Hello. I love you. Yes, you reading this right now. I love
you. Your soul is a gift and oh man, oh man, do you even know what that means? I
can't full explain it because it's just to intense...anyway. How are you? I'm
pretty good, I mean spiritually and mentally heck yeah, I can do anything. The
gospel is true, Joseph Smith flipping (I know this isn't that reverent but this
is how I feel about it) saw Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ right in front of
him! Say what! And and the Book of Mormon! Don't even get me started...wow I'm
such a missionary...I can't believe I've been doing this for this long! Woah, it
must be true (it totally is). Well what did we do this week? Well, I'm gonna tell you!
Monday....things...
Tuesday! Was our day in Habikino our other area and we tried
to visit people with Brother Kono and I found a picture that translates really
funny. I'll just tell you what it says, "How would you like it if a dog pooped in
front of your house, you wouldn't like it! Your dog is stupid, he won't know that
he is being rude but you are! That's a rough translation. It also has picture
of the guy walking his dog. I thought at first it was about a neighborhood
creeper but no it was some old grandma who freaked out over doggie doo. Then
we ran into an old woman, whose hair was
pink and when we tried to talk to her she shouted, "I can't hear you my ears
don't work," she was like 89 or something...it was kinda funny.
Wednesday! I died...ugh I hated it. Just wanted to go out
but couldn't. I was so physically exhausted I slept for like 5 hours...so
bad...but then we went to eikaiwa and met our investigator (finally, she was
from the previous sisters) and she came and played ping pong with us! That was
fun. Love ping pong. I also love Brother Kimura who is wicked good at ping pong
and watched him destroy Elder Westhoff.
Thursday we did planning! And sang to old people. It was fun. Also played with a 2 year old. She was so cute. I
have pictures.
Friday was Zone Training Meeting. We all had french toast
together that morning and turns our my first trainer got transferred into my zone! AHHHH so happy! She only has like a transfer and a half
left. Edwards Shimai is the best, I love her so much! Then we had our meeting.
We let members come to see what we are working on and this one member came and
raised his hand and commented on our goal of getting 20 lessons a week. And was
like why aren't you focusing on your investigators. And he went on but his
points were off, and didn't make much sense. There was lots of tension with him
and Takahashi Chōrō. Yikes. But then he left. Also Westhoff Chōrō talked for
like 40 minutes on tech....he likes to talk...oh man. Then after the meeting we
went to a burger shop. Oh man.
I have to start a new paragraph because it's so awesome! We
went to this new place to eat lunch and this guy, his name is Yo, who runs the
place, studied English and surfing in California in Huntington Beach and Orange
County! Say what?! And so we talked about California and VWs and he is now my
new favorite person who needs the gospel. Also he makes the best burgers in a Japan! Wow. Like so good, a good, fried burger. It was like stepping back
into America! I loved it! He also played some great music by Babylon.
Saturday we had a really good day! We first had
ice cream with Chiara our investigator from Italy. She's interested in the
logistics of our religion the next step is spiritually. But she is way sweet!!
I love her! Then we went and dendo'd with sister Kokura and we taught an
awesome street lesson about the atonement to this guy and it got him so excited
to help us in the future! Yay! Then we went with two sisters and they took us
the missionaries out to eat some delicious sushi :3 AHHHH so happy!
Sunday was the highlight of the week. Yesterday in sacrament meeting my doryo and I
sang "I feel my Savior's love," and it was in Japanese at first then
the last verse was English. And as we sang, the piano stopped playing and it
was just our voices. With each word the spirit engulfed us ten fold. We got to
the chorus where it says, "He knows I will follow Him, Give all my life to
him," at this moment I realized that this is what we have done. This is is so
important, He gave us everything and in return, the least I can do is give it
all to Him, my heart, my soul, my pain, my joy, everything. We got to that line
and it was so intense. It was so hard to sing. It was the truth. Because we
were crying, Larsen Shimai dropped out and I was left alone to sing the last
like, "I feel my Savior's love, the love he freely gives me." My heart
leapt inside my chest . He loves me! I know it!
Give it all to Him and you will Feel with great intensity, the Savior's
love for you.
Well that's it my loves,
You are wonderful!
Love Oswald Shimai
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