HELLO!!! KONNICHIWA!!!!
my goodness this was quite the week! I have now been on my mission for 6 months! wow!!! its flying by! there really hasnt been a slow time yet! im scared its still going to come.. hahah! possibly next transfer... just kidding. But we did get transfer calls this morning... I AM STAYING IN TSUKUBA!!!! wooohooo!!!! i am so happy!! i love tsukuba so much!!! this area is full of prepared people! So last week i asked you all to pray that i wouldnt be training a new missionary. your prayers only half worked. I am not training a new companion but i am now the senior companion.. Sister Kelly is my new companion! She is just a transfer under me. Im scared to be the one in charge but i guess someone thinks i can handle it! Im scared. but excited!! Tsukuba will have four sisters and four elders!!!! So Reusser shimai is staying with me too!!! i am so happy!!! and Tsukuba is seriously bursting with prepared people! we need 8 missionaries just in our area to get them all! We became our own district! haha! its going to be a great transfer!!!
So this last week has been so good! of course! they always are! After the temple, Ami shimai and i stayed by the temple and did streeting for 5 hours while Reusser shimai was at a meeting. Well this was the worst day of my entire mission so far. hahah! But the best too! Learned a lot from this day. No one would talk to us. We felt so awkward! so unloved! and so unwelcome. the people in that area were so rude and wouldnt give us the time of day. One man harrassed us and touched and literally scared the you know what out of us so we just ran away! hahah! Then one later came up to us as we were talking to another lady and told us that we were so annoying and that we needed to leave the poor lady alone. uhhhhh. we were so frustrated! i have never felt so hated and so unwelcome. Ami shimai and I knew that we were being tested. Heavenly Father was seeing how much we could take. After a little break we said a prayer and got back to streeting. We knew that we would find someone. We didnt let ourselves get too down. Heavenly Father blessed us incredibly! The first lady we talked to stopped and talked to us for half an hour. We taught her about eternal families, the book of mormon, and prayer. She was excited to read the book of mormon! She said she would flip to a radom page and start reading. We promised her if she prayed before she would find the answers to her soul! She is not in our area but we are excited to see how it went! It was literally the hardest day on my mission but the best! I just remembered my favorite talk from Elder Holland. When we are persecuted, we stand side by side with our savior. The greatest life this world has ever known. Of course it will be hard. Of course we will suffer a little. But i felt my saviors love. I felt his love for me and my companion and the love for all of his lost sheep. We wont give up on any of us! I am grateful that i got to have the worst/best day!!!
Friday we had a lesson with Nozue San in english. She asks sooooooo many questions! we talk about everything!! and it is exhausting! hahah! we had such great conversations! She loves everything we believe in and believes in a lot of the same things but refuses to come to church. She likes not having to do anything. hahah. She just wants to believe and that be it. But if lessons keep going this well with her, im not too worried. She is so prepared and desires to have the happiness that we have! After we went to a recent convert's house and she made us dinner. ugh. i always get so nervous when people make us food! hahah! I ate chicken for the first and hopefully last time! It was awful! yuckkkkk!!! it was so hard to keep a straight face and tell her that i liked it.. Luckily all my companions felt the same way so we just laughed and laughed! It was either that or cry.. hahah! she invited us over for christmas... i will need some more of those prayers please!
Sunday was the best!!! 5 investigators came to church! one japanese, one chinese, and three phillipinos!!! We taught one all of the commandments in one day! before, during, and after church! she is unfortuntently not our investigator anymore because she doesnt live in our area but she is ready for baptism next week! so proud! I lead the plan of salvation for all our english speaking investigators! we had such a great lesson and got everyone to commit to baptism!!!! it is going to be a white christmas thats for sure!!!!!
it has been such an amazing transfer! i am soooo sad it has to end! ami shimai is my bestest friend and i am so sad she has to leave! but im excited for this transfer and all of the miracles we will see! ohhhhhhhhhhh best thing i almost forgot!!!! Yoshida san from chiba got baptized yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hope everyone else is happy too! if not, go serve somebody! nothing brings more joy then serving those you love!
i love you all and pray for you always!!! miss you!!!
Christensen shimai
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