? yeah pretty much. These investigators leave us no excuses, you know? I stand all amazed. He said a cute prayer asking that we could be albe to meet again. and then he invited himself to church. 

I am so sorry this will be short. I am just burned out of thinking today. 

We did a fun junkai with the Nakagawa Sisters. I was with Sister Smith. We set a goal to find an investigator that was thityish with kids and was open minded. We set out to do some trackting and the first area we went didnt feel right so we wprayed again and went to a new area. The first or seccond lady was exactly the kind of person we wanted and prayed to find! She wants to meet again! wahoo! 

I got to sing in a trio with 2 other sisters in a baptism yesterday for the other elders investigaor, ching san. He is from china. We sang I need thee every hour. I sang alto!!! for once! it was so fun!!! It was great to sing like that again. 

I hope you all have an awesome week! And have a great General Conference!

Dont stop, Dont give up! 

Love,

Sister Nelson