Konnichiwa minasan!
We had a way cool week this week! We had several lessons and our investigators are progressing way fast!
Tuesday we met with Tawarazaka-san and taught her about the celestial kingdom. She's doing really well and understands a lot, but she's so humble it's a little hard to teach her about blessings sometimes. But we got to see her repent and come closer to Heavenly Father right there in the lesson and it was really awesome. She's great we love her.
Then on Wednesday we got to go to a conference with Sister Eubanks, Sister Oscarson, and Elder Yamashita! Sister Eubanks is awesome and I love her. Everyone talked a lot about the little things in dendo being what really makes the difference and it was great. Earlier that week they did a women's broadcast devotional to all of Japan, and they talked actually quite a bit about marriage. Sister Eubanks gave some wonderful insight for the women who aren't married because she herself hasn't had the opportunity to get married. It was beautiful and edifying, and listening to her speak as a missionary, I realized that talk about marriage and stuff still applies to us, even though we're dendo dake (only missionary work) right now, and not in the "well you're gonna be home at some point" kind of way. The principles that govern a healthy and celestial marriage are the same principles that govern our relationship with Christ and Heavenly Father. Furthermore, in the sealing ordinance itself, God is an integral part, so the relationship and trust built with God is just as important as the relationship you build with your spouse. Even in the scriptures, Christ is referred to as the bridegroom, and when He declared himself as the Messiah to the Samaritan woman at the well, He symbolically healed her sad situation of having six husbands in her life and when she became a disciple, He became her seventh "husband," significant in that seven is a number that represents perfection and completion. In this way, all of us, married or not, can hugely benefit immediately when listening to talks about marriage. The principles taught, if followed, can bring us so close to Christ, and strengthen the relationships we have with others.
In other news, lots of awesome things happened with Shinji this week. We did a Bible study class with him and he really liked it. We talked about different parables in the New Testament, and it was a really awesome and spiritual night. Then in our lesson yesterday, we taught him about the Spirit, and he said that he's felt the Spirit help him become a kinder and more patient person. He's even committed to praying about when to be baptized, and next week we're going to try to set a date with him!!!! He's our beautiful kinjin (golden person) too good for this world, too pure. He came to dinner with us at the Shibatas home, and they taught him a little bit about the Word of Wisdom and now he knows about D&C 89 so welp that lesson is probably going to be fairly straightforward and easy when we get there. He's growing up so fast! *brushes away tears*
Also!! On Friday we went and dendo-ed with Kaizaki Shimai (the Relief Society president) and it was awesome! We visited lots of less actives and brought them cookies. We even got to go and eat at Sushiro together! (so yummy!! π£π£π£π£) There was a way good melon sherbet in a cute melon container and now I have a cute melon shaped container to hold all my pennies. It was a good day. Kaizaki shimai is the bomb. Love her so much!
See you all next week! ζγγ¦γγΎγ！
Sherwood ε§ε¦Ή ❤️
1-3. Cool Buddhist Japan shrine stuff we found near a kyuudousha's house
4-8. The chouroutachi randomly had a yukata in their apartment and it's mine now. Not sure if I can really pull it off though.
9. More Japan shrine!
10. My companion is an alien
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