Summer has begun

June 1, 2014

Well everyone.....

Summer is finally here in Nagoya, and I think I might just die....haha.  But really.

If you stop getting emails from me in the next three months, just know that I probably just melted away (:

It's at times like these, that I'm grateful that summer only lasts for three months in Japan!

Hear Attached a member's house.

This week.....

We heart attacked a bunch of members, visited some less-actives who we couldn't find, we OYMed at Nagoya-eki with the APs, our two only appointments with our investigators fell through, and we planned ward FHE with two members.

Here's one ridiculous story about visiting a less-active....

We biked out for 45 minutes in the rain to visit this person because it was her birthday, got lost in an area surrounded by factories, and when we finally found the address, we noticed that the name on the name-plate was different, and we turned around to go back home.  Then, I got us lost again (it was raining and dark, and I had never been out there, ok?), biked in circles for sometime, somehow ended up on a freeway exit (on our bikes), lost a contact in one eye, and came home ridiculously late.

After we made it back home, we looked at the ward directory again, only to see that we actually had gone to the right address, and the name on the name-plate was the LA's maiden name!

We really just had to laugh after that (:  Someday we'll try visiting her again!

Tuesday was a really great day.  We miraculously we able to meet Uezu shimai, another LA.  Apparently the Elders had been trying to visit the family and they were never home, but we were able to meet Uezu shimai on the first try!

Uezu shimai really has great faith and she loves service.  She gave us her email address, so hopefully we can work with her every once in a while.

She also asked us to pray that she will be able to come to church, so that's always a good sign (:

That same day, the APs came to film us doing OYM at Nagoya-eki.  It would have been great, but we went at 4:00, which is a pretty dead time.  We still talked to some people, and met someone who might be interested in 30/30!  Which reminds me....I need to email her!

It was so much fun going out to OYM in a group of missionaries, and the APs were so good at it....they literally talked to everyone!  I need to be better....haha.

During this whole week, I had been emailing a member from Gifu ward (Hayashi shimai) about her niece, who she wanted to introduce the missionaries to.  Hayashi shimai was worried about a lot of things, so I had been thinking about her a lot, and on Friday morning I decided to read Elder Scott's talk from this last General Conference.

The talk matched perfectly with Hayashi shimai and Kanna's (her niece) situation, and I told Hayashi shimai about the talk.  That evening, she told me that the talk was exactly what she needed to hear, so that was a tender mercy for me (:

At the same time, though, when we met with Kanna on Saturday, I had the hardest time getting to know her and talk with her (she is ridiculously shy/quiet), and I also had a hard time explaining the missionary lessons to her.

There was a lot of things that I wish had happened with the meeting with Kanna and Hayashi shimai, but it was a learning experience for me, I suppose.....  I need to be more loving and I need to practice explaining things more.

OK, I'm officially way way way over time, so that's it for this week!

Pray that I won't die this summer!  It's barely even started! ><

Love you!