皆様おはいようございます！
今日はちょっと。。。仏じゃないけれでも楽しいと思う。
LOL!
Kay, I totally just started writing that without completely thinking
about it. Sorry. I've been writing too many emails in Japanese
lately! Also, last night we had exchanges and I was with Oseki姉妹 who
is a Nihonjin. I'm still switching out of my Japanese brain into
English. Forgive any random grammer/spelling mistakes today... :-)
So this week was rather rough... Everyone is right.
Every single part of your mission is hard. Everything. The longer you're
out in the field the more those difficulties change. They don't
necessarily get harder or easier, they just change. My first two
transfers were really hard because of the whole not understanding what
was going on and just feeling like I couldn't do anything right... This
transfer has been hard because now that I kind of have a hang of what
missionary life is like, it hurts more when we get rejected. :/ I've
been searching through my journal for something super positive and
amazing to share this week, but the fact is all of the big things that
happened this week weren't really positive things so let me start off by
clarifying: I'm totally fine. I'm not letting this get to me. :-)
Yamamoto:
Last week I wrote
about the revelation that I got from D&C and I think I briefly
mentioned that I was able to talk to 9 people about the gospel... I
didn't tell you guys about who I talked to though! Right before the huge
earthquake last week, we were handing out Eikaiwa flyers an eki. There
was this man there who was kind of looking at me funny... that's
normal. Well, I gave him a flyer and he sorta wandered off a little and
read the flyer. A couple minutes later he walked up to me and started
asking a bunch of questions about Eikaiwa, and then he started asking
questions about the church. I got his contact information and we
arranged to meet at the Urayasu eki before church so we could go
together the next Sunday! Woo! :-)
However, before that Sunday came Wednesday, Eikaiwa. Since this
man (named Yamamoto) had an interest in Eikaiwa as well, I decided to
call him and invite him to Eikaiwa. He agreed and said he'd come! Not
just that, but HE CAME! He was afraid to enter the chruch though. He
called us from outside the church and said "I can't come in, but I'm
here." We went outside and we were like "It's okay! It's safe! Come
in!" So we went in together. This is when things kind of took a turn
for the worst.
It turns out he had misunderstood why we'd invited him to come. He
thought that we were going to be having a lesson with him about the
church, not Eikaiwa. We told him that we could have a lesson after, and
he said he liked that idea. So he went to the beginning english
class... In the middle, he got up and stormed out of the church saying
he couldn't believe it. We called him after Eikaiwa to find out what
happened... He basically chewed me out saying he couldn't believe I
tricked him into coming to Eikaiwa and how I lied to him and he could
never trust the missionaries, etc. etc. etc. I apologized over and over
again, but we haven't been able to get hold of him since then. It was
rough... Luckily, I have wonderful sweet amazing Lundy shimai who is
beautifully amazing!!!! She really helped me not to take it too
personally. :-)
Helen:
So, Helen is supposed
to be baptized this coming Sunday... We haven't been able to contact
her since last Wednesday. :/ She's been feeling really sick and she's
really struggling with the Word of Wisdom... So it's looking like she's
not going to be baptized this week after all... The most depressing part
of that is that in 2 weeks, I'll likely be transferring out of Urayasu
and I won't be able to teach her anymore... I'm praying that Heavenly
Father keeps me here in Urayasu for just one more transfer. Even if
she's not baptized during that transfer, I want to find out what is
going on with her. I don't want to leave! :(
Tamae:
Sooooo everything
else that happened this week was just depressing so I'm going to end
this email with the BEST thing that happened this week. Ready for the
full story on Tamae!?
Tamae has been in Illya kyodai's fitness class for the last 10
years. They've known each other for a REALLY long time. :-) Well,
Illya was baptized. He told Tamae that he'd been baptized into this
church and she was like "What?! What church is that!?" So she went to
find out. She started meeting with the missionaries in April and
decided she really liked what we were teaching. She eventually prayed
about it and felt that it was true. She wanted to be baptized, but she
is the kind of person that refuses to make a promise if she's not
COMPLETLEY sure that she's going to keep her promise. So she refused to
set a baptism date... Until October with Kuwahara shimai and I. Her
baptismal date is this Sunday. Two days ago she had her interview with
the district leader to make sure she was worthy to be baptized. She
passed! :-D
So, December 23rd, (Joseph Smith's birthday) Tamae is going to be baptized by Illya kyodai! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
And
that was my week! Wooo! I'm so glad I'm out here. As hard as this
week was, I know that it's important and there's nowhere else in the
world I'd rather be. I love you guys! Enjoy your snow! >:)
-
Christine
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