Dance, Lapis Lazuli, Music, Benevolence

Konnichiwa minasan! 

A lot has happened this week. I feel like MLC and zone conference were ages ago but it was actually this week. Weird.

We talked with the elders a little bit about ideas for the transfer, and we came up with a bunch of way good stuff to make eikaiwa more effective through LINE and stuff. Tobler Shimai had a bunch of way good ideas for it and it was awesome. We're gonna start rolling some of them out here shortly, namely a 30/30 sign up spreadsheet that our students can access through LINE, in an effort to offer lessons in a less confronting way. I'm very proud of it actually. It's very pretty.

We also helped Ibu chan, one of the young women in the ward, with English and personal progress this week, and it was way great actually. She even wants to serve a mission when she gets older! We're planning on working with her more and seeing if we can't work with the ward to do mini missions with the youth.

Also we were going to help a member with her yard this week, but she got sick so we couldn't go over, so we decided to bring her treats and a cute note instead and she was way happy about it. It was super great actually. We also spent a bit of time with Hiro chan, another member, and did a mogi lesson of the restoration with her, and it was great actually. She made us really cute little origami wall ornament things and they're the actual most adorable things ever. Not a ton really happened that day, and we were kinda sad we didn't have any chances to contact anyone, but it ended up being okay because that night we got a phone call from Whatcott chourou with a referral, and we're now in really good contact with her! 

Also! The elders' investigator, Yuga san came to church this week! It was way cool! And all because Tobler Shimai was smart enough to ask him! Dettmer Chourou and Hine Chourou were very happy about it. That same day, it ended up happening that an eikaiwa student invited us to a tea ceremony thing and it was way cool. They even made rooibos for us cos they knew we can't drink matcha, and it ended up being crazy effective too! We were able to introduce ourselves and our purpose to like 20 people, and found 5 different solid people with potential. One of them moved here from the Philippines, another from Germany (Dettmer chourou was very excited when we told him about that one haha), and another guy had apparently met with missionaries like 3 years ago and has a whole crazy ton of interest in doing 30/30s with us. Not only that, but two other ladies has a bunch of interest in 30/30s as well, one who's been an eikaiwa student forever but hasn't taken lessons yet, and another who we'd just met that day. It was awesome! Probably the most effective day of the transfer so far! And bonus: a bunch of old Japanese ladies counseled for like 15 minutes about what kanji to give my name haha. We're way excited to see what comes of all of these cool people.

愛しています！💕

Sherwood 姉妹

Idk why I even number these they always change but whatever

1.) Yabuuchi kyoudai drew last transfer's missionaries and it's brilliant. He's working on Tobler shimai and Hine chourou rn

2.) my name in kanji. It's pretty cool
3-5,8.) the tea ceremony thing
6.) the cute things Hiro chan made!
7.) game night! 

8.) Hiro chan!