This weekend was definitely crazy, but I loved
it, there was so much
that I got to learn, and it was crazy, but I wonderful opportunity. It
did make dendo a little bit harder, but that is ok, it was lots of
fun! I love the Book of Mormon challenge that I am doing right now,
and it is so clear to me that all of the Book of Mormon is about the
atonement, it is so amazing! I could read this book so many times
looking for the atonement, and still not find everything!
Monday we went to arashiyama during pday, and saw all of the spring
flowers, it was lots of fun, but we stayed a little long, so that was
kind of bad, but we made it all work, just caused things to be a bit
more stressful. After pday we went housing, and that was a lot of fun,
though it made me realize that we need to switch things up, because
finding day in and day out every day is exhausting. So we will at
least be going to different places for finding now.
Tuesday we met with the bishops wife, and had a wonderful lesson with
her, and she is way awesome, she wants to help whenever she has time,
and hopefully we will be able to make that work. We also had game
night, and the elders had a new investigator there, which was awesome,
and lots of fun. Poor Lowry Shimai can never remember the rules, so
even though we are playing the Japanese version of scum, she
struggles, but she laughs about it with everyone, so it is all good!
Wednesday we tried to visit a less active, and taught some lessons on
the street on the way there. The less active didn't answer their door,
but we saw a man walk out as we were talking to a nice old man out
walking his dog. We were looking for the sister, and there wasn't
anything we could do, but it was sad they didn't answer. They aren't
Japanese, so that is probably a big part of the reason. We also had
eikaiwa, and we taught popcorn popping on the apricot tree at the end.
It was lots of fun, but we had to sing so slow, and then a member said
we should probably sing it even slower... It was killing me, since we
were doing the actions as well, but it was still fun.
Thursday we did SKK, and went to visit nakamura Shimai, she is so
sweet, and just super lonely. We asked for referrals at the end,
because we have gotten ourselves in the habit of doing that, and she
did have some less actives that she wanted us to visit, so we will be
doing that, and hopefully as we do those little things, the ward will
change even more, and want to be more involved in missionary work all
of the time!
Friday we had ztm, and it was so good! We just talked about the
atonement challenge and numbers, but it was packed with awesome
things, and everyone contributed, which was way awesome. After ztm, we
headed to fushimi and had our kokan. It was great, I was with hamano
Shimai, who is a fourth transfer, and she is so amazing, so humble and
obedient, and such a hard worker! We visited one of their
investigators and a less active, and though there wasn't much time to
dendo, I learned a lot from her. The less active was an interesting
experience. She can apparently see spirits sometimes, and she started
going off about hamano shimais family history, and how her great
grandma was protecting her. She also said there was a young girl
teenager protecting me, and it was an interesting experience. The
crazy thing is that hamano Shimai got a call that night from Welch
kaicho, and her grandpa passed away that night. :'(
Saturday was even more amazing, and I was awed by hamano shimais
example! She jumped right into missionary work with the little bit of
time we had left of the kokan, and she even shared with people on the
street how her grandpa had just died, and used it to share her
testimony, she is so amazing. The stls had interviews that morning, so
we were dendoing in Shimogamo around those times, and it was great.
And then we had the first general conference session, and it was
amazing. At the beginning of the second I had my interview with Welch
kaicho, and that was also amazing! We talked about how the best skill
we can develop is learning how to receive inspiration and act on it.
My mission president is so inspired, that wasn't the question I asked,
but he realized the question I really needed answered, when I didn't
even realize it!The power of the spirit is real! We had the second
session of general conference, and it was also amazing. I love hearing
from our leaders.
Sunday we had general conference, and the interruptions today were
just members needing the missionaries help, but for the most part it
was a pretty normal day. Some non members we didn't know came, and we
don't really know what they were doing, but there weren't interested
in learning, but they were wearing completely fluorescent green
outfits, and it was quite strange, but more poor companion had to move
where they couldn't see her, because she lost it, and was laughing so
hard, because their outfits were literally blinding! That night we
went to the mizoguchis, and had a wonderful shoukuji. I used a boiled
egg to make a tatoe of repentance and baptism, and then we invited
them to help their friends receive the same joy that they had
experienced when they received baptism, and to start by inviting them
to church, it was way awesome, though we all kept laughing, because I
mess up with Japanese sometimes. Often the word 'iinjanai' pops out of
my mouth, when it really shouldn't, it just is what I say when I don't
know what to say. It means, 'not bad', or something close to that, and
we asked at the beginning for examples of sins, and Barton choro
started out with saying killing people, and 'iinjanai' popped out of
my mouth, everyone had a lot of laughs, and we made a lot of jokes
about that. Plus, my companion made the marks, and for killing, she
did a small Mark, and then made the smaller things bigger, we also
joked about that, it was lots of fun!
So that was basically my week, and I am trying to not say 'iinjanai'
at the worst places, especially when someone tells me of a trial they
had, and then by saying 'iinjanai' I am being way unsympathetic,
though that is not my intention! Ah, well, that is how life goes
sometimes! I love you all, I miss you, and I hope you will all take
holland choros advice to take what you learned from conference and
constantly try to improve. I love and miss you!
Love, Sister Makin
that I got to learn, and it was crazy, but I wonderful opportunity. It
did make dendo a little bit harder, but that is ok, it was lots of
fun! I love the Book of Mormon challenge that I am doing right now,
and it is so clear to me that all of the Book of Mormon is about the
atonement, it is so amazing! I could read this book so many times
looking for the atonement, and still not find everything!
Monday we went to arashiyama during pday, and saw all of the spring
flowers, it was lots of fun, but we stayed a little long, so that was
kind of bad, but we made it all work, just caused things to be a bit
more stressful. After pday we went housing, and that was a lot of fun,
though it made me realize that we need to switch things up, because
finding day in and day out every day is exhausting. So we will at
least be going to different places for finding now.
Tuesday we met with the bishops wife, and had a wonderful lesson with
her, and she is way awesome, she wants to help whenever she has time,
and hopefully we will be able to make that work. We also had game
night, and the elders had a new investigator there, which was awesome,
and lots of fun. Poor Lowry Shimai can never remember the rules, so
even though we are playing the Japanese version of scum, she
struggles, but she laughs about it with everyone, so it is all good!
Wednesday we tried to visit a less active, and taught some lessons on
the street on the way there. The less active didn't answer their door,
but we saw a man walk out as we were talking to a nice old man out
walking his dog. We were looking for the sister, and there wasn't
anything we could do, but it was sad they didn't answer. They aren't
Japanese, so that is probably a big part of the reason. We also had
eikaiwa, and we taught popcorn popping on the apricot tree at the end.
It was lots of fun, but we had to sing so slow, and then a member said
we should probably sing it even slower... It was killing me, since we
were doing the actions as well, but it was still fun.
Thursday we did SKK, and went to visit nakamura Shimai, she is so
sweet, and just super lonely. We asked for referrals at the end,
because we have gotten ourselves in the habit of doing that, and she
did have some less actives that she wanted us to visit, so we will be
doing that, and hopefully as we do those little things, the ward will
change even more, and want to be more involved in missionary work all
of the time!
Friday we had ztm, and it was so good! We just talked about the
atonement challenge and numbers, but it was packed with awesome
things, and everyone contributed, which was way awesome. After ztm, we
headed to fushimi and had our kokan. It was great, I was with hamano
Shimai, who is a fourth transfer, and she is so amazing, so humble and
obedient, and such a hard worker! We visited one of their
investigators and a less active, and though there wasn't much time to
dendo, I learned a lot from her. The less active was an interesting
experience. She can apparently see spirits sometimes, and she started
going off about hamano shimais family history, and how her great
grandma was protecting her. She also said there was a young girl
teenager protecting me, and it was an interesting experience. The
crazy thing is that hamano Shimai got a call that night from Welch
kaicho, and her grandpa passed away that night. :'(
Saturday was even more amazing, and I was awed by hamano shimais
example! She jumped right into missionary work with the little bit of
time we had left of the kokan, and she even shared with people on the
street how her grandpa had just died, and used it to share her
testimony, she is so amazing. The stls had interviews that morning, so
we were dendoing in Shimogamo around those times, and it was great.
And then we had the first general conference session, and it was
amazing. At the beginning of the second I had my interview with Welch
kaicho, and that was also amazing! We talked about how the best skill
we can develop is learning how to receive inspiration and act on it.
My mission president is so inspired, that wasn't the question I asked,
but he realized the question I really needed answered, when I didn't
even realize it!The power of the spirit is real! We had the second
session of general conference, and it was also amazing. I love hearing
from our leaders.
Sunday we had general conference, and the interruptions today were
just members needing the missionaries help, but for the most part it
was a pretty normal day. Some non members we didn't know came, and we
don't really know what they were doing, but there weren't interested
in learning, but they were wearing completely fluorescent green
outfits, and it was quite strange, but more poor companion had to move
where they couldn't see her, because she lost it, and was laughing so
hard, because their outfits were literally blinding! That night we
went to the mizoguchis, and had a wonderful shoukuji. I used a boiled
egg to make a tatoe of repentance and baptism, and then we invited
them to help their friends receive the same joy that they had
experienced when they received baptism, and to start by inviting them
to church, it was way awesome, though we all kept laughing, because I
mess up with Japanese sometimes. Often the word 'iinjanai' pops out of
my mouth, when it really shouldn't, it just is what I say when I don't
know what to say. It means, 'not bad', or something close to that, and
we asked at the beginning for examples of sins, and Barton choro
started out with saying killing people, and 'iinjanai' popped out of
my mouth, everyone had a lot of laughs, and we made a lot of jokes
about that. Plus, my companion made the marks, and for killing, she
did a small Mark, and then made the smaller things bigger, we also
joked about that, it was lots of fun!
So that was basically my week, and I am trying to not say 'iinjanai'
at the worst places, especially when someone tells me of a trial they
had, and then by saying 'iinjanai' I am being way unsympathetic,
though that is not my intention! Ah, well, that is how life goes
sometimes! I love you all, I miss you, and I hope you will all take
holland choros advice to take what you learned from conference and
constantly try to improve. I love and miss you!
Love, Sister Makin
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