Thursday, September 19, 2013

Transfer 10, Week 4: September 15, 2013

Woah.  It's week 4 already!?  CRAZY!
皆様こんにちは!
 
I hope you guys all had a fantastic week! I know we did out here! It was way busy...  We actually weren't supposed to have P-day today because of this Helping Hands service project, but... then a giant typhoon had to come to ruin all the fun.  Oh well, now you guys get to hear from me instead!  ;)
 
Enomotoさん and Hirokoさん:
This week found 2 new investigators!  We're WAAY excited about it. :-)
First off Enomotoさん.  So right before transfers this last time, we went out dendoing with a girl preparing to serve a mission from the Atsugi ward.  We went to one of the stations to hand out flyers for Eikaiwa and while there, she met Enomotoさん.  She talked with her for about 30 minutes and ended up being able to get her phone number and address and getting permission for us to go visit her! She is going to be a FANTASTIC missionary!  I can't even wait.
Well, we went with her this week to visit Enomotoさん and see if she had any interest in the gospel.  Enomoto is in her late 70's and one of the sweetest ladies in the world.  She's living alone so she doesn't really have anyone to talk to.  When we met with her she talked and talked and talked for about an hour. x)  Sooo sweet.  Turns out she met the missionaries several years ago and had quite an interest in their message.  She gave them her phone number and address and invited them to come over sometime... but they never did. (We think there was probably a transfer call or her info got lost or something.) Well, after that she didn't really think much about church... Then she was diagnosed with terminal cancer.  She was told she didn't have much longer to live.  Then, last year she went in for her usual check-up they discovered that the cancer had completely disappeared.  All of the doctors were shocked and couldn't believe it.  Enomoto feels like she was saved for a reason, and all of her friends say "It's because you're always serving everyone around you!  God is happy and saved your life!"  That's when she met us at the station.  :-)  She's SO prepared and SO ready to learn.
As for Hiroko!  Hiroko has been going to Eikaiwa in Kamakura for a long time now.  Last transfer, Sister Imano and I went down there teach because they didn't have enough teachers.  While there we met Hiroko and ended up walking with her back to the station to come home.  While walking we asked her where she lives.  Turned out she actually lives in our area, so we asked her "Why don't you come to our Eikaiwa?!"  Yup.  We stole her. ;) From then on she started coming to our Eikaiwa in Fujisawa and really liked it.  I invited her to listen to a shokai (introductory) lesson and she accepted!  We talked about the Book of Mormon, temples, and eternal families.  She was really interested in studying more about it and agreed to meet with us again!  She's SO sweet.  It was fun getting to know her too.  She has 2 daughters (ages 22 and 18... Coincidence? :P) and REALLY wants to learn English.  :-)  We're going to start reading the Book of Mormon in English and Japanese with her this week.  We're pretty excited about it. :-D
 
Kokans and a Migraine Miracle:
This week was kokans with Sister Hathaway in Kanagawa!  It was a LOT of fun!  :-)  We saw this really cool miracle together too!  There is a Less Active in the ward who we made the plan to go visit. Sister Hathaway had made this really cute birthday card for her, and said "She probably won't be home, so we'll just drop this off in her mail box and go housing." Well, when we got there, she ended up being home!  She invited us inside and we were able to teach her a quick lesson!  Waaay cool! :-)  That night though, Sister Hathaway and I stayed up waaaay too late talking.  The next morning I woke up, rode my bike for about an hour, taught a lesson, rode my bike for another hour, then went to Eikaiwa.  At the end of Eikaiwa I had this MASSIVE migraine with no medicine.  I couldn't even walk in a straight line it hurt so bad.  When we got back to the apartment, my companions ordered me straight to bed.  I didn't wake up until about 7 the next day, but when I did I woke up to the smell of a DELICIOUS breakfast.  When I left the tatami room I found all these cute little hearts all over the apartment that all said "We love you Sister Grosland!"  I have the best companions in the world.
 
And those were the exciting things of my week!  :-)  It's been a really good week and I'm looking forward to another good one!  I hope you all have had a fantastic week!  Don't forget about me out here! :P
 
Love you all so much!  Write you again next week!
-Sister Grosland
Japan Tokyo South Mission

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