Dear all,
Hello! Hope all is well in the
real world. People around mention all the bad things that are going on but I'm
oblivious. Nothing too bad though right?
There were a bunch of things I
wanted to write but I kind of forgot so here goes some rambling.
So we accidentally rang a wrong
doorbell the other day when we went to visit an investigator. The guy is
Chinese, 19, and here in Japan studying English. We asked if we could come back and
bring a Chinese Book of Mormon. I don't think he understood what we were saying
but we set a time anyway. Went back, gave it to him, gave a very simple lesson,
and asked to come back. He said yes again. We've gone back twice now with
Chinese speakers- he's read 200 pages and wants to be baptized! We are really
excited but a little worried about what's going to happen after he's
baptized...there aren't any Chinese speakers in his area/ward. Soo that's a
problem we're working on right now. But besides that, he's got a baptismal date
and we're ready to go forward with all of the lessons. Oh also, when we
explained baptism, he asked if smoking was allowed. We said no and explained
why. He thought about it for a little bit, then said "Okay, I will start
trying to quit" After getting over my shock, I asked him how much he
smokes. He said 6, which then I said "6 boxes?!?" He laughed and said
no, only 6 cigs. Oh language barriers! But yeah, he's golden (did I mention
that his family is already Christian?)
We went on two exchanges this
week. Went up to Asahikawa and worked in Sapporo. Had lots of fun and learned a
lot with other shimai. Had lots of lessons with investigators, our NA [non-active] came to
church again (two weeks in a row!), Sada-shimai is growing in the gospel and
doing well. We are finding so many incredible people, sadly most of them are
guys. So we will be passing all of them to the elders in the near future.
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| Waiting for the train. |
We biked reeeeally far this
week. In the rain. Over mountainous hills. I hit a new level of exhaustion this
week. There is so many things we have to do; I feel like I'm swimming upstream.
But I love being busy. I would much rather have a lot to do then be housing all
day. It's a beautiful life, this mission thing. There was another baptism in
our district, yay!!! So we attended that and it went really well. Our district
has seen 3 baptisms this transfer, so we are all really excited.
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| Beautiful park we had a picnic at today :) |
I've been studying old Ensign
magazines lately. I really love reading it. Makes me sorry I didn't start
reading it sooner (aka before the mission). I love reading the counsel of our
prophet and other church leaders. Makes me so grateful for modern revelation
and continued guidance from our Father in Heaven. Those windows definitely
haven't closed and for that I am grateful. Their words are truly for this age
and for us. I love it! It goes right along perfectly with the Book of Mormon
:)
Thank you all for your love and
support. I'm so grateful for everything you all do for me. I love this gospel
more than I ever have before and know it is true. I love being a missionary!
Hope you all have an incredible
week :)
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| I asked for salt at McDonalds...they took out some salt from the big container and put it in this. I guess they don't have salt packets in Japan haha. |
Love,
Sugihara Shimai
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