Sherwood Be A Great Missionary: Seiko no Chikara

Konnichiwa!

This week has been really busy! We've been pressing family history and eikaiwa (English class) really hard, so hopefully our efforts will pay off this upcoming week. We have a few new investigators, but it feels like they're more interested in English than they are in the Gospel, so we're working hard to try to help them feel the Spirit and gain a desire to come closer to Christ.

The other day we had a tiny awesome miracle while we were trying to visit a less active. While we were over there, we saw a girl crying, so we stopped to comfort her and help her out. It turns out she's a college student named Riho-chan and she had just done really poorly on an English exam. She asked us to teach her so we're planning on doing our best to help her with English and to promise her that as she reads the Book of Mormon, she'll receive help and support from on high in her studies. So yeah I'm really excited about that.

I got to teach eikaiwa for the first time this week and it was super fun. There's only three students right now (two of which are members so it's low key kinda sad) but we're doing our best and we're hoping that our challenge this week to bring a friend or family member will help increase our numbers and the breadth of our message's reach. English is actually one of the best finding methods here because so many people want to learn. It's mostly younger students that want to learn, but there's also lots of adults that want to learn as well! Most of the time, our lessons are half an hour of English and then another half hour of gospel principles. It's a super good time.

Also the members here are super wonderful. Eaton Shimai and I are super good buds with Tahara Kyoudai bc he's the bomb. He loves to help us learn nihongo and he loves to learn English. He likes to call us the "missionary of missionaries" and he's just really good at making you feel like a million bucks. What a guy. Super Christlike. We're super grateful for his support in our efforts to build the Katsura Ward.

Also fun thing we did this week: we discovered that "Scripture Power" doesn't exist in the Nihongo children's songs so we decided to fix that and translated it into nihongo ourselves! As it is, the song goes like this:

Iesu no youni naritai kara
Kare no kotoba taisetsu ni suru
Kotoba no chikara ga hoshii kara
Watashi no jinsei ga kawatte iru.

Seiku kara chikara morau
Tsumi o makasu youni.
Mainichi sore tsukai.
Sono yomu toki no kimochi.

Seiku kara mitama no ken mitzukeru.
Peiji kara shinkou no tate o toru.
Subete Shu no bugu o mi ni tsukete,
Hibi no tatakai norikoeru.

Seiku kara chikara morau
Tsumi o makasu youni.
Mainichi sore tsukai.
Sono yomu toki no kimochi.

We gave it to the primary presidency yesterday for our ward's kiddos, and we're giving the sheet music to the rest of the Kyoto zone missionaries today, cos we're gonna sing it at the mission Christmas thingamajig because yes. It's gonna be awesome.

愛していますよ！

Sherwood 姉妹