[Hi, Dave here, Katie's dad. Now that she's in the MTC, it falls to me to keep this up to date. I'll use her letters and such and do my best to represent her.]
Week 1
Hello, everyone. I'm fine and alive. :) In fact, I'm great! things are going awesome here, there's so much to do, so much to learn and I am loving it.
My cold is officially over, though I still have to cough it out a little more, otherwise my energy is back and I feel like jumping around all the time.
My first companion was Sister Budge who lived in Tokyo for the last eight years but went to an English-speaking school, so her Japanese is good. I loved that and was so excited to just keep up with her but she was talking about going early to Japan. I still don't feel like I'm supposed to go early, since I got here and realized how much more Japanese I have to learn! But she actually was assessed by the teachers, and they bumped her up to the "Senpai" group or the senior comp. sisters and she is going in four weeks! Holy cow, that's fast. So now I'm in a threesome with the two other sisters going to Tokyo, Sisters Acerson and Wells.
The language is going well. We're already praying and bearing very simple testimonies in Japanese. All the shimai (the sisters) have a lot of fun together and all the Japanese-speaking missionaries eat together in the cafeteria Our little Tokyo/Nagoiya district has 11 people, so four other comps of elders (chorro), and they are all very great. We've started playing more games the end of this week (to practice our vocab) and it's fun to see people's personalities come through. We've been practicing teaching the lessons. Each Thursday we have a chance to teach people in the "TRC" or the teaching referral center, where we teach a pretend (or sometimes real) investigator one of the lessons, a little in Japanese but the main lesson part in English. This is really great practice and we work up to it all week. This week is, of course, lesson one, and we're to do a 10-15 min intro/conversation in Japanese.
Right now we have to go to choir practice to sing at the devotional tonight, so I'll end here! I just want to say as a last note, that the spirit IS really strong here. Because you're testifying and talking about Christ and this wonderful Gospel all day, it's with you all day! And it really covers any stress and fear of the giant task we're facing because we know that the Lord is in it and that He can and will support us! I know so much that this is the true church, I see it in the way the spirit comes on the hearts of all us missionaries-to-be here and the way I can feel it in MY heart. Miracles do happen, even to the least of us, and God can give you peace no matter what situation you're in!
Love,
LeFevre Shimai (Katie)
P.S. I got the Valentines notes. Tell the ward thanks for me so much!!!!
Week 1
Hello, everyone. I'm fine and alive. :) In fact, I'm great! things are going awesome here, there's so much to do, so much to learn and I am loving it.
My cold is officially over, though I still have to cough it out a little more, otherwise my energy is back and I feel like jumping around all the time.
My first companion was Sister Budge who lived in Tokyo for the last eight years but went to an English-speaking school, so her Japanese is good. I loved that and was so excited to just keep up with her but she was talking about going early to Japan. I still don't feel like I'm supposed to go early, since I got here and realized how much more Japanese I have to learn! But she actually was assessed by the teachers, and they bumped her up to the "Senpai" group or the senior comp. sisters and she is going in four weeks! Holy cow, that's fast. So now I'm in a threesome with the two other sisters going to Tokyo, Sisters Acerson and Wells.
The language is going well. We're already praying and bearing very simple testimonies in Japanese. All the shimai (the sisters) have a lot of fun together and all the Japanese-speaking missionaries eat together in the cafeteria Our little Tokyo/Nagoiya district has 11 people, so four other comps of elders (chorro), and they are all very great. We've started playing more games the end of this week (to practice our vocab) and it's fun to see people's personalities come through. We've been practicing teaching the lessons. Each Thursday we have a chance to teach people in the "TRC" or the teaching referral center, where we teach a pretend (or sometimes real) investigator one of the lessons, a little in Japanese but the main lesson part in English. This is really great practice and we work up to it all week. This week is, of course, lesson one, and we're to do a 10-15 min intro/conversation in Japanese.
Right now we have to go to choir practice to sing at the devotional tonight, so I'll end here! I just want to say as a last note, that the spirit IS really strong here. Because you're testifying and talking about Christ and this wonderful Gospel all day, it's with you all day! And it really covers any stress and fear of the giant task we're facing because we know that the Lord is in it and that He can and will support us! I know so much that this is the true church, I see it in the way the spirit comes on the hearts of all us missionaries-to-be here and the way I can feel it in MY heart. Miracles do happen, even to the least of us, and God can give you peace no matter what situation you're in!
Love,
LeFevre Shimai (Katie)
P.S. I got the Valentines notes. Tell the ward thanks for me so much!!!!
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