Miracles in week 5 at Nakano!

Miracles...

Hellooo family and Friends!

Ah, I am so blessed to have great family and friends, I really enjoyed reading all your emails this week! So as for this week here in Nakano, I have just been realizing how very very blessed we are. It feels like every day is sooo much fun as we get to meet new people and maybe not make appointments with them but build relationships. Tonight we're meeting with a girl who actually met with missionaries about a year before and we made an appointment to go to sushi! Then the other night while biking to an appointment talked to a girl who it ends up has studied Environmental Science, and speaks pretty good English! We got her number and will set up an appointment soon.

We also did a huge activity this week with the Tokyo area Institute Mission Prep--where we and other Japanese return missionaries did splits with soon-to-be missionaries. There was about 35 of those people and 35 of us missionaries and returned missionaries. We took them on splits and just did streeting, etc, around the Kichijouji area. It was Great!! I think they really loved it and was a really good prep experience! The Japanese youth are really something else! And it was good for the missionaries to get us to see their excitement and get pumped up and remember how much we love dendo!! :) And I think the best day of this week was our Sunday. We went in the morning to pick up a recently met investigator who just moved from Hiroshima mission. Her name is Sawada Takako san. She has investigated the church for about 10+ years and has many questions still but would like to be baptized. So we met her this week, and on Sunday picked her up and walked and took the train together to the church so she could learn the way. She also brought her son along which surprised us, but they seemed to both have a good time. Then we had a meeting for prepping the next Eikaiwa. And that night we got to meet with Yumie's family. Remember the girl we turned back on the street and met her there? Well we met her family and they are AWESOME! The mom loves to speak English and made us a great big dinner. Then the dad, the other daughter, her husband, and their 1 yr old daughter also joined us and we were all sitting in this little Tokyo 2nd story living room with a 3-generation Japanese family. They surprisingly have had a little Christian influence and we got to explain what makes our church so unique :) We didn't get to teach a real lesson lesson, but we're welcome back soon and I really just feel strongly they are going to become great investigators--despite some obvious challenges like the nightly beer with dinner.. :) But I know we were led to meet Yumie to meet them all. And I just think it is so AMAZING that God would love each of us and know us so perfectly well that he could lead us down the street to talk to a peppy college girl so we could meet her family. He knew where we were. And He knew where she was. And he told us to turn around so we could run into her.

He really loves all his children and I'm so glad I can be acting here as his hands and feet and meet people all the time and tell them how much God really does love them!. :D

Thanks for all your support and love and prayers! I love you all and am praying for your well being and safety! Don't forget how much God loves all of you too!

Love,
LeFevre Shimai