Hello! How was your week? Mine was pretty crazy! On Tuesday we went to Kumamoto because we had a general authority, Elder Whiting, visit our mission! So we went to Kumamoto on Tuesday and I got to spend the night in my old apartment! It was so fun and the best part was that Kiyomi and Rinkun and Matsuyama shimai and kyodai and Harukun came to surprise me! It was 9:30 and someone rang the door bell and they were like Ketch shimai can you get that, and I did and gosh! It was so happy!! I miss Shimizu so much and I still pray for the people there everyday! Kiyomi told me that she's doing so good and that she's going to the temple for baptisms on the 28th!! gosh! she's so awesome! and she told me all about how Kaoru, her husband, is coming to church sometimes and she's way hopeful that he will get baptized one day! Man, she's so great! and Matsuyama shimai got way huge! She's pregnant! And due in April! And she's having a girl! So happy! Gosh, I can't even tell you how happy it was seeing them! Okay, and then Hiratasan, I don't know if you remember her, but she was the investigator in Shimizu that had depression and gosh I just love her so much! And when we went to Kumamoto for mensetsus (interviews) a few weeks ago, I wrote her a letter and gave it to the Shimizu shimai to give to her. well at that time she had kinda stopped talking to them. They messaged her and told her they had a letter from me but she ignored them. Well last week, she randomly called and was like "do you really have a letter from ketch shimai?" she thought they were lying to her just to get her to talk to them haha. But she told them that she had a dream that she needed to write me a letter, so she met with them and gave them a letter to give me. and gosh! it was the best letter ever! She is in the hospital right now for her depression and she's going through a hard time but she told me that she still prays and that she still reads the book of mormon to help her. And gosh she just told me how much I helped her to be happy. It was a miracle letter! Gosh, I love her and I seriously still pray for her everyday. I think a piece of my heart will always be in Shimizu. It was way good to be back for a little while!
Okay, then Wednesday was the devotional and it was SO good! gosh, he was amazing. Honestly, this transfer has been way hard for a lot of reasons and I've kind of had a bad attitude about it, and his devotional helped me see that I need to fix that. Anyways, he was just so awesome and he talked about how when we are called as missionaries we are given authority to be missionaries but we aren't given power. Then he talked about how all the missionaries in the Book of Mormon taught with power and authority. Then he talked all about how it's our job to gain power. How it's not given to us and it's up to us to do the things we need to so that we can be missionaries with both power and authority. It was the best!
Other than that nothing too exciting this week... all of our investigators either went home for the next month, moved, or just disappeared... all but one of them. Murakamisan. gosh. she is very interesting. We talked about prophets and she got so fixated on president monson and she wants to meet him so bad. She has called us everyday since our lesson asking us how she can talk directly to him haha. gosh. its really interesting. Murakamisan is 50 years old and is a free spirit haha. she believes in a lot of things... and she gets her energy from the sun haha. so teaching her is fun!
This transfer went by so fast! Gosh, next week is transfer week! which means I'll email on Tuesday. I'm probably gonna stay here in Beppu... my guess is I'll be here for 3 transfers. But ya never know! Time is flying by! My 5th transfer is almost done! crazy! But I'm loving every minute of it! Love you all! talk to you next week!
Okay, then Wednesday was the devotional and it was SO good! gosh, he was amazing. Honestly, this transfer has been way hard for a lot of reasons and I've kind of had a bad attitude about it, and his devotional helped me see that I need to fix that. Anyways, he was just so awesome and he talked about how when we are called as missionaries we are given authority to be missionaries but we aren't given power. Then he talked about how all the missionaries in the Book of Mormon taught with power and authority. Then he talked all about how it's our job to gain power. How it's not given to us and it's up to us to do the things we need to so that we can be missionaries with both power and authority. It was the best!
Other than that nothing too exciting this week... all of our investigators either went home for the next month, moved, or just disappeared... all but one of them. Murakamisan. gosh. she is very interesting. We talked about prophets and she got so fixated on president monson and she wants to meet him so bad. She has called us everyday since our lesson asking us how she can talk directly to him haha. gosh. its really interesting. Murakamisan is 50 years old and is a free spirit haha. she believes in a lot of things... and she gets her energy from the sun haha. so teaching her is fun!
This transfer went by so fast! Gosh, next week is transfer week! which means I'll email on Tuesday. I'm probably gonna stay here in Beppu... my guess is I'll be here for 3 transfers. But ya never know! Time is flying by! My 5th transfer is almost done! crazy! But I'm loving every minute of it! Love you all! talk to you next week!