皆様こんにちは！
I hope you guys all had a fantastic week. :-) I miss you all so much!
With the whole mission split I'm pretty sure they're hanging on to all of
our letters... I haven't gotten a single letter for a while now. I hope
everyone is doing well!
This week was... A week. ;) I don't really know what to talk about in this
email today... So I'm just going to go through every day! :-)
*Tuesday:*
Guess what! Today's July 1st! Even in Utah it's officially summer now!
;) Well, I don't remember if I mentioned this in my earlier emails or not,
but when my companion and I moved into this apartment there was
*nothing*here. Like nothing. One of the biggest things that we were
missing was an
Air Conditioner. Japan is *way* humid and hot during the summer so we've
been begging honbu since day 1 for an air conditioner. Well, we finally got
one this week! Only problem is, in order to get it installed we had to be
in the apartment while a man installed it. Just a little not okay. :P So
we called the Relief Society President that morning and explained the
situation. She also asked us about our Futons (because we only had 2).
She got it worked out so that she could go buy us 2 new futons for the new
sisters as well as coming to sit in the apartment with us for half the day
while the Air Conditioner was installed. So Tuesday was spent studying... a
lot... However, we did get to talk to the man who installed the Air
Conditioner a bit and gave him a Book of Mormon! :-) Yaay!
*Wednesday:*
We had 2 appointments set for Wednesday, but it was REALLY rainy.
Like it was pouring.. We were lucky the member who was our douseki
even came. (I don:t know the English equivilant of that yet, sorry.)
So both of our appointments cancelled and we ended up spending the
whole day streeting around the train station. Both of us were pretty
miserable and SOAKED. We decided to take a quick break and buy some
french fries at McDonalds. (McDonalds Dendo anybody?) While there we
met this girl named Sekiko! I talked with her for a little while, but
we didn:t have a lot of time so she ended up leaving.
We finished our french fries and headed back out to work. While
walking around, we ran into Sekiko again! We ended up getting her
email and phone number and we:re planning on going out to see her this
week sometime! YAY!
Also on Wednesday, the new Sisters came!! We have 2 new sisters
living with us now. Sister Imano and Sister Ellinson! Sister Imano
is on Transfer 2 and is from Sendai Japan, but she lived in Hawaii for
a year and so she:s completely fluent in college-age English. ;)
Sister Ellinson is Transfer 1 and is from Alaska! They:re both WAY
cute and I LOVE them! It:s been a ton of fun getting to know them the
last couple of days. :)
So on Wednesday we spent all evening getting them moved in and comfortable. Woo!
*Thursday:*
On Thursday President Budge came to Fujisawa to give us all a
`training`. Basically what he said when he got here was `I want this
to feel like Family Home Evening.` He gave us a quick training and
talked about how even though we were going to the South Mission both
he and Sister Budge still love us and we:re all amazing missionaries
and such. :) Both of them were super depressed, but the feeling
around our Zone was one of excitement... Like this thrill of something
new is about to happen. I wish I could explain exactly, but most of us
instead of feeling sad or rejected were just... excited. Excited to
be the start of something brand new. :)
Well, the ByeByeBudge Party ended up most of the afternoon. Then we
had English Class in the Evening. It was kind of a mess because we
didn:t really know who would be teaching what class or anything... but
that:s okay.
*Friday:*
Was really quite boring... We did Weekly Planning. Yosh. ;)
*Saturday:*
We had a Ward Softball Game we went to in the morning at 8. I didn:t
sleep very well on Friday night so I was completely out of it all day
Saturday... Like completely out of it. After the game we headed to
this Relief Society activity they did. Here:s the kind of scary part
of my week, ready? :P
In the middle of the activity my head started to hurt a little bit and
I was like `Great. A migraine.` I took my hair out of the ponytail I
had it in to loosen the pressure on my head which helped. Then in the
middle of a game we were playing I started seeing spots in my right
eye. The last time that I had that happen was before I graduated and
it usually means that a REALLY bad migraine is coming on. Like the
kind that last a couple of days. I hurried and took my medicine, but
the longer I was standing the more I was losing vision. It was the
weirdest sensation to have both of my eyes open and not to be able to
see out of one of them. It was the end of the Relief Society Activity
too, so we were spending the whole time shaking peoples hands and
thanking them for coming and such... I was just praying the whole
time that I was making eye contact with them with both eyes. :P
Well, because of that my companion and I decided we should go back to
the apartment and rest. (Thank goodness too. I don:t know if I
could:ve made it the rest of the day if we hadn:t.) So we came back,
studied, made thank-you cards, etc. I feel awful though. I want to
be a good example for these new missionaries living with us, but I
just wasn:t able to that day... Guess I:ll just have to make up for it
this week!
*Sunday:*
We had a lesson with a friend of a member named Akiko! It was such a
good lesson. This woman is so prepared. She said that her friend
never once said a word to her in the 10 years they were friends about
her church. She said she was so confused by it! She said she started
thinking `why doesn:t she tell me? Does she think I won:t fit in
there or something?` So she decided to go check it out. Then when
she came she expected everyone to be like `GET BAPTIZED`, but thusfar
nobody has said a word to her about how she needs to be baptized. She
asked us why. We explained to her the importance of baptism and what
it represents and such and explained that it has to be her own choice.
Nobody here could or would force her. We would just invite. :) We
talked about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon and as we were
talking she was like `I:d better read this, huh.` It was so cool. :)
We also got to watch the Hastening the Work broadcast which was WAY
cool! I:m SOO psyched to get to use Facebook! I figure, we:ve
already got laptops out here in Tokyo... We:ll probably be among the
first to get these new update things. :) I:m SO excited.
The Lord is DEFINITELY hastening His work. Every time I think about
all the amazing changes happening to the missionary program I can see
it. It:s not going to be long now before Christ comes! (Our Zone
Leaders have started to place bets as to when it will be. xD)
I:m so excited to be a missionary at this time! There really hasn:t
been a more exciting time to be a missionary. :-) To anyone out there
reading this who are preparing for your missions, get excited! It is
the hardest thing you will ever do, but it is the GREATEST thing you
will ever do. I wouldn:t trade it for anything. :-)
I love you guys so much! Hope to hear from you all soon!
OH! And here:s the new address for the Tokyo South Mission:
Sister Christine Grosland
Tokyo-to Musashino-shi
Kichijoji
Higashi-Machi 1-7-7
Japan
If you accidentally send it to the wrong address they will forward it
down here to me, but it will take longer. :-) Just FYI.
Love you guys!
Love,
Christine
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