Happy New Years!!! ハピヌイェア！！！1/5/14

Konnichiwa!!!

Hope everyone had a happy new years!!! 2014!! weird!

This was a weird week. Sadly not a very good one. But ill get to that in a little bit.

So this week our wonderful Tsukuba Ward members arranged for all 8 of the missionaries to have dinner at a different members house each day this week! so sweet! and sooooo much food!!!! last sunday night we went to the Yamaguchis. She is our relief society president. It was such a fun night! Their son is 18 and thinking about going on a mission. So we all went around and talked about why we are on missions and the difference that it has made in our lives. So neat to hear all of these wonderful missionaries different experiences and really how much serving has blessed their lives! Theres no way their son wont serve a mission now! They really are the best!

So with all the craziness of New Years President Budge didnt really want us outside trying to proselyte to drunk people. understandable. haha! So new years eve day was an all mission apartment deep cleaning day! woo! We spent literally the entire day cleaning every inch of our apartment! much much needed! Luckily that night we still had dinner appointments so we got to leave the apartment! We went to the Davis's house. We made gyoza (pot stickers)! Whenever i make gyoza at someones house they always call it a party because there is always soooooooo much gyoza. We all ate tons!!! wayyyyyy too much! After we shared a little message about thinking back on this year and moving forward. So much has changed for a lot of us this last year! SO true! Im in japan! haha! and so now what? well my goal is to work harder than ever! I have now just a little less than a year now i want to use this time to the fullest! Its not my time but the Lords time and i dont want to waste a single second! however, i quickly learned that getting sick wastes a lot of time! That night i rode home on my bike with the worst stomach pain of my entire life! Came home and just tried to sleep it off. Didnt happen. I dont need to go into details but i was awake every single hour that night throwing up that not so yummy anymore, gyoza. I felt bad for getting up and down so often through out the night and waking up the other sisters so i got a blanket and just layed there outside the bathroom door. It continued into the next day. The only time i left my apartment was to get a blessing from the elders. I was so bummed because this day we were suppossed to have two different dinner appointments and it was a mission wide book of mormon reading day! all of which i missed. it is not fun being sick.

That next night and day i still felt awful. Sister Budge did a good job of calling every hour to check up on me. My poor companion must have been bored out of her mind! Sister Budge was a good fill in mom making me drink fluids even though nothing stayed down. She almost made me go to the hospital. I cant imagine trying to communicate what was wrong with my in japanese. All i can talk about is jesus! hahaha!

The next day i was still having problems so we stayed in all day. So much for not wasting any time.. but really nothing i could do about it.

Finally by friday i was feeling good enough to get back to work! We went and visited our Indian friends Raj and Anu. They made us lunch! probably wasnt the best thing for me to eat right away but it was sooooo good! Indian food is the best! We showed them a video from lds.org about our church in india. They find it really cool and want to come to church! But they are soooooo into being hindi and I really dont think they want to be anything but that! We just love them and their cute little girl! We will be friends forever!

Saturday and sunday we had lots of finding time. With little success. January is a hard month in japan because everyone goes to their home towns for the holiday. This holiday for them in bigger than christmas! No one was really around and everyone is busy with school starting back up again. We did however really push for eikaiwa this last week. English class is where we get our best investigators so we spent a lot of time handing out english flyers. The last time the daviss were in charge of eikaiwa they got 80 students in one class! We are excited for this week and this year to get eikaiwa really going again!

So nothing really exciting to write about this week. Sorry! Being sick really took up a lot of time this week. But i am feeling much much better! This next week we have appoinments scheduled so we are so excited to work hard and make up for this last week! More to report on next week i promise!

Hope your all enjoying the New year! Love and miss you all! stay warm!!! love you!

Christensen Shimai

メリークリスマス！！12/29/13

Merry Christmas!!!!!!

This felt like the longest week ever!! i think i saw that maybe every week. But really. It was good. just long! But christmas made it a memberable one!!!

Last Monday i was on the Tsukuba Radio!! i font know actually how many people listen to the radio anymore but it was cool anyways! We sang three christmas songs and then had mini conversations with the radio host about missionaries and our church. Our bishop was the one who set it up so he recorded it and put it on youtube i think! I dont remember the link but ill ask! Some of our friends did say that they heard us though! so it was worth it! a fun way to spread the christmas spirit!

Tuesday we went and visited our indian friends! Anu invited us in and talked with us for over an hour about religion. Hinduism is a crazy cool religion! She said she wants to come to our church too! She just wants to feed us and feed us! She wouldnt let us leave untill we finished her indian cracker thingys, apples, rice, curry (so spicy!!) she is adorable! and i am getting fat. hahah! After that we did some christmas carroling at the train station. We did that a lot these past couple of weeks. HAnded out flyers about church and about the real meaning of christmas. Met a lot of great people from it and got to help get people excited for christmas! Then we had dinner at Higashi Shimais house. again, we just ate and ate and ate. Its pretty rough being a missionary and having people feeding you all the time..

Then wednesday was christmas!!!! I was more excited for this christmas than any other one before! Skyping home was just the greatest most wonderfulest christmas present ever! I think i enjoyed it too much! Its kinda hard to be away from family at christmas but through skype i felt closer than ever! so grateful for such a wonderful, caring, and loving family! After skype we went to good old KFC for lunch! Japanese people think that is what americans eat for christmas so we did to prove them right! So many smiles at us when we walked in! too funny! Then for dinner we went to Maianns house. Shes the recently baptized phillipino lady. I LOVE her and her cute family! We had such a nice night! Her kids just running around screaming made it feel like a normal christmas!

Thursday at Eikaiwa was our christmas party! We decorated american sugar cookies! Everyone was surprised at how sweet they were. They were totally normal.. hahah! But my new best friends name is Yoko. She is probably about 70 years old and has super good english! I dont know why but we became instant best friends! When i called her on christmas she cried! I adore her! Im pretty sure we were friends before this life! We talked about church and she has read from the book of mormon before! she said she wants to study it some more. I told her that i would come to her house and study with her and she got so excited!!! so now im realllllyyyyyy excited! i just love her! She sits next to me, holds my hands during class and tells me "you are so charming, you are so handsome" hahaha! i  love her!

So our christmas miracle was that HITOMI GOT BAPTIZED!!! yayyyyy!!! finally!!!! she has been waiting so long! i have never seen someone so excited! She really just wanted to feel clean and to have no more guilt. After she was baptized, she was just glowing! so happy for my Hitomi san. Reusser shimai and I sang amazing grace at the service. Its hitomis favorite song! We didnt make it through the whole song.. we joined the rest of the congregation in tears! The words just so right for Hitomi. My chains are gone ive been set free. My God my savior has ransomed me. And like a flood his mercy reigns unending love amazing grace!! it was a sweet experience! I love when the entire room is just flooding by Gods loving spirit! Something i will never forget!

I hope everyone had a wonderful, merry, and bright christmas! Thanks you always for the prayers, and thoughts for all the missionaries! We cant do it without your help! We see little miracles everyday because of the faith of the members all over the world! I love you all! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

christensen shimai 

メリー クリスマス!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! 12/22/13

Konnichiwa everyone!!!!!!!!!!

wow what a week!! They go by so fast and yet so slow..

This last week Reusser shimai got sick so Amituanai shimai and i had lots of time to our selves. just study wise but it was quite the experience! i love her! i am going to miss her like crazy! transfers are a little depressing in the fact that you make best friends and then they are just taken from you! Mission life..

So tuesday we rode our bikes the long way to tsuchiura to visit tsuchida san. Shes the old lady whose body is always hurting :/ we went and brought her a picture of christ. I think she really liked it. She changed topics quick though and lectured us on how we need to take better care of our skins hahah! shes a doll! got back on our bikes and died. The wind got super crazy all of a sudden and the already terribly long bike ride got turned into an even longer one! It took us about an hour and a half of all three of us in tears and sweat! ha! it was quite the experience! last week was the spiritual challenge and this week was the physical one. Tsukuba is just throwing everything out at me! but im ready for it! bring it on! We rode to the church and my adopted asian mother, Nakamura Shimai bought us costco pizza!!! she is a saint! i love her! she made us super cute key chans too! She is going to miss Amituanai shimai just like the rest of us in Tsukuba! After that we ran to the eki to meet my new best friend! Aoi chan! She is a new eikaiwa friend who loves me! hahah! She works at the eki and comes and says hi to me everytime we had out english flyers! We meet her for dinner and taught her lesson 1! From a young age she has been praying and knows that there is a God that loves her! So sweet to hear that because it is so rare here in japan! She also had read from the Book of Mormon so she became a progressing investigator! Sadly though, sunday she emailed me and said she just wants to be my friend without religion. This happens all to frequently here. We meet with people for the first time and then they hear rumors and dont want to meet again. But Aoi chan has become one of my best friends! And that is good enough for right now! She is so special to me and i am just so glad that i can be here for her!

Wednesday was Amituanai shimais last day :/ heart broken. So we had planned to visit  a less active member. But my bikes tire was flat. when we called to say we would be late she cancelled.. but my amazing companions always have the greatest faith! they knew that there was something else that would come up! some miracle! and of course it was true! An investigator we had been trying to contact said she would be at the church in 15 minutes! miracle! she showed up however and gave us back the book of mormon we gave her. We did all we could to convince her to keep it. She did but i dont know if she was convinced to keep reading. She likes us though and wants to meet again. So a miracle but a miracle that will require some more work and a little more faith! Wednesday night we planned a movie night for Amituanai shimais last night. However everyone canceled. so we spent our last night in the absolute freezing cold housing!

and then thursday came... transfer day :/ so sad! i miss my companion! and i miss being in a three some! but i have an amazing companion! Sister Kelley! She is from washington. Today is actually her birthday! we celebrated by having an amazing lesson with our investigator janet! she is getting baptized!!!! and so excited!!! then we had a costco pizza party at the church with another investigator miyuki san! shes hilarious and think us foreigners are crazy!

Sadly we had to split our investigators now that there are four sisters in tsukuba.. i felt like i got broken up with. But the investigators are with who they need to be! i hope! we are going to see so many miracles this transfer! young missionaries means lots of faith and miracles!!!

saturday we had our ward christmas party!!! funnest day on my mission i think! we have such a fun ward! the little kids did a magic show, the other members sang and performed! And all the missionaries sang and danced in front of everyone! We were a hit! we had lots of investigators come and it was the most perfect night! we had such a fun time! i am so excited for christmas! people will be busy but we are still expecting miracles and i cant wait!!!

love and miss you all!! expect miracles and they will happen!

merry almost christmas!!!!!

Christensen shimai

Transfer 4!!!! SENIOR COMPANION!! 12/16/13

Konnichiwa everyone!!!!!!!!!!

wow what a week!! They go by so fast and yet so slow..

This last week Reusser shimai got sick so Amituanai shimai and i had lots of time to our selves. just study wise but it was quite the experience! i love her! i am going to miss her like crazy! transfers are a little depressing in the fact that you make best friends and then they are just taken from you! Mission life..

So tuesday we rode our bikes the long way to tsuchiura to visit tsuchida san. Shes the old lady whose body is always hurting :/ we went and brought her a picture of christ. I think she really liked it. She changed topics quick though and lectured us on how we need to take better care of our skins hahah! shes a doll! got back on our bikes and died. The wind got super crazy all of a sudden and the already terribly long bike ride got turned into an even longer one! It took us about an hour and a half of all three of us in tears and sweat! ha! it was quite the experience! last week was the spiritual challenge and this week was the physical one. Tsukuba is just throwing everything out at me! but im ready for it! bring it on! We rode to the church and my adopted asian mother, Nakamura Shimai bought us costco pizza!!! she is a saint! i love her! she made us super cute key chans too! She is going to miss Amituanai shimai just like the rest of us in Tsukuba! After that we ran to the eki to meet my new best friend! Aoi chan! She is a new eikaiwa friend who loves me! hahah! She works at the eki and comes and says hi to me everytime we had out english flyers! We meet her for dinner and taught her lesson 1! From a young age she has been praying and knows that there is a God that loves her! So sweet to hear that because it is so rare here in japan! She also had read from the Book of Mormon so she became a progressing investigator! Sadly though, sunday she emailed me and said she just wants to be my friend without religion. This happens all to frequently here. We meet with people for the first time and then they hear rumors and dont want to meet again. But Aoi chan has become one of my best friends! And that is good enough for right now! She is so special to me and i am just so glad that i can be here for her!

Wednesday was Amituanai shimais last day :/ heart broken. So we had planned to visit  a less active member. But my bikes tire was flat. when we called to say we would be late she cancelled.. but my amazing companions always have the greatest faith! they knew that there was something else that would come up! some miracle! and of course it was true! An investigator we had been trying to contact said she would be at the church in 15 minutes! miracle! she showed up however and gave us back the book of mormon we gave her. We did all we could to convince her to keep it. She did but i dont know if she was convinced to keep reading. She likes us though and wants to meet again. So a miracle but a miracle that will require some more work and a little more faith! Wednesday night we planned a movie night for Amituanai shimais last night. However everyone canceled. so we spent our last night in the absolute freezing cold housing!

and then thursday came... transfer day :/ so sad! i miss my companion! and i miss being in a three some! but i have an amazing companion! Sister Kelley! She is from washington. Today is actually her birthday! we celebrated by having an amazing lesson with our investigator janet! she is getting baptized!!!! and so excited!!! then we had a costco pizza party at the church with another investigator miyuki san! shes hilarious and think us foreigners are crazy!

Sadly we had to split our investigators now that there are four sisters in tsukuba.. i felt like i got broken up with. But the investigators are with who they need to be! i hope! we are going to see so many miracles this transfer! young missionaries means lots of faith and miracles!!!

saturday we had our ward christmas party!!! funnest day on my mission i think! we have such a fun ward! the little kids did a magic show, the other members sang and performed! And all the missionaries sang and danced in front of everyone! We were a hit! we had lots of investigators come and it was the most perfect night! we had such a fun time! i am so excited for christmas! people will be busy but we are still expecting miracles and i cant wait!!!

love and miss you all!! expect miracles and they will happen!

merry almost christmas!!!!!

Christensen shimai

TRANSFER 4 IS A COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...........

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! she finally did it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am so happy for her! thank you for praying for my investigators! its helping!!! i didnt get to go, but i heard it was an amazing service! She is so happy! i am so happy!!!

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

the konnnichiest of wa'sssss!!!!

This week went by crazy fast! like im still confused how its already monday! fast weeks make me nervous! looking back there is just enough time do get everything done and teach everyone that we want to! this transfer is almost over... i am so sad!!! i love my companions soooooooo dang much! with so many new missionaries coming in there is no way we will stay in a three some. and i am terrified that i might be training a new missionary next transfer..... please join me in prayer for this to NOT happen! hahahah! i am so scared! im pretty sure i would be a terrible trainer.. i still have no idea whats going here! hahah! but it might not happen so i might be safe! whatever happens will be right obviously. Everyone keeps trying to prepare me saying that i will grow so much from being pushed and stretched and pulled and although it mostly sounds painful im up for anything!

so we had an amazing week as always! Sister Reusser went on exchanges so sister smith came to the land of Tsukuba with Ami shimai and I! We taught a lesson to one of our new investigators Kiyoko! She is the cutest little thing! Me being the oldest missionary there had to lead the lessons in japanese so that was interesting.. i basically had her read a whole bunch of stuff cause since shes japanese she can read and understand all the crazy symbols and what not! haha! it went really well though! We asked her if she came to know that our message was true would she be baptized and she said yes!! woooo! so proud of her and her faith!

Wednesday we exchanged back to our normal comapnions but stayed together to hand out flyers for the christmas concert we had on sunday! The other sisters handed out flyers while my companions and I sang christmas hymns! We did this a few times this week and it was a huge success! We had so much fun and passed out 700 flyers! People came and stood in front of us cheering, clapping, buying us food, and leaving money for our little shows hahah! i love japanese people!

HAPPY LATE THANKSGIVING! hope it was a good one! ours was amazing!!! so we had recieved a referral from a member and went to try to find her. We didnt have much info, just that she would be near the tsuchiura train station around 5.. hah! so we walked around looking for a lady with a little boy. didnt know her name or what she looked like. it was getting late but we didnt stop looking. We crossed a street we hadnt gone down before and saw a lady. trying to act normal i start tying my shoes until she reached us hahah! When she saw us she started screaming!.... she starts saying that she lived in provo and that her husband went to byu!!! we found her!!! and she is so prepared! she lived in provo for crying out loud! her name is mami! you pronounce it like mommy so i like saying her name! hahah! love you mommy! we are so excited to start teaching her!!!

the other greatest miracle was we set a baptisimal date with Hitomi san!!!! and before christmas too!!! its going to be a white christmas here in tsukuba! what a great gift to give to the savior! one of his lost sheep! she is so excited to be baptized! her husband previously was against the idea but now he is allowing it!!! we are so stoked! so grateful for him and his sweetness and love for his wife! he wants her to be happy and this is definitely the way!

Went to a wedding reception this week! my ward mission leader got married! he was the happiest guy ive ever seen! they were so cute and so awkward! hahah! japanese people are so non touchy and non affectionate so it was funny!

sunday we had ahuge christmas concert! kent derricott is from america but famous here in japan for being on one of their tv shows. he is a member of our church so we invited him to come to the concert and spoke! it brought so many people to the concert! the church was packed! which made me nervous because i was forced to sing a duet, and another song with a few other sisters all in japanese... it went really well though! it was such a sweet night! Kent Derricott really got everybody in the right mind set for this upcoming christmas season! Its all about giving. make christmas a special time and think about others. Think about how you can make others day a little brighter! Our savior did the same thing. Thats what he asks us this christmas season. I am so excited for christmas and that i get to teach people the real meaning of christmas! Our savior is the center of everything! how grateful i am for his birth, his life and his teachings! and his promises! we are promised eternal happiness with eternal families! I have so much to be grateful for this christmas season!

love you all!

Christensen Shimai

Konnichiwaaaaaa!!!!!!!

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