Hello family! This week was really great! We visited a lot of members and ate a lot of food haha. Yesterday we went to the Christie family's home with the elders and their investigator Lisa, who is also kind of our investigator too... We share her haha. It's great! Anyways. We went over and had this huge American feast! I ate so much cheese! It's been a way long time haha. But Lisa is super great! She's been an investigator on and off with her family for 15 years. They actually used to go to one of the Silverdale wards. She's been going to church for a long time. And she's attended so many different wards in so many different places haha. She's practically a member, but we are working to get her to take that step. It's just funny because yesterday in relief society she was telling us about the experience she had sharing the gospel with her neighbor... She's not even a member and she's sharing the gospel! Haha too great!
We had a pretty cool experience the other day! We had a plan to go to this area, and I still don't know the area very well so Akahori shimai was leading us there, we biked for about 30 mins. We knew it would take us about that long to get there, but when we stopped and looked
at the map, Akahori shimai realized that we went in the total opposite direction. She felt so bad and was feeling way down on herself, but I told her it was okay and that it wasn't a mistake because maybe God wanted us to be here. So we prayed and looked at our map and picked a close place to house. While we were housing I was praying so hard that we could find someone. We housed a bit and nothing good was happening, people were rejecting us really fast, but we came to this one apartment and this guy answered the door and we introduced ourselves and he told us that he's been studying religions and is looking for the right one! HUGE miracle! We are going back this week! It really was so cool and I felt like it was the answer to my prayers!
Missionary work is so cool! Being a missionary is really hard, not gonna lie. But it's those little moments, those miracles we see that make wearing a ridiculous pink plastic rain suit and biking up these Sasebo mountains in the pouring rain worth it! I'm way grateful to be a missionary and to be here in Sasebo with Akahori shimai! It's so fun!
Ps. Next week my pday is on thanksgiving so I will email you then! I
love you guys! Have a great thanksgiving!
We had a pretty cool experience the other day! We had a plan to go to this area, and I still don't know the area very well so Akahori shimai was leading us there, we biked for about 30 mins. We knew it would take us about that long to get there, but when we stopped and looked
at the map, Akahori shimai realized that we went in the total opposite direction. She felt so bad and was feeling way down on herself, but I told her it was okay and that it wasn't a mistake because maybe God wanted us to be here. So we prayed and looked at our map and picked a close place to house. While we were housing I was praying so hard that we could find someone. We housed a bit and nothing good was happening, people were rejecting us really fast, but we came to this one apartment and this guy answered the door and we introduced ourselves and he told us that he's been studying religions and is looking for the right one! HUGE miracle! We are going back this week! It really was so cool and I felt like it was the answer to my prayers!
Missionary work is so cool! Being a missionary is really hard, not gonna lie. But it's those little moments, those miracles we see that make wearing a ridiculous pink plastic rain suit and biking up these Sasebo mountains in the pouring rain worth it! I'm way grateful to be a missionary and to be here in Sasebo with Akahori shimai! It's so fun!
Ps. Next week my pday is on thanksgiving so I will email you then! I
love you guys! Have a great thanksgiving!