So yeah... I am in my very very last transfer now. Just one left. I started at 12 left and now just ONE. It is seriously a miracle that I made it to right here. Just 6 weeks left. Not gonna lie, this year and a half has really caught up to me. I am pretty much always tired and exhausted. I dont know how the elders do 2 full years.. I would die physically speaking! I am a LITTLE antsy to make it back home to you guys and get going with the good stuff in life like marriage and school and family and stuff but I know I need to keep working until the very end. Probably these next few weeks will go by pretty fast since it is Christmas and New Years. New Years is HUGE here so that will be way fun. And then by the time it is January it will already basically be February and then I will be on a plane and ahhh. This is all so crazy!
So I picked up my bean chan this week! She is the tiniest littliest blonde little girl I have ever seen. I thought she was like 16 which I know is impossible for a sister missionary but still. She is actually 23! She is fairly quiet too. I always have to ask her to repeat whatever she says because I seriously cannot hear her ha ha. But anyways, like you said mom, she is JUST like me when I came to the mission MINUS THE HOMESICKNESS. She is way quiet, but she is fearless. She said that Japan just feels like home. And when we do missionary-like things like planning or saying our purpose out loud or something, she gets really excited and like starts shaking. Its kinda weird. Not gonna lie, she is kind of a weird person.... but she is a good person. I learned that it is really frustrating training a new person though because you really have to explain even the tiniest simplest parts of the routine that are just part of my nature now but she doesnt have any clue about that. I got really frustrated a few days and kinda had a mini flashback to my bean time. I felt like I was more the bean than she was... it was a really strange feeling. But the thing that got me through was thinking to myself, "you are OKAY. You only have 6 weeks left, not another 1.5 years. You will be okay. It will just take some time." Then I felt better. She is getting the hang of everything, but she does everything REALLY slowly so we seem to be late to stuff sometimes which kinda is frustrating as well... I am learning to give ourselves a little more time for prep to get out the door and stuff.
she actually really is a great person and we get along just fine, but I suppose the real issue is within myself and if I could just be more like Christ and develop patience and charity like Him then there would be no issues at all. My goal this week is patience!
A miracle happened in Kamisugi this week! For some reason out of nowhere a ton of new young people came to our Free English Conversation Class this week and we got like everyones phone numbers and were able to set appts with them and stuff. We went from 0 potential investigators to like 5 in one week and that is a MIRACLE for Japan. One of my fav kind of dendo activities is Ramen Dendo :) We talk to people, tell them we want to eat good food in Japan and ask if they know any good Ramen shops, then we make an appt to go together and BOOM. We become friends AND it gives us an opportunity to naturally talk about what we do as missionaries and why we are in Japan over a nice hot bowl of delicious ramen. This week I have a ramen appointment with a 22 yr old Kentaro and his friend Nao (she is a girl). And the zone leaders. Holla! Oh also, thanks for sending my the gingerbread house thing mom! I got another appt with two other girls to make it this coming Saturday! It will be after Christmas but oh well ha ha.
We had the ward Christmas Party this week. It was way fun! The missionaries job was to just talk to people and build relationships and make appointments with the non members or less actives. I LOVE being in a ward that takes care of the activities and actually lets us DENDO. Its so nice. Oh and the food at the party was SO delicious. They had meatloaf and pastas and fried chicken and soup and stuff. But it all had the Japanese flavor, whatever that is. Soy sauce maybe? But the Japanese tradition on Christmas is to eat cake and fried chicken. You best believe KFCs busiest time of the year is Christmas time! Im not kidding. Families all over Japan go out to eat on Christmas at KFC. Its so funny.
We also went caroling this week at a retirement home with the ward. That was fun doing a big service activity with the whole ward! Probably like 50 or so people came of the 100 active members.
Oh and today we are going to the mission home and performing at FHE with handbells. I am not very good at hand bells, but thats okay. I am still excited.
Man, I love Christmas! It is so fun and so spiritual! This Christmas is especially good because now I have a year and a half of solid study of my Savior behind me and so this Christmas is definitely something special. I hope you all have a way fun Christmas and make sure to thank Heavenly Father in your prayers for the gift of his Son, Jesus Christ. You have everything you have and you are everything you are because of Him.
Lastly, here is the skype info. So I dont know if you want to skype or google chat or whatever... but I will just sign onto skype first and if you guys want me to do google chat then just tell me then. But I am just going to sign into my personal name. So make sure you are friends with me!
Love you all very much! Merry Christmas!
Love Sister Miranda Robertson
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