Thank you for the pictures!!! Beebz looks gorgeous, and I miss my
little niecey Finnley. I wrote to Tai...there better be a huge package from him
for me by next week...(hint hint, TAI!). Man, everyone`s getting beat up
so bad! Heelz needs to take it easy or there
won`t be any part of him left by the time I get home. Football`s cool
but he`s got to be careful! Everyone looks happy and pretty
healthy...hope you`re all doing well!
I don`t have very much time so I`ll keep it short. I want to tell you
about something really cool that happened this week. So every night
there`s a chunk of time set apart just for planning the next day: where
you`re going, who you`re teaching, what you need
to study, all that stuff. During planning
Wednesday
night we prayed and felt like we should be in a totally opposite part
of town called Kusatsu where we usually don`t go. We finished planning
and the Elders called us and said they needed our help for a lesson
which happened to be in that area that we had already planned to be in.
So the next day as we were making our way to Kusatsu and realized we
had an awkward 15 minute interval of time that we didn`t really plan
very well for. So we decided to do some streeting
and hand out free english class fliers. Usually people are way willing
to take the fliers as we talk to them in English. But on this particular
night NO ONE wanted them and no one would stop to talk to us. We had
circled around the same block a couple times
and I thought okay let`s just go around one more time. So we did. All
of a sudden this lady passed us on her bike and slammed on her brakes,
making a really loud screetching noise! She yelled, `SISTERS!` Which is
crazy because no one knows we`re called Shimai.
She then started telling us about how she had just been praying and she thought we were
an answer to her prayers. She was on her way home from work and she had
been praying the whole time while she had been on her bike. We asked her if
she`d met missionaries before and she said only
once. She started to tell us about how she`s changed a lot since the
first time she met missionaries and that the question she wanted to know was Does the Lord
change? We reassured her that He does not -- and she began to cry...right
there in the middle of the street! You need to know that here
in Japan, people don`t show emotion very often, and NEVER in
public. She was in a hurry to get home but she asked for a Book of
Mormon and we exchanged numbers. I thought it was really amazing how the
night before we had an impression that we followed,
the Lord opened our schedule for just a few minutes just for us to find this woman, and He guided all of us toward each other. We haven`t been able to meet with her yet, but
she`s definitely in our prayers and we look forward to talking with her
again.
With General Conference approaching for us in Japan (it will come on
next week!) it never ceases to amaze me how well the Lord knows us. Through modern-day revelation, He
tells our beloved prophet and His apostles what to tell us. Those words are means of comfort and sometimes
means by which many people are admonished to change their lives. I hope you all listened
to conference carefully! Use the revelation these servants of God receive, apply it in
your lives, and I promise you can be like the woman we met on the street
on her way from work...finding answers to your
life`s deepest questions and concerns.
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