Cant believe I have been on my mission for 3 months now!!! the time has flown by!!! 3 months sounds like forever! but still nothing compared to the 16 I have left! HA!!! what a great 3 months it has been! I love that I have lived in Tokyo japan for a whole month! coolest place to be! We had a great week! Japan's least most busiest time of the year is august. I still don 't really know why.. but it is. SO i am so glad we are out of august and can hopefully start actually teaching people!! We have a few investigators but no one really progressing right now. But i know things will pick up soon! Japan is an amazing place filled with TONS of people! The prepared people may be a little bit harder to find so we are going to start looking under rocks! hahah! We so desperately want people to teach! One more week of my first transfer! crazy! If i stay here in Chiba I know we will find people to teach!
No matter what, I still absolutely love being a missionary! We talk to strangers all day and make new friends! This last week we really got to know our ward a lot better so hopefully we can get some member referrals! You members back home, please help your missionaries! All missionaries need people to teach and member referrals make the best investigators! So be nice to your missionaries for me! hahah!
The weather was been crazy! First super hot as always, and then it got super stormy! Rain almost every day! ahhh its amazing!!! lightening and thunder storms are so loud here! Its so scary and sooooooo cool! oh and for all you who thought i would get skinny on my mission (ok maybe that was just me) that is definitely not the case! Japanese people eat healthy but i do all i can to avoid it! hahah! go American food!
So last week,
Went on an exchange with Willden Shimai. We were doing mitsukutaikai (handing out flyers for our free English class). We alsways meet the most interesting people! some a little creepy.. but mostly good ones :)
Wednesday, we had a lesson with a member of the church. We taught her about the restoration. I recently have been trying to memorize the first vision in Japanese. Memorizing something you don't understand is nearly impossible. Im basically memorizing sounds.. anyways for this lesson, i was in charge of reciting the first vision. Thankfully my first time was with a member and not an investigator! Sister Kurata is a sweetheart! I got through it with not too many mistakes! (miracle) but at one point i froze and completely forgot everything. I sat there and looked at my companion for help but she just looked at me and smiled. no help there.. So i said what sounded right. After i finished Kurata Shimai started crying! not the reaction i was expecting.. i thought laughter was more likely! anyways she said that while i was talking she was reminded of why she had joined the church when she did. She knew it was try but had forgotten why she got baptized so fast. The spirit reminded her that is was because of the prophet Joseph Smith. His experience is so unique and special and yet somehow still so relatable! She kept thanking me! really i had nothing to do with it.. haha! But i was so very grateful for the warm spirit that was felt! I started crying too! typical.. This was exactly what i needed to feel. I really learned that it doesn't matter what i say. If we invite the spirit, it will soften the hearts of our listeners and they will learn truth and feel God's love! I completely butchered my part but it was ok! It was still the best lesson ive had! The spirit was so strong! What a great blessing! From then, i haven't been as afraid to speak! i still can hardly talk but i do my best and rely on the sprit to help me out!
So this week pday was on Tuesday because we got to go to the temple!!!! everything about it was perfect!! The Tokyo temple is beautiful!! Temples feel like home! I felt so peaceful in the house of God and couldn't stop smiling! Temples always remind me of mom and dad going through with me for the first time! I love my parents! i love temples! Temple work is so beautiful! Next week we hope to take Eva shimai our recently baptized member to the temple for baptisms!!!!
So nothing too exciting this week.. but always a good week when your a missionary! I couldn't be happier! I love this gospel with all my heart! It is truer than true! my testimony is strengthened every single day! So grateful for the spirit and the feeling of true happiness and love that comes through the spirit!
Love you all! ai shite imasu!!!!
Christensen Shimai
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