Little miracles, and the fun of Kokans!

This week has been a blast, especially the last half of the week!

Monday we had another game night, which was lots of fun! We played
scum again, and we got to meet a Chinese girl named lily, who was so
sweet! New potential investigator, cause she really liked the
spiritual message at the end.

Tuesday was the hardest day with my cold. We visited with a less
active, and shared a message with her, and tried to visit some others,
with no success, but then I just couldn't do anymore, and since I
looked pale, we decided to head home, and I took a nap. I ended up
getting a longer nap than I had planned on, because the lesson we had
had was canceled, and so my companion didn't wake me up because of
that. But that really helped, and then Wednesday I felt so much
better!

Wednesday we heart attacked a couple of members, and also had a lesson
with inoue San. The elders were also present, and that was both good
and bad. Their Japanese is more advanced, so they kind of took over
the lesson, but they did help her, so that was interesting. I
understood a lot of what was going on, but I couldn't respond as fast
as they were, and there were also two conversations going on at once,
because her friend Karahashi Shimai, a less active, was also there,
and so that made it a bit difficult. We also had eikaiwa, and at the
beginning I was so excited, because our class had doubled in size, but
I found out later that they were regulars that had missed the past
couple of weeks due to the holidays, but it was still good that they
came.

Thursday we went to lunch with a member, which was sooo good! And then
we did a bunch of finding, and then taught the recent convert that got
baptized a little before I got here, and who is down from Hokkaido,
the top island for the month. She works up there. It was such a good
meeting, and she is super sweet!

Friday we had an amazing ztm, which was so led by the spirit, and the
coolest part was that I received an answer to a question that I hadn't
even realized I had! That was awesome. We also began our kokan, and
went to fushimi. They had ping pong night, so we confused their
members, and played ping pong.

Saturday was the main day of the kokan. The sister who I went with,
madden Shimai, and I left studies early, and went up a mountain to try
and visit an investigator they haven't been able to see all transfer.
She wasn't at her guest house, but we decided to try her actual house,
managed to find it, and she was there, and they have a return
appointment! And we also bought her flowers on our way up, and bought
her favorite color by chance, they were super cheap, and it totally
made her day. And then when we got to our bikes, I struggled to find
my key, and then we got stopped at a light for a long time, even
though we pushed the button, which normally works immediately in
Japan, but we got to meet a dad and his little girl, which was
awesome, actually met them twice. The second time was while we were at
the cafe of another investigator they hadn't been able to meet this
transfer, and so we just saw a lot of little miracles, and had lots of
fun! And then we went home, did most of SKK, and had our ping pong
night, all in all lots of fun!

Sunday we had a really good meeting, and a couple of less actives
came, which was super good! And then we finished SKK. We also had an
awesome ward council meeting. One of the bishopric counsellors had
gone all out and made really organized folders for ward council for
everyone. All that we have to do know is translate it into English,
which should be fun, yay, language study!

Today for pday we went to a movie samurai village, which was lots of
fun. It was really cool, but way expensive to do any of the things we
really wanted to do, it was already a bunch to get in, so we just had
fun with the free stuff. There was so much Japanese, and I really
didn't understand a lot of it, but it was really funny from what I
understood, and also from what I got from an Japanese elder who was a
part of the group I was in. Basically I had tons of fun! The hard part
was this morning when we had to choose between the samurai village or
Mochi, rice candy basically, making, but we had lots of fun, so it was
all good!

That's about it for this week! I love you all so very much! Thank you
for all of your love and support! I love and miss you!

Love, Sister Makin