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| Another beautiful sunrise |
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| Scripture case a sweet sister in the ward gave me. |
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| special cake for Princess Day |
We found two new investigators this week!!!!
1-Aiko, she is a single mama with another on the way, she is super smart, loves to read, and we taught her about the restoration! When we asked her to pray to know if the Book of Mormon is true, she thought about it for a loooooong time. And then told us she would, and asked where our favorite parts were. I love people who love to read. They are so great to work with haha. She is going to Australia this week! So we wont see her for a bit. But we are way excited about her!!!!
2-Sachiko- she goes along with a miracle story-- we dendoed down this long road for about 4 hours last monday, talking to everyone we could. It was great! talked to a lot of good people, but didnt find any new investigators. So the next day we were planning on dendoing somewhere else, but after praying about it we felt like there was someone we missed on that road- and that we needed to do it again. So thats what we did! Met a lot of angels on our way (we started keeping an angel count). Its funny, because sometimes you get kekkoed (rejected) over and over and over again, and then this really nice person comes along. Like REALLY nice, and patient. But they wont make a return appointment or give us any of their information. Im convinced they are just angels heavenly father sends to give us the umph to keep going with all our might! but yes, so the day was going great we were about to turn around and walk back down the road when we saw two girls- on on the right one on the left. We could only talk to one though! so cook shimai was like which one which one?? and I was like PONYTAIL. so we started talking to her, gave her a Book of Mormon, and she was so excited. She asked us where it came from, and she read Moroni`s promise- we asked her if she would like to know more. She said Yes! and then she said "how about on wednesday at 4:00". and then we told her we could meet her right there, or we could meet her at the church (showed her a map) and she told us she would love to come to the church. She is amazing. After we walked away, we were just beaming. So excited, SO happy, feeling SO GOOD! Anyways, miracles right and left. Its wonderful.
YUU CHANS BAPTISM IS COMING UP! I am getting so nervous! Nervous something will go wrong, BUT I do believe that everything will work out. She gave me a heart attack being out of town all last week, but we are meeting with her today. Her baptism is in two saturdays! Im so excited. She is so excited, now we just gotta make sure her mom is so excited.
Alrighty I want to explain a couple of the things I studied this week, it was marvelous!
Just go read Ether chapter 6- its wonderful. and full of metaphorable (I know its not a real word) verses. I love Ether 6:5 where it talks about how the furious winds blow towards the promised land. It is so beautiful! And so true! Sometimes things are going crazy, life gets crazy, life gets hard, sometimes you feel like your acked up into a corner-- but you can remember-"furious winds blow towards the promised land". You arent backed up into a corner at all. You are progressing and moving towards something greater! Trials are like refiners fires-- but it makes no difference if the glass turns back into sand! I was just thinking about how-for example- I learn things in training meetings- and im like "yeah...thats good...I`ll do that...." and then I dont. or I start to and then I stop. Drives me crazy! But im trying to build up my dilligence so that I stick with things. Anyways...another verse I love is Ether 7:13. Simple, but beautiful! Anyways, dont want you to think im trying to preach at you, im just sharin what I learned!
Something crazy cool though--Alright! So we are teaching lesson 3 to yuu chan today, and I wanted to make sure that she understands. Obviously. and I LOVE visuals. so. I wanna share this one with you that came to me during study yesterday.
Imagine you are climbing a mountain- the top of the mountain is eternal life-or eternal happiness. But you need a guide. Christ is your guide! along the way, you see these rocks. You understand that they will make your journey harder- but they are just so beautiful that you pick a few up, and then you start to realize you dont want them anymore (in this fictional world you arent allowed to just put the rock back down) so Christ takes them for us. We need to have FAITH in christ that He is leading us in the right direction. That faith will grow with every step- as we see the beauty around (our blessings, miracles, angels in our lives) because we will understand we are going in the right direction. Then, the times that we pick up the rocks, we need to REPENT by apologizing, making a determination never to pick up that rock again, and handing it over to christ. Instead of rocks we can pick up flowers :) and give people flowers! BAPTISM is the point where we promise Christ we will follow Him, tell Him we believe this is the right way, and that we want to follow in His footsteps. The HOLY GHOST is like the sunlight on our path, guiding us so that we can see more clearly, and so that the flowers will grow more beautiful. Gives us more strength to carry on- resist the tempation to carry rocks because in the light of the sun- we see how beautiful the flowers are! ENDURE TO THE END: make it to the top! sometimes you stumble, sometimes other people put rocks in your pack, sometimes you feel lost. BUT. if you keep moving forward, one foot in front of the other (da doo da doo) then you will make it to the top!!! When you are at the top, you will see Christ and Heavenly Father. They will be able to tell what kind of person you became, and you will also have a perfect knowledge of the kind of person you became. Are you fit, energetic, happy, strong??
Anyways, it makes sense in my mind- im not sure if it does in email. I know its not perfect, but it will be fun to be able to describe to her!
General Conference is coming up. I am SO EXCITED!!!!!!
McKennas birthday is this week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAPPPPPPPPPYYYYY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its also white day on march 14th, which means that all the guys are supposed to give the girls valentines now. We shall see if that actually happens.
I should end my emails with recipes or something. Im collecting so many.
I LOVE YOU ALL!!! Im sorry I didnt have time to write many stories- oh! investigator list--
Yuu Chan!!!!! Yukari, Aikawa, Kitagawa, Aiko, Sachiko, Shimizu :)
ps we arent allowed to procelyte to men or anything, dont know if I ever mentioned that. Super funny though- this past week we were housing- and a man opened the door, we talked to him for a bit, and he said something (dont even rmember particulars) but then Cook Shimai was like ie ie...ooooso! (no no, thats a lie!) and then she goes "japanese people are always liars" (but didn't realize what she said until she said it). I was laughing my head off on the other side of the door-- he didnt catch it. good times haha. No old grandmas yelled at us this week or haunted our dreams! thats a plus!
Have a great week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Go skipping down to the beach or something. Ride your bike up the big hill you live on and then think of me. hahaha
I LOVE YOU ALL!!! HAPPY WHITE DAY! I EXPECT YOU ALL TO CELEBRATE IT!
Sincerely,
Lane Shimai
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