Konnichiwa!!!!!!
This week went by wayyyyy fast! i cant believe its already pday! we
had such a good week!!!! like so good!!!! Our friends our amazing!!
so last tuesday we had an appointment with Akiho! shes the one who
didnt show up at church on sunday but we met for lunch! it was wayyy
good!!! we asked her what she wanted to learn about and she said
everything!!! our lesson was a little long.. hahha but we all felt the
spirit so strong! she said she wants to keep learning with us!! so
happy! she is our first progressing investigator!!! hahaha! finally!!!
white washing is hard!!!! bad news though.. she might not even live in
our area.. but the kamagaya church is the closest to her home so we
will see what happens! i love her!
tuesday we also found out from the elders that the italian man we
found and gave a Book of Mormon to has a baptismal date!!!!
sweett!!!!!!! Giovanni is the greatest man alive! yayyyyyy for all the
miracles!!! last transfer hard work is finally showing!
wednesday we went with a member (janet :)) to one of her friends
little concert. She and a few other old people put on a cute little
show for about the ten people that came! hahaha! Some of janets other
friends came too so we spent the afternoon with a great group of cute
old ladies! they are my favorite! after the show we all went to lunch
together! these cute ladies liked us so much that they said we could
join their "circle" and we are going to one of their houses on
wednesday for lunch!! hahahaha!!! they are so cute! im so excited!
wednesday night and thursday night our bishops wife asked us to help
her teach her english class. She teaches 17 different classes in her
home and has over 100 students! shes crazy! so we got to go help!! she
told them we didnt understand any japanese (which is too far from the
truth hahaha) but they all freaked out!!! It was so funny! they were
so concerned, even though they all speak pretty good english! at the
end one cute girl goes "please dont forget me!" oh we just died!! so
cute!!! hopefully we will get to help out the bishops wife each week!
Thursdays huge miracle was that our cute high school investigator
Yurina finally replied to our email!!!!!! she said that "she has been
sick in the brian" hahahah her english is hilarious! she was so happy
that we never stopped emailing! ive learned a lot about tenacity on my
mission. hahah! we never give up on anyone!!! im so excited that shes
back!!! she still loves us!!!! thank heavens!!! we will hopefully get
to see her this week!!! miracles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
friday we visited our favorite less active, sister morita! gosh i love
that woman!! she just thinks we are so weird but loves us! she read
from the Book of Mormon and was so excited to tell us about what she
learned! she said she wants to be more loving. I asked her how she was
going to work on it and she said it would probably help if she went to
church hahahah!!!!!!! thats the answer!!!!!!! goodness this woman just
needs to come! she said little by little. we are taking things slowly
but its working! shes feeling the spirit! and shes feeling gods
love!!!!!!
and sunday was the bestest day of my life!!!!!!!!! why????because
AKIHO CAME TO CHURCH!!!!!!!! finally!!!!!! ahhhhh!!!!! everything went
perfectly!!!!!!! every single member came up to her and introduced
themselves! so sweet! she was so dang popular!!! the members all want
to help the missionaries but dont know how. well they helped us out a
ton at church! she felt so welcomed!!! she stayed for all three hours
and like two more hours after church talking with people! everyone
loves akiho! (she loves high school musical, therefore who wouldnt
love this girl???!?!?!) we had lots to talk about :) each meeting was
perfect! in sacrament they talked about enduring through trials,
Sunday school was on faith, and relief socirty we discussed elder
uchtdorfs talk "come join us" hahah! i think she was getting the
point. She loved church!!! she said everything is really new but she
liked it and the friendlyness! she will hopefully be coming back this
sunday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that night we had a dinner appointment at one of my favorite members
house! i asked her to make me mexican food and she did :) heheh! the
sweet member also invited Akiho! so all the missionaries and akiho had
tacos for dinner!!! soooooo good! japan has everything.. except
mexican food... ugh.
but the dinner was perfect! we transitioned into a little message
perfectly and talked about prayer. I love the testimonies of members!
missionaries are sometime seen like robots. this is our job to say
these things, but the members testimonies had something that we could
never do! i am always so impressed with japanese members because like
90% are converts. They each have such special and sweet conversion
stories that they love to share! it was an amazing night!!!!
afterwards we got an email from akiho that she had a great day and is
so grateful to be our friend!!!! ohhh how i love this girl!!!! were
meeting her again on thursday!!!!!
i am really so grateful for this church and the wonderful people that
it draws to it. I love being around the members! they are so strong! i
miss the wonderful members back home who have strengthened me and my
testimony! so grateful for all of their righteous examples! keep up
the good work!!! :)
love you all!!!!
Sister Christensen
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