dear family,
yeah...i had the peter pan song stuck in my head the other day. the second star to the right one. dont ask me how, i wasnt being wamp (short for wanpaku...meaning naughty) and watching disney movies...i dont even LIKE that movie. but whatever. i changed the words to make them missionary appropriate.
speaking of missionary appropriate. sometimes when i am riding my bike, trailing after my companion my mind wanders to things that arent exactly missionary work. like `i wonder what its like to get hit by a car...johnson shimai got hit once. and mr cullen always talked about getting hit. i wanna get hit at least once so i can say i did. not hard...just so i can say i got hit by a car...`
then a car comes out of nowhere and nearly hits me and i think `JUST KIDDING!!!` and ride faster. Then i can hear God chuckle and say `that`s what i THOUGHT sister halliday. now get back to work.
that was your random tidbit for today. enjoy it. hee hee
so sometimes i have time to read all my emails and sometimes i dont. last week was a short week. this week i have an hour (now 45 minutes) anyhow, usually i just skim the emails and write like crazy and there were a lot of emails this week for whatever reason.
congratulations on the job brianna! and more importantly the patriarchal blessing! I got mine in august too! (ps...someone wanna send me another copy of my blessing...mine is missing a paragraph i noticed)
so sean and tim dropped by huh. i assume niether is even close to marriage. tell them to get a move on. they are supposed to be married before i get home and i come home in a year. (logically, being mormon, they could probably wait til the week before i come home and still meet the deadline...)
lets see. i miss my trainer! but me and mcmurtrey shimai are getting along well. we are so alike that it was hard at first because we have exactly the same strengths mostly. yasutani shimai and i were more balanced. but despite a slow start we`ve gotten going and we arent stopping.
we have been visiting members to get to know the ward better and we are focusing on getting the young women strengthened. a lot of young women go on missions in japan because people dont get married for a long time here so we take them out to work with us sometimes. its way fun!
saturday we have new missionary conference! I can see harris choro! and howe choro! not that I dont see howe choro everyday PLUS talk to him on the phone everynight. but yeah. our district is way fun.
k so we had some funny experiences this week. on tuesday we went to visit a referral from the MTC. we get to the house and there is a large sign in arabic outside. we ring the doorbell and a lady with a muslim head covering comes to the door. we are like `ok...um....`
so she invites us in and we talk to her a little. she studied at Snow college for a few years and knows a bit about mormons. She is married to an Islam priest and so has converted to Islam. She lives with her father in law...who is almost completely deaf.
They both want to read the book of mormon. So my companion starts to explain about it and she has to yell for the guy to hear her...that is interesting enough, but then he says `why are you telling me all this, i know it already. i just wanna read the book of mormon`
We were like `oooooook....here you go. enjoy`
he told us Obama said to read it? whaaaat? like the guy running for president?! what? What is going on!?! he either said obama or osama. and the day osama wants to read the book of mormon is the day the world ends i am quite sure. course...he might cause the end of the world without reading the book of mormon too.
by the way, i hear hilary is dropping out of the race? that was chotto kankenai (not relevant) but that is what i hear?
anyhow, next funny experience.
yesterday was mcmurtrey shimai`s birthday so we went to lunch as a district. we heard ALL darner choro`s funny stories about crazy people. he must pray for crazies at night cuz he has a billion stories.
anyhow, after, we went to work and we were talking to this girl when this guy pulls up on a bike and starts talking in english. we tried to ignore him but eventually i had to humor him while my companion tried to keep the girl from running away. finally, he decided to leave but he shook our hands and kissed them!
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! I GOT KISSED BY A CRAZY GUY!!!! EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!
I had to go wash my hands after that. EWWWWWWWWWWW!
that is pretty much it for crazy stories.
We met a lady yesterday who we gave a book of mormon to. She was nice but she didnt want to hear lessons or anything. she was about to leave and I thought about telling her simply that our message was that we are God`s children and he loves us and wants to help us. So he gave us prophets and the Book of Mormon, which contains the prophets words. but i didnt know when to say it...
she was about to leave when she stopped and asked `you are doing this because you really believe it is true?`
we told her of course and then I said what I was going to say. She took the book of mormon and said she would try to read it.
we didnt get her contact information, but i really think she will try to read. and maybe she`ll meet with missionaries later. she lives in saitama anyhow. not in our area...
speaking of saitama...
Jyo Unmi MOVED to saitama! NOT FAIR!!! I WANTED TO TEACH HER!!!!! I dont even think there are sisters IN saitama! ugh. we have to pass her to the Elders. *sigh*
Oh well, moving forward. We still call her sometimes.
That is it for this week.
Thanks for all the letters and information about what is going on! congratulations again brianna! What is Aubrey up to? is she still helping coach?
Til next week!,
Love,
Halliday shimai
ps. brianna would have a heart attack here. there are like 7 shoe stores all in a row and all with wall to wall shoes. there are so many that they dont even have them out in pairs and there is no space between them. =p
oh yeah, i need aunt sheris address cuz i have chopsticks for them.
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