This week feels short because I
just emailed you on Wednesday, but I'm emailing you now anyway. So, The
Fukuoka Ward building is going to be torn down so they can build a newer
nicer, bigger one. Yesterday was the very last Sacrament meeting and
today is the last day that we can use the computers, so we came up for
P-Day, also because we don't have District Meeting tomorrow because we
are having a 70 come to our mission for a taikai. So we came today, on
P-Day, like normal missionaries, to email. I hope you enjoy it. You
probably aren't ready to hear from me yet though. You are still
pondering on the delicately contemplated words that I so graciously sent
your way last week. But, here we go.
Wednesday
we went to Chinese as a district after District Meeting. It was good.
We all got gyoza (potstickers) and it was very good. But the good things
that happened while we dendoed were even better! Haha. So, while we
were housing, I saw this house and it was 11-16 my birthday! We had been
getting kekko after kekko and were a little discouraged, but I looked
at Layton Shimai and I said, "This is my birthday house! There will be
really nice people who live here." I said it kind of like a joke... and
we chortled our way up their stone pathway, and when the lady answered
the door, she was actually really nice! We were able to teach her a few
things, and her husband came out with mosquito repellent and at the very
end they gave us these huge grapes! They were so delicious! The skin is
so hard we had to peel them and they had seeds inside, that's how big
they were! I thought they were big. Anyways, nothing really happened
with her, she wasn't too interested, but we thought it was quite the
miracle. BUT, we were housing in another area, and we had ten minutes
left, and we were going to just kind of pretend to street home and you
know, kill time, but we decided to do one more complex. So we go up
there, do all ten doors, and no one answers, and we still had like five
minutes left. Again, we were going to go home, but I said "Let's just do
the next one, and I bet the last door we can give someone a Book of
Mormon." So, again, we kind of laughed our way over to the next complex,
knocked on every door, kept going and dodging humongous spiders, you
know, all that good stuff, and no one was answering. So we finally got
to the last door and this grandpa opens up. And he sat there and
listened to us and talked to us and told us about how he joined a
religion but he doesn't really believe it, and we were kind of stuck and
didn't know what else to talk about. Well Layton Shimai felt kind of
bad that he just kinda sits around all day so she asked what his hobbies
were. And he said "reading." Of course. Of course. Of course. He loves
to read. So, OF COURSE we pulled out the Book of Mormon, explained a
little bit and he took it very willingly, and we set a return
appointment with him and we have already taught him that first lesson
and have plans to go back again. We don't know what will happen, but we
felt pretty lucky that we got to see those little miracles!
Thursday
was Weekly Planning again, so that was like how it always is. And we
found another person who was really kind and willing to listen. We
taught her a first lesson, but she is really super busy and couldn't
make another appointment but we hope we can meet her again some time.
However, on Thursday night we talked to this girl and for some reason I
thought she smelled like Coke. So, of course, after I told Layton
Shimai, we both really wanted a Coke. So we get home, and the vending
outside of our house has Coke so we just bought one before we went in.
Well, Layton Shimai bought her Coke first, and when it came out, it had
an "E" on it. Her first name starts with "E" so she thought that was
funny and then she said, "Wouldn't it be weird if the one you get has a
'C'?" Hahahahahahhahha GUESS WHAT!! When I bought the stinkin Coke, the
lid had a "C" on it! ISNT THAT SO WEIRD!! We thought it was some type of
miracle. It was so awesome. We laughed really hard.
Saturday
we finally got to see Elsie again! She has been so busy we haven't been
able to visit her. She was telling us about her work and her jobs and
what her daily schedule is like and she works so hard. I really admire
her. She works harder than missionaries. It was crazy. We felt kind of
wimpy when she was telling us everything she had to do in a day, and yet
she still wanted us to come over on the one day that she had off and
wants to come to church on the days she has Sunday off. Isn't that so
cool? I really feel like I'm a lucky missionary to get to work with her.
She's an awesome example to me!
Yeah, and like
I said, yesterday was the last day at the Fukuoka church. The ward is
going to have to travel up to Fujisaki for the next year. I think I'll
be home before it's even finished. So, that's kind of hard, but we
really are just praying that we can find a way to get investigators to
still want to come to church. It's going to be really far away for us.
We are keeping our fingers crossed.
Other
things...Uh... I don't know. I sometimes don't remember what happens in
the week. As far as Japanese... haha... I'm not "comfortable" persay. I
actually was thinking about it and I've been learning Japanese for 7
months and sometimes it feels like I still don't know anything!It's kind
of a crappy feeling sometimes, but I'm just doing my best to try and
everything will work out eventually.
I'm glad
Scott and Kenzie had fun in Harry Potter World. I'm so incredibly
jealous. I'm glad Marge had a good birthday too. Did she have a party or
friends over or anything? What kind of cake did you eat? Oh, that's one
thing. Usually most of my conversations consist of what kind of food I
would eat if I were in America. I miss all of ya'lls 'merican st'all
food. Oh what I would give for your BBQ chicken Mom. Oh what I would
give....
Well, I hope you have another good
week FAMILY. I hope you are all happy and healthy and wealthy and wise.
Don't get too tired walking up that hill on every B'Day MARG. I hope you
keep doing family history so I don't have to do it, mom :) :) :) :) You
could finish it all if you really wanted. ALL OF IT. :) HEHE Okay,
well, have a good week. Thank you, and goodnight!
Love,
Raines Shimai
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