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December 2014 Sakado
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This
week was awesome! So great. I've been sick and poor Sister Hall has been
dragging me around all week, but despite that it was still awesome. There were
so many miracles and I just am so happy. I love Sakado. I love being a
missionary.
This
morning was crazy! We had transfer calls. Oh my goodness, I was so nervous I
forgot to eat breakfast! We just kept waiting and waiting for the call and it
wasn't coming and we had an appointment we had to go to! As we were walking out
the door the other sisters’ phone rang! Ah! We put it on speaker and all four
of us got our calls together. Elder Egbert, the assistant, just talked for what
seemed like forever! Oh it was awful I just wanted to know what was happening!
First was Sister Christensen and we all knew where she was going...home! Then
her companion Oshimi shimai was next. She is going to Niigata! Sakado is down
to only one pair of sisters! Ah! Next was Hall shimai and she is transferring!
Then finally me. I was staying in Sakado! And I'm training!
I'm
still in shock. Me and my new companion just inherited all the other sisters’
investigators! And I‘m training! Ah! Also, I'm really going to miss Hall
shimai. I learned a lot from her!
After
transfers we met with Takahashi San and just had the funniest day ever. She
took us to this beautiful spot in Sakado where you could see mountains all
around (including Fuji san) and had us sing amazing grace, then we went to a
flower shop and then she took us to two shrines and got us lunch. While
deciding where to take us for lunch she told us this "I really want to get
yakisoba but there is not meat in that, just cabbage and carrots, and Sister Molinari
needs to get fatter so she needs meat." We ended up going and getting
katsu which is meat. It was delicious. Hopefully I don't get fat though. We
laughed and had so much fun. It was really great.
Ok.
Time for miracles...
So
the Christian lady I told you about last week, who didn't seem like a fan of
church, called us this week and asked if we could meet. I was expecting to get
chewed out a little... But that didn't happen! She told us she is looking for
something and what she felt at church she hadn't felt before/ in a long time.
She came to church again on
Sunday! And she told us she has three
friends she wants us to visit. And during lunch her friend appeared and she
invited her to come to church and when the friend said no she couldn't she told
her if she doesn't come once she won't know what she is missing. She has only
come to church once and she is already inviting other people and doing
missionary work! Wow!
The
other lady that came to church, Morisaki San, was able to meet with us this
week! We were able to teach her more about prayer (she hadn't prayed) and the
Book of Mormon. We had an awesome doseki, Nohagi shimai, who just did an
amazing job talking about prayer and the Book of Mormon. Morisaki San was very
nervous about praying. It seemed like she really believed she would be praying
to someone so she wanted to do it right. I thought that was so cool. What
faith! Saturday night we called Morisaki San and we followed up on
prayer and reading the Book of Mormon. She had done both! She has been praying
everyday and she said she has become genki! It makes here so happy! We really
can receive answers and feel God's love when we pray! I have felt it and so has
she!
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Sunday was crazy!
Sister hall and I have been planning a surprise party for the two missionaries
who are going home this week, and for Ro for her birthday and our ward mission
leader who is going back to America. Oh it was quite the fiasco. Multiple
people thought they were the ones who planned it and after being invited to the
party I planned, multiple times on
Sunday, I've decided I'm never going to throw
a surprise party again. Nihonjin just don't keep secrets very well. There was
just too much going on. Everyone was trying to distract different people and
then ultimately the surprise was blown when an investigator who does not like
coming to church walked in. Oh what a mess! And then once it finally got
started we thought it would be smooth sailing from there but nope. A member and
I went and got the cake for the birthday girl, walked back into the room and
started singing, everyone joined in and then we realized the birthday girl
wasn't in the room! Everyone got a really good laugh at that. All in all it was
really fun. And everyone who we threw it for was really grateful. So I'd say it
was a success.
I
feel like I experienced a lot of personal growth this week. Nothing big, but
little things finally clicking into place. I feel like I'm being set up for a
really awesome rest of my mission. I'm excited to see what it holds. I really
do love being a missionary. It's wonderful.
I
love you all!
Love,
Sister Molinari
