今週はすごいおもしろかったです！
We had such a fun week this week. We were WAY busy. I'm skipping lots of it though so you can hear the best parts. ;)
MUSIC NIGHT!
Every Thursday we teach Eikaiwa (English Class)! A few weeks ago
we decided we wanted to have an Eikaiwa Party, but we wanted as much
student participation as possible! So we decided we would ask the
students what kind of a party they would want to do. The class ended up
voting on doing a Music Night! :-) We've been prepping for it ever
since. It turned out to be a HUGE success. Over 71 non-members came.
Throw in members who helped and missionaries from other areas and such
and the number of people who came was nearly 100. It was intensely
awesome. :-) We were able to make a few new friends there, so hopefully
something we'll come out of it that way. The Elders also asked Sister
Thomas and I to sing so we decided to sing Toshiko's favorite hymns
"Nearer My God to Thee". After we finished she came up to me with tears
saying "That's my favorite!! Thank you! Thank you!" Toshiko has been
making huge progress lately. It's only a matter of time now. :-) I
LOVE HER!
Kokans:
I went on kokans this week with Sister Tanaka in Kawasaki! It was one of the most
bizarre kokans I have EVER been one. x) Before the kokan I asked
Sister Tanaka to make some goals of what she wanted to get out of the
kokan. She asked me to help her work on Streeting so we set aside 4
hours of straight streeting time and off we went. We started by walking
along this river and I noticed this part of the river that looked like
it was blocked off by a ton of garbage. Litter is WAY weird for Japan
so I was like "What is that!?" As we got closer though, I realized that
they were fish! HUGE fish! There were seriously like 50 of them
jamming up this part of the river. As we stopped and were goggling at
them this older man came up, sat down, pulled out a loaf of bread and
started feeding the fish. I started talking to him a little bit and he
asked me if I wanted to feed the fish too. Of course I said yes! :P
(I'll never grow up. xD) As we were feeding the fish we talked with the
man a bit more. We asked him what he thought about God and he said "God
doesn't exist and anyone who thinks He does is an idiot." Preeeetty
bold. xD We gave him a flyer and headed off. We decided to head down
to this really big street and go streeting there for about an hour.
Then we walked past this really small chinese restaurant that same old
man came out and yelled at us to come join him. He had in his hand a
very large and mostly empty can of beer... After he yelled for us to
join him he went back in. I looked at Sister Tanaka and she said "It'd
be really rude to just walk away. Let's go in and tell him we've
already eaten." So we went inside and he said "You don't have to eat.
I just want to talk. Sit." He ended up introducing us to the owner of
the restaurant who actually had an interest in Eikaiwa and said she was
going to come! We continued to talk with him and we were able to share
about eternal families. He said that he "really liked that story". :P
He said "You should go visit my little sister! Here! I'll draw you a
map to her house!" Then he drew a completely illegible map and wrote
his little sisters name. Then, as we were leaving he said "I'll bring
my daughter with me and come see your church this Sunday!" Afterward,
Sister Tanaka and I were laughing and saying "God works in mysterious
ways..." xD We kept streeting. We found this lady who was handing out
fliers and decided to go talk to her. While talking to her I got a
little distracted and looked around at the house next to us... And
noticed that the name written on the house was the name the old man gave
us!! WHAT?! xD Sister Tanaka and I were like "No way. No way no way
no way no way! WE HAVE TO VISIT HER!" So we worked up the courage to
go ring her doorbell... and nobody answered. xD We did leave a flyer
in her mailbox though, so who knows.. :P
Moral of the kokan: God works in the most bizarre ways to bring about His purposes. x)
And
those were the two big highlights of this week! There were a lot of
other little things that happened, but I don't have time to write about
them all. Guess you'll just have to wait until November when I can tell
you them all in person!
I love you all so much! Thank you so much for the
love, support, and prayers! I need them! Thank you for everything and
I'll see you soon! Love you all!
Love,
Christine
Christine
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