Week Fifteen.

Konnichiwa mina!

This week I spent a lot of time traveling. We had to go to Sendai for the transfers and we also went to Koriyama for church. I got lots of sleeping time on the bus so that was good! So the new bean we received isnt American like we thought! Shes a Nihonjin! Her name is Sister Kanno. So the two Americans are together and the two Nihonjin are together. It is working pretty good I think!

It is amazing how much nicer people are to me and Sister Johnson though because we are just two cute young Americans. It makes dendo a pleasant experience!

We had a big branch Halloween Party on the 30th which was kinda stressful, but I think everyone had fun! We had a lot of non members come. I dressed up as Mickey Mouse. I will try to get some pictures sent in the mail so you can see and also so you can post them on the blog.

Sister Johnson and I have one investigator! Her name is Urasawa san. We are doing something called the Family English Program with her where we teach english for 30 minutes and then share a gospel message for 30 minutes. We taught her about who God is and what prayer is. It was a pretty good lesson! Right now she is mostly just interested in the English part, but hopefully the Spirit will work with her and her desire will grow to learn more about the gospel. We have another lesson with her on Wednesday this week.

Sister Johnson is an awesome companion. We are similar in a lot of ways but different in a lot of ways too, which is okay! I have heard from other missionaries that she is a hard companion, but I dont think so at all. I think they just said that because they were stubborn companions themselves. When you are in a companionship you have to sacrifice sometimes, and thats okay. I am fine letting Sister Johnson share her opinions and ideas. She has strong opinions about a lot of things! I dont let it bother me though! And if she is having a hard day and doesnt have a good attitude (which that happens to all missionaries) you just need to love, instead of complain. Change yourself before you start trying to change your companion. Everything has been working awesome! She is really creative too so we are going to try creative dendo tools. For example, we want to go to the Aizu castle and pretend like we want to take a picture and ask someone else on the street to take the picture for us and hopefully they will ask Oh why are you in Japan? And then BOOM! An opportunity to share a message. I am excited to try that!

So update on my Japanese! I still cant understand anybody ha ha. Sister Johnson can understand pretty well but she doesnt always catch everything. I can say some stuff okay, but usually after I say it, Sister Johnson has to repeat what I said so the person understands ha. So pretty much, I cant speak Japanese either.

Yesterday at church, Sister Johnson and I bore our testimonies at the Koriyama church and afterwards a ton of members came up to Sister Johnson and told her her testimony was awesome and her Japanese was so good and no one even talked to me at all ha. So, I still have some work to do. It is hard to learn Japanese without a teacher. Today Sister Johnson and I are going to get an electronic dictionary for me that has a kanji pad as well so we can read. We cant read anything here and we need to! Plus, we have to write in kanji for the branch president when we give him our progress record every week. Japanese kinda.. is.... really really hard. Ill get it eventually though. Hopefully!

Thats it for this week. Thanks for finding my pants mom!! That really makes me happy!

I am going to try to send you a birthday package soon, but it might arrive after your birthday. Im sorry!

I love you so much!

And to all my friends and the readers of my blog, if you want to send a letter, my address is in my notes on FB! But I will write it again here.

 

Sister Miranda Robertson

3-1-5 Yagiyama-minami,

Taihaku-ku

Sendai-shi, Miyagi

982-0807

JAPAN

It should only take like a week or so to arrive! And it costs $1.10.

Christmas is coming up so some fun Christmas CDs would be nice :)

Aishiteimasu!

Love, Sister Miranda Robertson