皆様こんばんは！
Happy Golden Week! :-D
This week in
Japan is really special. It's kind of like Japans version of Spring
Break basically. いいね. There are SO many people that it actually makes
dendo really hard... We can't really stop people to talk to on the
street or people get angry... and nobody is home because they all take
trips during Golden Week. So Housing is out. Lessons are pretty rare
at the moment too because everyone goes back to visit their parents or
something! :P Kinda tough, but that's okay.
I apologize in advance for the use of any Japanese Words with no
translations. Two reasons. 1: I don't have time to go write the
translations and 2: My companion and I pretty much only speak Japanese
or what we like to call "Nihonglish". xD English is hard da yo!
This week was super busy, but we didn't really do a ton. That's an
oxymoron for you. All week we were both super stressed out because we
had SO much to do, but our stats this week were way low. Our goal of 20
lessons didn't happen. We ended the week with a whole 6 lessons! Yes.
;) I'm not extremely upset about it though. We both tried our very
best to get those 20 lessons, but people cancelled or didn't make a next
appointment when we talked to them, etc etc. Shoganai. Heavenly
Father saw how hard we were trying and He'll bless us for it.
Honestly, this week was a little hard for me. I was way homesick
and I really wanted some alone time... which will not happen for another
7ish months. (AHHH! Hayai sugiru!!) I kind of got grumpy this week
and although I worked hard, I wasn't really into it you know? I didn't
really feel like the spirit was always there... We had a shokai lesson
this week and during that shokai everything just sort of fell apart.
This girl who really could've been a kinjin and probably would've
committed to be baptized ended up leaving without so much as a phone
number. She said she'd come to Eikaiwa this week. I really do believe
it was because I wasn't really listening to the spirit. (I know every
single one of you out there is saying to yourself "You're being to hard
on yourself!", but I promise that's really how it was.) Afterwards I
thought about what had happened and I remember thinking specifically
"That girls eternal happiness is at stake. I can't mess around
anymore." I realized just how important it is to have the spirit with
you at all times. The Spirit of Contention is NOT the one I'm talking
about either. ;) It was kind of a rough lesson to learn and I learned
it a rather hard way, but that's the way it had to be, right? :-) I'm
glad I learned it. From here on out, I'm going to work to ALWAYS teach
by the Spirit. :-D
Other than that this week was really rather boring... Next week I
will have MUCH more to say. Tomorrow is Sister Sasaki's birthday and
we're going on Exchanges with the Koiwa Sisters... The Koiwa Sisters and
I have a secret combination going on figuring out some birthday
celebrations for Sister Sasaki. I've been working all this last week to
get everything ready for tomorrow so I'll have to tell you all how it
goes. I'll be sure to get plenty of pictures. :-)
Hitomi is progressing great and we have a new investigator named
Rina who is progressing SUPER well too! She's 19 and she's way kinjin.
We taught her Lesson 1 today and the whole time she was just like
"Sugoi! Honto?! Sugoi!" :-) She had a really hard time believing
Joseph Smith's vision and we said "That's okay. We don't expect you to
believe us." We taught her about prayer and said "Don't belive us. Ask
God. If this is His church let Him tell you." She seems pretty excited to learn more. :-)
We're also meeting Naoko tonight for an actual lesson so that ought to be fun. More on that next week I suppose!
Not
a whole lot to say this week. Sorry everyone! I was not the greatest
missionary this last week so I don't have much to say... Except that
this week will be MUCH better. And it will just continue to get better
and better from here.
Thank you all for the letters, the love, and your prayers. I need them!
I love you all! Have a great week!
Love,
Christine
SOTW: Mormon 9:21
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