This week has been very very busy for several reasons. We had Christmas Taikai on Tuesday and Wednesday and it was brilliant. I was very pleased with everything that happened, especially that we were able to watch Coco! I love that movie so much I'm so happy I cried like five times. My greatest hope is that maybe finally missionaries will gain some family history fire because of it. We've been considering different ways to boost family history as a district because we basically have a mini MLC (missionary leadership council) in our district because we have the head tech, head family history specialist, both STLs, and the zone family history specialist all in our district. Also Hatchett 長老 is the actual most stressed out person about it ever which is impressive because usually I'm the most stressed person in the district. Poor guy. We all wanna do more family history but figuring out how to get other people on board is a whole other can of worms. I'm very tired of hearing the phrase "日本人だから" because it's always followed by a thousand excuses for why they can't do family history or dendo or any myriad of other things that they should do but don't want to do. I'm frustrated but it's fine. Hatchett 長老, Stein 姉妹, and I also got to perform at the taikai before testimony meeting and it was really awesome, especially considering the fact that we threw three part harmony together in just two practice sessions. I was very pleased. Harmony makes me happy. Also a couple of the districts in the Okayama Zone put together a really funny Christmas video of nonsense that I will attach because it makes me laugh to no end.
In other news, we got a new investigator this week!!! Her name is Hara San and she lives 0.03 seconds away from one of the members and she came to the ward Christmas party, where we met her and she invited us over to play the ever entertaining game of "wow gaijin let's treat them like dolls for an hour" and pulled out her thousands of dollars worth of kimonos out. It was pretty fun actually. And turns out she's a real religious person, not a fake religious person that just tells us they're religious to get us to go away and she told us we could come back and talk about God and let us set up an appointment so we're very very excited about that. Also her house was so cold I can't even describe to you how cold it was. Like I could barely move my hands levels of cold and I was wearing three layers of kimono. Goodness.
Also 3 whole people came to church this week and it was brilliant because I was already hardcore stressed about the special sacrament meeting because a lot of things were going up a creek without a paddle and I was about 4 seconds away from being unable to keep my screaming internal but it's fine. Ooyama san came and loved it and so did Kurose san and Natsuki chan. Kurose san even cried because of the Spirit. It was awesome. We ended up having to move back Ooyama san's baptismal date, but she says she's pretty sure she's going to get baptized, it's just a matter of when, which confuses me because if you already know you're going to get baptized, you should just get baptized and I even told her Hatchett 長老's brilliant pizza tatoe about how just like you only need one bite of a pizza to know it's a good pizza, you don't have to know everything ever about the entire gospel to know its true. But alas no dice. She's still concerned about a bunch of little things. We're working on it. Hopefully she'll be able to get baptized when her daughter and soon-to-be son in law are in town because that would be great.
愛しています！💕
Sherwood 姉妹
1-5.) we made a gingerbread house with the Tokunous. They're adorable.
6.) we got to stay at a hotel at the Christmas taikai
7-11.) fun times in kimonos today
12.) Christmas taikai with Okayama, Kobe, and Shikoku Zones
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