Konnichiwa minasan!
This week was way fun actually! We've been surprisingly busy, which I'm certainly not complaining about. I like having stuff to do.
Nishikawa 姉妹 asked us to come over to her house and help her trim her trees, so that was outstandingly fun. I'm a real professional at making trees look like giant bonzais now. She was so nice and made us lunch too. There were vegetables and bagels and it made me really happy. And it was really cute because she was so happy that we would take the time to come and help her, and she told us all about different people who might have interest in family history. And then when we saw her on Sunday she was sooooo happy to see us. She's the actual cutest person. And it was really nice to get out and just garden because I was feeling like a bag of gomi left out in the rain, but it's okay because gardening helped.
We also got to go and spend time with Jenny and her mom and get to know them really well. Her mom is the nicest and also makes really good cookies. And it turns out that the mom has a whole bunch of interest in family history and is even working on a book about all the times she's seen the hand of God in her life! Hopefully we'll be able to meet with them again before I transfer bc that would be great.
It also turns out that being 99% sure you're transferring is really helpful in getting people to meet with you because we also got to meet with Kurose san and Nakamura san. Kurose san showed us a bunch of old photos and things from her family history and it was great, and it got even greater because she helped us out by driving us to see Nakamura san. We made chicken noodle soup for him because he's not been feeling well recently and so we haven't been able to meet with him, but he was way happy to see us and get the soup, so we're ureshii about that.
District meeting was also brilliant, as usual, but this week especially because we had a really good discussion about how powerful words are and how addressing your negative thoughts and replacing them with positive, hopeful thoughts is super effective in actually making your life and situation around you more positive and fruitful. It was way good. I need to repent about that bc sometimes I'm too negative towards myself ha. Probably need more sleep.
Also we had a koukan with the Akashi shimaitachi and it was way fun. Okamura 姉妹 and I had a lesson with their investigator Mika san and it went super well. We talked about how much the gospel blesses families and it really resonated with her. It was just way cool to be a part of her conversion process and to get revelation about what she needs together with Okamura 姉妹. She really is a brilliant missionary. We also made brownies for members and it was way good. I'm a big fan of okashi dendo.
Also Ooyama san came to church again finally, and she brought her daughter with her. From the way she talks, she sounds like she's ready to just get baptized already, like she talks about baptism like it's a thing that's definitely going to happen, but she's weirdly flaky when it comes to learning the actual principles. It's an odd situation. We're working on it. But hey, at least she's coming and things seem to be moving, if just a little slowly.
But yeah it that's about the kanji of the week. Tune in next week to see what happens with transfer calls!
愛しています！💕
Sherwood 姉妹
1.) squaaaaaad I love these guys so much I'm cry
2.) shimai for the win
3-4.) high quality Japanese English homework. It makes me laugh
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