Good morning!
Sounds like you are having a fun little mini vacation mom! I bet it is nice to not be tied down by a job anymore. But hey, what happened to your little tutoring job? Are you still doing that? Also are you still training for a half marathon? Lately I have really been wanting to just run run run, but its hard to do that on a mission. Hey thanks for sending those pictures! Miles is huge! And grandma flash is so pretty! I miss her!
I got the package with the notes from the family reunion! Thank you so much! Me and Kanno Shimai read all the notes together and Kanno Shimai practiced her English! I was so happy to read everyones encouraging notes! And thanks for the ensign, it is mostly the same as the Liahona but the Ensign has a few more articles. There were more articles in the Ensign about young adults and teenagers. Oh I got a letter from Jackie Josephson that had an update on girls camp. I guess they did a thing where they highlighted all the sister missionaries from the stake and they highlighted me too! And lots of girls wrote me little notes and I received them in the mail too. It was such a nice thing to receive. Such a blessing. Also there was a list of all the girls serving right now and where they are and when I read it I was so full of joy! There were tons of girls that I grew up with that are on missions that I didnt even know about like Angela Cheney and Michelle Tavenner. And Krista Griffith just got a mission call too! So cool! That makes me so so so happy! And that is so cool to hear about Caleb Wilding. When does he leave?
Dad, its crazy that you ran into Roger Cheney all the way in KUWAIT! Very very small world. And the church in Kuwait sounds really interesting. I am glad you were able to make it to church and even talk to the taxi driver about the church too. You are such a good missionary!
So this week was just lesson lesson lessons! We ended up with 13 lessons at the end of the week. We worked so hard though and I am so tired. I dont know how I am going to be when we get 20 lessons... teaching 20 lessons in Japan especially in a small branch is really really hard you guys. But I know we can do it.
We visited S san last week. We met S san while we were walking down a street. We stopped and invited her to our summer festival and she invited us to her tea ceremony thing that she was having. We went to it and she was happy we kept our promise, and last week we were able to visit her and hang out at her house. I met her husband too and we bonded pretty good. He kept making fun of me because I couldnt pronounce the word volunteer right ha ha. I taught him how to say handsome, cute, and beautiful in English ha ha. Those are useful words! Then when the S were looking at my family pictures they both practiced their newly learned English. It was soo cute to hear them say, "Miranda! Cute!" They call me Miranda instead of Robertson Shimai... ha ha. The husband has interest in the bible and english so tomorrow we are going back and we are going to teach them a little english and then share the message of the restoration. Hopefully they will become new investigators!
We taught M san this week too, with her family! She lives with her older sister who is a member and her older sisters husband who is the elders investigator. It was an awesome lesson! We taught about prayer and reading the scriptures and how they are commandments. The spirit was totally there and they commited to pray as a family and take turns saying the prayer. Love that family!
We taught R kun as well. We also taught him about prayer and the Book of Mormon, and he told us that he has been reading the Book of Mormon every day! And actually he has been sincerely studying it, not just reading it! He sits there and reads and when he doesnt understand a word he looks it up in a dictionary and searches until he finally understands. That is true study. He told us he believes the Book of Mormon is TRUE. I felt the spirit so strong when he said that. But we passed him to the elders so we wont get to teach him anymore :(
We got a new investigator this week! T M san. She has interest in English so we are doing our fancy 30 min English/30 min Church message program with her. We taught her about the Godhead and the nature of God and she had lots of good questions about the Holy Ghost. She doesnt have interest in entering a church, but she has interest in learning about the Christian religion so we are going to teach her and if she allows the spirit to enter her, I know she can change. We actually have a lesson with her today in a couple hours.
We also went and visited I san again. Do you remember the story I told a few weeks ago about us riding our bikes and I felt like we should stop and house a small apartment complex and the last door was a young girl that was super nice and referred us to her mom? Well we finally met the mom! She said she isnt interested in joining a church but she likes learning about Jesus Christ so she said we could come back again. Kanno Shimai told me that when she saw the mom she felt like she had seen her or met her before. I said, "in the premortal existence!!!" We both feel like something is going to happen with that family.
So like I said, this week has been lesson lesson lesson and all the work is making me really tired. I am getting kinda stressed too with all the planning and practicing and such and it is causing me to get homesick. Sometimes it would be nice to just rest. Today is P day but we have 3 lessons planned today and so it isnt really P day at all. No rest, just go go go. On the bright side, me and Kanno Shimai are going to a gym tonight for 2 hours to just work out and relieve some stress. That will be nice. I plan on running! :) But I sure do miss home. Kanno Shimai was homesick this week too so we both just kinda sat together slumped in our chairs and said "Mama aitaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii" (I miss my moooommm) But then we sat up and talked about how Jesus Christ was dendoing all the time and he didnt even get a P day. And he just worked worked worked and more and so we need to just keep working too. I will do my best! This week is going to be more busy than last week.
With loveee,
Miranda
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