Well this past week was the last week of being a 3rd transfer and my
first week of being a 4th transfer missionary! It`s amazing how the time
passed so fast. We were at transfer point and these sisters were
shouting, `Who is Hevynn? Do you know who Hevynn
is?`
I told them that was my first name and they said, `Our ward
keeps talking about you! They keep telling us to find Hevynn. They want
you to transfer into our ward!`
Come to find out it`s the Fukuda family
that I stayed with when I was living in Osaka,
remember? I remember going to church in that ward there! I sang `I Am a Child of God` in japanese when I was 11. I can`t believe
they still remember me. It`s amazing how small this world is, and the LDS
world is even smaller, haha. They are in the
Takatsuki ward so I hope I transfer there some day, but we'll see.
My new companion is
Hall Shimai from Oklahoma. She`s adorable!
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She`s a 7th transfer and
it`s cool because she wants to work together so we can help each other grow, not just
tell me what I`m doing wrong. It`s super nice!
We have a good relationship already. I can tell the Lord is expecting
big things from us this transfer. Sadly, within the 3 days we`ve been
together we haven`t been able to meet with any of our investigators. But
last night we found a new investigator and
her daughter. Their names are Maria and Bianca. Maria is from the
Philippines. She speaks pretty okay japanese and some english. When we
taught them last night it was a little bit in japanese, a little bit in english and
she would say a few things in tagalog that I kinda sorta knew
from my Filipino friends in Hawaii. And that`s how that lesson went.
Even though it was hard to pick a language to teach it in, it was still super fun!
She`s a spunky lady with lots of personality and I loved hearing
anything and everything she had to say. We have an
appointment to see her tomorrow night.
As far as my Tagalog goes, it`s pretty bad. But my spanish is
improving! Tell Helam I understood everything he said in his letter in
Spanish I just can`t speak it very well. I sat next to our Spanish
speaking investigator`s mom at church yesterday
and
she just talked and talked and I can understand her pretty well. We
have an appointment later this week to learn some Spanish and the gospel
with him.
The most exciting thing that has happened was Saturday
night while we were housing in an area relatively close to our
apartment. I made a few wrong turns and we ended up on the other end
of the city. It was POURING rain and we were hopelessly lost.
Our shoes were soaked, we were cold, and we were 2 Americans biking
aimlessly around a big city. We stopped at this restaurant that looked
closed but the head chef was cleaning up. I knocked on their nice glass
windows (getting it all dirty and soaked because
of my rain suit, oops!). He was super nice and opened up. He told us
which way to go and asked us why we were in Japan. We told him very little
about who we are because we had to hurry home to make it in time for
curfew. We followed his directions and in
a couple minutes we were back in an area that I knew like the back of
my hand! I was so confused...I had no idea how we got lost. But after we
got home we both felt really strongly that as we go finding later this
week, we want to go back and try to find that
restaurant again and invite that guy to church. It`s kind of simple, some might say a little dumb, but I know everything happens for a reason! If you let the
Lord guide His work it`ll get done!
I promise to have more things to share next week! Transfer week is
always rough because if someone transfers in, or if you transfer, a lot of
that time is spent getting to know each other and planning...so this
week we`ll have some awesome experiences and
I`ll share those next week!
Love you all!
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