皆さん！メリークリスマス！！！！
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!
I hope you all are having a fantastically amazing Christmas! I know I have!
As with all other holidays out in Japan, Christmas is pretty boring... No body really celebrates it. Really little kids do, but that's seriously about it. Kind of sad. :/ Everyone is getting ready for shogatsu! (New Years!) That's the super huge holiday out here. They've been prepping for it all month. :P I'm kind of excited to see what happens!
This week was amazing. We saw so many miracles!
Kaori:
Kaori is an Eikaiwa student we've got a really strong friendship with. Recently she's taken an interest in the gospel. Mostly out of curiosity than anything, but that's okay. We've had a couple of lessons with her, but she's told us that she's not interested in entering a church. She just wants to learn about it. But she's agreed to keep meeting with us and hearing about it! :-D
This week we had a lesson with her where we watched the Restoration Video. Honestly, Sister Lundy and I hadn't prepped much of a lesson for that... I can only say that the Spirit guided that lesson. Neither Sister Lundy or I had to question what we would talk about. We just knew what the other one was going to say and we were ready to keep the lesson going. Everything went amazingly perfectly. :-) She even said her first prayer by herself and she did SO good. It was amazing. :-) I loved it!
Tamae's Baptism:
The day of Tamae's baptism was ridiculously stressful. xD We wanted everything to be perfect for her baptism. We stressed and planned and practiced. The service ended up going really really smoothly. All of the missionaries who came ended up singing this BEAUTIFUL song. I don't have a video of the final performance sadly, but I attached to this email a video of Sister Lundy and I practicing on our own... It's not the greatest, sorry... but hey!
Yamamoto:
Oh dear. I think I talked about this last week, right? Yamamoto came to Eikaiwa, freaked out and left... Well, we had an amazing miracle this week with him. After Tamae's baptism we headed over to Kaori's house with a birthday cake for her! It was so fun! We got to meet her family and it was awesome! After, we were walking back to the eki to go back to the apartment when I saw a man that I recognized and immediately a name came to mind. "Yamamoto-san!" Amazingly, when he saw us he actually stopped and started talking to us! Short version, we were able to start over with him! He said he still wanted to meet and talk about the church. We said "When?!" He said (Keep in mind it's currently 7:15pm) "8:00?" So for the next 45 mintues we stressed beyond all reason about what to teach, getting the Elders there, and trying to find another woman to joint with us so that we actually could meet with him. Again, Heavenly Father seriously helped us out... The Elders and one of the members just dropped everything they were doing and came to the church as fast as they could so we could have a lesson. :-) The lesson went fairly well. I mean... He mostly just talked at us, but that's okay. He agreed to meet again! Heavenly Father seriously put us exactly where we needed to be to meet him. It was incredible.
I love you all! I hope you have an incredible Christmas! I know Heavenly Father is aware of every one of you and loves each of you! Don't ever forget it! :-) Thank you all for your prayers! Keep praying for us! We love you!
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Christine
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