Well, hello there. I am in Japan.
Just, you know. Soaking in all the humidity. It's been in the 90's all
week, I think on Saturday it got up closer to 100, plus like a bazillion
percent humidity. But, you know it's all good.
How
was pioneer day? i really wish that the whole world celebrated Pioneer
Day. Well, I did inside of my heart. I am a pioneer through and true. I
even drew pioneers for pioneer day. It was fun.
This
week was really good. We had a lesson with a new investigator, and she
isn't quite sure how interested she is yet, but I was happy to get to
teach another lesson. I think the lesson went too long, and so it could
have been better, but she is really nice and I hope we get to meet with
her again soon. We also had two lessons yesterday. One with a new
investigator that we found last week, and she said she doesn't have
interest but she just wanted to meet with us, so that was a little bit
of a disappointment, but we had another lesson with another girl we met
last week, and she was WAY nice and she took the Book of Mormon more
than willingly, so I am excited to see what happens with her. I think
overall, we are starting to get more appointments, but they aren't
turning into solid investigators. I think I just need to work on my
teaching skills I guess. Teaching in Japanese is hard!! :)
We
had a ward Barbecue this week too!!! President Egan let all of us
missionaries go, and we all met at the church, and drove in the Honbu
cars together up to where it was going to be held. We drove up into the
mountains to a camp site thing (I thought it looked pretty American) and
the members cooked a TON of food! There was SO MUCH MEAT. The beef
tasted like Tucano's, a little bit, and guess what......I ATE SQUID.
Yes, I ate it. I ate it cooked, and I ate it raw. Both of them didn't
really taste like anything, just like the sauce I had on it. The cooked
one was a little tougher, but the raw one was WAY chewy. I had to chew
for a while before I felt like I could swallow. Anyways, I did that. And
that was very interesting. I ate squid, and I wasn't even that afraid
to try it. What's happening to me?! The members were really kind. We
just kept eating and eating, and there was SO much food. We really
couldn't believe how much food they cooked for it. Haha. I really love
the Japanese members! They are so fun and cute and I think their kids
are adorable. Oh yeah, so the BBQ was the day after Pioneer Day, and we
got to the place, and they put all of the stuff in carts and we carted
up the BBQ stuff to our site! It was really cute and I felt like maybe
Japan does appreciate Pioneers :)
We also got
to teach Kodomo Eikaiwa this week. We still haven't gotten on in our
area, but we came up to Fukuoka to help with the one here because there
are a lot of people from Nakagawa that go to the Kids Eikaiwa here. So,
we came up and helped out and got to know some new people, and it was a
lot of fun. I think teaching kids Eikaiwa is a blast. They sing songs
and talk about things like animals and colors and good stuff like that.
Plus, I'm just weird enough to dance to the music and stuff, so, anyway
it was fun. After the Eikaiwa, the moms all had brought stuff to trade!
They brought like clothes their kids cant wear anymore, or like books or
stuff they just don't want anymore, and it was so fun! It really was
fun to watch them all look at each others stuff they had brought, and we
played with the kids a little bit. There is one little boy who, every
time he sees me, comes up to me and just waits for me to talk to him. He
is probably 2. He is SO CUTE. I read him some books (talked about the
pictures) and played with his airplane with him. And then he wouldn't
leave me the whole time. I thought it was quite adorable and I just
wanted to take him home!!! But, of course, I can't. That's actually one
really hard thing about being a Sister Missionary. I want to just like
hold all of the kids and babies because they are SO SO SO cute, but I
can't!!!! Ahh!! So, Scott and Kenzie better have a fresh one when I get
home ;) Or Lauren. That works too.
This week I
had been feeling a little bit down. I was kind of having a small pity
party inside of my head. And I received a really special letter. In the
letter it said, "The clock of life keeps ticking and it cannot be
stopped. The only choice we have is whether we will be productive or not
with our time." When I read that, I realized how inwardly selfish I was
being. I had been wasting a lot of my time thinking about how I was
feeling, not about others, and it's true. There isn't a stop to the
time. I sometimes can't believe that Lauren is married, has two kids,
and that Scott is getting married. I can't believe sometimes that I wake
up on a futon in Japan, or that Margaret is old enough to go to girls
camp. But, time will keep going, and we have to put our best efforts in
every day, so that we will always be ready to do what the Lord wants for
us to do. Anyway, thanks Dad, for those wonderful words of wisdom.
Besides
squid, I had another first! A flat tire came my way. Yes, as we were
making the 45 minute trek home from the church, my tire went flat. Of
course. We were only half way home, and still had a way to go, so we
couldn't just walk. We went to the nearest place to have them pump up
the tire, and we rode the rest of the way home. I was satisfied. I
thought maybe the change in the air, it was really hot and then it
cooled off because of the rain, may have just over worried the poor
tire. So, we resume our day, going along, and we go to bed, etc, etc.
Well, we get up in the morning, get ready, do our studies, and head out
the door and lo and behold, the tire is once again completely flat. Oh
yes. "There must be a hole" we decided. Well, we had to go back to the
church, so we walked our bikes up about an hour until we found a little
shop where the nice man was able to fill the hole. It was really quite a
fiasco. I probably wont want to do that again any time soon. But you
know, I guess it had to happen some time.
Well,
this is a really boring letter. I am sorry. I can't think of anything
else to say about this week. I hope you are all happy!!! I hope that I
get Scott and Kenzie's announcement sometime. I am excited to get it.
The picture you sent me of them is really cute! I hope all is well at
home.
Have you seen the new Pixar movie yet? Was it good? What other movies are out?
I LOVE YOU ALL TO PIECES!!
Aishiteimasu!
Raines Shimai
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