愛する家族へ
"My dear beloved
Family,
Hello from Tokyo! This week was
another wonderful week! The area is
finally beginning to get
going and it's awesome! First, thank you all
for your lovely
emails! I appreciate it so so much! I truly love you
all and
am so blessed to belong to the stellar family that I belong
to!
(*^_^*)
So, this week we got to meet with some
awesome people. First we have
Yoshida San. She came to eikaiwa
for the first time last week, she
actually received an eikaiwa
flyer in Niigata, (Kort served in Niigata for 6 months) and came and found
our
class here in Senzokuike. She is so cool! She was a pro
wrestler for
20 years! And now she is coaching this special
thing called body
tuning, she compares it to playing the piano,
no matter how hard you
practice, if the piano isn't in tune, the
music won't be good, our
bodies are the same, no matter how hard
we work out, or try to loose
weight, we won't get the result we
want, because we didn't start with
the tuning. It's very
interesting, and we got to go to her class, and
I learned some
techniques, I shall teach you all. She says it helps
with back
pain, digestive systems, everything! Anywho she is so cool!
She
wen to a catholic school when she was little and she use to
pray
before she wrestle. We are teaching her English, and then
we started
talking about God and how he has a plan for us, and
she said she
wanted to know! So, with our cool miracle from
Niigata, we got a new
investigator!
Yay!
Then we have Jun San. He is a man that
Sister Nash met last transfer
while handing out flyers at the
train station. He speaks really good
English and that was his
original interest, but this last Sunday we
were able to teach
him the Plan of Salvation and the bishop, ward
mission leader,
and an awesome Shimai from the ward all pitched in and
it was a
great lesson.(How awesome to have such great support from the ward) He has a
slight mental problem, but not bad,
and he is a super nice
guy.
We also have Merin who is from Taiwan, she
also doesn't realize what
is missing from her life, but as we
were able to talk to her a bit
about God, the spirit was there
and it was awesome!
Then we have Mina, she is from Nepal. Super
nice lady! So humble!
We went and visited her and she invited
us over to her house and fed
us this super yummy spicy pasta.
Her little boys are awesome. Punks,
but awesome. It's weird,
they all speak Nepalese together, but we
speak English to the
boys and Japanese to the mom. Right now, the
little boys are
studying Japanese, but they are better at English.
It's kind of
fun. Tokyo is so full of foreigners, but the most common language
is either Japanese or English, sometimes a
little of both. This
could only happen in japan and it's so
cool!
This ward is amazing! Last week our ward
mission leader asked us what
food we liked, he said anything, so
we name like bread, pasta, cereal,
and of course I mention black
thunder (Japanese Chocolate bar similar to Kit Kat) and snickers, and then he
says
great, gets up and announces to the elders quorum and
relief society
what our favorite food is and how he expects us
to have a very full
fruits basket with all our favorite food.
Well, let me tell you, this
ward is amazing! We get to church
and there is already loads of food,
by the end, it was way too
much! I will send a picture! I have never
seen a fruit basket
that full my entire mission! The best part was
the 2 packs of
black thunders and snickers and the 12 packs of my
favorite
granola cereal! So spoiled! We split with the elders, but
even
then, we both got a lot. Japanese people are way to
nice!
So, today for pday Sister Nash and I went
to a shrine called asakusa,
and took cool pics and what not.
While we were taking pictures on a
bridge, this man comes up
and asks of he can interview us on tv, we
were like ok. All
they did was have us pose, and then ask us a couple
questions,
but then they found out that we lived in japan as
church
volunteers, the kind of cut it short, but it was still a
cool
experience. We also met a lot of way nice people today! I
love the
diversity and funness in Tokyo! So many cool people to
talk to!
Basically, this week was great, the
work is moving forward, and I love
my mission. Oh, so we also
had zone conference this week, and I know
I don't ever really
mention this, but I love the Budges (Mission Pres) so so
much!
They are amazing, and I love it whenever we get to see
them and talk
with them. The theme of the conference was
obedience and unity and
planning Christmas. :) never to early
to start right! We went over
how it's such a great opportunity
to teach people about Christ. I
also got to give my last
testimony. It was good. I wasn't able to
say everything,
that's impossible, but it felt good. I can't believe
I did that
though. Weird! There were quite a few who bore
their
testimonies, including an old ap, and sister biddle and 2
Japanese
sisters that I adore! There were a lot of people at
the conference,
so I was able to see a lot of close friends and
old companions.
Including sister Palmer! Which was
fun.
Well, this turned out to be long! I love
you all! Hope you have a
fantastic week! Remember the gospel
is true! The Book of Mormon is
powerful, and prayer works! I
adore and love you all! Keep being the
amazing people that I
know and
love!"
Love,
Sister
Herring
へリング姉妹
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