Week Forty-nine.

Hello.

Thanks for all the pictures! The backyard patio looks LEGIT! I cant wait to see it in real life!
Happy Birthday to my sister Paige this last week! I hope you had a good one!

Glad you got the picture from Ishida. I asked him to send it to you. We went to a parade and there were a ton of schools and groups dancing on the streets. It was really cool! I took movies and pictures! We are totally ABLE to talk to people on the streets but they arent necessarily interested ha ha. I did talk to one guy as we were walking to the parade. I was able to introduce myself as a missionary even and he didnt run away! He actually asked me a question about heaven and hell but I couldnt understand the Japanese well enough to answer. I had him repeat it a lot of times but I still couldnt get it. I asked if we could meet another time and talk about it more but he said no and walked away. I think he was a little frustrated? I was frustrated too. If only I could understand Japanese... think of all the investigators Id have!

It makes me way happy to hear that you and dad are studying PMG so much. That book really is the guide to successful missionary work. I know it is especially for missionaries, but I think it applies perfectly for non-full-time missionaries as well. After all, we are all called to spread the gospel. Your purpose is to invite others to come unto Christ just like it is my purpose! Just remember, all we need to do is invite. They have their agency whether or not to accept the invitation. But we can feel peace knowing that we accomplished our purpose! You are a great missionary mom by offering your visiting teacher a ride to church. You invited!

So the whole getting my skirt caught in my bike thing is almost a daily occurrence, but usually I can save the skirt without ripping it. You dont have to send me skirts... there are plenty of places to go shopping here. One day when I have the time I will go buy more.

Daddy, yes the sun rises at like 4:30 am and it is really quite annoying! I think most people do get up earlier now that the sun rises earlier. I know that I always wake up when the sun is up but I always try to go back to sleep. Oh and Im sorry to hear about the world cup. What was one of the players doing biting other players?!

Havent gotten a letter from you... I bet it will come this week! Thanks! Speaking of letters... Sister Morgan unfortunately never gets letters. I usually get one letter every week and my companion gets lots and Sister Stice gets lots too but Sister Morgan never gets any and it is really sad. If you wanted to do a kind service for a really great missionary, please write her a letter!! Or send her a package or something. Dad, she particularly thinks you are pretty cool. Maybe you could send her an update on your bees or talk about something Scottish!
We also did just run out of honey... if you have any to spare, send another bottle this way please!

Here are the big moments of the week:
1. Last Monday we went to the gym to play basketball and I met two boys there and they were really nice! We took a picture together and they want to play basketball again in the future. Maybe something will happen!? New investigators??
2. We handed out flyers for eikaiwa at the train station this week. I met a guy from Thailand that spoke English and we had a conversation and he said he has seen the missionaries around before and knows where our church is! Then he handed me his business card and said, come hang out with me and my wife sometime! Heres my email! YES. We are definitely going to go visit him as soon as possible. He is in America on vacation right now though. Oh and his name was Bird. Cool, huh!
3. On Thursday we had eikaiwa... yes another english class. We now teach Chinese on Tues nights and English on Wed, Thurs, and Fri nights. Im so tired of teaching English!!! But at Thursdays Eikaiwa we went to a hospital and taught physically handicapped children. It was actually really awkward because they were all really shy and didnt really talk. We spent a lot of time preparing with the branch presidents wife for the eikaiwa so I was so tired afterwards. Plus she was talking so so much and my brain couldnt handle anymore Japanese but we had plans that night to ride our bikes way far to deliver a birthday card to a member. I didnt want to go, but we did anyways and it turns out the members we visited really brightened my day! And they gave me ice cream! Always stick to the plan even when you are tired!
4. We had hopes to teach Hitoshi san this week but since he is a man and we are girls we can only teach him if we have a woman joint or 2 other men joint, and we couldnt find a joint (like usual!) so the other option was to teach him in public. So we went to sushi! We ate lots of sushi but the environment was quite difficult to feel the spirit so we couldnt do a lesson. He did tell us a lot of personal things though so we were able to understand his needs better. Also, he has been researching "Christs grave" in Aomori, Japan and he is kinda fancying the idea that Jesus Christ died in Japan. I dont know what the religion is called that believes that but come on! Christ didnt die in Japan! But Hitoshi san said he felt something at the grave when he went and visited it and he wants to go back for confirmation to know if it is right. WHY IS HE NOT FEELING ANYTHING WITH US! He told us when he comes to church, he gets a really heavy scary feeling. I hate Satan.
5. I went to a cultural festival for Natsuko chan! She played the flute and the bass at it and she did so good! Me and Sister Luk made fan signs and held them up while she played. She was SO embarrassed. It was adorable. After her performance she ran up to me and just hugged me. I was so happy! I hope someone can teach her someday. Hopefully its me, but just as long as SOMEONE does.
6. Guess who we met yesterday?! Kai kun!!!!!!!! Remember him?! We havent been able to meet with him in forever because he has been busy and he has been having friend issues. But yesterday he texted us randomly and said, "Hey I can meet right now!" and me and Sister Luk were at our apartment at the time and we both looked at each other and said "Iko(lets go.)" and we stopped what we were doing and rode our bikes so fast to where he was. We only saw him for 30 min because he was with his friends and was going to go eat so we had to leave because it was Sunday and we dont buy food on Sundays of course! But it was so nice to see him. So so nice. Its actually a huge blessing because all week we worked SO HARD. We didnt waste any time and we were out talking to people and visiting people all week but we came home at the end of the week with all zeros. Taught no lessons. Got no referrals. Had no less active lessons. No new investigators. No nothing. But then right before we were supposed to report our numbers to our district leader we were able to go out and see Kai kun! Even though that visit didnt change our numbers, seeing him made the whole week worth it. Such a huge blessing from Heavenly Father.

With much love,
Miranda

Us with Nene chan. She is an Eikaiwa student and she was dancing in the festival! We went to watch her!

Basketball with my mates.

Sushi with my mates

Week Forty-eight.

Oh my dear parents, you two are just so funny.
Nice try at the Japanese Dad... it was cute! And I love hearing about your bees! There definitely has to be a gospel/life message somewhere in there... I`ll think about it! Oh, and I`m glad you are healthy too.
Congrats on the new calling mom! I know nursery is tough, but you can do it. I`ve learned lots from the children and babies here in Japan so maybe those little kids have something to teach you. Maybe its the only way God can get to you! Hmm... something to think about.
Tell Aunt Karen and Logan hello! And I`m glad you asked about the bathrooms... they have their own little bathroom culture here. So there are two kinds of toilets, western style and squatty potty. Homes pretty much always have western style (which is just a normal toilet that you are used to) and public places have both squatties and westerns. So the western style kinda varies. Youve got your regular toilet, if you want to level up you can get the version with the seat warmer (which all my apartments have had, YES.), then there are the more fancy ones that have options to spray your tush and such with water if youd like ;) those toilets also usually come with another button that makes a flushing noise without actually flushing. I dont know why that button is there... Ive never used it. The filling tank looks like a sink on the back of the toilet. I think some ghetto places use it as an actual sink to wash your hands.. kinda gross in my opinion. In homes, the toilet is always in its own separate room and the sink and shower are in a different room.
Now for the squatters. We call them squatty potties! I dont really enjoy using these ones unless all the westerns are taken... but I have used them before. They are these toilets in the ground that you, you know, squat over and go! Just be careful not to get it on your clothes! He he he. There isnt anything fancy about these ones. You squat and flush. Simple.

This week was so busy. We were hardly in Akita. We had our last Zone Conference with Pres and Sis Rasmussen in Morioka. We learned about effective planning, marriage, the sin of pride, and unity in our companion-ships. It was way good! We also had a testimony meeting and we watched a video that the missionaries made for Pres and Sis Rasmussen for a going away present. Oh also, I FINISHED READING THE WHOLE BOOK OF MORMON IN JAPANESE! At zone conference Pres Rasmussen gave me and the other missionaries that finished a little pin to congratulate us. It was pretty awesome.

The day after Zone Conference in Akita I had a split with Sister Butler who is the sister training leader. She is a way super amazing missionary. It made me realize how not super amazing I am... she literally talks to EVERYONE and we even gave out a plan of salvation pamphlet to someone. She is so focused on missionary work. She is a very good example... but it made me feel quite low for the next few days. I know I could do better. But with seeing all the improvements I need to make in myself and my own dendo, and then taking all the commitments I got from Zone Conference and my split I got really overwhelmed and kinda shut down for a couple days. I didnt even know where to begin so I just pushed it all away. And my companion has been having a stomach ache every day and she is always really really sleepy so we didnt really get out of the apartment too much. I feel bad for those few days. This morning I whipped out my stress book again just like the good(?) ol days when I was a bean in Aizu.. ha and I was able to study it and look up some scriptures it suggested. I was particularly comforted by D&C 6. Basically that whole section has been my entire mission and all my exact same issues and questions. I could really relate to it. Also, this morning me and Sister Luk were able to evaluate our work and we set some goals on how we want to improve. We talked about how she is always falling asleep during study and maybe if we were quicker to leave the apartment and not make excuses to stay in longer then we could get work done and maybe she wouldnt be so tired if she was working and moving instead of sitting and lounging. And she made a suggestion that if we set more specific goals and said more specific prayers that our dendo would be more focused and we could see better results. We are going to try to be better missionaries.

On Sat and Sun we had Stake Conference in Morioka. The sister missionaries rode up with Bro. Checketts (the crazy American in our branch). It was quite fun! He loves the missionaries, but he is so crazy and has some pretty wild ideas... some of the things he says about the gospel are borderline blasphemy ha but I know he loves the church. We stopped at a lake and while we dangled our feet in the water, he decided he wanted to go for a swim so he jumped in! It was pretty funny! Stake Conference was really good though. We watched a special broadcast especially for Japan. Some general authorities spoke and some of them spoke in Japanese! I dont remember their names, but they served missions in Japan. D. Todd Christofferson also spoke. The theme was member missionary work.

Oh, last night I decided randomly I wanted to cut my hair. So I did using $1.00 scissors. Not the prettiest ha ha but oh well. All I did was cut bangs. Sister Morgan helped me! I will send a picture!

The language gets better and better everyday. Now that we are done reading the book of Mormon in Japanese we have time to focus on other parts of the language like grammar and vocab and conversation. Still not fluent.. probably never will be! But at least I can sorta communicate.

Love ya lots!
Love Miranda

Week Forty-seven.

Hey hey hey mina!
DAD HAPPY FATHERS DAY! I thought about you yesterday when it was Fathers Day in Japan and now I get to think about you today while it is Fathers Day in America! Whoop whoop! Have a great day! Oh and TAKE IT EASY so you dont hurt yourself more! Glad you are okay!
Okay mom I am going to answer your questions.
1. I didnt know the World Cup was happening. Pretty much everyone was at church yesterday so I dont really know if anyone is watching it in my branch. Just from observation I dont think soccer is any more liked than any other sport. They are pretty well rounded on their sports here. Too bad for Japan in the World Cup...
2. No Sister Rasmussen cant speak Japanese besides words like "konnichiwa, ohayo gozaimasu, dendo, sushi" But President Rasmussen is way good! We have our last zone conference with them in a couple days and then their mission is over at the end of June. Our new mission president comes on July 1st and then we are having another zone conference to welcome him in. Him and his wife also plan on visiting each apartment in the mission once they get here.
3. Okay I wanna set some things straight about the member in my branch that is in love with me. He is a good member and wants to choose the right and we are friends, but he also has a super tender heart and just falls in love way easy especially with blonde girls. Me and my old district leader who was a Japanese were able to set the record straight with him in correct japanese so he absolutlely understands the rules. He doesnt do anything sketchy (nor do I okay! You dont have to question whether or not I am following the rules) like tell me he loves me or spends a ridiculous amount of time talking to me or anything. He just feels like a regular member. But I guess he just still likes me and writes about it on facebook and stuff. I hear all the time from members the stuff he writes about me on facebook. Yesterday at church was actually a really emotional day because people kept talking to me about it and bringing it up and asking if I was okay and I just lost it and started crying because it is just straight up embarrassing! I am really tired of people talking to me about it. I just want everything to be normal and as long as he isnt pulling the moves on me or anything then I am fine. I am going to ask the members to stop telling me about the stuff he puts on facebook because I am not interested in that kind of stuff. It was a really emotional, embarrassing sunday for me. One missionary here snapped at me and told me that I am "too nice" and that I need to stop being so friendly. I dont know how else to be! Another missionary told me not to worry that it isnt my fault and I just need to treat him like I would any other member and just be kind and a good missionary. As for right now I am just trying not to think about it. I know I am supposed to be in Akita for a reason so I dont want this to ruin anything for me or the Lords work.
4. We are still doing Chinese lessons! They are pretty fun. I learned how to say "I like beans!" in Chinese! I also know how to say "you are cute" and "i like you" ha ha.
5. We havent heard from Kai kun in a week so we texted him last night and said "we miss you" he replied and said, "sorry but when I try to talk to the people at eikaiwa they dont include me so I am not coming anymore." It is SO SAD. I was thinking about kai kun all night last night. Me and Sister Luk wrote him a big letter with pictures and things to help him feel our love and help him understand why we need him! I wrote to him my experience with how we first met and I talked about how I felt guided by God to invite him to the sports activity we had when I first transferred to Akita. We want to give it to him as soon as possible. I hope he is touched and realizes that it isnt coincidence that we met. He needs the gospel!
6. Thats too bad about the MyFamily site :( It was so useful! I hope you can find out an alternative solution soon!

Now for my update!
So Hitoshi san... he has been pretty sad with the passing of his brother. We have been texting him and talking to him on the phone every day to make sure he is okay. We always ask if there is anything we can do for him, but the only thing he asked was that he could see us at our eikaiwa that we do on fridays. He said, "just please wear your smiles to class! thats all I ask!" So we did just that! AND MORE! We made him a card with pictures. I wrote a long message and shared my experience with Grandpa Flash and Uncle Kevin and how that was a really hard tragedy for me and my family but that God is aware of us and that he loves us and that through time and Gods love we can be healed. Sister Luk also wrote a message but I couldnt read her Japanese because it was too complicated for me ha but I am sure it said good things. After I wrote the card I just stared at it in bewilderment at the fact that I wrote a giant long story to him about a personal experience in the Japanese language. It was a proud moment. Anyways, we also made him cookies and bought him this little key chain that matches the one we keep on our cell phone becasue he always talks about how he loves our key chain. He was so happy to not only see our smiles, but also receive our present! He said that when he read the card that night he could not stop crying. we also gave him a scripture to read in the book of mormon and he read it and said that it really helped him and it comforted him. Yeah! He is applying the book of mormon!
We also had a lesson with him the next day and it was a very very sad lesson. We talked about the purpose of life and the atonement and he was just crying the whole time. My beloved hitoshi san :( He is hurting so bad. But I think the lesson helped. I think his testimony is really growing. Everything we talk about he accepts and finds comfort in. We tried setting a bap date but he was too emotional to accept it. But I think I will be seeing my first baptism on my mission here pretty soon! Maybe in a few months!

Its been pretty rainy in Akita for a few days. Thank goodness I have rain pants and a rain jacket! It is kinda annoying that I always have to put my rain clothes on and off but its better than getting soaked. I like the hot sun personally! And my arms were getting kinda tan, but i just checked to see if i still have a tan line where my watch is but everything is white again. Man... in just 3 days!

I have to apologize for my poor grammar and such. I am typing kinda fast.
Hmmm other than that I dont have any other funny stories or anything to tell. Next week is going to be way busy. We have to go to Morioka for Zone Conference on Tues and Wed then the Sister Training Leaders are coming to Akita on splits for Thurs and Fri then on Saturday and Sunday we are going to Morioka again for Stake Conference. Busy travel week!

Have a happy week! Love you all!
Love Sister Miranda Robertson

Week Forty-six.

Konnnnnnnichiwa!
Hows it going? Akita is looking good! Its been so warm here! Probably in the 80s or so. Hearing Celsius still doesnt really mean anything to me so I am just guessing on the weather by feel ha ha. Its nice and warm but it also is pretty windy. Today as I was riding to the church on my bike, my skirt got stuck in my chain and Im sure my neighboorhood enjoyed seeing me with my skirt half way off. That was embarrassing! Darn that wind! It keeps blowing my clothes into my bike chain! This story ends with a skirt fatality... I think the hole that was produced is just a little too big to repair. Zannen.

Sounds like you guys are having SO much fun in Texas! The pictures you sent me of the zoo are so great! It looks like it was really fun. I want to go to the zoo when I get home! Can we go? :) Oh and thats too bad about the ocean being seaweed-ed. Bad timing huh.

This week some really good things happened, but also some really bad things. It was transfer week and my district leader, Elder Nishiie, got transferred. It was SO sad. We actually become really good friends and he helped me a lot over here in Akita so when he got on the bus with all his luggage I sobbed my little eyes out. Its way sad because chances are I will never really see him again because he lives in Japan and I am American. I guess thats how missions go! You meet some really awesome people but then life moves on and you go your different ways. Oh he did have some last words though for all you guys, well mainly just abby. He said, "tell Abby Im sorry" Ha ha he didnt mean for his letter to be so creepy that he sent to her. He was embarrassed.

On the bright side, we had zone training meeting this week and Elder Nishiie was there! Ha ha he got transferred out of my district, but he is still in my zone so thats good. Theres no need for tears after all! Zone Training Meeting was pretty good. We received training on what we should do and say when we are first meeting with an investigator. It is important to understand what they want to learn or receive from the lessons and what they know about Christianity and stuff. It helps the missionaries so we know what to teach and it also builds trust with the investigator.

On Sunday we had ward conference and the missionaries had a special musical number so me and Sister Luk invited all our investigators and friends to church. Nobody replied to us when we invited them so we didnt think anyone was coming. But surprisingly Hitoshi san showed up and participated in 2 hours of church! While we were singing the opening hymn in sacrament meeting, the door opened and Yurie chan came walking in! Um, can you say miracle?! We havent heard from her in months!!!! She came to sacrament meeting! Then after we took the sacrament one of the members looked at us and mouthed to us "Natsuko chan is here!" Me and Sister Luk just looked at each other like, "E?! This cant be happening!!!" And so we snuck out into the hall and there was Natsuko chan! So we all went back into the meeting and I couldnt focus at all because I had 3 wonderful people sitting next to me at church. Wow. 2 investigators and a potential investigator at church. Anyways, the musical number went good. We sang "I Know that my Redeemer Lives" of course because I was playing the piano :) I dont know how exactly but I was able to create my own little arrangement of the hymn from my brain and play it perfectly during the performance while everyone else sang. Thank you for forcing me to take piano lessons when I was little! Everyone sang good too. We sang the hymn mostly in Japanese but we did one verse in English for dramatic effect :)

After church we had a big lunch with the branch and my 3 besties all stayed and had a way good time. And the branch did a FABULOUS job at fellowshipping all of them. After the event, me and Sister Luk finally made it home and we had to do some study since we didnt have time in the morning before church. While we were studying I got a text from Kai kun and he said "Sorry I had an event for school during church so I couldnt come. And also, Im not coming to English Class anymore because I cant get along with some of the people there. Sorry." And he didnt even use ONE EMOTICON which is kind of a big deal for a Japanese person! It took me forever to reply because my Japanese is so bad but as I was trying to create a reply to see if he was okay, Hitoshi san called us! So I answered the phone to say hello! And this is what he said to me, "So Im calling to tell you that I cant come to your activity on Tuesday night. My older brother just died." Um WHAT. I asked him if it was an accident and he said that it was suicide. I am pretty sure that right after he found out we were the first people he called. I didnt know what to say because number one I was in shock, and number two I needed to reply to him in Japanese of course but I dont know the right words to show empathy in a situation like that. In English we would say, "I am so sorry!" but in Japanese you dont say sorry in situations like that. Its so weird if you do. So I just didnt say anything and started to cry. I asked him if he was okay and he said no of course. And then he said bye and hung up. I looked at Sister Luk and we both were sobbing so we ran over to our futons and buried our faces in our blankets and cried. Two very sad things happened in a matter of 10 minutes. Right after that the other sisters walked into the apartment and freaked out because they didnt know what was wrong. So then we told them what happened and they came and sat on our futons with us and tried to help. But we had to go because we had a dinner appointment and someones house so we just had to suck it up and keep working. I was okay during the appointment but when we were riding our bikes home it was really late and pretty quiet. I had a moment where I was waiting for a light to turn blue so I could go (Yeah in Japan blue means go and red means stop. Weird I know.) and I was able to really just deeply think about a lot of stuff. About Hitoshi san. About Kai kun. About home. About my mission. It was 30 seconds of... lonliness. I dont think I have ever really been that deep in thought before in such a short period of time. But that night right before bed I texted Hitoshi san and told him that we love him and that we havent stopped crying since we heard the news. He replied and said that he loved us too and that he wants us to not cry but to laugh instead becasue he likes my laughing face best. And he used a lot of emoticons and stuff too. So it seemed like he was doing okay. And today he tried sending us a picture of some roses that he has at his house for some reason and seemed perfectly genki and happy. And started asking about all our activities for this week. I said to Sister Luk, "His brother just died and he is sending us pictures of a rose! Who is this guy! I dont have any clue how I should be feeling right now to be honest!" we both kinda laughed but were both really confused too. Hitoshi san....

Maybe Hitoshi san is okay... but Kai kun still isnt. He wont really talk to us and he keeps making excuses to meet with us. Ahhhh noo. Not Kai kun! I want to cry every time I think about it.

Another tough thing about this week is I keep having dreams that I am home! The other night I had a dream that I was home for Christmas Break but that I had to go back on my mission once break was over. When I got home Isaac came running and hugged me so hard that he tackled me and then mom told me to come into the bathroom and meet my new niece who was taking a bath. She was so cute and I woke up before I got to hold her. But it made me kinda homesick. And then last night I had a dream that I was on "mission break" again! But this time I was in Louisiana with my best friend Rachel Worthington. I dont know why I keep having dreams that I am on break. Its so weird.

But dont worry. I am doing fine. Yesterday was really sad, but I am feeling a lot better. I dont want you to think I am going through a huge trial or anything like that because I am feeling really happy right now in Akita. I just am feeling so much sorrow for my investigators. I think thats a good thing though. It means I really love them and care about them, right?

Anyways, I miss all of you so much. I hope everyone is doing good. It sounds like everyone is very happy! I pray for you all the time.
Love you.
Love Miranda

Week Forty-five.

Whoa. 8 months left on June 6th. I was reading through my journal and I read an entry from when I first got to Japan and I wrote in big letters ONLY 16 MONTHS LEFT! I never ever ever thought I would make it to this point! But the difference from then and now is that I am actually happy and enjoying my mission now! Yay!

So this last week we had a few fun things happen! We started Akita`s first Chinese Conversation Class! Since we have 3 Chinese speakers in our district and lots of people we`ve talked to have shown interest in learning Chinese we thought we would give it a go and see what kind of students we can get to come and fellowship with and hopefully teach! It was pretty fun and we had 4 students come! Hitoshi san(investigator), Rio chan(member), Natsuko chan(potential investigator, and Nene chan(potential investigator). Pretty good for the first time! We will do the class every Tuesday evening from here on out as long as we have Chinese speakers!

On Saturday I had another adventure with Hitoshi san! All the missionaries, Natsuko chan, and Justin (from the Philippians) went with Hitoshi san to the ocean and we went fishing! As me and Sister Luk were leaving our apartment to catch the train to the ocean I said to her, "Are we on a mission right now?" She just laughed and said "I know right. We have too much fun to be on a mission." But its true! Ive been fishing, been to a Cat Cafe, every month we play basketball, we have Chinese and English classes, Ive been to the zoo twice, bowling an infinity amount of times... the list goes on. So fun!! And a really good dendo tool to make relationships and find people!
Anyways, we were all fishing in the ocean and Elder Nishiie, Sister Luk, and Justin all caught fish but only them. Last night we cooked the fish and this time they WERENT carp OR poisonous and they were really yummy! But they had a ton of bones. Sister Morgan taught me how to gut a fish and so I so very gracefully cut a fish in our kitchen sink. It was a really fun adventure and we were able to not only build relationships with our investigator and potential investigators, but we were also able to talk to a lot of people that were walking by us wondering what we were fishing for and fishing with and things like that. Plus its pretty strange to see Americans fishing in the ocean... people were curious! But how cool is that? Never in my life did I ever think Id get the chance to go fishing in Japan in the ocean. So awesome.

This last week we also went on a big Less Active hunting activity. We went to a different city still in our area to go find all these LAs that havent been visited in forever. We werent able to find any of the LAs but I did find a few things that reminded me of dad! Check out the pictures I took!

Here is the funny of the week. In Primary yesterday the lesson was on the 10 Commandments and so I was helping the 2 Tongan boys that speak English and translating what the primary teacher was saying. I told the 2 boys that it was bad to have idols or statues and worship them and so they started talking about all the statues they knew. One of the boys, Jacob, said "Oh like the Statue of Liberty! We shouldnt worship that because its not real." And I said, "Yes only worship God, not the Statue of Liberty." And then he said, "Is the Statue of Liberty holding the Book of Mormon?" And I started laughing and said, "No I dont think the Statue of Liberty is holding a Book of Mormon, but it would be good if she was huh!" It was so so so funny. So cute!

So now I have a new mission goal. I want to convert the world to a point where we are all in a consensus to alter the Statue of Liberty and have her be holding a Book of Mormon. Whos with me?!

Love you all!
Love Miranda

Fishing!

Japanese sunset

Me and my best friend Natsuko chan fishing away like good friends do.