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