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What a miracle-seeing, conference going, delicious food-eating week it's been. I know I say this a lot...but....I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY.
What a miracle-seeing, conference going, delicious food-eating week it's been. I know I say this a lot...but....I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY.
Here's a glimpse into my life this past week:
愛するRyoko: Wow she is doing so good. We were finally able to have a member come to her lesson! We started teaching her the commandments and it couldn't have gone more smoothly. First of all, the member that came is literally perfect for Ryoko. They are going to be best friends. It's been decided. They have the same voice, say the same things, have the same hobby, and Akira (the member) even served as a missionary in Ryoko's hometown. Doesn't that just sound like a recipe for best friends? So anyway, the lesson... well we taught her the simple commandments, one of those being prayer, and Ryoko, not the member, but Ryoko bore her testimony on prayer!! She said she loves the peaceful feelings she gets when she prays. Next was the book of Mormon.. Ryoko has been struggling with this one, but luckily Akira had the perfect explanation of the book of Mormon to go along with such a sincere testimony that made Ryoko want to read it. We talked about baptism and confirmation, which we has talked about before and we asked Ryoko if she had any questions and she goes, "just one.. How long is the prayer for the confirmation?" She sighed with relief when we told her that it's only around 3 minutes hahaha. Ryoko said the closing prayer and in her prayer she told her heavenly father that she wants to repent more and to keep the commandments and asked for his help. Wow. Her prayers get me in the kokoro (heart) every time.
Miyuki: Holy moly, it's always an adventure with Miyuki. We were again not able to meet with her this week because she was too busy to meet. But the good news is she came to general conference the whole time on Sunday and loved it! In between sessions, we had lunch with a ton of members (the whole YSA group provided lunch for the missionaries and our investigators). Well during the lunch, members had to introduce the investigators after talking with them for a little while. The member that introduced Miyuki, said that Miyuki said that she's excited to get baptized. Hahaha oh miyuki. We have to meet before you do that! She has a strong desire, but is unbelievably hard to meet with. Pray for Miyuki.
God's timing:
There we were, at lunch with an investigator and it went an hour longer than anticipated. We didn't know how we let that much time go by!! We quickly ended our lunch and went to pay for our food. Well that was when I ran into Kirin. If anyone remembers Kirin, props to you because it's been awhile, but Kirin is Chinese and she's 22. She is super interested in the gospel, we had a lesson with her and she said she would read the book of Mormon. The only problem was, the day after that lesson, she went back to China for 3 weeks and then we were never able to get into contact with her after that. But now here she was! She recognized me, ran up to me and gave me a hug! She told me that she wanted to meet. So we will be meeting with her next week. But if we had left the restaurant any earlier, we would've missed her! God's timing! Also, we originally weren't going to go to that place to eat. Our investigator originally wanted to go to somewhere else, but then found out that place was closed for lunch (what kind of place is closed for lunch?), so she picked this one instead. Craziness.
There we were, at lunch with an investigator and it went an hour longer than anticipated. We didn't know how we let that much time go by!! We quickly ended our lunch and went to pay for our food. Well that was when I ran into Kirin. If anyone remembers Kirin, props to you because it's been awhile, but Kirin is Chinese and she's 22. She is super interested in the gospel, we had a lesson with her and she said she would read the book of Mormon. The only problem was, the day after that lesson, she went back to China for 3 weeks and then we were never able to get into contact with her after that. But now here she was! She recognized me, ran up to me and gave me a hug! She told me that she wanted to meet. So we will be meeting with her next week. But if we had left the restaurant any earlier, we would've missed her! God's timing! Also, we originally weren't going to go to that place to eat. Our investigator originally wanted to go to somewhere else, but then found out that place was closed for lunch (what kind of place is closed for lunch?), so she picked this one instead. Craziness.
Other highlights that I don't have time to go into detail about:
We also had zone conference and general conference (we watch it a week late because we have to wait for translation) this week and both were so spiritually uplifting. Also, all of our other investigators are doing great! We had 3 people come to church this weekend, woohoo! I also had sushi bowl again incase you were wondering. :)
We also had zone conference and general conference (we watch it a week late because we have to wait for translation) this week and both were so spiritually uplifting. Also, all of our other investigators are doing great! We had 3 people come to church this weekend, woohoo! I also had sushi bowl again incase you were wondering. :)
Love you all, but God loves you even more.
愛しています、
Wunderli 姉妹
愛しています、
Wunderli 姉妹
Pics:
1. Tokyo zone conference.. dang I'm short
2. Comp pic 
3. Instead of parking lots for cars... Japan has parking lots for bikes
4. Two on the right are Bffs Ryoko and Akira.. How cute are they??
5-7. We went to a members house for pday and to sue taught us how to paint with ink. So cool.
8. By yours truly :)
9&10. You can buy the weirdest things in Japan.. like individually, peeled corn, and a notebook that is also a pillow. Love Japan :`)
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