Konnichiwa minasan!
So we did a great many things this week and a lot of crazy stuff happened. All in all one of our better weeks and worse weeks at the same time, but that's just how it goes I guess.
Tuesday we had two appointments with members! The Tanakas took us out for Chinese food and it was really great. They're such a sweet couple and it's cool because I've heard from missionaries in the past that Tanaka Shimai has been kind of cold to missionaries, but I think because we've been trying to help out Tanaka Kyoudai she's cool with us now. Then we had an appointment with Kamikura Shimai and Yuka Shimai. We talked to them a lot about EnglishConnect and Area Book woes and they said that they'd love to help us out by driving us down to the really far and expensive by train places in our area!
Wednesday we had a koukan with the Amagasaki shimaitachi and it was way fun! We got to talk with a cool guy who works at an indocurry place and is very nice. We want to try and teach him but it's a little difficult to communicate with him because neither Japanese nor English are his native language. But he's a very nice man. Also! We went and talked to Suenaga-san and we got to give him a Book of Mormon! We told him about it and he said he really likes how Christians have books you can just read and figure out if they're true or not because in Buddhism they don't really have that. He also said lots of other things about Buddhism that I didn't understand at all because that's a lot of very specific words BUT! He set up an appointment with us to learn more about the gospel! We're so excited!
Thursday we went and visited Ooba Shimai, who lives on the top of a mountain. Which we hiked up to reach. We invited her to stake conference, but no dice. But she seemed happy to see us and asked us to Line her more often, which we are now doing. We also came back on Sunday to put cookies in her mailbox and it was very successful. She was very happy about it and I consider that a good day. We housed a cool-looking apartment in the way up there but turned out it was a lie because there were SEVERAL ENORMOUS SPIDERS THE SIZE OF MY HAND and we almost died. One bit Jones Shimai. Unfortunately she doesn't have cool web powers to use to stop people on the street. Zannen.
FRIDAY WAS MY BIRTHDAY which we celebrated with an adobo party for lunch after district meeting because I wanted to do something nice for Pionita Chourou, he being a bean chan and working in two foreign languages. It was delicious. And then we had an appointment with Tokunou Shimai, our relief society president about EnglishConnect and recent converts and it was very good. We want to work more with the recent converts but because of a lot of cliquey things going on its proven a bit difficult. Ganbaru waa
Saturday we had a cookie making party with the Relief Society and four potential investigators came! Jones Shimai impressed everyone with her knife skills learned at culinary school and we built some really good kankei with members and their friends. Also we're best friends with two of the little kids now. We were introduced to several versions of janken which I'd never heard of and which quickly evolved into a very complex and exhausting game where there were teams and running and intense duels of janken. I don't know where kids get their energy but they love us now so hopefully we can use that to our advantage. And blwe must have been doing something right because like three different members asked us for appointments that day so that was really great.
Then there was stake conference and that started off with quite the bang. Nishikawa Shimai and we had just pulled up, half an hour early accidentally, and we walk up to the church in Kobe to see a kinda disheveled-looking man looking quite lost. He asked us where the monks were, and I, being very confused and not a monk, asked Nishikawa shimai to help us out due to the fact that she's a nihonjin. Then the Kobe shimaitachi showed up and long story short, this guy wanted to meet with us so the four of us sit down in a room with him and ask him what's up and this poor man had gotten mugged and walked 8 hours all the way from his workplace in Akashi to Kobe because he remembered that his friend once said that Christians help people. So Nishikawa shimai left to go find bishop cos we have zero way of helping people temporally like that because we are poor missionaries whose resources include referring people to the bishop, and we just taught him a basic lesson about God and prayer and bringing the power of God's love into our lives. He said he's really interested in learning how to be happy and when we taught him to pray he prayed so sincerely it was really beautiful. I really hope he's okay. I know zero things about what happened after we passed him off to the Assistants.
But yeah that's the basic gist of the week! We're excited what the next transfer is gonna hold for us.
愛しています！💕
Sherwood 姉妹
Pics: these are the spiders. I promise they're bigger in real life. Also a snake we saw and then an ojiichan saw it and freaked out and it became a 10 minute ordeal of trying to get rid of this snake and then we gave them eikaiwa chirashis
19歳 20歳
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