July 24, 2012

Happy Pioneer Day Mina-san!!

Well, week 6 is officially over.  How weird is that? I don’t really have a done to say this week so you’ll have to forgive me.  Not a lot happened. :P  Well, that’s not true.  Lots of things are always happening here at the MTC, but it all has gotten so routine that I forget half of the things.  xD Whatever.

Halfway the Musical:

So this last Friday was our halfway mark here at the MTC!  Yosh!!!  We have exactly 33 more days until we leave for Japan!  AHH!  I can’t wait!  Well, obviously the shimai here couldn’t just let our halfway mark go by unnoticed right?  ;) You remember how I was telling you all about our Bathroom Musicals?  Well, the coordinating sister here decided it’d be fun if we were to make our halfway mark into a musical day!  We wrote a ton of songs about all of the different activities that we would do throughout the day, but we did it secretly so none of the choro would know what we were up to.  Then on Friday morning, we sang all of the songs together.  Each song ended with us walking off.  You should have seen the looks on their faces. :P

Answered Prayers:

This week was answered prayers week.   During gym, Long-shimai and I will usually go on splits because she LOVES to be outside and I really just don’t. :P On Friday (Yes, our halfway mark. xD) after gym, I was in the bathroom blow-drying my hair.  I kept having this thought come to me over and over again. “Find ways to serve your companion.” Elder Bednar said that most of the time you won’t recognize the spirit right when you hear it, but sometimes your thoughts will be so out of place you’ll know right away it’s the spirit.  This was one of those “That was a really weird thought” moments.  Then I had another really weird thought. “Why don’t you pray for an opportunity to serve your companion?”

Bad idea. :P

Guys.  Heavenly Father answers prayers.  I prayed for an opportunity to serve her and, I kid you not, 2 minutes after saying “Amen” Long-shimai comes limping into the bathroom.  I found out that during gym she had sprained her ankle and needed to go to the Health Clinic.  Honestly, it was only a matter a time, but still.  At the Health Clinic they decided it was a really serious injury and that we needed to get to urgent care to get it x-rayed and find out what was wrong exactly.  (Yup.  We left the MTC again. AHH!) They diagnosed it as sprained and gave my companion crutches.  Oh my gosh she hated them.  xD  Long-shimai is extremely independent.  She HATES having other people have to help her. But it did give me an opportunity to serve.

Heavenly Father answers prayers.  Be careful what you pray for.  ;)

Just so you know her ankle is completely fine. I don’t know if the doctors just diagnosed wrongly or if a miracle happened, but her ankle never bruised, never swelled, it just ached for a day or two.  She ditched the crutches after a day of using them. :P  Everything is back to norman.

Well, that’s really all I have to say this week… Sorry everyone! I know it’s really short and not extremely exciting today.  Look forward to next week though!  Tomorrow our Kohai come in!!  That means we’ll be the new sempai!  How weird is that? I’m looking forward to them coming.  It’s going to be fun to have them.

Anyway, Ai shitte imasu mina-san!  I hope you all have a FANTASTIC Pioneer day!  Be sure to write me and tell me all about it!
Love,
Christine