July 28, 2014 - Cute girl, expensive apples, favorite quote, YW Theme in Japanese and candy aisle in Japan.

The cutest girt I have ever met in my life!!‏ 

 

See Facebook if you want to hear about my experience with this cute
girl a couple weeks ago. 

 An apple a day in Tokyo might keep the doctor away, but it takes your money away too‏.

So expensive...thought of Kelsey when I saw this. For those of you who
don't know how much that is in American money, it's about 1.85 for one
apple!

One of my favorite quotes...sasuga ho-rando chourou‏

When I first started my mission, a Mormon message came out called
Wrong Roads. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. It left a
huge impression...a very well needed impression, on me when I first
saw it last year. Anyway, I went on splits this week with Sister
Biddle and the other Sister who's desk I used,  had the quote from the
video on the wall. No matter how many times I read this quote, I can't
get enough of it. How true it is!

 Sasuga Nihon no Densha

Well, if you can't understand the title of this email...ask dad! 
In Japan, we have electric trains that are super duper useful for
getting around. When we travel, we also have the wonderful opportunity
of finding people to teach. Well, we were on our way back to our
apartment from Gotanda eki, which is about a seven minute ride but
there was a big thunder storm and caused some problems, so we had to
wait for about 20 minutes. In the process of waiting, we ran across
two girls from Canada...Kylie and Sarah. They are super cute and live
really really close to our church!! Guuzen dewa nai. When the train
finally came, there was so many people that we could hardly breath.
But we did make room for a picture with them. Hopefully they come to
church soon. It is actually really typical to be squished like
sardines on the trains, especially when everyone is going to work or
coming back from work. Good thing Japanese people are sanitary.  

 Who needs a car when you have a bike?

Grocery Shopping at Olympic.

 CANDY AISLE IN JAPAN - Dad, I always think if you when I see snickers...so I had to send you

a picture.

 I have recently conquered the Young Women's theme in Japanese! I love

it so much. I am so thankful for my years in Young Women's. It helped
me so much. What an inspired program of the Lords.

What I learned as a missionary this week:

️if you really love truth enough, you can remember it.
️your most important investigators are your children.
️I can't sleep in a bed anymore. The Tokyo 1st sisters apartment has beds and their apartment and I've been there several times for exchanges and I just can't ever sleep. Go futon!!

Here are some of the miracles of the week:
️set a date with Ikeda Shimai to go to the temple to do her endowment. She has a hard time with Sundays, particularly getting work off. Keep her in your prayers.
️on splits, we found sooooo many gaijin (foreigners) for the sisters to work with. Also, we taught someone who, by the end of the lesson, said she wants to get baptized when she knows it's true. Her name is Li and she is Chinese. She is supppeeeerrrr awesome.
️got to have interviews with President Budge. It is such a miracle that he is my mission president. He is the best!
️able to teach Soya, a less active in the kawamura family. He is sukoshii zutsu getting he desire to come back to church. Pray for him too!
️Went to the funeral of one of our members, Higashide kyoudai. I was able to give his daughter a copy of the plan of salvation with a personal note for her. What a perfect time to share the plan of salvation with someone who desperately needs it.

️Kay has also accepted a baptismal date. He is moving a long, little by little. He might be slow mover, but he really has desire to know truth and mark my word, he will get baptized some day.

July 28, 2014 - Cute girl, expensive apples, favorite quote, YW Theme in Japanese and candy aisle in Japan.

The cutest girt I have ever met in my life!!‏ 

 

See Facebook if you want to hear about my experience with this cute
girl a couple weeks ago. 

 An apple a day in Tokyo might keep the doctor away, but it takes your money away too‏.

So expensive...thought of Kelsey when I saw this. For those of you who
don't know how much that is in American money, it's about 1.85 for one
apple!

One of my favorite quotes...sasuga ho-rando chourou‏

When I first started my mission, a Mormon message came out called
Wrong Roads. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. It left a
huge impression...a very well needed impression, on me when I first
saw it last year. Anyway, I went on splits this week with Sister
Biddle and the other Sister who's desk I used,  had the quote from the
video on the wall. No matter how many times I read this quote, I can't
get enough of it. How true it is!

 Sasuga Nihon no Densha

Well, if you can't understand the title of this email...ask dad! 
In Japan, we have electric trains that are super duper useful for
getting around. When we travel, we also have the wonderful opportunity
of finding people to teach. Well, we were on our way back to our
apartment from Gotanda eki, which is about a seven minute ride but
there was a big thunder storm and caused some problems, so we had to
wait for about 20 minutes. In the process of waiting, we ran across
two girls from Canada...Kylie and Sarah. They are super cute and live
really really close to our church!! Guuzen dewa nai. When the train
finally came, there was so many people that we could hardly breath.
But we did make room for a picture with them. Hopefully they come to
church soon. It is actually really typical to be squished like
sardines on the trains, especially when everyone is going to work or
coming back from work. Good thing Japanese people are sanitary.  

 Who needs a car when you have a bike?

Grocery Shopping at Olympic.

 CANDY AISLE IN JAPAN - Dad, I always think if you when I see snickers...so I had to send you

a picture.

 I have recently conquered the Young Women's theme in Japanese! I love

it so much. I am so thankful for my years in Young Women's. It helped
me so much. What an inspired program of the Lords.

What I learned as a missionary this week:

️if you really love truth enough, you can remember it.
️your most important investigators are your children.
️I can't sleep in a bed anymore. The Tokyo 1st sisters apartment has beds and their apartment and I've been there several times for exchanges and I just can't ever sleep. Go futon!!

Here are some of the miracles of the week:
️set a date with Ikeda Shimai to go to the temple to do her endowment. She has a hard time with Sundays, particularly getting work off. Keep her in your prayers.
️on splits, we found sooooo many gaijin (foreigners) for the sisters to work with. Also, we taught someone who, by the end of the lesson, said she wants to get baptized when she knows it's true. Her name is Li and she is Chinese. She is supppeeeerrrr awesome.
️got to have interviews with President Budge. It is such a miracle that he is my mission president. He is the best!
️able to teach Soya, a less active in the kawamura family. He is sukoshii zutsu getting he desire to come back to church. Pray for him too!
️Went to the funeral of one of our members, Higashide kyoudai. I was able to give his daughter a copy of the plan of salvation with a personal note for her. What a perfect time to share the plan of salvation with someone who desperately needs it.

️Kay has also accepted a baptismal date. He is moving a long, little by little. He might be slow mover, but he really has desire to know truth and mark my word, he will get baptized some day.

Cookie time, late birthday wishes, and Zone Pday - July 21, 2014

Whatever cute nihonjin is in this costume is super tiny!!

This is me and my lovely Kawamura Shimai (Ryuuyas grandma). We actually share the same birthday, 7/11! So, this week we celebrated by eating dinner and having cake. How sweet! Actually, the truth is, that was was her son, Yoshiya's, birthday and so the cake was for him, but he ended up having to leave the house earlier, so we decided to make it our birthday party instead. Love Ryuuya in the background of this. That is sooo his personality.

This is Sister Ivory and Sister Ipson, the English ward sisters who
share our apartment. I love them so much. They felt bad they didn't
really know it was my bday and so they gave me a late birthday cake
and we are it together.

 

This is me and Marina chan. You have seen her in previous pictures
that I have sent. It is Ryuuyas sister. She is my favorite. Love her
so much. Well, everyone is my favorite...but...... Anyway, one of my
favorite things to do in Japan is share the most love I possibly can.
I always give hugs and say I love you to everyone (even though you
never really say I love you in Japanese normally). I love teaching
them the I love you sign and what it means. I don't know where I came
up with the idea, I just love being able to share my love without
having to say to much...it's the best. No one here in Japan knows it!
Who knows, maybe it will start a new thing that spreads across this
country and they do the I love you sign instead of the peace sign.

Today for Zone Pday, we went to a really famous park in Yoyogi and
played Ultmate Frisbee. It is also where we went a couple of zone
pdays ago. It was great. So pretty. I loved it!! 

The past Sunday in Sunday School (gospel principles) we learned about
obedience. I really liked this tatoebanashi so I wanted to share it
with you all. Or teacher (Airi Shimai), at the start of class, told
Nozomi Kyoudai to eat some of the dirt. At first he was super
hesitant, but finally took a little bite. Well, it turns out as you
can probably guess that it is crushed up Oreos. She did a great job of
making it look like dirt. I love that. When we obey, we realize how
awesome it really is. It might test us at first, but when we live a
gospel principle, we will want to keep doing it.
This is one of the cute members of our ward eating some yummy dirt. 

This is ma-Bo-dofu...it is soooo yummy on rice! Japanese food is the
best! Also, a ps on this picture, my hair is crazy frizzy because of
the humidity. Mushi Atsui da yo.

This is a sight just coming out of the Harajuku train station. It
looks like a temple, right?! I love this. I have faith that it will be
someday!

This has become a favorite quote of the week and I wanted to share it
with you. I testify that it is true.