Wildflower Thoughts : Week Three.

Hi mina san!

It sounds like the Family Reunion was very fun! I am excited to receive some letters from you guys that wrote me! I just love letters so much!

Things are good here. So remember how last week I told you I got to go do service inside the temple? Well guess what me and the other 3 shimaitachi got to do! We got to clean and put together CHANDELIERS IN THE CELETIAL ROOM! How amazing, right?! It was the most incredible experience I have ever ever had in my life thus far.

Me and the other shimaitachi made lots of cool comparisons when we were putting the chandeliers together. The main source of light is like Christ and we are all like the little crystals.. each one is important and each one has a way of letting Christ's light shine through us in so many different ways. It's amazing! Don't ever think you are not important! God works miracles through ALL of us! Not just missionaries!

This week was a fairly normal one at the MTC. I saw Caleb Brower though which was such a happy joyful thing for me! I miss the Brower family! I haven't gotten a picture with him yet, but I will. Don't you worry!

I see Elder Fisher a lot here in the MTC. He was the guy that we met at the airport when I was just leaving Houston. He is such a great missionary and it's fun to run into each other and update each other on our progress in the language and practice bearing our testimonies to each other. He's a very nice elder.

The big thing that has been happening these last few days is that Mataoa Shimai is very homesick and has decided that she wants to go back to Tahiti where she is from. She is such a wonderful person, but she just doesn't want to be a missionary anymore. I support her decision but it is tough on all of us becuase she has kind of given up on the work. It is hard to be obedient when you have a sister that won't get out of bed and go to class or go to the devotional or anything like that. On Sundays we have the opportunity to watch a film at the end of the day and last sunday we decided to watch the Joseph Smith movie in French for Mataoa Shimai. I didn't understand anything but I still cried! Especially when there was bagpipe music playing "praise to the man" because it reminded me of Dad and I just couldn't hold my tears in. It makes me want to cry now just thinking about it! I miss you dad!

Besides that, not much new has happened... here is a semi-funny story!

I was teaching Iwata-san and Orr Shimai made me do the introduction and like the get to know you stuff this time... she usually does it but she made me do it becuase she is a good companion and so I asked "how are you" and "how is school" and "how is your family" and after he answered there was kind of an awkward silence so i tried to think of another question (let me note that this was our first time off notes so i didn't have this stuff written down" so i tried asking, "how is life" but the way that i asked it was more like "how has your lifetime been?" and he just looked at me with the biggest eyes ever and was like "whhhooaa. uhh, so so?" ha ha it was kind of funny. I didn't know what to say so I just said, "uh, me too."

It was... fun!