Juuuuust like magic. My attempts at making Stevenson shimai believe that I am a witch hasn't progressed as much as I would have wished this past week. Pray for me.
We found a new investigator!!! A SOLID one!! She is a college student, Chinese, and tall and gorgeous just like Suen. She lives in the same apartment as Suen. Crazy right? Anyways, she is golden. Aaaaabsolutely golden. Super sweet. Her name is Kyo San.
We had these days last week back to back where I SWEAR everyone listened to us. It was INSANE and it felt SO GOOD! Granted there were a lot of kekkoes, BUT....so many people listened.
I want to share on of the best quotes:
"No pain we suffer, no trail we experience is wasted. it ministers to our educations, to the development of such things as patience, faith, fortitude, and humility. All that we suffer and all we endure especially when we endure patiently builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable. More worthy to be called the children of God, and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation that we gain the education that we came here to acquire"--Orson F. Whittney (unfortunately I don't know how to spell his name...)
If you got time you should all listen to the CES devotional by Bednar--"that we might not shrink"
douzo
Did I tell you about the drink that lady gave us? The one that is 1/3 pickled prune juice, 1/3 vinegar...then 1/3rd milk? yeah. So. she fed us another drink a couple weeks ago. Don't know what was in that one...BUT! this time before we saw her we prayed that she wouldn't give us another drink. And she didn't. Some people might say its a coincidence but I think it was a MIRACLE.
Nagasaki had a baptism this week! A man from Eikaiwa--Masuda san. man is he adorable. he has got to be one of the most timid, shy people you will ever meet. Stevenson shimai and I saw him on the street one day-invited him to church-and he hasn't missed a day since :) he is adorable. I shall send a picture.
If you are looking for a cool adventure story- read Alma chapter 2. If you don't have a Book of Mormon, find some Mormon missionaries.
So one of the New investigators we found last week dropped...kind of a weird experience. She dressed me up in a kimono, gave us cookies, asked us if we wanted to enter a kimono wearing contest, and then dropped us. Almost didn't even realize it happened. She is a cute little old lady. She'll come around.
So there was supposed to be this HUGE typhoon last week---there were warnings about it every like 5 hours...telling us there were emergencies storehouses opened up...that this was the biggest one in 50 years...nagasaki was supposed to be in the eye of the storm...that we shouldn't go outside, etc. etc. We had orders from the mission president not to leave our apartment that day....and it skipped right past Nagasaki haha. I heard it was pretty bad in Okinawa though. Anyways, it was an adventure! Rained a lot, which was fun! Always love an opportunity to get my rain suit on.
oops. No more time. Well! I love you all! Hope life is great!!
Loooove,
Lane Shimai
ginger drinks that Komori kyodai gave us...
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