皆さん！
尾はいよございます！
It feels like it's been forever
since I wrote last! This week was... Awesome. xD Again, Mom, you're
going to hate this. :P It was fun. I'm gonna get the depressing stuff
out of the way first though. :-)
Saito Yoko:
Yoko is the lady
that just walked into the church during my first transfer who you could
tell in a split second was not a member. I haven't really said much
about her lately and here's why. A few weeks ago we got an angry email
from her saying that we had really offended her. I could go into
details, but I'll just get annoyed if I do. :P So suffice it to say she
was really offended. We sent her an apology email and waited to hear
back from her. We didn't hear anything... but we didn't want to give up
on her. So we kept emailing her scriptures and trying to meet with
her. She just kept giving us the silent treatment.
Finally, 2 days ago (Saturday) we got another email from her...
Again, I'm not going to go into much detail, but she basically ranted
about how we betrayed her and how she can never forgive us and how
she'll never trust Americans or Mormons again. The last things he wrote
was "You don't have to reply to this email. In fact, please don't." I
was SO upset. Not necessarily because of what was said as much as the
fact that we had lost her. I love her! I didn't want to lose her!
Lundy shimai must've sensed that I was really upset about it because she
just said "It's okay. It happens." I knelt down and apologized over
and over to Heavenly Father for losing one of his precious daughters.
While I was praying I had this thought go through my mind. "It's okay
my daughter. Even Alma and Amulek couldn't save everyone. You did your
best and I'm proud of you." I also had a few scriptures come to mind
that I felt impressed to read. Although I'm still upset about losing
her, I know that I did do my best. There was nothing else I could do.
There. Depressing stuff out of the way. Let's get to the part that Mom's gonna hate. ;)
November 29th - Thursday:
November
29th started off as just a normal day. We got up, we exercised, we
studied, and then we started our weekly planning session where we
discuss all our goals for the week and such. We LOVE Weekly Planning.
Basically we just sit in the apartment for 3 hours wrapped in blankets,
eating snacks, and talking about our investigators and what we want to
do with them! Best day ever. :-) One of our investigators though is
really really emotionally draining. I've talked about her a little
before. Ayaka. Teaching her is just... draining. Well, part of our
weekly planning was to plan our lesson with Ayaka for later that
evening.
After we planned we headed over to Ayaka's house. We had no idea
what was going to happen. There were 2 possibilities. 1: We'd actually
get into the house and be able to teach her or 2: Ayaka's mom would be
home, freak out when she saw us, and slam the door telling us to get
out. Yeah. Ringing their doorbell was fun. ;) It turned out her mom
WAS home, but she reacted differently than expected... She was happy to
see us! She let us in and we got to teach! The lesson went REALLY well
and Ayaka said she felt the spirit! YES! :-D So it was awesome, but
Lundy shimai and I were both pretty tired after.
Then we headed to the church for Illya kyodai's Life Class. We
were surprised while we were eating by Sashida coming! :-) It was the
first time Lundy shimai got to meet Sashida! She's doing well, but she
quit her job recently and is searching for a new one. We talked to her
for the rest of the time we were there. After the class, it had started
raining REALLY hard. Sweet wonderful Lundy shimai looked at Sashida
and noticed that she wasn't wearing a coat. So what does she do? My
wonderfully awesome Christlike companion takes her coat off her back and
gives it to Sashida and started walking back in her missionary
clothes. :-) We had no idea that it was going to rain so we didn't have
an umbrella or ANYTHING. I was worried about her, but Lundy shimai
insisted. So we started walking with Sashida back to her apartment, but
she surpised us by going a different direction.... and taking Lundy
shimai's coat with her. :P I looked at Lundy shimai and we both just
shrugged. We were almost to our apartment anyway. So we just kept
going. When we got outside the apartment building Lundy shimai smiled
and said "Just so you know, my planner was in my coat pocket." I
laughed and said "Oh well. We'll go get it tomorrow." We walked to
the elevator. "Oh... and my Passmo Card (The thing that lets us ride the
trains) was in the pocket to." I said "Good thing we're not taking the
train anytime soon!" We kept walking... We got outside the door of the
apartment and Lundy shimai's face fell. She looked at me and said "Oh
no... and the key to the apartment..."
Yup. That's right. We were locked out. The umbrellas were in the
apartment, we had no spare key, and Lundy shimai had no coat. I gave
her my gloves and my scarf and we hopped on our bikes back to Sashida's
house to get the coat... But remember, Sashida had surprised us by not
going home... We had NO idea where she was. We waited outside her
apartment for about 15 minutes and then decided to call the Zone Leaders
and find out what to do. The Zone Leaders told us to wait there for a
little longer and then if she didn't show up in about 15 more minutes to
go to Shibuya and spend the night with the Shibuya Sisters. So that's
what we did.
We waited outside Sashida's house for a total of 45 minutes. xD
She didn't show... so we went to the train station. But remember, Lundy
shimai didn't have her passmo card either... So, I paid for her to take
the train. :-) We ended up spending the night in Shibuya, one of the
BIGGEST cities in Tokyo, with Kuwahara shimai and Dolan shimai. It was a
party. xD Needless to say though, I didn't get much sleep. Friday
morning, Lundy shimai and I were both exhausted. (Thanks to Heavenly
Father) though, that morning, ALL of our appointments for that day
called us and canceled. So Friday morning we headed back to Urayasu to
Sashida's house, got the key, and spent the rest of the day in the
apartment.
So from Thursday night to Friday afternoon we had spent about 5
hours outside in pouring rain, Lundy shimai with no coat. We both got
really sick from it and we've been taking it easy since then. :P
I learned 2 really important lessons from this experience though.
1: It's okay to take a break. x) At first when I couldn't work, I got so
mad at myself. I wanted to go dendo! I didn't want to lay in bed!
Lundy shimai helped me realize though that if we don't take care of
ourselves, we won't be able to be good workers anyway.
2: Attitude. At first, I got really frustrated with Lundy shimai
when we discovered we were locked out. I started getting really
grumpy... but I had this thought go through my head. "What good is being
grumpy going to do? Don't you think your companion feels bad enough
for losing the key? Why don't you try cheering her up?" So
that's what I did. It was hard, but I spent the whole 5 hours talking
to her about her mission and her family and... well... anything I could
think of! It ended up being amazingly awesome for us. We grew a lot
closer as companions and I know that it made a really bad
situation MUCH better. :-) I learned that no matter how bad the
situation, if you just try to remain positive and happy Heavenly Father
blesses you!
And that was my week! Awesome right? ;) It's one of those crazy mission stories. Love it. xD
Thank you guys for all you do! You're amazing and I love you all so much! Write to you again next week!
-
Christine
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