Halliday shimai can speak Japanese... but apparently can't speak English...

hello everyone!

i am actually emailing on p-day/ fancy that.

i hate golden week cuz its just a week of festivals and everything is closed and that means no mail. waaaaaaah. i am melting in despair.

anyhow, this week was a good week because we had zone conference!!!so i got to see allen and brown choro! its only been 2 weeks but i miss them tons!!!

harris choro is in another zone so i didnt see him. bummer.

i saw hardle shimai and adams shimai though. they were my mtc senpai. hardle shimai and her comp slept over at our apt cuz the conference was here in kichijoji and their area is 2 and a half hours away. it was so much fun! i didnt know you had sleep overs on missions! hee hee

next tuesday is interviews too. what fun! i love interviews...dunno why. but brittan told me to always look forward to interviews so i am. i would have anyhow though. i always got mad in the mtc when i got cheated out of an interview cuz larose choro had 45 minute interviews.

anyhow, things are going pretty well here in kichijoji. yesterday was a bad day for finding...and i learned how horrible my conversational skills are in english...least i have an excuse for them to suck in japanese. but we were at the park and i saw a girl who looked not japanese so i just walked up and abruptly said `where are you from`. i didnt manage to salvage the conversation later on either cuz she was a missionary and then suddenly i really didnt know what to say. oh well. we had a good laugh about it later.

we had amazing lessons this week. no baptismal dates...but still good lessons. i wanted to set a date with tanii san but soon after the lesson started it became apparent that her faith isnt steady enough. so we committed her to read alma 7 and ponder what the saviors atonement means for her personally. if all goes well we will set a date with her next time we meet...which i think is tonight if she comes to eikaiwa...

we taught the law of chastity to rie chan on tuesday. that was really hard! but shes been keeping the word of wisdom faithfully for a while now and reading and praying and we spent time getting her to recognize how shes been blessed through that even though she didn:t know why she was doing it when she started. the law of chastity was still a big shock to her...she lives with her boyfriend so we knew it was going to be a hard lesson. but she accepted the challenge and is now working on the situation. phew!

motoi chans lesson was interesting. we got quite a big shock in that one. motoi chan is sweet and she keeps her commitments but she keeps them hesitantly. we studied ether 2 and 3 last night and talked about stretching our faith and we taught her how to pray more meaningfully. (praying with an answer in mind and then asking if its right). the concept made sense to her and so she accepted our challenge to try to make her prayers more meaningful. then we brought up baptism and she told us her mom told her she was already a member of this church. we were all three very surprised and couldnt figure out how motoi chan could have forgotten being baptized...but it is possible i guess as her mom is currently classified as a former investigator. she could be a lost less active...we have to look into it more.

but at any rate...motoi chan still doesnt see the importance of baptism so we are working on that whether shes a member or not. heh.

so that is pretty much it. and my time is up again. sorry its so short. but thats pretty much my week anyhow. lesson. i like lessons. they are quite enjoyable...much more so than housing. wah.

hope you are all doing well!!!

Love,
Sister Jessica Biscuit