dear family,
another week and another empty mailbox. i hope you are all on vacation and not just a bunch of bums. hee hee. i cant remember when you said you would be on vacation so i am giving you the benefit of the doubt.
speaking of vacations, i need pictures of yosemite because japanese people are fascinated by it and when i talk about it they always want to see pictures. i also need pictures of run of the mill american things...they are absolutely fascinated by everything. I just need pictures. all the pictures i have to show people are like one of my family, some of the temple, and a bunch of the mtc. i need pictures of aubrey doing pole vault, dad with the scouts, me and my friends, maybe a couple of brianna and the koreans (if she can choose from so many of them haha). and so on. thanks!
ok, onto the happenings of this week. this week the humidity hit really hard. i stepped out of the apartment and immediately started gasping for breath. =p it was really really humid and hot. not miserable though...i could handle it ok and i was being a missionary. how could anything have been miserable? =P
This week started off amazingly with Tani san`s baptism! actually it was amazing before that even. That morning a guy walked into the church looking for elder howe. he had talked with the elders earlier that morning but it was his first time in the church. he is from peru and way cool. but the coolest thing is that when everyone was bearing testimonies in sacrament meeting, he got up and bore his testimony of how he felt just being in the church for the first time! the elders are teaching him now. his name is carlos. keep him in your prayers!
speaking of testimonies, in sacrament meeting for suginami (that was kichijoji before) during testimony meeting i found myself on the stand bearing MY testimony fully willingly in Japanese. I must say, I only got through with help from God cuz i only stumbled once!
oh! and of course! Yasutani shimai was there!!! wheeeeeeeeeeee! (side note, there is a costco near her house in sapporo and she bought me a huge thing of almond roca! wheeeeeeeeeee!)
so then we had tani san`s baptism. Holt choro performed the ordinance after much begging. (he refused to do it at first...he was trying to be all noble and let the younger missionaries do it). He was really nervous and we didnt really know why. come to find out, that was the first time he had actually performed a baptism. haha. but he did just fine and we only had to baptize her once!
When we asked Tani san (now tani shimai) what her favorite part of the day was she said that the actual ordinance was amazing and that I bore my testimony. ^_^
later that day we went to the stevensons for dinner. there were so many people there cuz holt choro was leaving and well...the stevensons have a huge family and they love having missionaries over so they invited the whole district and the APs. It was so fun! My favorite part was that we had lots of watermelon! wheeeeeeeee!
Monday was another good day. We managed to reach our daily goal in getting 10 conversations (a conversation is when you testify and leave them with something...usually a flyer) Conversations are usually really difficult cuz a lot of people once they hear `church` run away saying `im buddhist` and sometimes the conversations we do get are pretty bimio and just said AS they are running away. haha. but all our conversations were good conversations that day.
To top it all off, the continuing saga of our trip to the local daigaku.
We have started meeting with the people that came to eikaiwa. On Monday we had 3 lessons. One didnt show, but the other two are our newest investigators! They want to hear more!
The last one we met with, Risa-chan, asked the question EVERY missionary loves to hear... `where are we before we are born?` ^__________^ She also wants to come to church!
The downside is that since they are college students, neither of them live in our area...they travel for school....but Risa lives in Tokorozawa which is in our stake and there are no sisters there so we will probably be able to continue teaching her. The first one we met with, Aya-chan, will probably have to be passed to other sisters later because she lives in Chiba (about 2 hours by train from us)
Yesterday we met with 3 other students but they all came together so its hard to tell who has interest and who doesn`t because no one wants to say anything in front of their friends. We still have hope they all will have interest. At any rate, it was a good lesson and if nothing else, WE felt the spirit =P
Today we are meeting with 3 more people all in a row from 5:00 til 8:00. I will be sooooooooo tired by the end of today! But we will have 3 new investigators! One of the girls we are meeting with today is really cute. She`s a very sensitive person. She told us she doesnt like the word `gaijin` because it separates us and we all live in Japan right now. But more than that, she told us she REALLY wants to know about the purpose of life and true happiness and then, she wants to tell other people about it!
Its a continuing miracle and it gets better every day! We are sooo excited!
That is pretty much it for the week. Wish us luck or better yet, pray for us! And in the meantime, help the missionaries out when you can! We all need the ward members badly!!!
Hope you had fun on your vacation...or if you havent gone i hope you have fun.
Love,
Sister Halliday
PS. I didnt transfer, I`m still in Kichijoji! Yatta!
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