Konnichiwa!!!
Goodness this was such a god week!! so many miracles and so many just
great things!!!!
Tuesday we had dinner with our one and only progressing investigator
Akiho!!!! we made a little party out of it and invited two members to
come with us!! It was soooo good!!! we were able to talk about the
Book of Mormon with her a little more. The members were amazing! they
bore such strong and sweet testimonies that made all the difference!
It was exactly what akiho needed! Of course we were going to talk
about our own experiences and what not because were missionaries thats
all we do. But to hear the testimonies of normal people brought more
comfort to her heart i think. hahah! and so... we set a baptismal date
with her!!!!! woohooo!!!! june 1!!!!! its coming quick!! and scary
thing is that since then, its gotten a little harder with her but we
know thats just satan trying to take her time away from us. Keep akiho
in your prayers!!!! we were feeling a little worried that she bailed
on us saturday and sunday but we got an email from her that made it
all better! she said that she read from the Book of Mormon and had
some questions! love that! and she said that shes been praying to her
Heavenly Father every day and night! boy do we really like to hear
that!!!!! i told her that Heavenly Father was so happy to hear from
her! i talked with her about my amazingly wonderful Mother's Day call!
(bestest thing of my life!!! i have the greatest family in the
world!!!) i told her that i had been waiting for months to talk to my
dear family. Once we finally got to skype we were all the happiest as
could be! i told akiho that her Heavenly Father feels the same way
about her. He has gone a long time without hearing from her and is so
very happy to hear from his sweet precious daughter! i know that thats
true! I know Heavenly Father yearns to hear our prayers! I know he
hears and answers our prayers in the way we most need them!
wednesday we had a lesson with my morita shimai<3 weve gone to her
house i think every week since we have been here! i love this woman so
very much! she is the happiest lady! we go over and read from the Book
of Mormon together hoping to remind her of the spirit and get her back
to church. well i sat there with her and just asked her straight out
why wont you go to church with us? she didnt really have a reason.
shes been a less active for years. breaks my heart. i started sobbing
because i love her so much and want to see her back on the path that
she once knew so very well. one thing ive learned on my mission is
never give up on anybody!! lots of prayers going out to my sweet
morita shimai!
i wish you all could come to our english classes!!! they are the
funniest things of my life!! for the last half an hour of class we
always play games. this week we played do you love your neighbor. you
have to say things about people in the circle and try to make everyone
have to move from their seats. most of our students are 50 plus years
old hahaha so it gets real interesting! my favorite lady is michi who
refuses to ever move from her seat and tries to convince people shes
20 hahah! or tamiko who goes around telling everyone that her hair is
fake hahah! maybe doesnt sound that funny.. but to me, these ladies
are the funniest people ever!!!
the coolest miracle for this week to me, was on the train coming home
from zone conference. on the train i talked to a really cute lady! we
had a good little brt and she said that she had been to america
before! she said shes been to utah! i was shocked and got super
excited because who goes to utah unless they have a mormon connection!
and surely enough.. she said her little sister is a member there!!!! i
started freaking out! she just laughed at how excited i was! i was at
a loss for words! she said shes never been to church with her sister.
she doesnt have religion. i told her we have a church in kamagaya and
she was surprised. she said she would like to see it someday! sad part
was that we had reached our stop. she had a chirashi but that was it.
sister requilman and i stepped off the train. i looked at my companion
and said i wish i had our number on a card or something. she reaches
in her pocket and pulls a little card out. she says during the
conference she felt like she needed to make little cards with our
names and numbers!!!!! without thinking i grabbed it from her hands
and jumped back on the train! the doors were closing but i made it!
the doors opened back up so i handed it to the lady and asked her to
please call us and jumped back off the trian! we were so excited!!!!
how cool that sister requilman knew we would need that little card! im
so glad we were able to at least give this lady our number! im praying
hard that she calls and we can meet! so grateful that my companion
listened to the spirit and we were able to see that miracle!!!
other cool stuff this week... while we were waiting at a members house
for dinner to finish being cooked the elders grabbed the members
autistic son and took him housing! he loved it!!!! so cute and so
sweet! the family just bailed! so happy their son could be a little
missionary! touched my heart! next, i got a kimono from my english
student!!! michi! i love her! shes the best! and today we went to the
temple! always a good thing! and went to the zoo after with our
english students!!! pandas are the cutest things in the world!!!!!!!
im obsessed....
i love being a missionary!!! i love how many wonderful people i meet
each and every day!!! Heavenly Father is putting amazing people in my
path and i am so happy to be part of this great work to help them
remember what they once understood and accepted once before! i love my
savior! i love you all!!!!
sister christensen
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