皆様おはいよございます！
This week was... definitely a
week. x) Actually I feel like it was just barely P-day... It's kind
of weirding me out how fast yet freakishly slow this week went. xD
Wednesday:
Nothing super exciting happened on
Tuesday this week. :P On Wednesday though, we spent the day with a girl
in the ward named Ribekah. She's been preparing to go on a mission
since the age change! She's one of my best friends out here. She's
awesome. x) On Wednesday Ribekah invited a few of her friends to come out
to Urayasu (one of them all the way from Nagoya!) to read Preach My Gospel
together and do some pretend lessons. She invited us to come and give them
some advice and stuff. What ended up happening though was that after they
gave us their mini-lessons they'd prepared, we invited them to go dendo with
us! We took them to the eki closeby and chirashi kubari'd. (In English:
We went prostelyting at the train station and handed out english class flyers.
:P) It was a lot of fun! :-) They are all going to be
FANTASTIC missionaries. Much better than me. Everyone says that's a
good thing though because that means that the work is definitely
progressing. I completely agree. :-)
Thursday:
Merry Christmas!!!! xD So...
when I woke up on Thursday I looked in the mailbox and discovered a slip of
paper saying that someone had tried to deliver a package, but we weren't
home..... YAAAY! Well, needless to say... I couldn't focus after that...
at all... on anything... So Sister Lundy and I decided we'd walk about 2 miles
(OH! Sister Lundy's bike is broken... I forgot to mention that... It kind of
died a few weeks ago. She can still ride it if absolutely necessary, but it's
pretty much like riding with no handlebars so we've been avoiding the bikes...)
down to the post office to get the package! x) It turned out to be my
Christmas Package from my family so Thursday turned into CHRISTMAS!!
x) YAY!
The other exciting thing of Thursday
happened right before we left to get the package... The doorbell rang and there
were these 2 ladies standing there. They were speaking SUPER polite
Japanese which is practically a different language (Ha, get it?). I didn't
understand a word of what they were saying, but luckily Sister Lundy kind of
did. x) Eventually they handed us a little book that had English written
in it. Get this... They were Jehovas Witnesses. x) They asked us what we
were doing here and you should have seen the look on their faces when we told
them we were LDS Missionaries. ;) They said "Well, we wanted to try
to schedule another a point to meet with you and talk about this, but that
looks impossible doesn't it." We smiled and said "Yeah,
probably." and then we gave them a HUGE bag of candy and sent them
on their way. xD Everyone keeps saying "What!? You didn't baptize
them?!" To which I respond, we considered throwing a bucket of water
at them, but didn't think it would have the same effect. ;) Just kidding.
:-)
Sunday!!:
Friday and Saturday we went on
Exchanges with the Kofu sisters... It was an almost 2 hour train ride just to
meet halfway and split with them. So most of Friday and Saturday was just
riding the trains. x)
Sunday was super exciting though!
It actually started Saturday night... when Sister Lundy and I remembered that
we'd been asked to speak in Sacrament Meeting... and we hadn't even started
thinking about our talks... Fail. ;)
Sunday morning we spent in a frenzy
writing talks. Then at our meeting with the Dendo Shunin the Elders told
us that they had a referral for us. Her name is Mercy. She's from the
Phillipines. A year ago she met one of the Elders (who actually taught
Tamae) and got a chirashi from him. She said after that she went back to the
Phillipines and just recently came back. She said "I'm Catholic and want
to go to mass! When do you have church?"
Sure enough, Sunday morning she
showed up and came to church! The talks went fairly well....
Everyone said they could understand me and said my Japanese has really
improved! I believed them until someone else said that our talks were
proof that it doesn't matter what you say as long as you help others to feel
the spirit. ;) Oh well. I tried.
After Sacrament Meeting we were able
to talk a bit with Mercy. She's pretty set in her Catholism, but she said that
we worship the same God and that's all that matters. However, she said that she
was SO excited to meet girl missionaries! She wasn't sure there were any!
:-) This week she said she'd be bringing her son with her to Eikaiwa so
hopefully we'll get to meet with her again on Wednesday!
When church ended we decided to go
visit one of our potention investigators named Chizuko. Since it's Sunday
we weren't sure she'd actually be home, but miracle of miracles, she was and we
were able to talk to her again! It's been a long time since we've
actually been able to meet with her... While we were leaving her house we got a
call from a member.
The member told us that someone had
come to the church and wanted us to give her a tour of the church! We
were about 30 minutes away from the church, but we ended up getting back to the
church in roughly 15-20 minutes. :P We went fast. The woman's name
was Judy and she is also from the Phillipines. She said she's been
wanting to come to a church for a while and decided to go searching for
one! She spent all day Sundy riding her bike around Urayasu searching for
a random church to go to. She found ours and saw there were people inside
(hanging around talking. :P).
We were able to give her a short
lesson and a copy of the Book of Mormon which she promised to read. :-)
Overall, it was a fantastic
week. We saw quite a few miracles and definitely had a lot of memorable
experiences. :-D I love being here! I still can't believe I'm
in Japan!! I love it so much! I hope that anyone who is reading
these emails and considering serving a mission, DOES IT! It seriously changes
your life. I'm SO glad I chose to do this. It's worth every hard
day.
I love you guys! Have a
fantastic week!
-
Christine
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