The big room looks awesome! I had
no idea that you were actually going to fix it up like that. It looks
way nice! I am really happy for you! I'm glad you got new meds mom, and
I'm glad Margaret had a great time at Girls Camp! I really liked girls
camp alot, and I'm glad that she is loving it so far. Take advantage of
being in the Young Womens! Sometimes I wish I could just go to mutual on
a Tuesday night, and not worry about life!!! :) I love you all!
Here is an excerpt from my journal.
July 15, 2015
"Oh
my crap it is getting so hot. I"M BAKING LIKE A TOASTED CHEESER IT"S SO
HOT!!" I literally sweat from every pore today. My skirt was wet that's
how sweaty I got. My shirt was damp and nasty and of course my hair and
face looked real nice and shiny from it too. I basically should just
shave my head because my hair just get's plastered to my forehead...
Yeah.. anyway, I am constantly sweaty. .. I sweat at night, I sweat when
I wake up, I always am just so sweaty."
Did you enjoy that? I hope so.
This
week has been so awesome!! We had junkai with Nohagi Shimai and
Kawamura Shimai on Friday. And we found 7 new investigators between the
two companionship! This week we found a total of 12 new investigators!
We feel SO blessed. We have been feeling like there wasn't much work to
do here in Nakagawa, but God really is proving us wrong. I feel very
humbled and really inadequate for the amount of people we have been
finding and have had given to us. We really feel so much love for the
people here in Nakagawa, and I really love it here. I'm starting to just
feel like I could be here forever, and that would be okay. I really
love everyone here. We had a first lesson yesterday with a really sweet
girl we found on Friday. She is 20 and she works at an old folks home.
She said that she read in a book once that God created the stars, and
she said that ever since then she has felt that there has to be a God,
someone who created this beautiful earth that we live on, and I really
agree with her. She was so fun to get to know and teach. She was so easy
to give commitment to and she really just lit up when we spoke about
God. I am so excited to meet with her again. I really feel like she
will become a progressing investigator! When she asked her if she would
meet with us again, she said yes, right away and we set up another
appointment right there. It was too easy!
Anyway,
over junkai I was with Nohagi Shimai, and she doesn't really speak any
English, so I had to use every single bit of Japanese that I could
muster from my memory and we communicated fine. Of course, my level of
speaking ability is like a two year old, and very plain form with odd
politeness added into it. But it worked and we were very successful! I
actually felt pretty good about what I was able to communicate, and I
felt happy about that. Of course, I still struggle really hard with this
language, and I pray every day that I will have more desire and more
ability to learn. It takes so much work to learn this language, and I
can't believe how much I have learned, and yet I still can't believe how
much I still haven't learned. It's sometimes over whelming! I am trying
my best though.
On last Tuesday we went out
to eat as a district for real Fukuoka Ramen, and the place said, "your
happiness of eating this ramen, makes us happy," and I just thought it
was so funny. I couldn't believe how funny I thought it was. The best
part though was the Ramen! It really was something different. It was so
delicious and I want it so many more times!!! We will have to go back
again. It had meat and spices and other things like nuts and junk in it
and I was just in heaven. It was so good. And the bowl was HUGE. I don't
understand Japanese people. They are like sticks and yet all they eat
is like carbs. Bread, rice, noodles, etc. I don't get it. Oh well, I
just will never be built like a Nihonjin! I eat something and it just
sticks... :)
Yeah, there was a Typhoon, but it
rained the next day A LOT harder after they said the typhoon was gone. I
don't think it did any damage or anything, so that's good.The weather
is crazy. It will get BLAZING hot and humid, and I'll feel like I"m
going to die, and then it will cool off and rain a TON and it is just
like a cycle. The wind was blowing so hard the other day I felt like I
was going to fall off of my bike, but it was fun anyway! I really enjoy
riding my bike actually. It gets us around a lot faster than walking.
Who would have thought I would have said I like to ride my bike? I never
would have guessed that. I ride it every single day, and it is
becoming my best friend haha!
We have four
appointments today!!! We are going to be so busy! And we have district
meeting soon and all that good stuff, and We are going to be so tired by
the time we get home tonight. Also, we have been putting all of the
records onto the iPad, and it has to be in Japanese, and it is taking
FOREVER. I am still working on one record, the first one I started. It's
way hard! I'm sure once we have it all in though, it will be nice way
to track everything.
Also, we went and visited
Sakai Kyodai this week because it was his one year mark since he was
baptized! I really love that couple! They make me so happy. We haven't
been able to see them in about a month, and so we just went over and
ping ponged their door, and it was really good. They let us in, we had a
good time, we were able to share a good thought, and all the world was
once again at peace in my heart :)
I was
reading this morning from the conference issue from May, Ensign, and I
was reading Carol M. Stephens talk and she was talking about how every
one really is a child of God, how our identities haven't changed just
because we are now mortal, and we will always be who we are for
eternity, and we could celebrate who we are. I really love her talk and I
still need to finish reading it. But, I was thinking about how everyone
really is God's daughter or son and how really special it is that we
have the chance to become like Him one day. I asked for the Books of
Mormon because I want to have on just for the Christlike Attributes so
that I can really study those and become a better person by becoming
more like those attributes in Christ. I hope that I will be able to come
even a smidgeon better at some of them.
Well,
I love you all! Keep being awesome! I pray for you individually and I
hope all is well at home. I hope you aren't worried about the wedding
coming so quickly! I bet it is way fun at home with all of those things
going on! I can't wait to get the invitation and the announcement. I
hope it comes soon! I love you all!!!!!!
Love,
Raines Shimai
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