tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59759703580936908812024-03-14T05:29:12.008-07:00Lauren in KobeEmail address: lauren.fullmer@myldsmail.netAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03211742949230863534noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975970358093690881.post-50096770834797688462016-07-16T18:11:00.000-07:002016-07-16T18:11:24.864-07:00July 10, 2016 - All fine!<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hello folks</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Another week has come and gone and I don't believe how fast this</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">trasnfer went. So this week there will be some kind of change we dont</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">know what will happen until we get a surprise call. (I personally hate</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the new system) I'm all for surprises and fun and games, but waiting</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">for the transfer call is the worst! But this transfer has been good,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">lots of ups and of course downs, but it was a good one.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This past week, we tried to go visit a referral from the elders on</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Monday, she wasn't home and it was sad, because she's golden. (We</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">visited her 5 times this week, but she wasn't home :(( ) anyways we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">got to teach FHE (family home evening) I used this awesome example</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">with chopsticks to really get the kids involved. It was way fun!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We got to meet with one of our recent converts this week. She's so</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">awesome! She is just a hard working mama who loves her kids. I have so</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">much respect for people who live in a different country not there own</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and raise kids in a different language because that is crazy hard. She</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">is from the Philippines and she has 3 kids. She was baptized a couple</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">months ago and we baptized her daughter jasmine last month. But man</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">she is so amazing! Everytime we teach her or her daughter I come to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">realize how blessed I am and how wonderful they are. Rosalyn(mama)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">always says "it doesn't matter if I have to work hard or that I have</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">hard things because I have God and he his enough". Her daughter is the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">same way so much faith in God and his promises it makes me so happy!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I feel like we have a talent for finding old folks. We older women. We</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">went to an apartment to find new people to teach and the only person</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">who answered the door was this sweet old lady named Michiko. She</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">wasn't opposed to us coming back ,but she didn't say come back. The</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">rest of the people were either not there or they told us to go away.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We tried to visit morimotosan this week, but she said she was busy ,so</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we headed back. As we were coming back to road became less and less</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">familiar. I have the gift of getting everyone lost ,so I figured that</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">is what it was. I remember Turning to my companion and asking "where</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">are we?!" She didn't know so we just kept going. I was praying we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">would find our way back or some kind of good omen of some sort. I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">think the lord has a sense of humor because we hiked past some houses</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and there was huge building in the middle of these rice fields that</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">said "all fine". All fine.. Of course everything is all fine. We</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">laughed and snapped a picture and then we heard a woman's voice saying</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"where are you from?(in Japanese)" we jumped and turned around a saw</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">another cute little old lady working in her garden. We told her about</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">our selves and about the church. She said that it was the first time</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">she was ever able to talk to gaijin (foreigner) who could talk back.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"Ahhh your Japanese is so good!""no no, it's through god's power I can</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">speak Japanese, because on my own I really can't!" We talked to her</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">about the church and invited her to come this week ,but she said maybe</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">if she had the opportunity... This is the opportunity! Anyways we said</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">goodbye and continued straight until we found our way out. We think we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">were supposed to meet her because we were so so lost!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We always read the Book of Mormon with sister negai every Wednesday.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">She's this cute little old lady who was baptized last year and I just</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">love her to pieces. Well she had gone to the dentist that morning so</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">she was on medicine and she had a lisp. It was so funny. I was so</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">surprised about how funny she is drugs. She was really hyper and more</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">energetic than usual. She asked me my name a couple of times because</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">she always seems to forget because I'm gaijin. But it was so fun.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Gosh I love her!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We also teach the Brazilian twins in our branch English so we did that</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">this week too. I love teaching them English because one kinda wants to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">learn and the other could care less. As soon as we finish, she just</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">leaves. They like us ,but they also think we are weird. :P sweet!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">4 hour bus ride..... I hate the bus rides. I always get so car sick</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and tired. We went to Okayama this week for zone meeting. We got to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Okayama and walked to the apartment and I collapsed on the floor in</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">exhaustion. All the other sister missionaries thought there was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">something wrong with me because I was so tired. Na.. I just get really</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">worn out from traveling.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Ztm was really awesome. Normally training is done in English this week</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">they decided to do it in Japanese and so all our comments and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">everything had to be in Japanese. It was so good! I liked it so much</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">more than the English meetings! weird huh? English is weird now.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Sometimes it's just easier to express myself in Japanese...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> We played basketball this week with members and less actives. One</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">less active took me out! But he came to church! Yes, I'll definitely</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">take a hit of they come to church. </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1038870395" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204 , 204 , 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> was good. They talked about</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">organization. Like organizing your life, I sat back thinking about how</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">much I need to change parts in my life and how I can change and keep</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">changing. I cleaned up my desk this morning :D...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We went and visited less actives </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1038870396" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204 , 204 , 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> with a member. We visited</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">one lady and shared a message about God and how we knows our</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">circumstance and what we go through. She said she had a problem. She</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">didn't tell us the problem, but she said that the scripture and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">everything we had said was the answer that she needed to hear. It was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">amazing to be someone's answer to their prayer. :)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">At the end of the night we had a pizza party scheduled with some</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">members and elders. It was so fun! We got to hear them play amazing</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">piano music and eat pizza and play this board game with them. I lost</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">,but brother sasaki called this morning and apologized to me because I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">lost and said okay, next transfer we have to do a BBQ! I laughed and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">said sure! Sounds good!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The thing that I hate the most about the end of my mission is that all</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">everyone ever asks me about now is "when are you getting married?"-_-</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">never. I'm just kidding ,but it's really annoying sometimes. That's</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">all anyone expects me to do. Of course it will happen someday ,but I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">don't think so soon as everyone expects. I am still wayyyy too young</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and immature, and so I'd rather not think about that for a while. Ok</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">done with that rant.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"The Lord has given you control of your life by giving you a choice.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Let me repeat that. The Lord has given you control of your life. I�fm</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">not saying that nothing bad will ever happen to you. You will not</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">always be able to control what others may say or do, but you can</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">control how you will react to them. Temptation, illness, accidents,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and tragedy are part of this life. There will be some tough days in</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">your lives--very tough days. But when you follow God�fs plan, you can</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">know what to do, and that�fs when you are in control. You can decide</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">whether or not you are going to be happy by making choices that will</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">lead you close to your Heavenly Father and away from Satan. You can</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">decide what you will say and do." (I Will Follow God�fs Plan for Me)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I read this talk this week and I was just thinking about choices and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">how our choices are purely own. Good or bad consequences will follow</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">,but if we follow god's plan for us the consequences will surely be</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">wonderful.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Nachan drew me!</span><br />
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Early one morning we biked over to the elders house and gave Madruga<br />choro medicine because he had whatever my comp had, and he sounds<br />awful.<br />We went housing around our house, we tried to house the apartments<br />that we pass all the time. Turns out all of them where Brazilian<br />houses, we didn't actually get to talk to any Brazilians today ,but<br />the name plates indicated Brazilian. Hmm. It rained a lot. We found<br />some frogs. We where supposed to have an appointment at the church at<br />3 with Barbra she's Brazilian. She's a member we were just going to<br />role play with her ,but she texted us and she said "I can't because<br />I'm getting my hair done how about next week?" So we were at the<br />church and brother oda came and asked us to wait while him and his<br />wife cleaned up the church because they don't have keys. So we waited<br />for about an hour. We made some calls and it was good. Then they said<br />alright we are done ,so we got up and left. We went and dropped off<br />some goodies at Madruga's house. He looked awful! He answered the door<br />in a sweat shirt and shorts and he just looked out of it. So dead. We<br />gave him the stuff and left. We went housing in this area not to far<br />and found Yuna. She said we could come back ,but I'm not sure if she's<br />actually interested or not, but she listened. We visited Yamane<br />shimai. She is so awesome! I love her we shared a short message on God<br />and talked about our identity and she told us she sometimes goes<br />posting and we were like freak ya! That's what we did today. She is<br />awesome! She wants to give us a referral ,but she said she's having a<br />hard time finding some one to refer to us, but she so wants to!<br /><br />My comp is 20! Her birthday happened to fall on fast Sunday so I<br />couldn't make her breakfast or anything ,but I put up some signs and<br />decorated a little bit for her.<br /><br />We went and visited one of my favorite members sister Tagawa. She's<br />like our grandma and she's just such a strong member it's always<br />really fun to visit her. Her husband isn't a member ,but he has no<br />interest. He's really old and in bad health. Anyway, we stopped by and she was<br />really happy! We heart attacked them and she said it had been about a<br />year since someone did that she was really happy and her husband liked<br />it to. We walked in and sat down and her husband was siting across<br />from us and started to read our name tags "イエスキリスト…ああ (Jesus Christ..<br />Oh) and put his down and didn't really look at us. He got up and went<br />to the other room and just laid down on the floor. "He's sick. He's<br />stubborn and won't go to the hospital, and he won't take medicine ,but<br />he can't eat!" Tagawa told us. We talked to her for awhile and we<br />shared some scriptures and talked about faith and Jesus Christ. Her<br />husband stood up in the other room and looked at us and said "<br />愛しています!" i love you! And we looked at her and she shook his head. And<br />just told us he's weird. He was wearing shorts and he put pants on<br />over his shorts and his wife looked at him and asked "are you going<br />some where?" "No I'm just cold.." He said he walked to the front door<br />and she ran over and told him "no you can't drive the car! No you<br />can't. " and she took the keys. He pouted and went out the back door<br />and around the front window and blew us a kiss and kept walking. She<br />told us "I'm sorry he's not normal. He's pretty weird." We kept<br />laughing everytime she said it. We had to go and when my comp started<br />praying we heard the car start. Tagawa's eyes popped open, "ah he<br />found the spare key!" And she ran out the back door ,but he left. And<br />she came back, saying "he's so sneaky!" We apologized for taking up<br />so much time that she couldn't watch her husband and she just said<br />"it's alright he didn't go far, he'll probably be back later."<br /><br />This past week we found this really awesome woman named Morimoto San<br />she's way receptive to the message. We met her in the middle of a rice<br />field and we stopped her and talked to her about the church and God<br />and she seemed to really want to learn. When we talked to her she<br />pointed in the general direction where her house was and so we decided<br />we would go and find here house. Well we found a house with her Kanji<br />,but when we knocked on the door there was no one home so we left a<br />note. We went back the next day and it was her. I'm sad to admit I was<br />doubtful it was her house. But when we saw her face we were so<br />excited. We talked to her and she invited us in she said she was so<br />happy to see us. We talked about God and how to pray and asked her<br />when she could meet with again she said "I'll call you." We were on<br />cloud 9 as we walked away ,but we were so happy.<br /><br />I found this quote recently<br /><br /> "two men look out of prison bars, one sees mud the other sees the stars"<br /><br />Despite our circumstances there is always good. We can always find the<br />good in every situation, in every person. There is a lot of bad in the<br />world ,but there is always so much good. I believe that everyone<br />despite who they are where they come from, has good in them. I know<br />they do. And we despite things we go through can choose to smile and<br />see the stars because believe me they are there. No matter how small<br />the little things are they can sometimes make all the difference.<br /><br />I love you guys!<br /><br />Love sister Fullmer<br /><br />It rains all the time but that means we can catch frogs!<div class="yj6qo">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03211742949230863534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975970358093690881.post-85236949475114454002016-07-16T17:46:00.002-07:002016-07-16T18:04:48.689-07:00June 26, 2016 - Carrots and top gun<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hello family!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">2 broken things this week my bike and my back.. Don't worry mom I'm okay.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We were really trying to find new investigators through less actives</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and their families, this week so we visited them like crazy. Unlucky</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">for us a lot of them moved, the address is wrong, or they wouldn't</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">talk to us. However, we went and found this woman naked hinosan. We</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">knocked on this door and a cute 70+ lady answered the door, and said</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"hello, how are you? Missionaries right? Come on in." At this point we</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">were thinking, okay yes she's going to get baptized! We sat down and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">she looked at us and said "I'm not changing religions." That put a</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">damper on things and she told us that she is too old and she doesn't</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">really care all that much, but she really likes foreigners. Dangit. As</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we were sitting down she touched my face saying "you are so pretty, ah</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">your teeth and nose! So pretty!" She trailed off and talked about her</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">desire to visit America one day. We brought her attention back to</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">church, turns out she used to take her kids to church and she even</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">remembered some of the songs. We sang I am a child of God to her, and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">she softened up a little bit however she was stubborn in the fact that</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">she wasn't going to change. At the end of the all over the place</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">lesson she looked at us and said "will you eat carrots? Do you like</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">carrots?" And hopped up and went to her kitchen and came back with a</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">bag full of carrots she had picked from her garden that morning. We</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">tried to refuse ,but she insisted ,so we graciously took them. After</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">that we were headed up towards another less active when I heard a</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">cracking sound my gears on my bike broke! I pulled over and attempted</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to fix it ,but it didn't happen, so we walked 30 minutes to the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">closest bike shop were they told me that they couldn't fix it....ahh.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We had a companion exchange this week, so we had to go catch an early</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">train and we live about 30 minutes away by bike.. We didn't have bikes</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">so we had to walk, we woke up at about </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1862671806" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">5:30</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> and walked/ quickly walked</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to the train station. We got to the sisters apartment at about </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1862671807" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">12:45</span></span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">exhausted and wet because it was pouring rain. I slept during lunch</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and I was so tired I had a hard time eating. My comp was also still</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">pretty sick so.. Ya. After lunch I went with uchida and we went and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">visited an investigator who is going to get baptized in two weeks</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">except for she has a smoking problem. I came up with this idea that we</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">could write scriptures on all her cigarettes ,so if she wants to smoke</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">she first has to read the scripture before she can smoke. Her eyes</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">were wide open when we explained the idea and she laughed and said</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">okay I'll try!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I never thought that seeing the movie "Top Gun" would help me as a</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">missionary ,but we were just talking to her about some other things</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and she said it was her favorite movie and uchida shimai said she</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">never heard of it and I was like "I love that movie." And we had a</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">good talk about it. Uchida later told me it was really fun to watch me</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">talk and she had no idea what we were talking about ,but it looked</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">fun.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">My feet are really tired and so is my body, I woke up with sharp pain</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">in my back and got my comp to give me a massage ,but I think my back</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">is just in knots! I was some what limping as I was walking because my</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">ached pretty bad. On Saturday night we saw the elders at game night</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and I sat out because my back just hurt too bad, I held my back as I</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">walked and one of the elders mimicked me and told me it's because I'm</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">an old obachan(grandma) my back is bad. -_-</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We were behind on lessons yesterday so we taught people like crazy! We</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">found one lady named Yamamorisan. She was walking her dog and and comp</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">felt prompted to stop her so we did, she has a bible and we talked</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">about God with her and she told us she wants to learn its just she</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">doesn't know when she has time because her husband is in the hospital,</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we don't know where she lives ,but we have some kind of idea, so we</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">are going to go find her house this week!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This week we taught Sunday school. The subject was sacrifice.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">[A rich young ruler asked the Savior, “What shall I do to inherit</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">eternal life?” Jesus answered, “Thou knowest the commandments, Do not</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness,</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Honour thy father and thy mother.” And the rich man said, “All these</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">have I kept from my youth.” When Jesus heard this, He said, “Yet</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">me.” When the young man heard this, he was sorrowful. He was very rich</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and had his heart set on his riches. (See Luke </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1862671808" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">18:18</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">–23; see also the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">picture in this chapter.)</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The young ruler was a good man. But when he was put to the test, he</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">was not willing to sacrifice his worldly possessions. On the other</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">hand, the Lord’s disciples Peter and Andrew were willing to sacrifice</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">everything for the sake of the kingdom of God. When Jesus said unto</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">them, “Follow me, … they straightway left their nets, and followed</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">him” (Matthew </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1862671809" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">4:19</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">–20).]</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I feel like in this life we have the greatest test of following the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">savior or not. It's like the church it's either true or not. We either</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">follow Jesus Christ or we don't. If we follow Christ there will be no</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">gray spots or things that are mostly good except for one bad part. The</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">young man in the story did everything ,but he went through the motions</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">,in is heart he was still holding on to something. He had not set his</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">heart on the kingdom of God, thus he wasn't willing to sacrifice what</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">he had. But Peter and Andrew when asked "straightway" left their nets.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Immediately they gave up what they had and followed Christ. I wonder</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">if I have that kind of faith. To just give up everything and follow</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Christ. Do we follow Christ? Or are we lacking something? Are we</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">holding on to something? An addiction? A sin? Bad habit? Even a little</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">thing that pokes at our spirit? If so, let's change. Let's Let go of</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">what it is so that we can give everything and follow Christ.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Bike problems</span><br />
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Hello all,<br />I'm sad to say this week wasn't too eventful, my companion was sick.<br />Really sick. I played nurse this week, she came down with something<br />right after English class on Tuesday. She woke up Wednesday morning<br />and was coughing so badly I knew it was painful. She lost her voice<br />and she could barely speak above a whisper. We had some appointments,<br />so we went.<br /><br />Japanese drugs are nothing. Luckily our Brazilian elder happens to<br />have all kinds of amazing drugs from America and Brazil. The elders<br />brought us Medicine and food on Friday because we couldn't really<br />leave. I had elder madruga explain the drugs to me because they were<br />in Portuguese and although I can read it , I can't Understand, I had<br />to keep in track 5 different drugs and not overdose my companion.<br />Don't worry! I didn't overdose her! She's fine and the Brazilian<br />medicine is incredible! It helped her so much.<br /><br />Every week we go visit a less active named sister negai. She's about<br />70+ cutest little hunched over grandma ever. She's probably not even<br />4feet tall anymore. She's so cute! We visit her and read the<br />scriptures with her and talk about they mean because she says she<br />doesn't really understand them the first time she reads it so she has<br />to read it at least 2 times or have us explain them for her. We do and<br />then she always says "ah! Okay that makes sense now! Thanks for<br />explaining. It's really hard to understand the scriptures!" But we<br />went this week and read with her, my poor companion barely over a<br />whisper did so well. It was kinda funny because she after she finished<br />reading her eyes were glazed over. She was just gone! Luckily sister<br />negai didn't really notice. Everytime we visit she tells us it's one<br />of her favorite times of the week. She loves it and she even came to<br />church 2 weeks ago!<br />After that we went to the hospital, and visited the member there and<br />talked with her about everything under the moon because I think she's<br />way bored. I learned so many new words like global warming and stuff.<br /><br />Saturday there was an activity at the church and. My companion thought<br />it would be okay to go, she mustered up enough energy to hop on her<br />bike and make it to the church. Almost the whole ward was there it was<br />a married couples date night thing and all the kids where put into a<br />room and watched by the young women, and young men. We peeked in and<br />watched the couples, and their games they did. The women saw us and<br />laughed at us, shaking the fingers and then after the activity telling<br />us "someday you'll be married!" No thank you.<br /><br />Most of the rest of the week we were in the apartment. I just made<br />calls and tried to proselyte that way. I hate the phone now and the<br />apartment. I've seen it all, it's 2 rooms ,but I know it pretty well<br />now. I was itching this morning to get out of the apartment because<br />I've been in it for 4 days. It was like prison. I think I called just<br />about any number he had with little or no success.<br /><br />Being stuck in the apartment gave me a lot of time to think about a<br />lot of stuff, investigators, appointments, plans. Everything. I've<br />come to the conclusion that, I've never been organized with anything.<br />I love spontaneous moments. Like just deciding last minute to do<br />something. But that's not how it works out here. We plan everything,<br />everything, every minute is counted for. At first it was hard to<br />adjust to, sometimes it's still hard, but its taught me to appreciate<br />time and it's made me want to do more with my time, than I used to do<br />before. They say that you have only so many today's and many<br />tomorrow's. Time goes, time flies, and we can either have memories or<br />regrets.<br /><br />Everyday is an opportunity to show someone kindness. Share the love.<br />Forgive someone, forgive yourself ,be better than yesterday. History<br />is created from the today's.<br /><br />I found this quote by elder holland and I really liked it : �gHow do<br />you best respond when mental or emotional challenges confront you or<br />those you love? Above all, never lose faith in your Father in Heaven,<br />who loves you more than you can comprehend�c Never, ever doubt that,<br />and never harden your heart. Faithfully pursue devotional practices<br />that bring the Spirit - into your life...Take the sacrament every<br />week, and hold fast to the perfecting promises of the Atonement of<br />Jesus Christ. Believe in miracles. I have seen so many of them come<br />when every other indication would say that hope was lost. Hope is<br />never lost. If those miracles do not come soon or fully or seemingly<br />at all, remember the Savior�fs own anguished example: if the bitter<br />cup does not pass, drink it and be strong, trusting in happier days<br />ahead."<br /><br />Love y'all!<br /><br />Matching ties (our zone leaders)<div class="yj6qo">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03211742949230863534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975970358093690881.post-52286817594357484622016-07-16T17:37:00.003-07:002016-07-16T18:04:48.683-07:00June 13, 2016 - Sunday the Lord's day<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This week was a good one. We have been really focusing on the less</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">actives here and trying to reactive them. Since I have been here with</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">my companion, we have seen 2 less actives come to church and recently</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">1 less active that calls us every night to read the scriptures came 2</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">weeks in a row! It's awesome to see people come back to the church.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">People being baptized in the church is super special, but I think</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">something equally special to that is being able to see people come</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">back. It's always so amazing to see old friends Reunite. It's so cool</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to see people's eyes light up when the less active member walks</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">through the door. I feel like when it happens the person is</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">immediately wrapped in love and I'm grateful to be apart of it.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Speaking of less actives. Gosh we have one guy named brother ishitobi.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">He calls us every night to read the scriptures with us. It's so fun.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">But sometimes we have no idea what he says even the Japanese members</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">don't know what he says sometimes. The new elder here is Japanese and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">sometimes at church we look at him if we don't know what he says and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">he just shrugs his shoulders and says "I don't know what he is</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">saying." In English. Anyways, he called us all this week to read and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">after we read with him we would talk about the scriptures and teach</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">some doctrine from the scriptures. After we would finish he being a</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">little older would then go on some kind of rant usually involving food</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">or the potluck this week or us or something. He asked if he could</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">bring non alcoholic alcohol to the potluck this week on Sunday, I told</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">him no and he said" but it's okay because there is no alcohol.." I</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">told him that he shouldn't bring it and he said okay. The way he says</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">good bye is the best : choi- choi(Portuguese), bye-bye, I love you so</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">much, and recently something he learned German "i love you" but he</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">can't really say it so he says "he-bi-di-bi-di!" Gosh he's so funny.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hospital visits :/... We have a member in the hospital right now and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we go and visit her. On Wednesday morning I felt like I should bring</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">some pictures with of Christ with me and give them to members that we</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">see or anyone because you can never go wrong with a picture of Christ.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Well, we went up to the hospital and we ran into some members going to</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">visit her too ,so we went together and talked with her. Apparently</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">this member really liked paintings and portraits and things like that.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The members had brought pictures of paintings and books on art. I</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">pulled out my small picture of Christ, and told her about my love for</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the savior and his love that he has for her. I wish I could take away</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">her pain ,but I can't. I wish I could understand her trial better ,but</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I can't. I wish i could help her more, but I can't. But it comforts me</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to know that I can help her spiritually and pray for her and be her</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">friend when she needs one right now.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Gosh the hospital, I don't like going I've gone to it to visit members</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and been there once myself here, and I hate it. There's so much good</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">in a hospital ,but there is also so much pain too.. It makes me want</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to do more, something more to help those people who are there.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">You know have you ever thought about how church is like a hospital for</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">our souls. We all need to go to the hospital sometimes, if it's for a</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">check up or for something major. If we broke a limb or something we go</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">straight to the hospital, likewise we go to make sure our bodies are</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">okay and working okay. Church is like that we need to hold on and stay</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">close to the church and its teachings especially when we go through</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">hard times. Our pain or spiritual heartache will not get better if we</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">don't stay close to the church. But unlike a hospital we should go</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">every week ,so our spirit and be uplifted and be ready for the next</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">week. People say "well the week starts on Monday, and Monday's are the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">worst." I like to think that my week starts on Sunday right after I</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">get to partake of the sacrament. It's like a mini baptism and a time</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">for me to reflect on the week and figure out what I need to do the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">next week to be better.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This Sunday was great. In the morning we had a meeting with all the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">ward leaders at </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1862671803" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">8:30</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">. I woke up not really wanting to go ,but on the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">bike ride to the church I put a fake smile on my face and when we got</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to the church I was smiling for real ready to go and ready to work</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">with the members. The meeting went well, and then we had class. It was</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">our turn to teach the class. The class was us the elders and my</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">favorite crazy grandma sister yamane, and brother ishitobi. We taught</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">about the sabbath ,but the two people in our class didn't really pay</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">attention. Sister yamane cut me off in the middle of my sentence and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">pointed to ishitobi and Said " you see this guy, he's really good at</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">cooking, one time he cooked this one thing and it was so good." We</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">laughed because they just weren't getting anything we said. The elders</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">told us "great job! The lesson was great. Y'all are great!" All while</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">chuckling.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">After church we had potluck which ishitobi brought his not alcoholic</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">alcohol to! Some other people took care of it and told him it was not</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">a good idea. We ate good Brazilian and Japanese food. I love Brazilian</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">food holy cow! After that we did a awesome thing with the members we</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and the elders went on splits with a member and went and taught</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">lessons. We only had 2 hours with the member ,but we went and taught</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">like 4 lessons. It was awesome! And then to end the night we got to</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">teach our recent convert, and then teach the Brazilian twins in our</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">ward some English and have a great Brazilian dinner. It's a good thing</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I didn't go to Brazil on my mission because I would have put a lot of</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">weight on!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Have a great week y'all!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Love always sister Fullmer</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Find me! I was trying to scare the elders.. Didn't work they saw me!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03211742949230863534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975970358093690881.post-66195295595272365592016-07-16T17:34:00.004-07:002016-07-16T18:04:48.685-07:00June 6, 2016 - Como via voće?<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hey everyone. This week went pretty well. Actually it was transfer</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">week. Surprise! I'm still in Izumo! Yay! I'm glad I didn't transfer. I</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">like it here too much. So yes, no transfer, but it's a new transfer</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and we are already seeing great things. I feel like when a new</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">transfer starts its like a new feel. Like when you finish a year of</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">schooling, freshmen year seems much different then sophomore even</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">though it's just right after. Obviously each transfer is only 6 weeks</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">,so it's not a whole year ,but I feel like it's long enough to be able</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to see changes in yourself ,but not so much where it seems never</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">endless.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So we've had a fun week here in Brazil. I mean Izumo. We went down by</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">some apartments near a woman we have been trying to contact again, and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we happened to stumble into an area that was where just Brazilians and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">one Japanese lady. I can't tell when people are Brazilian or Japanese</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">sometimes, so as we talk to people and they have a thick Brazilian</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">accent we immediately recognize "ah not Japanese.. "They probably</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">won't understand Japanese church words very well. Anyway we carry</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Japanese and Portuguese Book of Mormon with us now because you never</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">know when you can give away a Portuguese Book of Mormon. As we were</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">housing we talked to Brazilian after Brazilian and they where all</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">really nice people. Excited when we talked to them about church or</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Jesus Christ. Although there is a language barrier we can still manage</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to share something with them. But my Portuguese has gotten better.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Como via voće? (How are you?) is my accomplishment this week. Anyways</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we were housing and this young 16 girl answered the door and we</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">realized that she didn't know Japanese or English, but some how we</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">ended up giving her a Book of Mormon in Portuguese. It must have Been</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">funny for her to see to white people in japan attempting to talk to</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">her in her 3rd or second language. And then saying "Portuguese desu</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">yo!" She laughed us ,but she got that it was in Portuguese. No return</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">appointment ,but it was fun to make her smile and to try out my few</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Portuguese phrases that I have picked up.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Update on our Brazilian investigator Gabriela, she came to church and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I was talking to her about church, she told me she loves God and Jesus</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Christ . when we teach her it seems like she</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">just listens to listen not really interested in really learning, and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we don't speak her native tongue ,so we dropped her. She's what we</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">have termed an entern-agator (eternal investigator).</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Sarah Yamato! So last transfer we had dropped her because we could</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">never meet her. we have to call her moms phone in order to get into</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">contact with her ,but the call would never go through and she was</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">never home. We thought something was wrong ,so we decided to drop her</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">for now.. We were looking for new investigators near her house, and I</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">said "sure lets drop by, we've visited 13/ 14 times who knows she</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">could be home this time" we knocked on the door, and her mother</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">answered, my jaw dropped. We found out that the phone had broken and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">they haven't gotten a new one yet, so they weren't ignoring us at all</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">just broke the phone. She said we could come back probably during the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">evening and teach Sara, yes!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Lots of awesome things happened this week, but I don't have a whole</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">lot of time ,so I'm gonna go ,but I'll send lots of pictures.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Faith. Believing without seeing,but I feel like we forget the other</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">part of faith sometimes, acting. If you sit in a dark tunnel you won't</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">get any closer to the light at the end. God asks us to trust him, leap</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">of faith right? But he doesn't tell us what's going to happen in the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">end. He trusts us enough to let us make our own decisions. 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Hello all,<br /><br />It is transfer week. Again. It seems they go faster and faster every<br />time. I don't know what's happening I'll probably know tomorrow night.<br />I hope I stay here I don't want to leave. I love it here! It's a great<br />place with great people! So I'd rather not leave! Anyways,<br /><br />It's been bit of a hard week to be honest. We've been trying to find<br />and teach more people ,but it just seems that this week was not our<br />luck. :( we did meet a couple of interesting people though. My<br />favorite was an 80 year old lady who looked 60 and was a sweet lady.<br />We stopped her while finding and had a good chat and she just said<br />that she was "too old to understand or change". She said "I've only<br />got a little bit more time life so... Not interested" (kinda that<br />feel, English translation is a bit different). We told her all about<br />God ,and she thought it was interesting ,but despite that she finally<br />gave us the "no I'm fine". And walked away. Dangit. Too bad though she<br />had great potential. We also met a lady who was walking her dog named<br />ichigo(strawberry). She hardcore rejected us after we brought up<br />church ,but she was nice up until then. :/<br /><br />Soccer. We played soccer for sports night two investigators and 2<br />recent converts came! . One of the elders is from Brazil and he is a<br />professional soccer player, it was cool to watch him play because when<br />he did anything it was like he was dancing on the field. It was so<br />cool! I just kicked the ball this way and that and sometimes it went<br />in. When I kicked a goal the first time I made it ,but I slipped on my<br />other foot and fell. I'm fine just my pride was a bit bruised.<br /><br />This week we had a culture party in the area next to ours. It was<br />Brazilian culture, American culture ,Japanese culture and Samoa<br />culture. So we dressed up In American colors, the Brazilian in plaid<br />because it's a thing. Samoa (one elder) in a lava lava actually half<br />of the elders in lava lavas because they wanted too, and some of the<br />Japanese in kimonos or other Japanese clothing. It was fun! We even<br />had one investigator come. She liked it. So the day of the party we<br />went over to a Brazilian family's house (the hatadas) and helped make<br />Brazilian candy and they made carrot cake. We made Rice Krispie treats<br />as well, but man finding marshmallows and something like Rice Krispie<br />cereal is really hard. We also made made do s'mores because it's<br />really American! The carrot cake burned so we didn't actually get to<br />eat it(until later that night). We all squeezed into the car and went<br />to the matsue church building and had a great time. We ate interesting<br />foods, and each country performed a dance. Guess who was in charge of<br />the American dance... Me! Apparently because I am from Texas I'm the<br />most American. My entire mission I've been known as sister Fullmer the<br />Texan by other missionaries. I can't tell you how many people think I<br />live on a ranch and ride horses. Some times I tell them I do and wait<br />for a reaction. Anyways, the elders in mastue asked me to come up with<br />something and teach everyone."bring out your inner Texan!" They said..<br />Good thing I went to dances as a youth and remember a couple line<br />dances. Other than that I'm not good a dancing what so ever, actually<br />I'm a terrible dancer. But line dancing is American and easy! Yay go<br />America! We did a line dance to footloose and it was really fun. I saw<br />the video and realized how awkward I am. I was not meant to dance ,but<br />it was so fun.<br /><br />"He can make us whole no matter what is broken in us."<br />Elder Paul V. Johnson Of the Seventy<br />April 2016 general conference (Learning from Conference)<br /><br /> Love you all!<div class="yj6qo">
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Hello people!<br />
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This week we haven't really been in our area for the whole week, we<br />
are still in Kobe now because we had a huge missionary meeting at<br />
Kobe. 5 hour bus ride from my area. And then a couple of train rides.<br />
This week was really cool though. We finally got to meet with Nery, one<br />
of our investigators. She came to English class, actually a lot of new<br />
faces came, it was really fun this week. And she invited us to come to<br />
her birthday party. She's so cool and she said she wanted to start<br />
taking the lessons again! Yes! I'm so excited to teach her! And 2 of<br />
our recent converts are bringing friends for us to teach sometime this<br />
week! I'm so pumped!<br />
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Anyway, we left our area on Wednesday night and when to Okayama<br />
because we had zone conference. It was really good! I got to translate<br />
again. The zone leaders asked me the day before. I was like sure<br />
sounds good. I forgot that the Assistants to the president were going<br />
to give training, but they came and so did president and his wife. So<br />
I know that experiences from earlier prepare me for things that are<br />
going to come way. Elder Takaku gave training on over coming trials<br />
and having faith and he used the story of Momotoro (peach boy). A<br />
peach was floating down a river and an old couple grabbed it and from<br />
it a boy was born. He grew up to be a great warrior, but his mission<br />
in life was to go to the great mountain and defeat the monster orge.<br />
It seemed hopeless ,but because of the help of his sidekicks (bird,<br />
dog, one more animal I forgot it) and his determination he defied all<br />
odds and won. This was really fun to translate, elder Takaku paused<br />
when he said "oni" (orge) and looked over at me and said "okay?". I<br />
know the word orge in Japanese because I travelled to orge island with<br />
my zone last transfer. The lord works in mysterious ways. I was a bit<br />
nervous to translate even though I'm older now, but that nervousness<br />
never really goes away. I learned so much from the conference.<br />
Something I really felt in my heart during the conference was that<br />
failure is not the end. It's the beginning. It's the beginning to<br />
success. There is a Japanese phrase that means failure is the origin<br />
of success. It's true because often times we stop trying when we fail<br />
when in fact we should use the failure as a motivation to move<br />
forward. I feel like the people who have the most success or smile the<br />
biggest are often times the people who failed the most and experienced<br />
some pretty hard things.<br />
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This week we got to hear from an apostle... One of the 12 came...Elder<br />
Stevenson came to our mission! Ah! He was the Nagoya Japan mission<br />
president in 2008, and when he was a missionary he served in the<br />
Fukuoka mission! So He has a great love for Japan and the people. He<br />
spoke in English the whole session ,but occasionally he would break<br />
out into random Japanese and talk, it was so cool! An apostle spoke<br />
my mission language. It was really cool to hear him testify in<br />
Japanese. I know he is truly an apostle of God. He told us that we<br />
were sent here for a specific reason because although we make mistakes<br />
the Lord does not. Maybe we are looking for people ,but there are<br />
people out there looking for us. It was amazing. We got to shake his<br />
hand and everything. Sadly we didn't get to talk to him for very long<br />
because the entire mission was there, but from elder Stevenson and his<br />
wife we could just feel so much love from them even though we didn't<br />
get to talk to them. I got to see my trainee and all my past<br />
companions minus (Bean and Chapman.. Finished their missions, but I<br />
love those two). It was weird ,but really good to see everyone. So<br />
weird to see everyone. I love all the missionaries here, we are all<br />
just kids trying to do something bigger than us and somehow it works<br />
out. Somehow, I mean through the Lord. His work is larger than just<br />
this mission or this side of the world, his word is spreading I know<br />
it is. God loves us more than we can even imagine, he loves us so<br />
much. I don't even understand all of it ,but I know that he will never<br />
leave me by myself. He's near, he is always near to me.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03211742949230863534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975970358093690881.post-463190871063694612016-05-26T13:43:00.004-07:002016-05-26T13:43:47.566-07:00May 16, 2016 - Locked out<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hey everyone,</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">It's been a good week in Izumo. Sometimes I forget that there are so</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">many Brazilians here and I mistake them for Japanese people. We went</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">housing this week and we knocked on one door and started talking to</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">this lady, she looked Japanese spoke Japanese, but no she was</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Brazilian. She wasn't interested in what we had to say ,but we let and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">said cho cho and she smiled back. That's all the Portugeuse I know</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">,but I'm glad it made her happy!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So funny thing, on Monday we skyped our families on Monday, all during</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">that there was people at the church cleaning, like a cleaning company</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">,so we were moved from room to room and sat on some wet carpet from</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">time to time. It was good to see my family. Surreal, but good. After</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">that we went and grabbed some food for the week and headed back to the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">church only to discover the church had been locked! Now, we have the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">key ,but the funny thing about this church is there are two sets of</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">doors... -_- the inner doors were locked and all the sets of those</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">keys were locked inside the church. So we finished p-day outside of</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the church. And cancelled family home evening. Come Tuesday, the doors</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">were still locked we teach English class every Tuesday night and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">cannot cancel it, so we called everyone about the key situation and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the only other keys were in Okayama 4 hours away ,but they were in the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">process of being sent over here, so we thought we had to cancel</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">English class. Well yamane kyodai thought different. (He's the English</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">class coordinator). He thought we could just do class in the cars</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">because it was raining... Yup. We taught it in his car. It was the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">most interesting class I had ever taught.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This week we did a lot of finding. We talked to lots of people with</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">little success, too bad. Sometimes you have those long weeks or days,</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">it's just a part of life.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I gave a talk on Sunday. I found out that the mic was too low to hear</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">me... :( ya I'm bummed I worked pretty hard on it.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Recently I've been learning something on faith. Fear and doubt is the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">opposite of faith. It's that simple. If you fear or doubt ,then faith</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">is dead. You cannot doubt that everything will work out how it's</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">supposed to and "have faith". 1 it will not because you don't believe</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">it will 2 it will be like empty faith. Empty faith. Every heard of</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">that? I often teach people to have faith, but I ask them what do you</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">have faith in? If you have faith in men, they will fail you, if you</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">have faith in things, they will fail you. The only thing you must have</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">absolute faith in is Jesus Christ because he will never fail you. He</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">will never leave you alone. He is always be with you wether you know</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">it or not, I promise he is there. Draw until him and he will draw unto</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">you, and somehow everything will turn out alright. I love my savior</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and know he is there even when I it doesn't seem like it. He took</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">everything and knows how to succor our needs because he experienced it</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">all. He really did. For you and for me.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Love y'all! Have a great week!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Love sister Fullmer</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03211742949230863534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975970358093690881.post-14995675646231168532016-05-26T13:39:00.006-07:002016-05-26T13:39:50.356-07:00May 9, 2016 - Hello!<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This week has been quiet a week. I felt like we weren't in our area</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">for so long! I went to Okayama this week by bus. 5 hours by bus. I got</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">car sick. It's been so long since I've been in a car thus I get really</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">sick really easily. :( dangit. Anyways, I got to go on a companion</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">exchange with one of my past companions Uchida shimai. It was really</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">good, really weird. When I saw her, I talked to her and she said "your</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Japanese got way good." Yay! We had zone training meeting. Too, right</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">after we went out to eat with the STLs U</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">chida and Nielsen and I left</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">my iPad at the place we ate at. Good thing we are in Japan and no one</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">will touch your things. Also the waitress picked it up and I picked it</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">up at the front. I'm kinda tired today, and also we got locked out of</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">our own church ,so this is going to be a short email, but I skyped my</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">family today. It was good, it was surreal though. It's weird when</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">everything turns into lasts. I've only got a few more lasts, but I'm</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">not looking forward to ending anytime soon. I love you guys here's</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">some pictures! ごめんなさい!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Job 27:3-6</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">4 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">5 God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">mine integrity from me.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">not reproach me so long as I live.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">As I was reading job, I was hit by this. I've loved my mission so</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">much. And I know it doesn't really ever end. I can continue to follow</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Christ and be a true disciple of Christ. While I am on this earth, I</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">will testify of Christ. I will always testify of Christ no matter</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">what. His atonement saves us from everything. I cannot ever fully</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">express the deep gratitude I have for the atonement and for everything</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">it has given to me. It gave me back my life. 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Hello all,<br />This week has been a good one, so last week, our investigator Jasmine<br />had a baptismal date, so yesterday she was baptized. She's the cutest<br />most mature spiritual 15 year old that I have ever met. So this week<br />we finished up teaching her the lessons and yesterday she came to<br />church and she was baptized!<br /><br />The first time I met her, we went out with her mom and her for lunch.<br />Her moms name is Roslyn and she was baptized 4 weeks ago ,so after<br />that her daughter Jasmine said to the missionaries "I want to be<br />baptized" and so we had been working with her since then. Jasmine is<br />so amazing! She is half Japanese half Philipino, she speaks Japanese,<br />Tagalog,and English. She's fluent in all of them too. I asked her what<br />her favorite word was in English and she said "faith, because I always<br />want to be faithful to God". I was so touched by that.. It stuck with<br />me for a couple of days. It was such a simple answer and yet it was so<br />profound. I was studying one morning and came across a scripture that<br />was like a lightning bolt to my heart. As I read it, I just thought of<br />Jasmine.<br /><br />We went and met her on a rainy day for her last meeting before her<br />baptism, and when we showed up, she looked at me and said "do you know<br />Bobby Marley?" "Ya, why? Do I look like him?" I said pointing to my<br />frizzy messy hair. "Ya...."then she burst out laughing so hard. We<br />laughed too. So on rainy days I look like bob Marley! Yay.<br />I shared the scripture with her her during her last meeting before and<br />she highlighted the word faithful.<br /><br />Saturday night we saw her again for an activity with the ward.<br />Basketball. So like I said I'm in Brazil ,Brazilians are killer soccer<br />players. My team was me and elder Madruga(Brazilian elder), brother<br />Sidney (Brazilian), and Crystal (Brazilian). When we made the team,<br />they said "ya go Brazil!" Before the game started elder Madruga and<br />Sidney were playing with the basketball like a soccer ball, attempting<br />to shoot a basket. And they got it a couple of times. It was pretty<br />cool actually. Anyways we played the other team and they killed us,<br />but it was so fun to play. Sidney is the funniest guy ever! When elder<br />Griffitts guarded him, he picked up his dribble and seemed like he<br />wasn't going to go any where, but instead of giving up he bounced it<br />through Griffitts legs, to someone on our team, and he laughed and<br />said "I beat the big boy! I won!" He did it twice during the game and<br />at the end of the night said "I won two times tonight!" After the<br />basketball game we headed to the church and set up the font for Sunday<br />with the elders and a random Brazilian English class student. His name<br />is Sato and he looks Japanese, nope, full blooded Brazilian, anyways,<br />after actives are over he doesn't leave, he usually hangs around until<br />we leave, well he came to the church and helped us set up the font.<br />And we all invited him to come to the baptism on Sunday.<br /><br />Sunday morning: most of you know I am not a morning person, goodness I<br />know it was through Gods help that I was able to get up at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1426175513" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">5:30 am</span></span> and<br />go with my companion to the church. We had to fill the font for the<br />baptism. We only had one hose. And it took about 3 hours to fill it<br />up. We had to restart the warm water every hour that's why we were<br />there so early. While the water was running. We slept on the floor. I<br />cannot tell you how stressful it was, but it was all worth it, to see<br />her baptized. During the service, her mother shared what her<br />daughter's favorite scripture was, Alma 38:2 the scripture that I<br />shared with her. The spirit touched my heart and I couldn't help but<br />tear up a bit.<br />She was baptized and it was so great! She kept saying "my special<br />day.. Not my birthday, but more important than my birthday.." I love<br />her so much!<br /><br />Alma 38:2<br />2 And now, my son, I trust that I shall have great joy in you, because<br />of your steadiness and your faithfulness unto God; for as you have<br />commenced in your youth to look to the Lord your God, even so I hope<br />that you will continue in keeping his commandments; for blessed is he<br />that endureth to the end.<br /><br />Thus scripture is the definition of Jasmine. Steadfast faith in God<br />and Jesus Christ and a heart just full of love.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03211742949230863534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975970358093690881.post-66054623451765208912016-05-18T19:50:00.001-07:002016-05-18T19:50:46.643-07:00April 25, 2016 - Oi! I'm in Brazil!<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Gaw-eh (what's up... Portuguese slang)</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> I'm in Brazil.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">When I got my call to Japan I never thought I would cross path with</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Brazilian culture. It's the exact opposite and clear on the other side</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">of the world. Well, I was dead wrong. I get to learn Portuguese now!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Well I don't have to ,but I'm picking some up. "Obrigada" means thank</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">you. :)</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I'm in Izumo.Its clear on the other side of the mission. Very western</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">part of the mission, but to be honest it's like a mini Brazil. When I</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">got here, we walked back from the train station to the apartment and I</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">said "konichiwa" to some guy walking by and my comp nudged me and said</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"he's Brazilian." :0 i can't even tell the difference between Japanese</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and Brazilians. So at our church we have the Japanese people's and the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Portuguese speakers. The signs in the church are in Japanese and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Portuguese. What? So there is a company in this area that hires</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Brazilians because it's cheaper ,so a ton of Brazilians live here.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">That's a little intimidating. I've been learning Japanese for a long</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">time now, but Portuguese? Doesn't sound anything like it.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Ah brings me to my new companion. She was trained but my Gibson</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">shimai (my comp 5 transfers ago). Her name is Miyazawa shimai. Half</span></span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">German half Japanese, all American. She's a doll. I love working with</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">her! She's a go getter and just a sweet girl. She likes to laugh at my</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">jokes and we have a lot in common!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I'm now An "old sister missionary" I am transfer 10. :0 that means I</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">have 3 transfers left. Ah! I feel like I just got here! It's way too</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">fast! And around August I go home. :( weird. My comp is 5th</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">transfer... Oh my gosh I remember when I was that young.. I was with</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">her trainer. It's so weird how the mission connects.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Friday night: we had a ward activity at this sports place. We played</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">volleyball. Oh man it felt so good to play. The elders where pretty</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">good too. Except, Elder </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Griffitts </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">is a bit too good and he scared the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">heck out of the kids. Elder</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Griffitts</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> is big! He just stood there and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">stuck his hands straight up and the young kids would cower in fear. He</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">served a pretty hard serve and he hit it right at me, I wasn't</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">expecting to be that hard, but I dug it up pretty good. I didn't</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">realize the huge red ball shape on my arm until After the play, when</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">he asked me if I was okay, and apologized to me for hitting it so</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">hard. I looked down and was a bit surprised. It didn't hurt at all! I</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">was just way happy to be playing volleyball, I didn't even notice. I</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">tried to talk to some of the kids but learned that of course the ones</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I talked to were Brazilians... Ah! But maybe they will teach me some</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Portuguese. I sure hope so! That would be so cool!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We had this big meeting thing this weekend like 3 hours away. We got a</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">ride with a Brazilian family from the church. We showed up to their</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">house a couple minutes early so we went in when the elders got there,</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we were ready to get going ,but they hatada family (Brazilians)</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">thought different. We sat down and the mother was cooking something</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">that smelled great and speaking really fast Portuguese. I don't speak</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Portuguese at all. I felt like a first transfer. My comp doesn't speak</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">either ,but one elder in the group does he's from Brazil.(elder</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">madruga). So he was speaking to them and next thing I knew there was a</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Brazilian meal in front of me and a Brazilian family on all sides. It</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">was so good. It was like this pasta stuff and something else ,but it</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">was so good. Also they have a ferret. They said I'm the ferret</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">whisperer. I think. This is going to be an amazing transfer.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"Courage is not limited to the battlefield �c or bravely catching a</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">are inner tests, like remaining faithful when no one�fs looking, �c</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">like standing alone when you�fre misunderstood.�h I would add that</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">this inner courage also includes doing the right thing even though we</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">may be afraid, defending our beliefs at the risk of being ridiculed,</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and maintaining those beliefs even when threatened with a loss of</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">friends or of social status. He who stands steadfastly for that which</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">is right must risk becoming at times disapproved and unpopular."</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I found this quote on courage. I liked it, so I'm sharing it. I'm</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">tired, but and this says what it says. I hope y'all like it!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Chow chow</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hermana Fullmer just kidding that's Spanish.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I forgot what it was in Portuguese. :)</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03211742949230863534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975970358093690881.post-87055317148358839682016-05-18T19:40:00.000-07:002016-05-18T19:40:05.209-07:00April 18, 2016 - Ogre island<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"All things work together for good to them that love God." So keep</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">loving. Keep trying. Keep trusting. Keep believing. Keep growing.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Heaven is cheering you on today, tomorrow, and forever."(Tomorrow the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Lord Will Do Wonders among You, Jeffery r. Holland, General</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">conference)</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">You know life is amazing. It's like a roller coaster, I mean if you</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">really think about it. I roller coaster that stays the same height and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">speed isn't very fun, but when it has really high highs and really low</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">lows, it becomes a exhilarating experience. First we get on then, we</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">sit back slowly make our way to the very top and wait till the drop...</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We hit the highest point of the coaster, and go way fast and hit the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">lows ,but the low part is fun too. Weird huh? The mix of both highs</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and lows makes for a fun ride. Like the roller coaster, life is the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">same way, the highs we anticipate and it seems like they go too fast,</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">but the low part goes pretty fast too when we look back at the end of</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the ride. It would be impossible to just do drops on a roller coaster</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">,though it would be fun , we wouldn't get the whole experience. We</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">have to experience hard things and trials so that we can have the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">happy moments. If you never experienced sadness, you wouldn't know</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">joy. I guess because I have hard stuff, I can say I prefer joy. But</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">despite everything, we can be joyful, in an circumstance that life</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">throws at us. There is always something we can be joyous about.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Something I've come to know is that, God is real, he loves us so much</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">more than we can even comprehend. That's something to be excited</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">about! "When we have nothing left but God, we discover God is enough"(</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">quote on my wall. Thanks mom!) So no matter what you are experiencing,</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">please don't ever forget that you have a father that loves you! Keep</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">going! Don't ever give up, give in, step down! God is your support!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This week, was pretty good, finally a normal week. No</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">lice, no party, no weird event just a good week of missionary work. We</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">teach kids English every week and one of the moms was like what's</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">upstairs (the chapel) so we did a church tour and took some of them</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">upstairs and we showed the temple, and they thought it was way cool,</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and we invited them to come to church this week.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Laugh yoga. So there was an event at the church that we had called</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">laugh yoga. How to explain this, I don't know. A woman from the ward</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">over came and she instructed the class. One of our investigators named</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Natsuko came. We found her in the shopping center last transfer and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">she really like events she's kinda quirky ,but she's really cool. So</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">laugh yoga is when you do yoga And then you laugh as you do it,</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">because it releases bad vibes and bad energy when you laugh. Weirdest</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">yoga ever! After we finished we took her on a church tour we went up</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to the chapel and showed her the chapel and she kept saying wow this</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">is so cool! It was awesome! As we went about showing her rooms and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">stuff I grabbed the keys for the font and we showed her the baptismal</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">font and the spirit was way strong. we talked about baptism and about</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">how we can be forgiven. At the end of the tour we asked her to come to</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">church tomorrow at </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1652309430" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">10:00am</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> and she said "ahh that's kinda hard.. Maybe</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">some other time..." My heart broke, I totally thought she would come</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">on Sunday. Nope... :( then Chiihiro didn't come to church either :((</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">way sad.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we went to O</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">gre island today! It was way fun! With part of the zone.</span><br />
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" A young father was literally sinking. He, his two children, and his<br />father-in-law had gone for a walk around a lake. When the children<br />grew hot and tired, the two men decided to put the children on their<br />backs and swim the short distance across the lake.<br /> It seemed easy--until the moment when the father began to feel<br />pulled down, everything becoming so heavy. Water pushed him to the<br />bottom of the lake, and a frantic feeling came over him. How was he<br />going to keep afloat--and do so with his precious young daughter on<br />his back?<br /> His voice disappeared in the distance as he called out; his<br />father-in-law was too far away to answer a desperate plea for help. He<br />felt alone and helpless.<br /> Can you imagine feeling as alone as he felt, unable to reach<br />anything to hold on to and struggling in a desperate situation for<br />your life and your child? Unfortunately, all of us experience some<br />degree of this feeling when we are in situations where we desperately<br />need to find help in order to survive and to save those we love.<br /> Near panic, he realized that his water-saturated shoes were<br />weighing him down. While working to stay afloat, he began to attempt<br />to get his heavy shoes off his feet. But it was as if they were held<br />on with suction. The laces were swollen with water, cinching the grip<br />even tighter.<br /> In what may have been his last moment of desperation, he managed to<br />pry the shoes from his feet, and at last the shoes released their<br />hold, quickly falling to the bottom of the lake. Free from the heavy<br />weight that had been dragging him down, he immediately propelled<br />himself and his daughter upward. He could now swim forward, moving<br />toward safety on the other side of the lake." (Mary Durham. General<br />conference. Saturday morning session)<br /><br />When we watched General conference this talk really jumped out to me.<br />This story hit me pretty hard. I don't know why but this story just<br />really stuck out to me. I realized two things: 1 Life can drown us.<br />2 If we are drowning we have to drop what's weighing us down. We are<br />not meant to suffer in this life, we are not to be in pain, we are<br />meant to be tested and have experiences. Trials are meant to<br />strengthen us and to teach us important lessons. However, sometimes I<br />think we might have unnecessary trials due to our mistakes,mistakes of<br />others, or perhaps we overwhelm ourselves. If we make a mistake, we<br />must repent. There isn't anything else to it. Repent and move forward.<br />Easier said than done, but if we hold on to guilt, remorse, or (hold a<br />grudge) decided to not forgive ourselves or maybe a person who wronged<br />us, our shoes are going to drown us. We will become like the father in<br />the story and be dragged down. How do we drop that weight? How do we<br />get our shoes loose? Anger, guilt, depression can easily hold us<br />tightly, and it seems as though we cannot loose the shoes.<br /><br />2 Nephi 1:<br />13 O that ye would awake; awake from a deep sleep, yea, even from the<br />sleep of hell, and shake off the awful chains by which ye are bound,<br />which are the chains which bind the children of men, that they are<br />carried away captive down to the eternal gulf of misery and woe.<br />14 Awake! and arise from the dust, and hear the words of a trembling<br />parent, whose limbs ye must soon lay down in the cold and silent<br />grave, from whence no traveler can return; a few more days and I go<br />the way of all the earth.<br /><br />We have to wake up. Arise, and loose our shoes, so we don't drown. But<br />I feel like we sometimes can't with our own power. Unlike the father<br />in the story we aren't alone, we won't call out in desperation and not<br />be heard. We have a savior who already experienced the drowning, maybe<br />for our sake he did drown. But because he experienced that, he knows<br />how to help us. I remember I joked with one of my companions that I<br />felt like I was drowning in stress with everything we had to do. And<br />she smiled and said "well guess what, your lifeguard walks on water."<br />So when the storms of life hit you hard remember Jesus Christ will<br />calm the seas and walk out on the water to bring you to shore.<br /><br />This week we had a companion exchange that wore me out so bad. So<br />usually we go to the training sister leaders area and do an exchange<br />for 24 hours then you come back. Well we went there at about <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1652309428" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">6 o'clock</span></span><br />and went out and about. And then the next day we went out with our<br />stls until 5ish and then all together we came back and they spent the<br />night at our apartment and then we went to ztm the next morning.<br />Probably the longest companion exchange I've ever had. It spanned 3<br />days. I don't know about some people ,but it took a lot out of me.<br />Anyways, the first night of the exchange I went with Zhou (pronounced<br />jo) shimai, she's Chinese and like superwoman I swear. She's fluent in<br />Chinese, Japanese, and English. She went to highschool in Japan and<br />then college in America, man she's just awesome. She's younger than me<br />mission age wise, but she's older than me age wise. She's 22. Super<br />cool and she was baptized like 2ish years ago. She overall amazing.<br /><br />Anyways, we went and visited a member who had gotten in a bad accident<br />with another recent convert names sayuri. Sayuri is so cute. She's 20,<br />learning English and just a cute girl. The reason she came with us was<br />to help build her self confidence. We went to the hospital, as we<br />pulled up I thought it was a hotel. We walked in and the smell of<br />sanitizer and latex gloves filled the air. I got a little queasy,<br />because hospitals and dentist offices freak me out a little. We walked<br />upstairs, prayed, and walked in. This woman had gotten in a fire<br />accident. She was burned from her lips down her whole body. I was a<br />bit in shock and wanted to cry because of how much pain she looked<br />like she was in. She was happy to see us, and glad to here our<br />message. 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her. She said that she is excited for that day and excited to someday<br />be completely healed. We left the hospital and I was on the verge of<br />tears, why does he let people suffer like that? I've often thought<br />about why bad things happen to good people and why bad things happen<br />in general, but a thought came to me after that. I thought about life<br />as a test, because it is. If we endure the things that are extremely<br />hard well, in the end we will receive blessings a hundred fold. I<br />still don't know why bad things happen, or why people suffer ,but I do<br />know the lord is mindful of them and of us, we just have to trust him.<br /><br />Life is like a puzzle, we've got the pieces and we are slowly putting<br />it together, the picture doesn't make sense because we don't have all<br />the pieces put together yet, but God made the picture of the puzzle<br />,so he knows exactly how it's going to turn out.<br /><br />We left the hospital, and had about 40 minutes, but the<br />person we wanted to visit lived about 30 minutes away. Would it be<br />worth it to try and bike over there? Probably not. As we were standing<br />on the street light, 4 people who were for sure not Japanese people<br />walked by us. "Hey where are you guys from?" We happily asked. Turns<br />out they are from Indonesia. They actually told us that they had been<br />looking for a church to go to this past week. :0 what no way! So we<br />talked to them and gave them instructions to come to church. We talked<br />about baptism with them. Man they are so cool! I thought Japanese<br />names where hard to remember, I honestly can't remember their names at<br />all.<br /><br />Sayuri was bummed because she didn't say anything because she was to<br />nervous and they didn't really speak Japanese. She was really upset<br />and kept beating herself down about her language skill. I hugged her<br />and said "guess what, when I first got here I was so scared I barely<br />said much for awhile, but guess what, I still helped with my small<br />testimony or my companion when she needed it. You helped me tonight,<br />you sang hymns while we were coming over here. You gave up time to try<br />and find people with us! You are awesome!" She was still a bit bummed,<br />but she said "thanks". As we were biking back I sang there is<br />"sunshine in my soul today" in Japanese and half butchered the words,<br />but she sang with me. She wants to be in the Mormon tabernacle choir<br />someday. The thought popped in my head to tell her "learn the hymns in<br />English". So I did, I promised her if she did that she would be able<br />to learn English. She beamed as we said good bye, and I was sad to say<br />goodbye to her, but her sweet spirit was so good to be around.<br /><br />Sunday. So Chiihiro came to church! She even bought a skirt! Ah! It<br />was General conference too. She got to hear the prophet speak!<br />(General conference is a live broadcast that happens twice a year,<br />where the prophets and apostles have an opportunity to speak to all<br />the church members all over the world. We believe that we have a<br />living prophet on the earth today who leads and guides the church and<br />he acts as a mouthpiece for God.) we watched General conference in<br />Japanese with her. My brain was so tired. I actually had a weird<br />dejavoo? Dejavu? How do you spell that word!? Anyways I had a moment<br />that reminded me of when I first came to Japan last year at this time.<br />My first week in Japan, My first investigator that came to church came<br />to General conference we watched it with her then. I had no idea what<br />the heck was going on back then. It was cool to sit and listen and be<br />able to understand a lot of what was being said. However, I learned<br />that General conference in Japanese is ridiculously hard to understand<br />because it's super polite. -_- why? Even the Japanese people have a<br />hard time understanding it. But General conference was amazing!<br /><br />Mistake of the week:<br />Despite being an old missionary I still make mistakes all the time. We<br />went to hanami, and we went with these service people , and me and my<br />companion were new to the group. The elders do service every week with<br />this store and we got to just come along. We we did introductions, and<br />it got to me and I said that we are friends with the elders and the<br />old guy sitting next to me asked "is he your boyfriend? Because they<br />way you introduced yourself made it seem like you are dating him." So<br />I guess I accidentally called the elder my boyfriend. Whoops, but for<br />the record I said friend the old guy said "the manner in which I said<br />friend had implications". -_- what does that even mean?!<br /><br />Anyways love y'all!<br /><br />Kochan<div class="yj6qo">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03211742949230863534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975970358093690881.post-76040777245593105372016-04-04T16:40:00.000-07:002016-05-18T19:12:36.286-07:00April 4, 2016- Stealing shoes<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"No matter how intense the darkness of doubt, we choose how long and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to what extent we allow it to influence us."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"There is no darkness so dense, so menacing, or so difficult that it</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">cannot be overcome by light." venn p. Stanfill</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I remember this Science class when I was about 10 years old learning</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">about light and dark. The different types a light and how they work</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and what is seen and what isn't. I remember my teacher asking "What is</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the opposite of light?" I of course thought it was a plainly simple</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">answer ,so in unison with my classmates we said "dark." My teacher</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">smiled but shook her head "no, that's wrong there is no such thing as</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">darkness. Only the absence of light." I was a bit confused at the time</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">by the answer because I had always thought light and dark were</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">opposites. How could light not have an exact opposite? I have since</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">then thought about the concept of light and dark. I've come to the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">conclusion that my teacher was right. Not just Scientifically</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">speaking, but in a spiritual standing as well. We can not sink so low</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to a place that is complete darkness, with no way out. No matter how</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">dark of a place you've been or go to, you are not without light,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">without hope, It's not possible. You have a Savior, who's been there,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">who has felt the pains and sorrows that you can't even comprehend. In</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Japanese the word " ou" means to carry on one's back. And he did</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">precisely this. He carried all the pains and the sorrows on his back.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">All of them. He is the life and the light of the world, that will</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">never go out. Even if you feel like you are in the dark, I promise you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">aren't, there might be a little flicker of a flame ,but if you don't</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">search for it, it's pretty hard to find. Because of Jesus Christ we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">can have hope and feel the infinite love he has for us. I know that</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">hard times will come, but he is our light that always burns brightly</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">before us.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> It's starting to get warmer here and the Sakura</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">are blooming. :) sadly they bloom for about a week or two then they</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">die. So there's all kinds of Sakura festivals and everything has a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Sakura flavor. I can't describe Sakura flavor it's almost like eating</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">something that's beautiful. Sorry I can't describe it even if I wanted</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to. Anyways, yes the island is warming up and we get to see beautiful</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Sakura for a week.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Last week was fun. We set up an appointment to meet this one member</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">named sister Yagi to visit her </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_630779662" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204 , 204 , 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Monday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> night. She's about 20 really</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">nice and some what active because she's a college student ,so we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">decided why not visit her. When I asked her if we could visit she said</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"ah no you don't want to visit me I live far." "No, no, it's okay we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">have bikes!" "No seriously, I live far. Really far!"... We talked for</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">some bit and finally she said we could visit her. So </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_630779663" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204 , 204 , 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Monday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> night</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">rolled around and we were off. Turns out she really does live really</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">really far. About 1 hour and 30-45 minutes on bike. Good thing the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">appointment was at like </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_630779664" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204 , 204 , 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">7:00</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">. We found her house, and she invited us</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">in. We had a nice chat and taught her a little bit about missionary</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">work and sharing the gospel and we gave her "I am a Mormon" pass-along</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">card to give to her friends. She said "Wow talking about the church is</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">easy! I can totally do this." As we left, she gave us some Okinawa</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">treats (she's from Okinawa) and then we slipped on our shoes and left. As we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">were walking away. My shoes felt a little weird, so I told my</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">companion to wait a second so I could fix them. I looked down and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">realized I was wearing bright blue boots that were not mine. I ran</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">back to the door, laughing and swung the door open. Yagi shimai was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">surprised as I pointed at my feet ,and apologized for trying to steal</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">her shoes. She laughed too. We said good bye again, and we left. See</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">when you go into someone's house in Japan you always take off your</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">shoes, and when you leave you put them back on. I guess the bike ride</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">wore me out enough to so I didn't even notice I was putting on bright</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">blue shoes.. I think she likes us. Even though I almost stole her</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">shoes. I hope we can work with her in the future!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We decided to go visit some members that don't get visited very often.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">And now I know why. They live over this mountain on the other side by</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">a lake. 2 hours away by bike. Yes we biked it. But we got to teach</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">them and talk with them for a bit. Cars are blessings y'all, but bikes</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">are awesome because you can stop people on them. If you stopped people</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">while you were in a car, that would be way weird and creepy!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We had interviews this week, with the mission president. Gosh, I love</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">interviews. Every-time we have interviews, we get to talk with the</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">mission president one on one and learn how to be a better missionary</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and how to better help people. It's awesome. He said something in mine</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">that made me laugh. "You are always happy! Or do just act like you are</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">happy when I see you?" I said, "well, I rather be happy than sad, so I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">guess I just choose to be happy." "Well, sister Fullmer that will</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">serve you well in life." I thought it was funny mostly because I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">prefer to be happy than sad. I bet anyone does. I've always thought</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">you can just choose to be happy. As they say, "you can see the glass</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">half full or the glass half empty."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Update on lice, they are gone. Every time I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">scratch my head, paranoia kicks in, and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I get a little scared</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">thinking, "Oh no I have lice! I have to burn my clothes, chop off all</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">my hair..etc"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I now </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">know too much about lice. A mission prepares you </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">for life after </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the mission, so if anyone needs help with their lice problem call me.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I know how to get rid of them, but you are going to have to get</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">someone else to pick your head for you. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Love ya!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Fullmer shimai</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Kochan.. My favorite little kid ever. </span><br />
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Hey guys<br /><br />I am tired. We've been busy this week. And I am just overall tired.<br /><br />This week we met with this guy named Peter. He is from Canada and he<br />is a university professor, married a Japanese woman and lives here in<br />Takamatsu. When we talked about music, he brought up apparently a<br />popular artist Springsteen? Springstein? and asked if we knew who it<br />was and he said. I've heard of the name and I said "I've heard of him<br />,but I don't know him.." His response "you don't know him?! He's like<br />Elvis Presley! did you live under rock? Not to be rude ,but where you<br />not exposed to things?" -_- yes I was exposed to things. He went on a<br />rant about how we need to be exposed to things such as drugs or<br />alcohol. He was surprised when we learned we haven't ever done drugs<br />or drank alcohol. We talked a lot about being able to choose want we<br />want because we have agency.<br /><br />So we got to teach one of our investigators about temples and and she<br />thought it was really cool and she also came to the Easter party and<br />almost to Easter Sunday.. So close! She's a funny one. She's interesting </div>
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She's been progressing so much now we just need to talk about<br />tithing.. And we will be on our way!<br /><br />Easter party.. So yes it was good. I was bummed out though because<br />there was a woman who tried to get here ,but she couldn't find it and<br />I called her and we couldn't figure out where she was so she didn't<br />come. Dangit. So close. Hopefully we can meet her again! On the<br />bright side Kana came and so did these cute little girls from English<br />class. Yessss.<br /><br />Happy Easter everyone! I know it's late ,but I hope all of you had a<br />really good Easter.<br />But please don't forget the true meaning which is Jesus Christ's resurrection.<br />Helaman <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_630779661" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">14:17</span></span><br />17 But behold, the resurrection of Christ redeemeth mankind, yea, even<br />all mankind, and bringeth them back into the presence of the Lord.<br />Because of Jesus Christ we can and will live again. He saved us from<br />our griefs and our sins, our sorrows. We celebrate not his death ,but<br />his life and sacrifice for us. I am incredibly thankful for the<br />atonement of Jesus Christ because through it We can become something<br />more than what we are right now.<br /><br />Have a great week!<br />Fullmer shimai<br /><br />When kids steal your iPad<div class="yj6qo">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03211742949230863534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975970358093690881.post-66280048621614418152016-04-04T16:05:00.001-07:002016-04-04T16:05:34.591-07:00March 21, 2016- Sleepy legs<span style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 13px;">Hello folks. Wow. Just wow.</span><br />
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This week was busy really busy. We've got really wonderful members here who want to help us so much. They are fantastic! One awesome sister is Shiraishi shimai. Gosh she's so cool. She told us last week "hey you guys are coming with me on Wednesday and we are going to go visit my friend, and some less actives ok?!" Okay no problem sounds great to me. So she took us to go visit her friend. We did a tea ceremony. You'd think after being here for so long I could sit on my knees without the pain or my legs falling asleep. Well, my legs still fall asleep and ache. </div>
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Sitting in seiza reminded me of this memory from my first area. </div>
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One time when I was a younger missionary, my legs feel asleep as we were teaching(we sit in seiza, which is on your knees, it's a polite way to sit) a lesson and I stood up and fell over. Well when I fell over I whacked my arm on a table next to me and cut my arm. Well The people we were teaching freaked out and wrapped my arm in gauze so tightly that when we had to bike home I couldn't bend my arm to ride my bike normally. That was like 9months ago I think. </div>
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Anyway, we were sitting, and doing this very elaborate tea ceremony thing, without the tea(we just used hot water) and we re-did it at least 5 times because we would mess up the words or not bow the correct way. I can't believe there are different ways to bow. It was determined that I was the least graceful one and that it was a good thing I'm an American because we don't have to be graceful. I already knew I'm not graceful, I thought it was funny because I got told ya.. You probably shouldn't ever try to graceful things. Dangit. No grace. Also we finished and my companion and I struggled to stand up because our legs were asleep and we kinda had to shake them to wake them up. </div>
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That's okay though, after the tea ceremony, Shiraishi shimai's friend played this weird drum thing for us and sang this really old song and it was cool. Interesting pretty interesting. We taught her a message about God and Shiraishi shimai bore her testimony like amazingly, so hopefully we will get to teach her. After that, Shiraishi shimai was driving us to this less active members house and we passed this shop and she said "sugarcane!" "Do you guys like sugarcane?" We went to this little shop that made pure sugar cane candy in cute shapes and she bought us some. It was so good. It was pure sugar that melted on your tongue like cotton candy except it was little blocks. After that we went To this less actives member's house and shared a small message. I discovered something really sad. Riding in cars is really hard and I get really really sick when I do. So by the end of the trip I was pretty sick, but overall it was a really good day.</div>
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Sunday... Miracles. Last transfer we had skyped this woman who said her friend wanted to come to the church. The friend called this week and asked if she could come. So we invited her to come. She asked which day and we said Sunday at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_630779610" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">10:00</span></span>. :) she came at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_630779611" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">11:00</span></span>. :( so she missed the best part of church ,but we gave her a church tour, and we asked "do want to hear our message?" And she said "yes." So we went into the closest classroom. We sat down and taught her the whole restoration. Her name is Chiihiro. She's about 24ish and so prepared. We gave her a Book of Mormon and taught her how to pray and she said "ya this just makes sense, little by little I'm going to understand." She's going to come to church next week too, so I'm so so happy! She's so awesome and has just the purest heart. Gah.. It was so cool, I was on cloud nine right after that.</div>
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Today we taught this girl we found last week named Sakiko. She had tried to pray ,but she didn't really know how ,so we explained it a bit better and talked about the meaning of Easter with her. She's so sweet too! Man I just love these awesome girls! </div>
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Update on Haruka: she has disappeared off the face of the earth. I have no idea where she went.</div>
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I found this scripture the other day and I really liked it. It doesn't say be of good courage and the burdens will be taken away, it says that the lord will strengthen our heart. Make us stronger more able to endure. Trials as awful as they seem sometimes are nothing what the savior experienced. Our trials is merely a drop in the ocean of what our savior experienced for us. As long as we rely on him he promises to strengthen us and he always keeps his promises. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03211742949230863534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975970358093690881.post-47209735341842867032016-04-04T15:44:00.001-07:002016-04-04T15:44:35.351-07:00March 14, 2016 - Tokyo girl<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">It's been a crazy week of transfers.. I hate transfers. Well, I just</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">wish they would tell us more instead of waiting the night before. So</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">as I said last email transfers have changed from us finding out on</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Monday to finding out at some time. Well.. I'm still here in</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Takamatsu. Yay! I'm happy about that ,but the stress of not knowing...</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">やだ‼️(hard pass/no way) anyway. My companion Folkman 姉妹 got shipped</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">out to Kouchi and I stayed here. My new companion is sister Carr. I</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">remember when she was trained I was 4th transfer I think? Gosh time</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">really does fly, doesn't it. For those of you don't know transfers is</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">how we know how "old" we are. I am considered old now ,but I'm not I'm</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">only 9th transfer... :0.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Anyway before sister Folkman left, We got to teach a killer lesson on</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Wednesday. We met this girl named Haruka on the train and we gave her</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">a Book of Mormon and she texted us and she told us that she read a</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">little bit ,so we decided to meet again and talk with her about it.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Initially we were going to talk about the Book of Mormon ,but when we</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">got there we taught the whole restoration. That was pretty darn</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">amazing. We taught her about prayer too. My favorite question</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">she asked was "should I come to church and pray? Would that be</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">better?" We invited her to come to church ,but she already had plans</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">on that day ,so next week :) fingers crossed!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Thursday</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I was alone. I waved goodbye to Folkman shimai and ran to catch my</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">train, wiping tears away because parting with companions and members</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">is beyond hard. I hate goodbyes so much. So I left and got on a train</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">headed for Marugame. I sat close to this cute girl and struck up a</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">conversation with her. She lives in Tokyo ,and was going back that day</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">,so that was a bummer ,but She was so cute! Her name is Hana and she</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">said I could come hangout with her in Tokyo anytime. I gave her my</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">email and she said she would email me. And she did! Woo woo!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I met Carr shimai in Marugame and took her back and it felt way weird</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to be back without Folkman shimai. Super weird feeling at first. Kinda</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">like a companion exchange ,but it's been fun.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So our first day together we did a bit of finding. We were biking up</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">one way and we stopped this girl in a Kimono to get a picture with</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">her. We ended up teaching her a bit about God, she said that she would</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">be more than willing to meet again and we got her information ,so</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">sometime this week we might meet with her. Her name is Sakiko! We have</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">a shopping mall. Like an outlet and we let to go up and down there and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">find people and everyone was just shutting us down hardcore. I saw</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">another girl getting ignored hardcore too she was handing out fliers</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">for a restaurant and so I thought maybe it would be cool to talk to</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">her. As we walked over a woman hardcore told her no thanks. And I said</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to her "I saw you get ignored.. I feel for you people ignore us too.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Are you okay? That's way rough.." She smiled back and said "ya. It's</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">not fun, but I'm tough so it's okay" we talked to her for sometime and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">then ended up talking about God. She had a lot of interest and she</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">said we could come by the shop anytime and we could talk about our</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">message. We got her information too. By the end of the night we had a</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">couple of numbers and we had ended up teaching a lot of lessons. It</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">was so cool!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Lately I've been pretty tired, but like a good tired. You know when</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">you feel like you've accomplished something or you are doing something</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">great? Ya that kind of tired.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Amazing quote I read:</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"When we truly understand what it means to love as Jesus Christ loves</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">us, the confusion clears and our priorities align. Our walk as</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">disciples of Christ becomes more joyful. Our lives take on new</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">meaning. Our relationship with our Heavenly Father becomes more</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">profound. Obedience becomes a joy rather than a burden." (The Love of</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">God, Dieter F. Uchtdorf)</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> I have no profound thoughts this week. Just love Jesus and be happy.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">😍 love you guys!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Love,</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Sister Fullmer</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03211742949230863534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975970358093690881.post-53728457413928959852016-03-09T12:36:00.000-08:002016-03-09T12:36:45.934-08:00March 7, 2016 - Broke my tooth<span style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 13px;">Hello! This week is transfer week except we won't know what's happening until next week. We used to get emails every Monday ,but they changed the way they do things now we will get phone calls thoughout the week. If you are getting transferred to a new area that's really far or a new leader ship position you will maybe get a call on Monday night. The rest of everyone else has to wait.. Waiting for the call is the worst because you don't know if you are leaving or staying or what's happening, you just have to wait it out. So I might be here next week I might not.</span><br />
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This week something incredible happened. I got to see the power of the atonement right before my eyes. We are working with a less active member and members actually set up the appointments for us. She is amazing. She isn't active mostly because something happened a long time ago with other members and she's still got some emotional scars from that. She once told us that she absolutely hated a certain person when we first talked to her. We visited her the first time about 3 weeks ago on her birthday and we talked about God and his love for her. She was so happy that we came then because she thought that everyone had forgotten her birthday. Since then we have had a good relationship with her and have really come to love her. In one of her lessons I was a bit off one day. And she told me not to worry and to be happy because there are people who need to hear my testimony. She told me I had a reason that I'm here and people are waiting for me. She's more like an old friend rather than a less active member we have to teach. She really is truly amazing and it's cool to see her changing. Recently we had a lesson with her and a member and the member called her out and said " your heart used to be hard, but now it's softened because of the atonement. You still need to continue to repent and change but you are different now." She said she had changed and she said "I am praying to forgive the person I hate.. I really hate this person, but I am praying to love them and forgive them because they are just human" when I heard this, my heart skipped a beat. I was beyond happy! Praying for someone you don't like let alone hate takes faith in the lord and a lot of humility. I have seen the light of Christ touch her, she is happier and she is trying her best to change. It's so amazing to see that. </div>
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Well I've got quite the track record for going to the dentist and or Doctor... <img alt="😬" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f62c" goomoji="1f62c" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f62c" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /> don't worry I'm fine. So really funny story, I was flossing my teeth <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_347553467" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Wednesday</span></span> night and my tooth broke.. I don't even understand how it happened. I was really shocked.. And stopped floss. I walked into the other room holding part of my tooth saying "uhh folkman shimai I think I might have a problem." I tried to rinse my mouth out ,but sadly the water was too cold. The next morning we called a member in the ward (he's from America, married to a Japanese woman) and asked him if he knew a good Dentist. Lucky for me he did, and this dentist studied in a America. And spoke a bit of English. No matter how good my Japanese is or gets I will never be able to go to the doctor or dentist because I have a little bit of a fear of them. Even in America I freeze up because I am so nervous. We had an appointment set up for <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_347553468" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Friday</span></span> afternoon. Except one problem.. We had zone training meeting! So we called the zone leaders and asked them if it would be okay to leave. And they said it was cool.</div>
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We went out with two investigators this week and we talked a little bit about the temple because Kiku one investigator told us about how she had gone to the temple with her host family in America and whipped out a video from Facebook and said "is this your temple?" the familiar song "I love to see the temple" that I used to sing in <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_347553470" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span> school as a little kid played in the background and all kind of memories came flooding back as the video gave a virtual tour of the temple rooms. Gosh it was so amazing. We explained that we can be married in the temple and be married for all time and eternity. Usually marriage ceremonies say "till death to you part" where as in ours it says something a long the lines of "forever" I think I don't know I've never been to a wedding before. But we talked about that ,and it was just so cool to me because I haven been to the temple for so long! I just want to go back. We invited them to come to church and the said they would for sure come.</div>
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Come <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_347553471" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span> morning my companion and I wait patiently for them to come ,but moments go by and each grandma that bikes by gets our hopes up ,but finally when church started we realized they weren't coming. I can't tell you how upset that I felt. We were so excited for them to come and then they didn't show up... I was pretty dang sick that day and I kept praying for strength ,so that when they came I would be happy and peppy. When they didn't show my energy was gone and my heart sank. Later that night we got a call from an different investigator saying she didn't really want to hear the lessons anymore. We were quite upset because of what happened earlier. At about <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_347553472" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">7:00</span></span> ish we didn't know what to do. We were biking to go find new people. When I got the idea of the less active man that we visit a lot. "Maybe we should go visit him" I said to my comp. so we did. This is the same sarcastic man who makes us laugh and has the funniest things to say. We went over to his house and ended up setting up chairs on his porch so we could talk with him. It got really deep and spiritual. He opened up a lot about his mission and his walls came down with us as he told us stories from his mission. He loved his mission and his testimony is still so strong. He just has old wounds that need healing. He said so many things that really helped us that night. He has no idea. As went to leave, he told us "thank you. Really. It means a lot that you guys care so much. It feels good to talk about my mission.. I still think about it everyday" We laughed we cried and we felt the spirit. It was amazing. The cool thing about this work is when you give yourself to help someone and in turn you learn something new and you feel the love of God. </div>
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I really like this scriptures. :) have a great week y'all! </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03211742949230863534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975970358093690881.post-87921189450944527542016-03-09T12:26:00.000-08:002016-03-09T12:26:01.579-08:00Feb. 29, 2016 - Laugh.<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Well this week went by fast ,but slow. It's hard to describe that ,but</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">it felt like a long week. I can't believe it's Monday already. So</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">you know how people talk about the weather as small talk. No one</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">really cares that much about the weather. Well I guess some people do</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">,but for the most part people talk about the weather when they have</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">nothing else to talk about. Well if you talk about the weather, people</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">actually care. That's how I learned this new word that means a cycle</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">of hot and a cycle of cold. Sankanshion (3 days cold 3 days warm)</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">You know how teenagers say things like "LOL, haha, etc" when they</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">text. Well kids do that here too when they text except they send the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">kanji that means laugh. So I was reading this text and I thought about</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">it in English " sure that sounds great! Laugh." And I lost it because</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">it was so funny to read it that way.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We went to nihama for a exchange with our stls (sister training</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">leaders) it was really good. I Learned a lot from it. The next morning</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we had a ekaiwa class with old people. I can't tell you how boring it</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">was, one guy when on a rant about plums and wild boars. I asked him if</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">they hunt the wild boars and he said no because it's too hard and he's</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">lazy. But other than that they just kinda talked about political</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">things and we can talk politics as missionaries ,so there was that.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This week finding people we met some awesome people. This super cute</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">girl named Ari, who said she would call us sometime to talk about our</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">message. And Roxie, I was tempted to tell her I once had a dog named</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Roxie ,but it died ,but I thought that might be a little weird. I now</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">know what return missionaries are usually weird because as</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">missionaries you kinda talk about everything with people and whatever</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">pops into you head ,and try to start conversations about anything with</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">people. But it's weird. So I'm glad I didn't say it. Her really name</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">is yuu, but she likes the name Roxie (her self picked English name) so</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we call her Roxie. She's about 20 like us and super cute and stylish,</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I'm so excited to teach her!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Funny finding moments:</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We talked to a woman for a bit about the church and as we were talking</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">she backed away ,but still talking to us and then she randomly said</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"you are dressed too warm for this weather!" And turned around and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">walked away. It was sankanshion's fault.. Didn't know it would get</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">really warm.Sorry to offend you with my overdressed-ness.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We stop this cute little grandma and she said "nope I am Buddhist! No</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">thank you! " but we talked to her for a bit and she was really nice.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We asked her if she was out for a walk and she said "no I'm cleaning</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">this path because of lazy people." She had a bag and she was going</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">around picking up dog poop with her bag. This is a normal thing in</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Japan. A lot of times people will clean after each other messes ,but I</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">thought it was hilarious.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Thoughts</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Helaman </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_347553466" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">6:36</span></span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">36 And thus we see that the Lord began to pour out his Spirit upon the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Lamanites, because of their easiness and willingness to believe in his</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">words.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">^ simple but profound scripture I found. If we want to believe in the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">lord and we do what we can to believe his words he will pour out his</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">spirit upon us. See that's the really cool thing about God. He wants</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to bless us ,but we have just got to trust him and be willing to trust</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">him and everything will turn out okay. :) so trust God and be strong</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">with whatever you are going through because I promise it's just a</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">small moment in time.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Love you guys!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Love,</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">フルマ姉妹</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So we had an incredible Sunday.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03211742949230863534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975970358093690881.post-85060535491684162362016-02-22T16:21:00.002-08:002016-02-22T16:22:10.303-08:00Feb 22, 2016 - Ikeman<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hello folks.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This week... Well I had 2 girls ask if they could marry my brother</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Taylor. Literally all the people at see my family pictures want to</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">marry my brother because he is so "ikeman" (hunk). That was funny. One</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">of them named maki said "put in a good word and we can be sisters!"</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Gosh I love people. These girls are members in the branch next to ours</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">they came to meeting that we had.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> This week was pretty good. We taught a less active member at the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">church with another active member and the spirit was so strong. She</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">doesn't come to church right now because of health reasons but she is</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">so so sweet and has such a light in her.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Finding. Finding is something we do where we go out and try to talk to</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">people of the streets to see if we can teach them about the church. I</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">can say finding is interesting that is for sure. We met this one woman</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">who talked so fast we could barely get any words out, but boy she was</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">interesting. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So typically we have a bunch of interesting encounters ,but</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">some of the coolest ones as well.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We met a woman named shiyori on the train the other day, she was a</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">ballet teacher. They always dance I swear,but she was amazing. She</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">kept saying how we should show love because we want to, not because we</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">feel like we have to. We gave her our number gosh I hope she calls.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Ah, something cool happened, we made a mistake going out to this one</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">area. We accidentally pasted our stop and got off there. We decided to</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">go finding there ,but no luck. However, on our way back we met this</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">young girl heading to work. She told us "ahh you guys are so pretty we</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">need to take a picture together" so we did. I'm glad the Japanese</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">people will always think we are pretty because we had biked a lot that</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">day in the rain,so we must have actually looked wet and sad, but</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">anyway. We talked with her for a bit and got her number and we have</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">an appointment next week. Yes!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Guess who came to church.... The American guy who's hilarious. Oh my</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">gosh he is like a teenager. We were in class with him, and the teacher</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">called on him to answer a question and he turned to us and said "what</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">did he say?"( then said I'm checking right now one sec in Japanese)</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">then he answered "okay checking is way important ,but I know this for</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">sure". He answered correctly and the teacher said "ya that's right".</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">He raised his hand in a fist saying "did I win the class? ". The whole</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">class was just so funny with random things. I don't do it justice ,but</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">gosh it was so funny. The teacher couldn't remember someone's name so</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">he called on the person like this " baby Rockwell-chan no otosan "</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">:baby rockwell's dad. Guy brother Solomon and his wife have been in</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">here for about a year and the teacher still didn't know their names...</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Gosh so funny!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Here's a quote:</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Elder Neal A. Maxwell of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (1926–2004)</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">once said that “sometimes with smudges on our cheeks, dirt on our</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">hands, and shoes untied, stammeringly but smilingly we present God</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">with a dandelion--as if it were an orchid or a rose! If for now the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">dandelion is the best we have to offer, He receives it, knowing what</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we may later place on the altar” (That Ye May Believe [1992], 100).</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- so God will accept anything we give him if it be small or seems not</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">good enough. I don't know what everyone is facing in their life ,but I</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">promise you if you do your best he'll never say it's not good enough.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">He knows us he knows what we can or cannot do ,and he will be happy if</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we try. So I encourage you to trust God and do all that you can do</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">because we are like the dandelion small and maybe at times feel</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">insignificant ,but guess what to him we are amazing. We are worth so</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">much to him. Have a great week!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Love,</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Fullmer </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">shimmy</span><br />
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Hello people's<br />So this week we met some pretty awesome people. Well first we got to<br />meet with our girls. 3 girls that had come to eikaiwa randomly out of<br />the blue came again. We meet after eikaiwa a little bit and just<br />talked some and then Kiku (one of the girls) told me that when she<br />stayed in America she lived with a Mormon family. Her host family was<br />Mormon! So she had gone to church and she even seminary( morning<br /><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_606187442" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span> school class). I showed her family pictures later and she told<br />me she even went to a temple! We set up a dinner with them the next<br />day, and that <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_606187443" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Wednesday</span></span> we went to the best okonomiyaki place<br />ever. It was just a little hole in the wall ,but boy it was good. We<br />gave the girls book of Mormons and hiro was already reading through it<br />like crazy. We are so so excited to teach them because they have got<br />so much potential.<br /><br />We met a woman <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_606187444" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Friday</span></span> named noriko. She's about 70 ish looks 60ish<br />wears bright pink and purple eyeshadow and just laughs at anything.<br />She actually approached the missionaries first. We asked her why she<br />wanted to meet us and she said because "I want to learn about Jesus,<br />I've heard of him ,but I want to learn about him" well for two<br />missionaries teaching about God and Jesus that's just the best news to<br />hear. So we talked with her for sometime about Jesus, we tried to give<br />her a Book of Mormon ,but she said not right now. She told us " I<br />think it will take me sometime to learn ,but I do want to learn". She<br />told us before we left that we were cute and then she said "she looks<br />American"(pointing to my companion) "you look Japanese... Are you<br />half?" She said that I had Japanese mannerisms too. I told her nope<br />and she didn't believe that I was American they never do. They always<br />think I am from Spain or Europe. It's the brown hair I think.<br /><br />While we were talking to some people near our huge outdoor mall, we<br />talked to a woman about God and she said "ya we're all related because<br />of Adam and Eve right?" Japanese people don't know about Adam and Eve!<br />Turns out she likes to study Christianity... Crazy awesome. We also<br />were at a stoplight and a man approached asked us "which country? " in<br />English. He told him America and that we were church volunteers and I<br />was holding s Book of Mormon at the time and he said "you guys just<br />study the bible?" And I whipped it up and asked him if he's ever seen<br />it before. He said yup and pretty recently too, turns out he was<br />studying in marugame last summer with the elders there and then he<br />moved. Crazy! He's a little crazy though because he was telling us<br />about how to take pictures in the perfect light then he gave us<br />pictures of rainbows he took and some flower pictures and gave those<br />to us.<br /><br />What do you do <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_606187445" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Saturday</span></span> nights? I participate in a 3 year old's<br />birthday party. We usually have game night every <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_606187446" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Saturday</span></span> ,but an<br />American family in our ward son had a birthday last week and they<br />wanted to do a little bit of a party on that day. So that night the<br />elder, our mission leader, ourselves and our investigator kana went to the<br />birthday party.<br /><br />Kana... She's a fun girl. She about 29 and she loves food and English.<br />She would ask brother Solomon if she could have more cake and every<br />time he would say "ya go for it" so she did. She is so funny.<br /><br />So <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_606187447" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span> kana came to church she's been a couple times, we've<br />talked about baptism with her a couple of times,but she still has some<br />worries that we are working through. <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_606187448" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">This Sunday</span></span> we went to class with<br />her ,but the teacher was sick so it was us and the elders. We asked<br />kana what she would want to learn. She picked repentance. So we taught<br />repentance with the elders. Gosh matsuhisua choro is such a good<br />little missionary. He had so many good symbolisms. Towards the end of<br />the lesson. One of the old members shuffled in the room. I thought he<br />was unaware of the lesson, but he sat down and cuffed his hand around<br />his ear so he could hear. We were about to finish up, then he jumped<br />up and said "if we didn't have Jesus we would be lost!" Or something<br />to like that in English. He made an elder hold out his hands and he<br />piled books on his hands and say "this is was sin does to us, it<br />weighs us down and we can't do anything" (lifts books up) "but he<br />takes the burden from us". He went on for a few minutes and it was<br />really good ,but I had no idea that he was even aware of the lesson.<br />Gosh I love people.<br /><br />So <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_606187449" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span> was Valentine's Day, we got some chocolates from the church<br />members and someone made a cake. Kana had to go, so she couldn't stay<br />for afterwards for some cake, we told her we would save her a piece<br />and that she could get it later. We went home for lunch and she called<br />us saying "where is the cake??" We told her it was in fridge "I can't<br />find it I don't see it!" She said. We put it in the middle shelf in<br />the very middle, but for some reason it was hard to find. After a<br />couple minutes she said "yay. I found it thanks ,bye" and hung up.<br />Gosh she's a funny one.<br /><br />D&C 18:10-13<br />10 Remember the worth of souls is great in the sight of God;<br />11 For, behold, the Lord your Redeemer suffered death in the flesh;<br />wherefore he suffered the pain of all men, that all men might repent<br />and come unto him.<br />12 And he hath risen again from the dead, that he might bring all men<br />unto him, on conditions of repentance.<br />13 And how great is his joy in the soul that repenteth!<br /><br />Repent. All we need to do to be happy is to repent. There is nothing<br />more wonderful than being relieved a guilt from your shoulders and<br />receiving forgiveness. Jesus suffered on the cross for us. He suffered<br />all the sins of the world. All we have to do to be forgiven is to<br />repent. Repentance isn't just a confession type thing, it's changing<br />our heart and turning towards God. 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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03211742949230863534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975970358093690881.post-13669564849623549132016-02-09T09:37:00.002-08:002016-02-09T09:37:09.222-08:00Feb 8, 2016 -Hello from the city of tall pine tree!<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 13px;">Hello friends and family,</span><br />
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Week two on the island. :) something I like about the island is all the interesting people that I get to meet. I've met my share of people out here, but this week was one of the funniest.</div>
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We teach an kids English class here and 3 kids come to that. They are the cutest craziest kids ,but we had a good time teaching them. We aren't allowed to hold kids as missionaries, but when we were sitting down to teach the kids and one of them hopped on my back. It's always the worst because they try and climb into our laps and we just have to push them off. (In a loving way). But the kids were so funny! I don't really know if they even learn that much English from us, but it's always fun.</div>
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This week we had English class. 3 college girls came to our class because they had got online and found the place.... What?! No one gets online from the English fliers. We were so excited, though because they are young and want to learn English! We had a pretty fun English class with them, and One of them plays softball guess who might be playing ball this week... Gosh I hope. </div>
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Last night was an interesting experience. We met probably one of my favorite less actives ever. So this guy, is the funniest person I have ever met. So right now his wife is in Canada finishing up college ,so he doesn't really have much going on. He's American ,but he didn't serve in Japan and his wife isn't Japanese. She's Canadian. He literally one day decided to just come to japan and teach English with his wife. He is the most interesting people I've ever met. So we ping ponged the door, and we heard scuffling and then a "hello?" Who's there?"... "The sister missionaries".. "Oh okay.. I don't need a weapon then" he asked the door and the first thing he said was "I'm sorry do I look like crap?" "So how's missionary-ing" we laughed and asked if he woke up and he said "no I was just kinda laying on my bed looking at the ceiling"... So this man has a katana ,but he didn't bring it to Japan. (Japanese sword), but we went with him for a walk and he told us how when someone tried to break into his house, and he scared him off with the sword ,but he lied to the landlord and said it was a butcher knife because you weren't allowed to have a sword were he lived. </div>
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When asked how he met his wife: "we worked at the same website..you get to meet people at meetings and sometimes things come up and you drive 20 hours to go to a concert in Canada"</div>
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Pulled out candy of his pocket: "dangit I'm like a grandpa pulling candy out of my pocket. I'm 32 I look 45 ,but I'm actually 70"</div>
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Asked us if we had eaten at a hotdog stand near his house: "good don't it tastes like garbage anyway, they offended me with the thing they made called a hotdog"</div>
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When he had to leave: "so I don't know how to end a conversation, I'm just putting that out there." </div>
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Gosh it was so funny! This guy is the funniest my email didn't do it justice. </div>
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We now call elder Matsuhisua.. Elder pine tree because his first kanji means pine tree. We are working in a place called Takamatsu, which means tall pine tree... I love this place! So much awkwardness and weirdness it's awesome! </div>
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12 And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall.</div>
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Well if we build upon the rock our savior Jesus Christ, nothing can hurt us. Nothing can ever drag us down. Though sometimes those storms and winds will come our way and I have no doubt that they will, if we are built upon the rock we will not fall. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03211742949230863534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975970358093690881.post-60981988402675405862016-02-09T09:26:00.002-08:002016-02-09T09:28:20.953-08:00Jan. 31, 2016 -まもなく 四国 です。(presently/shortly Shikoku) banished to the island...<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hello folks. As you can guess I transferred. I am now in a wonderful</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">place called takamatsu on Shikoku (island). Once you go to the island</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">you never com back. Or so they say. They also say when you go to the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">island you get fat,so there's that too. Yay. They changed transfers</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">from how they used to be. Now they are really different. Before we</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So I was called Tuesday night and found out that I was coming to the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">island. Woo! No snow! Was my first thought, but I like it here.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Everyone is really fun and we've got a fun branch. Love it the people</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">here are awesome! I was sad to say good bye to Toyooka though I sure</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">had a lot of fun there. I am not training anymore, Cannon shimai</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">stayed in Toyooka and I came up to Takamatsu almost alone. That was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">fun! But my new companion is awesome. Turns out that I was not social</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">in college because guess what she was in my ward at college and lived</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">above me! I knew some of her roommates and she knew some of mine ,but</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we didn't know each other. We had gone to some of the same ward</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">activities ,but I guess we had never really met. Super weird. So her</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">name is sister Folkman. Folkman and Fullmer fun for 日本人Japanese people</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to say. Just kidding it confuses them kinda. But yes, she is pretty</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">awesome. She is a 4th transfer so still young, but she's awesome! I'm</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">8th.. Im old. It kinda makes me sad. I'm so old, and I still have so</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">much to learn. I have about 6months left. Where did the time go?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This week we taught a couple of interesting people. We have met a few</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">really nice people, and met more weird ones. I like this area from</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">what I seen ,so far. Nice people, great companion, it's just a matter</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Condemn me not because of mine imperfection, neither my father,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">because of his imperfection, neither them who have written before him;</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">but rather give thanks unto God that he hath made manifest unto you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">our imperfections, that ye may learn to be more wise than we have</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">been.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I like this because no one is perfect, life's biggest test is becoming</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">like Jesus who was perfect. But we shouldn't let those little things</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">hold us back from becoming the best we can be. I feel like I become</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">aware everyday of my imperfections and what I need to do better and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">what I should be doing better ,but it's good it pushes me to improve</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">on what I'm doing right now. Well folks I hope you work hard this</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">week, learn from mistakes, and share the love!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Love,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">フルマ姉妹</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Oh I forgot something really funny. When we where housing we met this</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">guy named Joe. In my defense,he is Filipino,but he answered saying</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">"hey how are you guys? " and he was wearing a ISU sweat shirt, but I</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">thought he was Japanese, and I said "wow your English is so good!"...</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">He's American. He grew up in Florida. Go Fullmer shimai. That was my</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">bad. But hilarious!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Well the snow has hit Toyooka. I guess I'm warm blooded or maybe now a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Scrooge ,but when I see the snow fall I'm not too excited. It's</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">beautiful and wonderful yes, but I can't say I love it very much. It</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">was snowing pretty hard </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1667778313" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204 , 204 , 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> morning and I said "Holy cow</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">blizzard!" My companion laughed and said "no it's not, if you couldn't</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">see that pole over there then it would be a blizzard." Well if you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">have a hard time seeing the pole is it a blizzard? I'm still convinced</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">it was a blizzard. But yes it was snowing very hard ,so we don't bike</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">anymore ,because it's extremely dangerous to bike now.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Fun thing about the snow though, you can throw snow balls at the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">elders. Yes I hit sugimoto choro with a lot of snow. We had been</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">cleaning up the church </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1667778314" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204 , 204 , 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> for church and all the missionaries</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">were shoveling snow after church ended and he acted like we was going</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to throw snow at us in the shovel ,so when he turned around I got him</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">good. Then it turned into a snow ball fight. With the rest of us.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Last Monday I bought new boots. Just in time for the snow fall! I've</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">got this system down with gloves, so I have a bunch of extra pairs</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">that I found and we don't have dryers so you just have to wait for</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">your clothes to dry ,so I do 2 pairs of gloves everyday and then at</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the end of the day, when they are pretty wet I change gloves for the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">next day. It works pretty well.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So Monday night we went to Kobe for TTT (Trainee, trainer, training).</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We got to the Kobe sisters apartment and we met some other sisters who</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">were also staying there on the way over, turns out just about everyone</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">was told by their zone leaders to stay in Kobe. The final count for</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">sisters was 15... 15 sister missionaries in a 1 room apartment</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">squished into the study and bedroom. It was fun except when it was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">time to go to bed because the. They we had to squish in there. It was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">so packed that I was pushed up against a wall with someone's feet</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">inches from my face. I don't think I slept. I just kinda waited until</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">it was morning ,but I got to see Gibson shimai! My last companion! She</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">is also trying ,so we were pretty much latched at the hip that night</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and the next day. Gosh I love that girl.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">in one room and the trainees in the other. And we got trained ,by the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">assistants to the president and then by our mission president. I got</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to see another past companion uchida shimai! She looked so happy and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">it was so fun to see her. I laughed with her and talked with her and I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">was telling her hey I speak Japanese now! And she laughed and told me</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I did when I was with her. After training we walked back to train</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">station with the fukuchiyama elders because I am directional impaired</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">when traveling far distances I latch on to people going to the same</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">general direction ,so we went with them because we would catch a train</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">from fukuchiyama. The poor trainer was battling strep and so he was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">half out of it. I told him "don't worry if you fall we will catch" We</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">got our tickets at the bus station then we had to sit and wait for a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">bit. I thought what would I want if I was sick.. Well something warm</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and something for my throat, so I grab my comp and we went to this</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">place that we know sells good nikumons (little bread things with meat</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and goodness inside) and then found some cough drops and yuzu juice</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">(lemon like fruit) that was warm and ran back to the elders, when we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">gave the elders the food he had got them the trainee said " wow, I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">just feel so loved!" We safely got on the bus and his trainer was out</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">when he sat down. We parted ways at the station and we caught a train</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to Toyooka as we came in it was snowing hard. We got in and I was a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">bit worried. We walked out bikes back and because biking was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">impossible. From here on out we are walking. We got home pretty late</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and we pulled at the phone and turns out we had a lot of missed calls</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">from the zone leaders. We called back and they were saying "did you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">guys make it home? Are you okay?!" We said "ya we're fine," " (sigh of</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">relief) good! I don't mean to be your dad, but you guys need to answer</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">when we call! It's snowing pretty bad tonight!" We apologized and then</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">headed off to bed because we were so tired!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We went out and visited some of our potential investigators, they were</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">all asleep I think. Ya probably sleeping maybe everyone just likes</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">afternoon naps. We had to go back to Kobe again because </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1667778317" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204 , 204 , 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Thursday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">have another meeting with elder choi he's one of the area 70 and there</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">was a mission tour! So we had to go back to Kobe. As we left it snowed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">pretty hard. We got to Kobe and it was just us at the Kobe sisters</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">apartment, yay!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So we had the elder choi meeting! It was awesome. He's from Korea ,but</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">his English is almost We all took a huge picture with him, when he</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">walked in the first words he said to us was "do you think I'm</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">handsome?" We all laughed and said "yes". "Good I think so too." He</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">replied. Our mission tour was really cool, we learned a lot about what</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we need to do and how we need to do it. They really put a huge</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">emphasis on teaching repentance and baptizing people. One thing I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">loved was "if you don't know what to say talk about the savior because</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">you can never talk about him too much.. Always have you name on your</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">lips"after our lunch 3 people got an interview with elder choi. I was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">one of the 3. I was beyond nervous. But it was really cool and I got</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">good advice for some Questions that I had and he told me how I could</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">go about doing it. After the meeting we went to nishiwaki to stay the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">night there, we got there with some time so we tried to find some</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">people in the area. We didn't have much luck and when it was time to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">go we went to the apartment, we got In and as I was stepping inside I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">tripped over the stair and fell on up the stairs because I was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">exhausted. My comp freaked out and some of the other sisters did too,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">see I would have been fine except I had a huge bag on my back because</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">of all the traveling so I had no balance. I was fine and I am fine I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">just got a narly bruise now.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This week we visited a woman named Sugiyama. She's got this glow and I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">am convinced she is one of the nicest women I have ever met, but we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">found her on accident. We were looking for a less active members house</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and we stopped in front of her house and she had came out thinking we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">had a flat tire and she wanted to help ,but she helped us find the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">way. We had visited her before and gave her a plan of salvation</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">pamphlet and decided to visit her again. We went to her house and she</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">opened the door just smiling she came back with our pamplet and showed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">us the copy that she had made herself with highlight marks in it she</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">told us she made her own ,so we could give it to someone else. We</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">talked a lot about the plan of salvation and she said she didn't</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">understand the part about heaven we explained and explained ,but she</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">said that she just didn't get it. I testified about Christ and about</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">his atonement and about how since we are not perfect we cannot go to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">heaven unless we believe in him and use his atonement. We taught her</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">how to pray and she got really quiet after. She said she would pray</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">everyday and she is really really just awesome!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"There is no lasting happiness in what we possess. Happiness and joy</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">come from what a person is, not from what he or she possesses or</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">appears to be."(how to find joy). You know I've met a lot of sour</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">people not just in my mission ,but just in life. And I used to wonder</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">why are they that way? Maybe something bad happened this morning, but</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">honestly no matter what happens you can always choose to be happy.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Happiness isn't something we just get, we have to choose to be happy</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and then we actually become happy. The happiest people I have met are</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the ones who went through the hardest things. So friends choose to be</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">happy! I promise it's probably the best choice you'll ever make!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Loves,</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Here's some pictures, for bean shimai and the rest of you who just</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Got in a fight with the stairs and they won</span><br />
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