こんちわ皆さん!!!
Holy moly im surving! hahah! This was a little bit of a scary week for me. Transfer 2 started and its just me and Willden Shimai! We are both only second transfer missionaries. Needless to say.. we have no idea what we are doing!! hahah! I cant even count on my hands how many times we got lost this week! and we have only officially been together since thursday! hahah! But we are managing! and really this week has been full of miracles! Heavenly Father knows we have no idea what to do so he helps us out a ton!!
So after we got our transfer call, we were all a little depressed. Nagamine Shimai and I were sure that we were staying together. She became my mom out here in this foreign land! so we did a lot of fun things this week.. maybe a little too much fun. oops!
Tuesday we went out to lunch. Not just any japanese restaurant but the greatest place in japan! The cat cafe!!! hahah! ok so one of our eikaiwa students is just really interesting. he tells me about this cat cafe place every single week and really wanted me to go. So we did. basically its a room full of cats and you eat lunch with them. it was the strangest thing ever! Japanese people are obsessed with cats! every single person i meet.. literally obsessed! We played with them for a little but it got old really fast. luckily two other japanese girls came in and started playing with them. watching them play with the cats was more entertaining then actually playing the cats. The girls were just too happy to be sitting in a room full of cats.
later Willden shimai and i went on splits and visited our Buddhist friend Hasegawa san. Shes a super cute old lady who wants to learn english. She likes to read the Book of Mormon but doesnt really have interest. We showed up at her house unexpectedly and she was so happy! She said she had prayed we would come visit her that day! We were stoked to hear that! So i guess we wont give up quite yet on our Buddhist friend :)
That night we went to dinner with my favorite girl i have met in japan! Her name is Mariko! She is going to be famous one day! She is an amazing guitar player! Shes so funny because she is so different from the typical japanese person. She is so american some how! but i just adore her! We stuffed our faces in indian food. literally i am getting huge here. all i do is eat! japan is making me huge! didnt see that one coming! anyways, sadly she told us that she was leaving for american for three weeks :/ we hope to stay in touch!
Wednesday I was with Willden Shimai again. we went and did streeting at a college campus. Well this is not allowed but we went anyways. very bad idea. i know... it went super well at first! We talked to so many college kids all studying english! we got four peoples numbers and made plans to see them again. However, teachers were getting suspicious.. we got busted and were asked to leave. awkward.. we wont be going there again...
Wednesday night we had dinner with Yuki Chan! shes my 15 year old friend! We made tako yaki... octopus. ughhhhh. i have now tried so many different foods i am just so impressed with myself! octopus doesnt really have a taste just super chewy.. not a fan but it wasnt terrible!
so yuki chan showed us her english homework and she had to translate a backstreet boys song into english! how sweet is that! she was singing it all night long so cute!! She is also a fellow Hannah Montana lover. well we both started singing `the climb` together and she started crying! ahhh i died! She said she was so happy to be singing this song with me! hahaha! she is the cutest thing! I love my little Yuki Chan!
Thursday eventually came.. saying goodbye to Nagamine Shimai was the saddest thing! She has become my idol and thinking of being here without her was terrifying! We lost Bagley shimai too :/ so our apartment is reallyyyyyyyy quite. just the two of us. its so weird! so different... but we are doing just fine! hard to adjust to at first but i love Willden Shimai!
here comes all the miracles...!!!
saturday we somehow had five different lessons with investigators! it was the busiest day i have ever had! With the combination of our investigators we are actually pretty busy! and it feels great! My new two favorite people are this cute couple! They were first meeting with the missionaries to learn english but now they actually really like hearing about the gospel! during the english part the husband turns to me and says `ok lets study the Book of Mormon now`!!! ahhh! They are just too perfect! we adore Yoko and taka san!!
Sunday was the biggest miracle of all!!! we had five investigators come to church!!! the missionaries were all asked to speak in sacrament meeting.. my first talk in japan! my talk was super simple but having a talk gave reason for people to come to church! Willden Shimai and I felt so good looking out in the audience and seeing our investigators! Such a blessing! Since i dont speak japanese.. i just got up there and said how happy i was and how much i love our chiba ward! of course everyone loved my talk because i sat up there speaking like a 2 year old but i had the biggest smile! thats all i can do.. but it works!
So grateful to be a missionary! Heavenly Father blesses me daily! He blesses my investigators and im pretty sure my family too :) We have so many reasons to be happy! We live in a beautiful world and we have a savior who helps us do anything! So grateful for this gospel! and for the miracles i have seen! There have been many! Heavenly Father loves his children!
Christensen shimai
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