Konnichiwa!!!! goodness gracious it seems like last pday was millions of years ago! Quite the long week but it was great nonetheless! It is always a good week when your living in good old Tsukuba Japan and with the best companions ever! I really dont want this transfer to ever end! We are meeting so many great and prepared people and we are really just having too much fun!!
So last pday night i went to a different area in Tokyo called Koyua. We stayed the night with other sisters there because we had to be in tokyo early the next morning for a conference. This wasnt just any conference either.. It was a two mission conference so my whole mission actually got to go to the south missions area for a conference with Elder Evans from the Quorum of the Seventy! He is over the missionaries in all of Asia and came to Tokyo to talk with us! He is an amazing man! His talk was so inspiring! Seriously every day i am here i am just so much happier to be here! hahah! Im going to explode with just happiness being a missionary! Its the greatest! So, he opened up his talk, talking about the age change by President Monson over a year ago! Really the age change for missionary service changed my life (obviously) but it has and will continue to affect the rest of my entire life! kinda crazy. Then it got super interesting.. he talked about marriage. hahah! All the missionaries got tense and kind of awkward looking! hahah! everyone forgot that marriage still even happenes so it was a little bit of a surprise. He talked about why the girls age was changed for missionary service. Someone asked why not 18 for girls too like boys. Maybe everyone else already knew this but i didnt. He said the prophet wasnt really concerned when the sisters would leave but more when they would return and what age that would be. The prophet wants the sister and elders to come home from their missions at the same time. Obviously the greatest blessings come from temple marriage and the prophet was thinking about us sisters and wanting to help us out! So sweet! Elder Evans talked about how a lot of us will marry people from our missions.... thats when it got super awkward hahaha! I was sitting next to elders who looked at me like i had cooties hahaha! So great! I love missionaries! Dont worry the conference was a super spiritual meeting too! I am so ready to work my butt off and be more obedient than ever, and just go crazy with missionary work! hahah!
After the conference, my whole mission took over the trains and made our way to the mission home for our christmas party!!! We had a white elephant exchange, yummy food, and got to watch the cartoon version of how the grinch stole christmas! that was a christmas miracle! hahaha! the Budge's also made a christmas movie years ago and let us watch it! they made their own version of home alone! it was so cute! made me miss my family!!!
So Reusser Shimai left us that night to go on exchanges in matsudo so Amituanai Shimai and I stayed at the mission home for the night. Sister Budge got beds ready for us and made us the best breakfast ever! We felt so spoiled! It was fantastic!
We did missionary work this week too i promise! This week we met a lady named Michiko San. She is so weird. hahah! I love her! We met her on the train and met her again the next day to have a lesson. We met at a park and talked about the book of Mormon. She has the worst attention span hahah! She randomly goes off about rockets and aliens and what not.. but she came to church on sunday and loved it! We have an amazing ward here in Tsukuba! They are all so lovely and took such good care of her!
We celebrated thanksgiving this week too! A member in my ward got some members together at the church for a big turkey and potatoes! Shes american so she made it the right way! :)
So unfortuently we all kind of worked ourselves to death. Not to death but sickness. I caught a cold but working through it! Were all a little bit under the weather but i got a package today from home and i am all better now!!!! thanks mom!
We have met so many new investigators this week however our current investigators keep canceling on us. Its so sad! They are all so close to baptism but no one ever has time! Japanese people are so busy! I hate it! but i love them! keep praying for them with me!
But love you all! thanks for all the love and support!!! miss you everyday! think about everyone back at home daily! love you love you love you love you!!!!!
Sister Christensen
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