Transfer 11, Week 2: October 15, 2013

皆様こんばんは！

Hope everyone has had a fantastic week!  Mine has been pretty crazy....  But then again, when is my week not crazy.  x)

 

Tuesday and Wednesday:

TRANSFER CALLS! 

Well, transfer calls were definitely a huge surprsie. :-)  Here's the results.  Sister Miwa has abandoned her trainer and gone to open up a brand new area called Odawara as a sempai! (She's just that good. :-D)  Sister Thomas is opening a new area as well called Fussa as a follow up trainer.  That leaves me here in Fujisawa with... a new missionary!  :-)  That's right. I'm training again.  Woooo!

So because Tuesday was transfer calls that kind of took over the whole days plans.  xP  We had to get packed and ready to go and everything so that was exciting. Wednesday was also filled with packing and cleaning the apartment.  However, Sister Ellingson and I also had a childrens Eikaiwa and a normal Eikaiwa to teach in Yamato at evening... So we had to leave for that.  At Eikaiwa we had WAY too much fun and lost track of time.  Before we knew it, it was nearly 9 and we had about 40 minutes to get back to the Fujisawa Sisters Apartment which was a train and a bus ride away... x)  She and I ran all the way from the Yamato church building to the train station, from the train station to the bus, and from the bus stop to the apartment making it JUST in time.  xD  When we walked in Sister Miwa and Sister Thomas kind of freaked out and were like "Are you okay?!?"   It was pretty entertaining.

 

Thursday:

On Thursday morning we woke up bright and early to pick up our new missionaries.  All of us were way nervous.  Out of the 7 Fujisawa missionaries 3 of us were made trainers and we all rode the train together to pick them up.  It was a very long train ride. xP  When we finally got to Kichijoji and met all the sisters I noticed one very big thing... of the 5 new sisters, only 1 was nihonjin... Uh-oh. :P

Well, because I don't have enough time to make this super dramatic, my new companion is Sister Feist!  :-)  She's like 6' tall, blonde, blue eyes, SUPER gaijin!  I love her!  x)  It's been SO much fun.  On Thursday we spent most of the day in Kichijoji doing trainings and such on how to be good trainers and trainee's and such. Finally we came back to Fujisawa for Eikaiwa.  At Eikaiwa we had a new student named Momoko!  We talked to her for like 20 minutes and were able to get her email address!  Love her already!

 

Friday:

Sister Feist's first lesson in Japan... and oh my gosh it was.... Yes.  It was with Enomoto... but we weren't able to find a member to go with us to visit her so we were on our own... I didn't understand everything, and Enomoto kind of got mad at us and... yeah.  It was just a disaster... Hopefully we'll be able to make up for it later... That night though we had a lesson with Hiroko that went REALLY well.  We read 1 Nephi 3 with her and she loved it.  :-)  She's really progressing well.  :) That night, we got a call from Sister Miwa.  Turns out their new apartment's gas system wasn't working and so they had to spend the night with us in Fujisawa again!  :-D  YAAY!

 

Saturday & Sunday:

Conference!!  :-) It was fantastic as usual.   I loved it SO much.  There were so many good talks!  It was so weird though knowing that this was my last conference in Japan... After it was over there was just this weird feeling that hung in the air like "Well... That's it..."  I'm excited to come home, but... Man it's weird.

 

Monday:

Not P-day!  :-)  We met up with Momoko from Eikaiwa and went down to a big concert in Kichijoji where Bless4 and Jett Weiss performed!  It was a BLAST! It reminded me so much of one of Aunt Rachel's or Uncle Dan's concerts!  We had so much fun and Momoko was able to meet a lot of new people!

And that was my week!  It was a ton of fun and LOTS of crazy things happened. Sister Feist is an INCREDIBLE missionary and I'm so excited to work with her!  She is going to see SO many incredible miracles on her mission and change so many lives. Now, I've just got the pressure of teaching her to be able to do it. ;)

 

I love you all so much!  Thanks so much for the prayers and the letters!  They mean so much to me!  I'll talk to you all again next week!  Have a fantastic week!

 

Love,

Christine