Helloo my dear family and friends!
I have had such a fun week--it just always feels fun here in Nakano with Shipp shimai! But first off--I forgot to say last time that I'm not quite by the Temple.. that's another area called Shibuya. This is about a twenty-thirty min train ride away close by Ikebukuro. The Hombu is here but not the church headquarters--that's by the temple. Our ward doesn't have any English speakers. There are a lot of Phillipino families though (well, three) and of course the office couple, so they have an English sunday school class and someone who translates Sacrament Meeting into English. They are great members!!
I have had such a fun week--it just always feels fun here in Nakano with Shipp shimai! But first off--I forgot to say last time that I'm not quite by the Temple.. that's another area called Shibuya. This is about a twenty-thirty min train ride away close by Ikebukuro. The Hombu is here but not the church headquarters--that's by the temple. Our ward doesn't have any English speakers. There are a lot of Phillipino families though (well, three) and of course the office couple, so they have an English sunday school class and someone who translates Sacrament Meeting into English. They are great members!!
Ok--so this week. We had a lesson actually with our ten-year old's mother, who is a recent convert. Agnus. She is phillipino so we talked in English but her Japanese is pretty good, too. We found out she was baptized just before she had surgery for cancer, and in her mind it was "in case something happened". But she doesn't really have a strong testimony and stuggles with many commandments. But I guess she talked before to Jehovah witnesses and was saying how she was really sad they didn't celebrate Christmas. In their house they have a little Christmas tree up on their TV.. all year round... so, she was so cute, she said "I'd rather die than not celebrate Christmas!" But anyway, we're hoping to meet with her more to teach her as well as her daughter.
Then we had Zone Conference this week too. It was great, and President Albrect gave a GREAT presentation on working to find people, building relationships with members, acquaintences, and with strangers. And the president of the Tokyo stake spoke to us on bearing down in pure testimony, especially about Joseph Smith's first vision, since it is a foundation of our whole church. He said we should reconfirm our testimony of it to investigators every lesson, at least 7-10 times. Until they either know because they feel it burning in their hearts too, or want to know so bad they search with real intent. It really goes to show the power of example and the power of the spirit!
Then we met a very interesting girl Yumie-san when we were going up to visit a less-active member. I got a really weird feeling as we were going and felt like we shouldn't go that night to the LA. I couldn't tell if it was just my stomach acting up but Shipp shimai said we should better be safe than sorry. So...we turned around and as we were going back down we stopped and talked to Yumie-san, who said she'd lived in California before and her other family had also lived in America. She said they had gone to church there and that she'd like to meet with us all together! She then took out her phone and called her sister right there, to see if she had time to meet, and had Shipp shimai talk to her sister on the phone! Anyway, it ends up we didn't get to make an appointment for this week but she seems very nice so soon I hope. Just more little miracles God grants us! Finding the few that will actually listen to our message in this huge city of Tokyo really is a daily miracle and I thank God I was called to serve here!!
Well say hi to everyone for me, and if there's anyone the Forsyths want me to say hello to just let me know!! Love you all tons and miss you lots! Hope you are taking care of yourselves and of each other!
Love,
LeFevre shimai
Hellooo family, this is just a quick note, we're in here printing out Sister Shipp's application to law school so she can start working on it and get a rough draft to her parents by the end of our P-day time (6pm) so it's 9am here on Tuesday... I think it's either four or six on Monday night there so hopefully you're all getting ready to have FHE night (家庭の夕べ/ かてい??の??ゆうべ/katei no yuube/ "kah-tay no yoo-beh"--how many ways can we write this? ;) oh Japanese..) but well if you want to say anything else I'll be back on here at around 4:30 so in another 7 hours. Write me if you can! Love you all!
Well say hi to everyone for me, and if there's anyone the Forsyths want me to say hello to just let me know!! Love you all tons and miss you lots! Hope you are taking care of yourselves and of each other!
Love,
LeFevre shimai
Hellooo family, this is just a quick note, we're in here printing out Sister Shipp's application to law school so she can start working on it and get a rough draft to her parents by the end of our P-day time (6pm) so it's 9am here on Tuesday... I think it's either four or six on Monday night there so hopefully you're all getting ready to have FHE night (家庭の夕べ/ かてい??の??ゆうべ/katei no yuube/ "kah-tay no yoo-beh"--how many ways can we write this? ;) oh Japanese..) but well if you want to say anything else I'll be back on here at around 4:30 so in another 7 hours. Write me if you can! Love you all!
LeFevre Shimai
(And yeah isn't that crazy?! Last month right before my B-day was six months/ 1/3rd marker! Sheesh time flies. Now it's been another month later and give it a couple more and I'll be halfway! It's so crazy how fast it goes though..I feel like I'm still a bean-chan....)
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