This week has been amazing, probably the exact
opposite of last week,
not
because anything special or amazing happened, I don't know if we
saw any crazy miracles, but my perspective has definitely changed, and
I have a whole new mindset! If is amazing what a blessing and extra
sincere prayers, and reading your scriptures can do for you, and how
fast it can help you!
Monday after pday we went to the Browns, and did a mogi lesson with
them, which was awesome! We mogid the plan of salvation, and got some
feedback from them. The great thing is that they are both fluent in
Japanese and English, so they were able to give us some really great
advice, and we could fully understand it. Sister brown is Japanese, so
it is way awesome to be able to have that benefit as well! They are
amazing, and so ready to help with dendo, we are actually having
dinner at their house again tonight but this time with our
investigator, I am so excited!
Tuesday we taught three lessons to members, two of which were less
actives, and then rushed to game night! It was so much fun, and I
just really love working with members! We were shocked that we were
able to make it to game night in time, because the last member we met
with is usually a talker, and she still was, but she seemed to get
that we didn't have tons of time, so we were able to be only a little
late, and we had lots of fun! We played hearts tonight, with seven
people, and it was fun, but a lot harder, we had to explain it to
everyone, and it is a lot harder to not get stuck with a bad hand when
there are seven people playing.
Wednesday we got lost, but it was great! We were in the right area,
but we couldn't find the less actives name kanji on any of the houses,
so we weren't able to visit them, it was ok, because we called them to
see if we could get help getting to their house, and only the husband
was home, so we couldn't have really visited anyway, but we later made
an appointment with the wife to come over on Sunday, which should be
great. And we also taught eikaiwa, and we taught storytelling, and we
had them write stories, except as more of a game, and they had to pass
the story to the next person after a short amount of time, but the
next person could only see the last line. It is a game I have played
at girls camp before, and it was so much fun. My companion and I did
an example story, and I could speak it, because I was laughing so
hard, because it started out as a girl in love with a boy who smelled
like a pig, and liked to go running five hours to swim in the ocean.
It makes no sense, but the stories are all hilarious,
Thursday we did SKK, and it was the most distracted yet focused SKK
ever! I think that can pretty much describe all of my skks, or at
least most of them. By the way SKK is weekly planning session. I just
seem to get ideas when my brain goes off on random tangents, and
luckily my companions are all way patient with me and let me go off on
random tangents. We also visited a less active, and then our relief
society president and her husband, and it was awesome, so much fun!
And I think her dendo Fire is just about to explode, it is going to
light so much, she is definitely at least going to help us with less
actives more, which should be so much fun!
Friday we had ztm, and there were two way cool things about it, first
that everyone just shared what they were learning from the atonement,
and that most of ztm was just a free for all talking session. The
funny thing about that was that the elders were going way fast,
bouncing off of eachother, and I know there were times I wanted to
talk, but I wasn't really given an opportunity, because before I could
open my mouth one of the elders had already started talking, and
occasionally they paused and said they wanted to hear more from the
sisters, and at those times we always contributed, but then they would
take off again, and it was just funny. The other cool part was that
they gave everyone an opportunity to bear their testimonies, and I
took the opportunity to bear mine. Have you ever been bearing your
testimony, and it is as you say the words that the spirit bears
witness to you that you actually do know what you are saying 100%, and
that it is true? That is what happened to me, and I love when that
happens, because it is such a strengthening power for me. I can now
truly testify that I am more grateful for my heavenly fathers love and
my savior and his love than I am for my eternal family. Sorry family,
I love you, I really do, and I am so grateful that we are an eternal
family, but you are most definitely second place now, because of what
I have been learning and experiencing! Our Heavenly Father loves us!
He knows exactly how we think, how we feel, and there isn't a moment
that goes by where he doesn't think about us. He knows are
imperfections, he knows when we don't feel like we we worthy of his
love, and he not only understands our imperfections, but he loved us
in spite of him. And our savior does as well! That is why the power of
the atonement is real, that is why Christ suffered for each and every
one of us, it is because he loves us, and so does are Heavenly Father.
Everything we receive is because of that love, every single blessing!
Without that love, there would be no hope, because we wouldn't have
the blessings that we have now. We have the power to overcome our
imperfections, and become stronger, and not only is that made possible
by love, the motivating factor for us to do it is love! Change
prompted by the atonement never brings despair, because it is truly
possible, it is filled with hope and love! I can't trade that
knowledge I have gained for anything, because it is priceless, it is
precious, just as my eternal family is precious to me, but this
knowledge far exceeds that knowledge, and I can truly say that I have
that testimony now.
We also had friends family home evening, and made hamburgers on
Friday. Poor hosoya Shimai, she was fretting about the hamburgers, and
I was kind of in charge of cooking them, and one of the elders was
helping, and he put oil on the grill things... There was so much
grease on there, it was kind of disgusting, but they tasted good, and
that is just the way things go sometimes.
Saturday we went finding, had some actual scheduled finding done, and
it was good. We had ping pong night, but no one was able to come, so
we did some mapping of our area, so we can be better at visiting
members, and then headed home, and it was a good day, we also set some
awesome goals, that are going to bring miracles, I can't wait to see
how things change.
Sunday we had a baptism! There is a Spanish family in the ward, and
their son, Carlos Musashi, he has a Japanese and a Spanish name, was
getting baptized. They asked us last week to sing I am a child of God
for the service, and through an inspired question got them to admit
they would love it if we could do it in Spanish, and so we practiced
all week, and it turned out wonderful! The dad, who is fully Chilean
said our pronunciation was perfect, which was a relief, and it was so
cool to witness that baptism! All of the ordinances were in Spanish,
so I didn't understand everything, but it was so cool! And the same
family blessed their third son, only a couple of months old now in
sacrament meeting, so that was way cool! After church we ended up
doing a roleplay with our ward mission leader, it just kind of started
as we were talking, and got some feedback, and then we headed to the
fujiis, the less actives we tried to visit earlier in the week, and
had a great visit with fujii Shimai, all in English, cause she is
completely fluent, and it was fun, but also a little weird. We also
went up to the mizoguchis again, up at huge hill, and it wasn't nearly
as bad as it has been before, and it was a lot of fun! They had 16
people over including the missionaries, so their house was packed, but
it was definitely full of fun!
I had such an amazing week, and I noticed when I was biking, that I
never wanted to stop smiling! The mission is the best, because it is
full of opposites! Got to love those opposites!
I think you can all see what I learned from my ponderizing scripture,
it is truly when we humble ours,Eve's and turn ourselves over to God
that we can become stronger, and we can see that the challenges we
have really are meant to benefit us, and we can grow stronger! God
never meant for us to stay weak humans, he means for us to
continuously grow stronger and stronger so that we. Can become like
him! This upcoming week will be 2 Nephi 32:9, and I can't hardly wait!
Also go ahead and read 1 nephi chapters 19 and 21, they are packed
full of the atonement if you opens your eyes to see it, and are just
amazing! I love you all, and miss you!
Love, Sister Makin
saw any crazy miracles, but my perspective has definitely changed, and
I have a whole new mindset! If is amazing what a blessing and extra
sincere prayers, and reading your scriptures can do for you, and how
fast it can help you!
Monday after pday we went to the Browns, and did a mogi lesson with
them, which was awesome! We mogid the plan of salvation, and got some
feedback from them. The great thing is that they are both fluent in
Japanese and English, so they were able to give us some really great
advice, and we could fully understand it. Sister brown is Japanese, so
it is way awesome to be able to have that benefit as well! They are
amazing, and so ready to help with dendo, we are actually having
dinner at their house again tonight but this time with our
investigator, I am so excited!
Tuesday we taught three lessons to members, two of which were less
actives, and then rushed to game night! It was so much fun, and I
just really love working with members! We were shocked that we were
able to make it to game night in time, because the last member we met
with is usually a talker, and she still was, but she seemed to get
that we didn't have tons of time, so we were able to be only a little
late, and we had lots of fun! We played hearts tonight, with seven
people, and it was fun, but a lot harder, we had to explain it to
everyone, and it is a lot harder to not get stuck with a bad hand when
there are seven people playing.
Wednesday we got lost, but it was great! We were in the right area,
but we couldn't find the less actives name kanji on any of the houses,
so we weren't able to visit them, it was ok, because we called them to
see if we could get help getting to their house, and only the husband
was home, so we couldn't have really visited anyway, but we later made
an appointment with the wife to come over on Sunday, which should be
great. And we also taught eikaiwa, and we taught storytelling, and we
had them write stories, except as more of a game, and they had to pass
the story to the next person after a short amount of time, but the
next person could only see the last line. It is a game I have played
at girls camp before, and it was so much fun. My companion and I did
an example story, and I could speak it, because I was laughing so
hard, because it started out as a girl in love with a boy who smelled
like a pig, and liked to go running five hours to swim in the ocean.
It makes no sense, but the stories are all hilarious,
Thursday we did SKK, and it was the most distracted yet focused SKK
ever! I think that can pretty much describe all of my skks, or at
least most of them. By the way SKK is weekly planning session. I just
seem to get ideas when my brain goes off on random tangents, and
luckily my companions are all way patient with me and let me go off on
random tangents. We also visited a less active, and then our relief
society president and her husband, and it was awesome, so much fun!
And I think her dendo Fire is just about to explode, it is going to
light so much, she is definitely at least going to help us with less
actives more, which should be so much fun!
Friday we had ztm, and there were two way cool things about it, first
that everyone just shared what they were learning from the atonement,
and that most of ztm was just a free for all talking session. The
funny thing about that was that the elders were going way fast,
bouncing off of eachother, and I know there were times I wanted to
talk, but I wasn't really given an opportunity, because before I could
open my mouth one of the elders had already started talking, and
occasionally they paused and said they wanted to hear more from the
sisters, and at those times we always contributed, but then they would
take off again, and it was just funny. The other cool part was that
they gave everyone an opportunity to bear their testimonies, and I
took the opportunity to bear mine. Have you ever been bearing your
testimony, and it is as you say the words that the spirit bears
witness to you that you actually do know what you are saying 100%, and
that it is true? That is what happened to me, and I love when that
happens, because it is such a strengthening power for me. I can now
truly testify that I am more grateful for my heavenly fathers love and
my savior and his love than I am for my eternal family. Sorry family,
I love you, I really do, and I am so grateful that we are an eternal
family, but you are most definitely second place now, because of what
I have been learning and experiencing! Our Heavenly Father loves us!
He knows exactly how we think, how we feel, and there isn't a moment
that goes by where he doesn't think about us. He knows are
imperfections, he knows when we don't feel like we we worthy of his
love, and he not only understands our imperfections, but he loved us
in spite of him. And our savior does as well! That is why the power of
the atonement is real, that is why Christ suffered for each and every
one of us, it is because he loves us, and so does are Heavenly Father.
Everything we receive is because of that love, every single blessing!
Without that love, there would be no hope, because we wouldn't have
the blessings that we have now. We have the power to overcome our
imperfections, and become stronger, and not only is that made possible
by love, the motivating factor for us to do it is love! Change
prompted by the atonement never brings despair, because it is truly
possible, it is filled with hope and love! I can't trade that
knowledge I have gained for anything, because it is priceless, it is
precious, just as my eternal family is precious to me, but this
knowledge far exceeds that knowledge, and I can truly say that I have
that testimony now.
We also had friends family home evening, and made hamburgers on
Friday. Poor hosoya Shimai, she was fretting about the hamburgers, and
I was kind of in charge of cooking them, and one of the elders was
helping, and he put oil on the grill things... There was so much
grease on there, it was kind of disgusting, but they tasted good, and
that is just the way things go sometimes.
Saturday we went finding, had some actual scheduled finding done, and
it was good. We had ping pong night, but no one was able to come, so
we did some mapping of our area, so we can be better at visiting
members, and then headed home, and it was a good day, we also set some
awesome goals, that are going to bring miracles, I can't wait to see
how things change.
Sunday we had a baptism! There is a Spanish family in the ward, and
their son, Carlos Musashi, he has a Japanese and a Spanish name, was
getting baptized. They asked us last week to sing I am a child of God
for the service, and through an inspired question got them to admit
they would love it if we could do it in Spanish, and so we practiced
all week, and it turned out wonderful! The dad, who is fully Chilean
said our pronunciation was perfect, which was a relief, and it was so
cool to witness that baptism! All of the ordinances were in Spanish,
so I didn't understand everything, but it was so cool! And the same
family blessed their third son, only a couple of months old now in
sacrament meeting, so that was way cool! After church we ended up
doing a roleplay with our ward mission leader, it just kind of started
as we were talking, and got some feedback, and then we headed to the
fujiis, the less actives we tried to visit earlier in the week, and
had a great visit with fujii Shimai, all in English, cause she is
completely fluent, and it was fun, but also a little weird. We also
went up to the mizoguchis again, up at huge hill, and it wasn't nearly
as bad as it has been before, and it was a lot of fun! They had 16
people over including the missionaries, so their house was packed, but
it was definitely full of fun!
I had such an amazing week, and I noticed when I was biking, that I
never wanted to stop smiling! The mission is the best, because it is
full of opposites! Got to love those opposites!
I think you can all see what I learned from my ponderizing scripture,
it is truly when we humble ours,Eve's and turn ourselves over to God
that we can become stronger, and we can see that the challenges we
have really are meant to benefit us, and we can grow stronger! God
never meant for us to stay weak humans, he means for us to
continuously grow stronger and stronger so that we. Can become like
him! This upcoming week will be 2 Nephi 32:9, and I can't hardly wait!
Also go ahead and read 1 nephi chapters 19 and 21, they are packed
full of the atonement if you opens your eyes to see it, and are just
amazing! I love you all, and miss you!
Love, Sister Makin
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