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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