Hello kazoku!!!!
On Sunday we had Snow shimai's birthday. It was a fun day. It was hard seeing Snow's family all at the temple. I just didn't really know what to do or what my role was there. So I chilled with Olsen choro. Hence the photo of us "peacing" it out at the temple.
I'm sad. Sounds like I barely missed Allison and the family. Tell them that I love them! I wish I could have seen them!
We watched Legacy in Japanese, the romance part was cute and something I hadn't seen in forever.
Hmmm Monday was just a normal day.
Tuesday was good except the field was closed...so no soccer on my last Tuesday. Kind of sad.
The devotional on Tuesday was awesome though! It was by Elder Richards. He used an excerpt from one of my favorite Holland talks on Missionary work and the Atonement. I cried of course. It's what I do.
I was really touched by the Armies of Helaman we sang...and the change of words to "and we are now the Lord's missionaries." Now that I'm going to Japan it really feels like I'm going to be a real missionary.
Hmmm Wednesday was a blur too...and on Thursday all I really remember is that Snow shimai and I mopped for service. This week has been nuts. I've been steadily trying to pack. It's sort of a nightmare. I don't want to deal with luggage fees sooo...I'm just not going to risk it.
In other news. We had "In Field Training" yesterday. It felt a little but like EFY except without the dances or the crushes of the week.
I'm really going to miss my companion. Yesterday Snow shimai and I had to separate and practice street contacting. I was such a spaz. I realized that I'm really bad at proselyting in English. I think its just awkward no matter what language you speak. I pray that I'll one day get the confidence to be bold and just speak to people because thats what we do in Japan. We street, not that much door-to-door stuff when everyone lives in an apartment. I also pray I just get the courage to open my mouth and not worry about how poor my Japanese is. Missions are just hard, I'm learning. We did airport/train training...for contacts while we are traveling. I'm a little nervous about that. Even if it is in Eigo. Agh...stress desu ne???!!
Ohhhhh! We got our Katakana name tags. I love mine. It's so legit. Will send pics!
Oh and then the chorotachi assigned us all Pokemon...of course, Japanese missionaries WOULD...I got this one named Jinx...I don't like her lol.
Ok so funny story. so on Tuesday Snow shimai and I are in line for sack breakfast rocking the sweats cuz we had gym that morning. All the sudden we smell like the best smell ever, Its cologne. We havent smelled that in a while...So we start sniffing the elders in front of us wearing it. It was a pretty creepy thing of us to do. But haha...so as we are doing this, they turn around and starti talking to us. Of course, the are from Germany and Sweden and have the cutest accents...and are easy on the eyes. What did we learn from this interaction??? Oh yeah. We are already awkward missionaries. Our flirting/interacting was somewhere south of pathetic. It was so awkward haha
I'm glad Dave got his Morumon Sho. I hope the chocolate and stuff didn't melt too bad. Isn't it weird how its from the left side? I was freaking out when I first saw it. How am I ever going to read this!!!??
Well I actually know how to read pretty well now...just not out of the Morumon Sho. It's tough to read because there are no spaces in between words so you can't tell when one ends and another begins. It's tough enough translating stuff from Nihongo to Eigo in my brain and then translating from hiragana/katakana/kanji to romanji is just another battle.
I've learned so much here at the MTC.
I've learned that you can love EVERYONE. The Savior did and still does.
You cannot do this work ALONE. The Lord is there to help. We can do alot of things in our own strength but when we are faithful he will allow us to witness miracles!
I've learned that you really cannot have the spirit it you are reading from a script. You have to let the spirit guide when teaching lessons. This has been a difficult lesson for me to learn. Particularly when I don't speak the language.
It seems though, that in lessons...the language is so much easier though. And I know that's because of the Spirit.
I've begun to really appreciate the prophet Joseph Smith and the life he lived. I epitomizes what it means to endure to the end.
I am coming to love the Book of Mormon and its very real applications to my life!
There are so many fantastic missionaries in the Morumon Sho! It makes me feel like I'm living the gospel like I should! Teaching and preaching and learning!
I love you so much! Thank you so much for your constant support!
Ai shite imasu!
Ai,
Day Shimai
On Sunday we had Snow shimai's birthday. It was a fun day. It was hard seeing Snow's family all at the temple. I just didn't really know what to do or what my role was there. So I chilled with Olsen choro. Hence the photo of us "peacing" it out at the temple.
I'm sad. Sounds like I barely missed Allison and the family. Tell them that I love them! I wish I could have seen them!
We watched Legacy in Japanese, the romance part was cute and something I hadn't seen in forever.
Hmmm Monday was just a normal day.
Tuesday was good except the field was closed...so no soccer on my last Tuesday. Kind of sad.
The devotional on Tuesday was awesome though! It was by Elder Richards. He used an excerpt from one of my favorite Holland talks on Missionary work and the Atonement. I cried of course. It's what I do.
I was really touched by the Armies of Helaman we sang...and the change of words to "and we are now the Lord's missionaries." Now that I'm going to Japan it really feels like I'm going to be a real missionary.
Hmmm Wednesday was a blur too...and on Thursday all I really remember is that Snow shimai and I mopped for service. This week has been nuts. I've been steadily trying to pack. It's sort of a nightmare. I don't want to deal with luggage fees sooo...I'm just not going to risk it.
In other news. We had "In Field Training" yesterday. It felt a little but like EFY except without the dances or the crushes of the week.
I'm really going to miss my companion. Yesterday Snow shimai and I had to separate and practice street contacting. I was such a spaz. I realized that I'm really bad at proselyting in English. I think its just awkward no matter what language you speak. I pray that I'll one day get the confidence to be bold and just speak to people because thats what we do in Japan. We street, not that much door-to-door stuff when everyone lives in an apartment. I also pray I just get the courage to open my mouth and not worry about how poor my Japanese is. Missions are just hard, I'm learning. We did airport/train training...for contacts while we are traveling. I'm a little nervous about that. Even if it is in Eigo. Agh...stress desu ne???!!
Ohhhhh! We got our Katakana name tags. I love mine. It's so legit. Will send pics!
Oh and then the chorotachi assigned us all Pokemon...of course, Japanese missionaries WOULD...I got this one named Jinx...I don't like her lol.
Ok so funny story. so on Tuesday Snow shimai and I are in line for sack breakfast rocking the sweats cuz we had gym that morning. All the sudden we smell like the best smell ever, Its cologne. We havent smelled that in a while...So we start sniffing the elders in front of us wearing it. It was a pretty creepy thing of us to do. But haha...so as we are doing this, they turn around and starti talking to us. Of course, the are from Germany and Sweden and have the cutest accents...and are easy on the eyes. What did we learn from this interaction??? Oh yeah. We are already awkward missionaries. Our flirting/interacting was somewhere south of pathetic. It was so awkward haha
I'm glad Dave got his Morumon Sho. I hope the chocolate and stuff didn't melt too bad. Isn't it weird how its from the left side? I was freaking out when I first saw it. How am I ever going to read this!!!??
Well I actually know how to read pretty well now...just not out of the Morumon Sho. It's tough to read because there are no spaces in between words so you can't tell when one ends and another begins. It's tough enough translating stuff from Nihongo to Eigo in my brain and then translating from hiragana/katakana/kanji to romanji is just another battle.
I've learned so much here at the MTC.
I've learned that you can love EVERYONE. The Savior did and still does.
You cannot do this work ALONE. The Lord is there to help. We can do alot of things in our own strength but when we are faithful he will allow us to witness miracles!
I've learned that you really cannot have the spirit it you are reading from a script. You have to let the spirit guide when teaching lessons. This has been a difficult lesson for me to learn. Particularly when I don't speak the language.
It seems though, that in lessons...the language is so much easier though. And I know that's because of the Spirit.
I've begun to really appreciate the prophet Joseph Smith and the life he lived. I epitomizes what it means to endure to the end.
I am coming to love the Book of Mormon and its very real applications to my life!
There are so many fantastic missionaries in the Morumon Sho! It makes me feel like I'm living the gospel like I should! Teaching and preaching and learning!
I love you so much! Thank you so much for your constant support!
Ai shite imasu!
Ai,
Day Shimai