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March 2015 Sakado
We
got transfers this morning!!! I'm staying in Sakado! What?!? I know. I'm
surprised too. But sooo happy. Sadly, Sister Bettridge is leaving! To Niigata,
Joetsu! I'm super excited for her. It’s gonna be cold though, I'm giving her my
winter coat. Here in Sakado it's basically spring. Flowers are coming out and
the sun is shining. Sister Bettridge even got sunburn on her nose!
Ok, so I don't have much time... But.... Here are some of my favorite moments of
the week:
On Monday, we still had
a bit of time to dendÅ. All our plans had fallen through. I really felt like we
should go hand out flyers at the eki for Eikaiwa, but it was dark and cold and
rainy. Well, we went anyways. I felt so silly. No one was taking a flyer.
Everyone was too busy opening umbrellas and preparing themselves for the rain.
After about half an hour I said a little prayer. I told Heavenly Father I felt
like we needed to be here. Please show us why. And within minutes an
investigator who we can never get a hold of walks down the train station
stairs. We set up an appointment with her for the next day! Wow! Miracle.
Tuesday we had 5
lessons planned. We were exhausted by the end of the day. Exhausted! No time to
write about them sorry...our last appointment for the day didn't end up being
much of a lesson, and we biked about 9 miles there and back. I was not thrilled,
to say the least. But, everyone else we saw that day was great!
Friday we had the most
awesome zone meeting ever. I wish every zone meeting was like that. Everyone
was asked to participate in some way. There were really spiritual parts and
then fun parts. At the end all the missionaries returning home were able to
share their testimonies. It was super powerful. Afterwards, we all went and ate
at a Brazilian restaurant. I love that place.
There
were so many missionaries there and orders got confusing. I ended up with too
large steaks. It wasn't what I ordered but I figured that was my fault so I
took them and ate them. At the end there was an elder who still hadn't gotten
his order. Hahaha turns out I’d taken his order. What made it even better is
that we have a running joke in our district that I’m always mean to him. I'm
not really, but he gets teased every once in a while, so it was just perfect at
I was he one who stole his steak. I was laughing about it until I had to pay
for it... But, when I told the guy at the register which steak I'd eaten his
eyes got huge and he looked at the two elders standing next to me for
confirmation. "You ate the whole thing?" Yup. I did. It made us all
laugh. Also, he recognized Bettridge shimai and I from Facebook. We were on
another restaurant’s fb page. I felt a little famous. Haha. That's been
happening a lot.
This
weekend we had the opportunity to hear from Elder Nelson, one of the apostles,
twice. It was really good. What made it even better was that one of our
investigators was able to sneak out and come with us! And it was exactly what
she needed. Sister Nelson challenged everyone to read the Book of Mormon for 30
days, each day with a question in mind and read until you find the answer. Our
investigator decided she would do it! We didn't even need to ask her!
Also,
the day before, we had been able to meet with that investigator and we overcame
a lot of the things that are stopping her from progressing. I'm soooo grateful.
It was such a miracle!
Ok
and finally; The funniest story of the week. Sunday morning
we made cookies and decorated cookies. Our second batch we just didn't have
time to do and I was a little annoyed. We wanted to give them to members at
church. Well. After church we came home and I took one of our in decorated
cookies and bit into it. It tasted kind of funny. Then it started tasting
really funny! Sister Bettridge had put in a cup of salt instead of sugar! I
gave sister Bettridge a cookie and she popped the whole thing in her mouth, and
then quickly spat it out. We were laughing pretty hard. Not having enough time
ended up being a miracle in disguise! The members would not have been happy if
they had received salty cookies!
I
love you all!
Sister
Molinari
