Me being....me I guess.
Konnichiwa, kazoku!!!!!!!
Fabulous news. Lane shimai and I are staying here together in Fukuoka for another transfer! 6 more glorious weeks. Well, we already decided we'll be companions for the rest of our mission, so its all good. But yeah! We are about the only companionship in our district that stayed the same. Kind of crazy. But way fun. So Bush shimai, one of the girls in the other companionship in our apartment transferred and Lyles shimai came in. Fun fact - lyles shimai and I were in the same ward for the first semester of my sophomore year at BYU and she was Heaton shimai's trainer. Small world indeed. Living in a 4 -man apartment is the greatest.
Exciting news about this transfer - three holidays. Thanksgiving, christmas and new years. It's going to be such a party (in a missionary kind of way). :D
Sooooo, on to the week's news! First off, bean dendo was super fun. It's where all the fukuoka missionaries go on splits with all of the brand new missionaries that came from the MTC and are at the mission home for a couple of days before getting sent off to their new areas. I was on splits with Sister Sukuki (a bean, not my trainer!) and it was the greatest. She was super sweet. We had so much fun. Eikaiwa that night was insane having the normal 12 ish Fukuoka missionaries plus 30 new missionaries and all the eikaiwa students, but it was a party!
The Adventurers:
So Higashi shimai and Lyles shimai are the new STLs for our zone and the nagasaki zone, which is super exciting. We came to realize that we were the only ones in the zone without a fancy title (for example, APs, ZLs, DLs, STLs, etc..)..... so we came up with one for ourselves. From here on out, we are the adventurers. It's just the truth. We have so many crazy adventures/ things that happen to us every day. Here are a few examples -
- We're train pros these days. We have gone on trains multiple times in the last few weeks by ourselves and have gotten to where we needed to go!!! It's exciting. That's all.
-We discovered the coolest forest/park thing ever. It's right next to a road, but it's kind of hidden so in order to find it, it needs to be stumbled upon. There were pinecones on the ground. I've never seen pinecones here before! So we gathered them in preparation of Christmas decorating and such. Yosh. We decided to name this sneaky forest "The Forest of Banff." (We stole the name from a random bakery with that name that we pass every day).
-We both happen to have bright red coats, so it's hilarious because these days whenever we're wearing our coats at the same time, people notice us even more than before. We already stick out a ton because we're clearly not Japanese, but with our coats it helps all the more. I think it's kind of like a sneaky proselyting tool.
So here is a quick update on all the people in our lives right now!!!
Oota Emiko (RC) - She is super sweet. She's older, and unfortunately her memory is declining a little so she has forgotten most of the things she was taught before baptism, so we are just going through slowly and simply and reteaching from the beginning. She is responding really well, and I am excited to continue working with her. And she adores us, so the three of us always have a good time.
Yukari san - this week was a little disappointing with her. She's recovered from her surgery now, and we tried to meet with her but weren't really able to get in contact with her till later in the week. When we did finally get through to her, she was pretty vague and wouldn't set a time to meet up, and said she was busy with friends so she couldn't come to church or eikaiwa. We're going to do our best to just continue to let her know that we love her, and continue praying for her and trying our best to follow Heavenly Father's will for her at this time.
Christina and Karan - they are super busy with work (they each work 2 jobs, and christina goes to college as well). So unfortunately we weren't able to meet with them this past week but we were able to talk to them on the phone and share a few small messages. We have a member present set up for them tomorrow at the church which I am way excited for, and I have high expectations!!!! Also lane shimai and I are still ganbaru-ing with the no sugar in karan's behalf, and he is decreasing his smoking intensity! Subarashii!!
Takahashi Michiko (she is who I told you about last week)- she is still reading the book of mormon like crazy, and we can't wait to meet with her again. She loves asking us doctrinal and english questions, and we are doing our best to work with her and help her as much as we can. I love her so much. I can't wait till we can meet with her again. She's a little busy with work right now, but we're keeping in contact with her and doing our best.
Geez, I write so much! Sorry it's so rambly. I'm not exactly an english major, sometimes just kind of throw the words on the page. But you get the general idea!!!
Last exciting news. This week, we were invited by Sister Gustafson to THANKSGIVING dinner at the honbu!!! There are too many perks to serving in Fukuoka. True story. I'm treated like a princess here. So I can't wait for that! Also, one of the office elders gave us christmas music. And there are gorgeous christmas lights everywhere these days. I'll try to get some pics eventually. Anyway thank you SO MUCH for everything, your love, support and prayers. I love hearing about how you all are and everything going on with you!!!! Thanks for your testimonies and the strength you are to me! I love you - have a great week!!!
Ai shite imasu!!
-Flake Shimai
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