Omajinai!

Konnichiwa minasan! 

Many things have happened. So many. Highlight reel let's go!

I got to chill with Eyring Shimai and be a trainer for a day. Bagoyo Shimai and I cried over our investigators at a park in the middle of nowhere overlooked by a mysterious giant Buddha statue. I adopted Yuudai and Daisuke as my older brothers. We got to see fireflies. The only magic trick I know (thanks dad it's the one card trick you taught me on a vacation to Palm Springs when I was like 12) got us a new investigator. Katsu made a giant bowl of pudding. I swapped glasses with Yuudai. His vision is bad. We pet a dog the size of Bagoyo Shimai. 

Now for the more involved updates on the investigators:

Edward: So when we first met him he said he kinda had a poor impression about religion and wasn't super keen on us trying to dendo him really hard. But then I had an idea. See, he thinks a lot like me and he loves drawing and writing and all that creative stuff so we gave him a challenge. We introduced him to the six basic perfections of God: perfect knowledge, perfect power, perfect justice, perfect judgment, perfect mercy, and perfect truth. If God ceases being any one of those things, He ceases to be God. So we gave Edward these rules and told him the purpose of God: to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of His children, and we told him to try and come up with a plan that accomplishes that purpose while still maintaining all six of those perfections. And it was crazy because he was like "yeah I've thought about this a lot actually" and long story short he already knows really interesting and important gospel principles, like the necessity of apostles. And he was way excited about writing down his plan We're gonna visit him again tonight and follow up and continue with our "game" where we poke holes in his plan, then we present ours and he'll try to poke holes in ours (which he won't be able to because it's God's lol) and through that we'll introduce the Book of Mormon to him. We're excited.

Hayato: He stresses me out. We learned from our district leader that he's been spiritually eating poop out of the hand of Satan and not following really important commandments, which is both frustrating and explains a lot because Hayato is not very sensitive to the Spirit. He doesn't understand that literally the only way he can ever help anyone be happy in the long run is through the mercy of Jesus Christ. 😢 However, he has agreed to take daily 5min lessons with us, which is a small miracle.  However, ever since we set that up, every time we've gone to do a lesson with him, his shop was crazy busy and we couldn't teach him. Satan is really annoying. We're working on it. With varying degrees of success.

Ai-chan: We taught her the restoration on Friday with Itsuki Shimai. She's golden. I love her. She's praying every day and is coming to church next week. She's literally the cutest person. She's gonna be so good for the ward. I'm so proud of her. 

Atsushi, Nozomi, Hiroto, Milena: So this week we were finally able to set up a daily 8:00 ward dendo prayer and it has actually changed the face of our work. Our own efforts haven't changed very much at all, but this week we found four new investigators way easily whereas we usually only find one or two. The only thing that changed is the prayer. For real, the ward coming together and praying every day at the same time is proving to be an actual miracle. We're so happy. Especially becuase one of them, Atsushi, was this magician we met at Hayato's place who said he had no interest in religion, but when we did the Book of Mormon Challenge with him, he basically did a 180 and now wants to learn about Jesus Christ. All because we answered the question, "how do I get a girlfriend" with a verse from the Book of Mormon. It just goes to show that when the ward comes together and shows God through the works of their faith that they're ready to receive new members, God will lead people to them. Furthermore, the Book of Mormon is the greatest tool we have to bring people unto Christ. And finally, when the members and the missionaries are one, the Lord cannot help but bring miracles to pass.

愛しています！ 💕

Sherwood 姉妹

19歳 20歳

1.) eating dinner at the firefly party. I stole Katsu's hat. Yuudai gave Bagoyo Shimai his.

2.) #aesthetic. Thanks Yuudai Kyoudai!

3.) a fish cream puff and a cream cream puff from Katsu

4.) eating katsudon and ebikatsu with Katsu (aka my oniichan). He took this photo. He added a filter. We still don't know why.

5.) we found a thing. Idk what the thing was. But it was a fun thing. 

6.) the dog the size of Bagoyo Shimai. His name is Cocoa

7.) me, Eyring Shimai, and Hayato

8.) a mystery Buddha. We don't know why it's there