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souls of men unto me, while the world shall stand. 3 Nephi 28:9Marinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555705018976706207noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146729967602444441.post-82329291837590721852016-04-18T22:11:00.000-07:002016-04-18T22:11:15.562-07:00<span style="color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8px;">Last Blog is Earth Shaking</span></span><br />
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This week was full of miracles. Unbelievable miracles. Again I can't remember the first half of the week because the second half was not only more eventful but also unbelievable. </div>
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This will be my last email in Japan as a missionary and it is unbelievable to me how fast time has gone by. I am so grateful I had time to serve as a full time missionary and wish I had more time, but I will take the memories and the things I learned with me and hopefully use them as the Lord planned. The time I have spent with the Japanese people has only strengthened my own testimony and I know God watches over His sheep. That Jesus Christ lives and succors His people. The church has been restored through Joseph Smith. And that these are the latter days filled with angels who guide and protect.</div>
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I am sure a lot of you have heard about the Earthquake and are wondering about my experience. Here it goes.</div>
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I am not sure how much was said on the news nor how much you watched the news. I haven't seen any footage or anything but the earthquake itself was centered at Aso, a mountain in the Kumamoto zone area. The Kumamoto zone has two districts with four areas covering the main Kumamoto area. Nagamine, Kumamoto, Tsuboi, and Shimizu. I was serving in Shimizu.</div>
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When the first earthquake hit it was about <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_318861890" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">9:30</span></span> at night and we were in the middle of daily planning. When the apartment started to shake. At first I thought it was a car or a train because it started off small. Then I realized that we were on the 8th floor and it was an earthquake stood up and slid open our office door and saw that things were falling off shelves and things and realized it was a fairly large earthquake and quickly ducked underneath the dining table. It ended fairly quickly and then I heard Sato-Shimai say we have got to get out of here because after shocks will be coming. So we went downstairs and saw people on the street. Then it seemed like everyone was going back to their houses so we went back and packed a bag and went to the church because our apartment was a mess. Some members stayed at the church with us, but most of the members live too far and some went to closer schools or parks. All through the night we were waken up by earthquakes on and off through the night. The first earthquake was a 6.4.</div>
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The next day we called bishop and asked if the baptisms for Kiyomi-Shimai was still a go. He said that if she was okay with it then we would still hold it. So we tried to call her and at first no answer. Her baptism was supposed to be held at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_318861891" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">1:30</span></span> with a pancake part, but because the gas was shut off we had to cancel it. But we were finally able to get a hold of her. And she asked what was happening today, we said if she was okay we would still like to have it. So we went to work, filled up the font. The water was green and yellow and we were able to fill it up before the water was shut off. Then she came and even during the service and talks there were aftershocks going on, the elders stayed down with the water to make sure it wouldn't drain with the shocks. And she was baptized, it was quick, sweet, but oh such a miracle and the best. For the rest of the day we cleaned our apartment a little and went and visited some less actives to see if they were all right. Another miracle is that we were able to meet a less active who wouldn't come to the door for 2 months opened it up to us and invited us in. We made sure she was okay and chatted for a while. God really opens doors, sometimes through stronger ways than I would've ever hoped. Some members came down to the church because they live in the more mountain areas and heard it would rain so came down because of mud slide dangers. So we went back to the apartment got ready for bed. The water was turned back on so some of the other sisters took a shower. I said a prayer of thanks and then a prayer of pleading that we would be safe <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_318861892" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">tonight</span></span>. We saw so many miracles!!!!</div>
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I remember waking up and just feeling everything shaking and it was pitch black. I crawled over to under my desk telling my companion to do the same. We were waiting for the opportunity for when the earthquake would stop and we could grab our bags that we packed the night before. We put on our shoes grabbed our bags and the water and mad dashed it down the stairs. The whole city was blacked out. The church being right across the street from our apartment we walked over. You could hear the constant shaking of the buildings and streetlights around us. We shined the flashlight down the small road which was pitch black not sure if we should go to the church or a nearby park. Two of the Shimai went in while my companion Masters Shimai and I held the bags. They came out saying that the members were there and everyone was okay. So we followed them into the church. I don't think I have prayed harder in my entire life. We knelt down in prayer all the missionaries and the members and prayed for the safety of us in the building and others in Kumamoto. We made a list of the members and investigators calling and texting making sure everyone was okay. Finally the morning came. We were rarely allowed outside because of the next 12 hours there was a possibility of another large earthquake hitting the area again. But man, have I never been happier to see the sunlight in my entire life. Literally it changed everything. I think that the gospel is a lot like that as well. Whether you know the gospel or you don't how the light of Christ makes such a difference. Especially in times of trial and tribulation. And how we take that light for granted in the peaceful and happy times. That we forget how depend we are on our Lord and Savior, whom without life would have no meaning. For the rest of the day we started gathering all the food and water we could to the church. Then we received a call from President that Elder Stevenson from the quorum of the 12 apostles saying that he wanted all the sisters in the area to evacuate immediately. So we went back to our apartment and packed. Then a member gave us a ride to the stake center. It took the mission home 5 hours to get here (it is normally a 2 hour car ride) and when they arrived we unloaded all the food and water they had for the members and the elders hopped in the car and took us to Fukuoka. We were constantly stuck in traffic as we watched millions of fire trucks drive towards the city. When we finally arrived in honbu we ate some soup it was about 3 in the morning and we all passed out. The next day we took showers, went to church, and moved to our temporary area Nakagawa in the Fukuoka zone. And our investigator was confirmed at church in Kumamoto!!!!!</div>
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It has just been a week full of miracles. I can't even believe it. This church is so true. God loves everyone His children and watches over them. Sometimes he calls us to repentance, both those that live there and the missionaries that serve there. Although I don't understand completely why I had to experience this. I am oh so grateful for the experience. I feel like a lot of things have changed and God wanted me to keep growing even until the very end. I love my family, my friends, and my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Who through all of it never left mine or anyone else's side. I hope to not return to the person I was and I hope my testimony is as strong as the buildings in Japan, their foundation is definitely firm. I am grateful for missions.</div>
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Marinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555705018976706207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146729967602444441.post-33634461665499404212016-04-05T02:22:00.001-07:002016-04-05T02:22:54.257-07:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hey ya'll,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This last week went by in the blink of an eye! We had a wonderful</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">lesson with our investigator Kiyomi-San who is scheduled to get</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">baptized next week! We are so excited, but we still have some things</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to teach her and still need to help her get there! Then we had a giant</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">bomb lesson where we taught her like 1/2 of the commandments and about</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Joseph Smith and Thomas S. Monson, then we taught her the rest on</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sunday. She is pretty solid, tea seems to be a little hard, but she is</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">ganbaruing so hard right now!! We also had another miracle, we went to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">her house Saturday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">. The first time we have ever gone to he house</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">while her mom was there. We were so nervous, her mom is very against</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">all religion (in Japanese hantai) so we didn't know what to bring. We</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">ended up buying these cute, but quite stinky flowers... So yep that</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">happened. But when we came in her Mom greeted us with a big smile and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">so much love. She is a wonderful woman! Plus our member that we went</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">wit brought home made bread, that Sisters homemade bread can change</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the world. Then the next day on Sunday when Kiyomi-San came to church</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">her mom usually nags her and kind of fusses about her going up until</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">now, but this time when she got up she told Kiyomi-San to hurry up or</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">she would be late for church! I can testify the gospel, and the light</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">of Christ changes lives! It was such a miracle. I love Kiyomi-San and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">her Mom, they are the sweetest people ever! Kiyomi-San is so wonderful</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">we hope that she can have confidence in her testimony and get baptized</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and continue progressing towards eternal blessings. Please pray for</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">her! We definitely are!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had some other lessons and some great experiences. We also saw a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">miracle with a Pl who would like to come to conference next week. She</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">seems amazing! I am so excited to hear from our Prophet and the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">apostles. So ready to learn so much!!! This gospel is so true! I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">really have been pondering Moroni 7:48</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">. Really thinking about if Jesus</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Christ was to walk into the room right now. What would I do and how</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">would I feel. If Jesus Christ walked into your room right now... And I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">am just going to leave it at that. I know that the church is true,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">God's love is real, as well as Satan's temptation. But through Christ</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">we can overcome all, and can always call upon His name. He is always</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">willing to save.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Love you all!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> ジョンソン姉妹より</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This week as crazy!!! And just like an old man (*cough cough* dad) I</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">her experience at church and she asked why we chose a day in May for</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">her and she changed her date to 4/15.....! Oh my goodness!!! It was a</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">lot, but sometimes lacks confidence in her own testimony so please</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Then we taught our other investigator Kanna-chan. We are still Trying</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Never wanted to be more whomphaku in my whole life! We are going to</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This week lots of weird stuff happened, but lots of good stuff too!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The work is moving along. Sister Fugal I got the letters!!! THANK YOU</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">SO MUCH!!! NORTHFIELD 4th WARD for life!!!!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mission is the greatest thing on the planet. I know that relationships</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">penetrate the grave and our happiness is more than just this Earthly</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">life. The Savior lives and loves us, enough to cut us down and raise</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">us up. The church is true. We support and help and challenge each</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">other. God organized His church through a living prophet Joseph Smith.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">And continues to do it through a living prophet. The powers of heaven</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">exist on the Earth today. I know that true happiness comes through the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Savior. So let's all find it!!!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">No time this week!! It was good our investigator Kiyomi-San came to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">church and loved it!! She has a baptismal date pray for her and others</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that they can come to church and enter into the waters of baptism!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I love this mission, this church, my family and friends in the U.S. Of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">A and my friends here in the land of the rising sun, and my Lord and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Savior Jesus Christ!!! Joseph Smith WAS a prophet and WAS called of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the Lord and the Savior DOES live. And it IS important that everyone</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">knows this. I love sharing the gospel!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Love,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sister Johnson</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">GAAAH!!! I don't know where to start! I feel like so much has gone on</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">in just this little email hour!!! My head is spinning!! I seriously</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">love being a missionary, I love it so much!! I want to be one</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">forever!! It is full of so many growing experiences, pushing the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">limits, heavy sorrow, and miraculous joy!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Today I read the emails from Jill and Maddie Giles who are now RM's.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">And had left a little bit before me. I love you Hermana DeBuck and Gu</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Jimei (forgive me on spelling)!! They are such good missionaries and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">such a good example to me! I can't even believe how fast time has</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">flown. Continue on the otherside my friends!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This week was just craziness and tiredness. We have been making so</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">many return appointments this week. and man it has been so great.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hard, tiring, but great! We met that man named Steve again who wants</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to see proof that God exists, and that was very interesting. But I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">think he really does want to know it's true, but believing is pretty</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">hard. So I have been studying a lot about faith recently. Then we were</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">able to find a man named junpei san through calling people on dendou.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">He was way cool! And said he would love to know if these things are</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">true for himself. We are excited to meet him on Friday again. Then we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">met some of the coolest people housing yesterday! We met a young mom</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and the last door we knocked on was this lady named Yuka who told us</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">she had thought of death and stuff before and would like to hear our</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">message! So that was super cool!!! We are excited to go visit her</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">again!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We also met the coolest lady last night as we were housing. We were</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">walking down this dark street when we saw this lady on the side of the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">road carrying a backpack. She was probably in her 80's and then she</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">pulled off to the side walk and then started pulling stuff our of her</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">back. So we approached her and she had a big bag of cat food in her</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">backpack and a can of cat food and water. And then we saw underneath</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the vending machine a cat and a plastic bin full of water. We got</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">talking with her and when she goes home from work she stops at certain</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">locations and feeds stray cats. And the cats are always there waiting</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">for her, he came right up and greeted her. And it was just such a warm</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">feeling that this lady everyday as she walks up and down this hill to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and from work carries a backpack full of cat food and feeds the stray</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">cats. Just like Jesus Christ always feeds us, no matter how wrangly or</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">crazy eyed we may be. Christ will always attain to our needs no matter</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">what burden it has caused for Him. The gospel is everywhere!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I love the church and the people of Japan. I know there is life beyond</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">death and that we will all rise again to meet our Lord and Savior to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">feel his everlasting peace! I type these things in the name of Jesus</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Christ, AMEN!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Love,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Johnson Shimai</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This week was kind of a blur. We didn't have a ton of lessons so we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">did A LOT of finding, but it was actually really great we saw some</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">really cool miracles! We talked to so many people particularly the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">first half of the week since we didn't have any lessons until Friday.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We actually did have one Monday </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">but she ended up dropping us that</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">lesson. So we packed up our Book of Mormons and set out to find Gods</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">elect! And we knocked, and knocked, and knocked. And weren't able to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">make return appointments. Met a lot of nice people, but it's Japan</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">they're all nice people (mostly). Then Friday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> we invited two of our</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">investigators to be baptized. One was very confused and the other said</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">she couldn't decide right now. Nooo! So Saturday </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">we had junkais,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">splits, and Sister Beautichofer (spelling?) and I went high into the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">mountain of Kumamoto and on our way met a wonderful young Mom who made</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a return appointment!! Then on Sunday my companion (who was very sick)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and I went and dendoued and we found Steve who is an athiest, and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">wants proof of God. So we are bringing him an English Book of Mormon</span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">next Sunday :D! Then that night we had a shokuji at the Semba family</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">who just got called to a service mission that day to the next area to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">be part of the branch presidency. She made us pizza and shared so many</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">stories of how the gospel has helped their lives. They are truly a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">couple who relies on God and have seen so many blessings because of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">it. It was so good! And the pizza was so good! That was pretty much</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">this week. Sunday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> we also read one of my favorite talks by</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">President Uchtdorf "Summer with Aunt Rose". We met a lady on the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">street who was 83 and the genkiest (enegetic) lady I have ever met and she was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">talking to us, not much about the gospel, mostly about her rich</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">grandchildren and hot springs. But then she said something that</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">reminded me of Summer with Great Aunt Rose talk she said, "The secret</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to my genkiness isn't in anything that I eat, or exercise it is all in</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the heart. Humans are all about the heart." And hit me so hard. We</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">face so many challenges and happy times, but if we don't let joy,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">hope, and faith direct and guide our lives we can never trust in God,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">who is a God of joy, hope, and faith. I hope you all look at the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">pathway you're walking in life right now. I hope it is filled with</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">bright colors, and peaceful sounds. We can choose to be happy</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">eventually, or be happy now. Even in snowy mountains, and pouring</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">rain, God's hand is in it all.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Happy leap year everybody!!!! Thank the crazy lady!!! She also told us</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">she goes on walks with her Mom. Yes, her Mom. She is a 104 year old</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">lady in Hiroshima, haha!!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Love,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sister Johnson</span><div>
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Marinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555705018976706207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146729967602444441.post-39829205861114586902016-02-28T21:44:00.000-08:002016-02-28T21:44:43.938-08:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hey ya'll! This week was amazing!! Full of challenges and miracles!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I think on Monday we just relaxed on P-day. Now I need to start</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">pulling out my planner to even remember what happened during this</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">week. Then we had a lesson with our investigator mitsuyo-san who is a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">very kind and interesting woman. She is not sure if she can enter the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">church at this time, but we committed her to read and pray everyday so</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that she can feel the love and power of God and help her along her</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">path little by little. She also asked our joint of she was pregnant,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">not pregnant, whoops! But the joint is super cool, so we dodged that</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">bullet. But one of the less actives in our wards wife is actually</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">pregnant (and she is a non-member ;)) and we went and visited her on</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sunday and gave her snacks for her other two kids and prayed with her.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">She said she was going into the hospital on Friday and when we were</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">waiting for a PI at the bus stop we see her walking down the street,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and still very pregnant. So we were like "Why are you here?" Very</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">logical question to ask. And she was like, I am going grocery</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">shopping, I went to the hospital today but they said to come in</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">tomorrow and I am going to have the baby and rest there. And she</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">wouldn't let us help her... classic Japanese. But one of our members</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">ended up calling her and the baby was born safely, so we probably wont</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">visit this week, but the next :)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Then this week we had one of the area presidency visit. Elder</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Yamashita. And it. was. amazing!! Him and his wife are SO sweet! And I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">learned so much from the taikai! We learned a lot about how to get</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">baptisms, and thinking big. It was so inspirational and I felt the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">spirit so many times. I have been reviewing my notes, and it was just</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">WOW!! I wish I was better at describing this, but maybe it is just</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">something you have to be at. I learned so much and truly know that</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">these people are called of God!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Then after that we had junkais. Which has been changed up a bit in the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">mission. Now the sisters come to our area to go on splits. So sister</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Willson from Australia came over and we saw so many miracles!!! Had a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">lesson on the spot with this man/woman (dont know the gender quite</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">yet) who prayed so fervently that their work would go better and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">thanks for introducing him/her to the missionaries. It was awesome!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Then we met some P.I.'s. Unfortunately on Sunday though, all the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">people we had committed to come to church didnt show up :(. But God</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">gives us miracles to outweigh our trials! On Sunday night when we were</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">dendoing we went pretty far out about an hour away from our apartment,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and we got lost so it took us like 2 hours. But when we got there we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">were having no luck. So we prayed and werent feeling the area and went</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">down the hill closer to the main street. We felt this other apartment</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">on the otherside of the road and dendoued it until about the last</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">floor. When we knocked on Sakamoto-sans door. Who invited us in talked</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">about English and his family then told us he loved Christ and we told</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">him our message was centered on Christ. He said fantastic! But he had</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">one problem... too busy this month. But we are so excited to visit him</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">in March!! #JesusinJapan! Then when we came back it took even less</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">time so we had some extra time to dendo prayed and felt to go closer</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to the college. And we felt this one apartment, again the last floor</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">almost the last door and met Hikari-san! Who prayed with us and made a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">return appointment!! So many miracles!! Trials and miracles!! It's a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">heavenly combination.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">That pretty much makes up our week. We also had a sandwich party.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">There was corn bread. Not that kind of corn bread. It was corn,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">mayonnaise, and bread, toasted. :) We thought it was very funny.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I know the gospel is true and missions are the best!!! The Lord is</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">truly blessings his servants and moving his work forward!! Serve</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">someone around you!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Love,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Johnson Shimai</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span>Marinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555705018976706207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146729967602444441.post-28828957517587691262016-02-28T21:14:00.001-08:002016-02-28T21:14:01.702-08:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Dear people of the Americas!! This week was really crazy! First off to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">start the week we made a goal to teach 20 lessons this week. Which</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">before we averaged about 7 a week. We called members, we looked</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">through less active books, we planned totsuzen lessons. And....</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">through the mercies of God and the atonement of Jesus Christ we made</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">it!!!! The last lesson we were scrambling around all day yesterday to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">find, we taught a lot of totsuzen lessons but couldn't make return</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">appointments from them so they didn't count as lessons. So finally we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">decided to visit the only close member to our apartment about 15</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">minutes before we had to go home. We knocked on her door... nothing.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">So we started heading back decided to knock on her neighbors door. And</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">lo and behold she walks right out of the elevator!! God really pushes</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to the end. I can definitely testify of that, but he always helps us</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">grow and see miracles and I can also testify of that!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had some really good lessons this week as well. We have these three</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">friends from China that we are teaching. We taught them the message of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the restoration and I can tell mae yori mo..(more than before?) that</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">they have a stronger belief and testimony of God. We are trying to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">help them find a stronger desire to want to learn more about this</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">message right now. So I am going to try and write down my testimony</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">about things so I can promise more specific blessings and they can</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">understand how it will bless their life.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We also taught Kiyomi-san who is this older woman with a handicapped</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">daughter. Her life has been a bunch of ups and downs until this point.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">And she doesn't have a lot of confidence, but she has a desire to learn</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">more and to have that faith. And we are really going to try and help</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">her gain that faith! We were able to visit her twice, and finally able</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to enter into her home instead of just teaching her outside, which was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">awesome!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Also funny story this week. We were housing and ran into this</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">obaa-chan (old woman) and we could not understand a word she was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">saying (Old people Japanese sounds a lot different than most peoples</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Japanese). But she invited us into her home, and we found out that she</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">could barely walk, so we spotted her over to her couch where she just</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">like flopped down and she talked forever!! She asked where we lived</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">like 6 times and kept telling us her age which gradually got larger.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">So she is somewhere between the age of 83-90 we think. And when she</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">talked some food came out of her mouth and landed on my companions</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">cheek. We couldn't stop our laughter, we are terrible people. But she</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">was super cute and although her timing wasn't in this life, I really</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">felt God's love for her.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This week has been a faith builder and a miracle manifester. I hope</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">you all know that you can't save a single person. Not a single one.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">But I also hope you know that God takes care of His children, ALWAYS.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">And I hope you understand that you need to be better than you are to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">help people to reach a potential of being better than they were :)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I love being a missionary and I know this work is true!! Eat some</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Chocolate on sale!!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Love,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sister Johnson</span>Marinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555705018976706207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146729967602444441.post-59685191223512778782016-02-13T14:20:00.000-08:002016-02-13T14:20:36.567-08:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Blog: Happy Valentines</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8px;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This week was pretty crazy. We were on splits for most of it. So on</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Monday we had p-day and mostly just walked around this giant shopping</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">center and ate McDonald's :)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Then Monday </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">night Sato shimai (STL companion) went up to the Kumamoto</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">apartment and stayed the night so we could go up to MLC on Tuesday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">. We</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">took a really early bus up to honbu and had such a great meeting, but</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">my mind is so scrambled I will have to look at my notes to know what</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">we actually talked about, haha! But it was so great.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Then Wednesday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Sato shimai and I mostly did planning, then we had</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Eikaiwa that night which started out super awkward, but then ended up</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">being great! We played this game where we drew clothes on these model</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">people, haha.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Then Wednesday </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">we had zone meeting, where Sato shimai and I talked</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">about Hope and activities :) Love learning about the Christlike</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">attributes. Then we went and ate indo curry! It's tradition!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Then this weekend we had some lessons and mostly dendo which went so</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">good. We are teaching these three Chinese friends, and sometimes it is</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">hard to get them to focus, but we watched the Hope of God's light and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">it was super silent and they were still kind of joking around and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">teasing each other but they answered the questions more seriously and I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">could see the spirit working in them, and that was amazing. Then we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">had another investigator who we made a baptismal date with, but it</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">turns out she lives in the other sisters area, so we passed her and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">she came to church!! Yay!! Then I got a little sick Sunday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> but</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">slept it off and dendoed that night. It was super great week! Hope you</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">all have a wonderful Valentines day!!!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">love,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sister Johnson</span><div>
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Marinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555705018976706207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146729967602444441.post-50684922975199008022016-02-01T00:24:00.000-08:002016-02-01T00:24:00.802-08:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This week was quite an eye opener for me. It started off really great. And like every other week has its ups and downs. First off, I would like to let everyone know I am transferring to Kumamoto, and am so excited, but extremely sad. Transferring always brings a broken heart, which breaks open to allow more love to fill it in. </span><br />
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This week we had a really cool miracle. A new family just showed up at our eikaiwa. The Frank family. We actually don't know their last name, but we know the dads name is frank. Yes, he is from America. And he has 5 beautiful half children. And guess what, he wants his kids to learn the deeper meaning behind morals by learning about Jesus Christ! Although I will not be here to see it, I am so excited for my companion Lai-shimai and her new companion to teach them. To be honest, when the mission president called me, I felt really down-trodden... (I really couldn't think of any other word). Because I felt like I had not loved the people here enough and had done nothing for them. Then I heard the small voice in my head whisper, you can never love them enough. Which sounds so depressing, but isn't it so true. As being mortal in this life everything is full of limitations. But the things that matter the most, the things that truly have worth, have no limit. They are eternal and no matter how much we have it will not be enough. God and Christs love is unlimited to us too, always, when we choose to accept it and let it fill our lives. And although I am not sure what will come of my work in Kurume, but I know that my love can continue to grow for these people, and God`s love will always be here. So is it really so hard to leave the ones we love in the trust of the one who infinitely loves them. Of course it is, but I know I can do it with full purpose of heart because I love God. And He loves me even more. Important lesson learned. Hopefully I don't have to learn it again. </div>
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I hope you all know I love you too. And next time I email it will be among my other brothers and sisters in Kumamoto, whom I love. :)</div>
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I hope January treated you well and cold! Cant believe it`s February already. Love you all!!!</div>
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Marinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555705018976706207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146729967602444441.post-16815742312042775322016-01-24T11:34:00.001-08:002016-01-24T11:34:50.548-08:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hey all you people! </span><br />
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This week was pretty good, filled with cleaning, which will be what today mostly consists of as well! Ya for cleaning in the cold!!! It`ll be great once it actually is clean. Anyways, this week we went to district meeting and it was awesome we learned about being the best missionary we could be and we took the Christ like attribute test which was SUCH an eye opener. If your a missionary or not a missionary go to the PMG chapter 6 to the end and it has like a Christ-like attributes test. It is interesting to check the results. I sure learned a lot. This week was mostly spend doing the regular things such as finding, planning, and our various activities. And we had a few miracles and challenges as well.</div>
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We taught one of our investigators who used to have a baptismal date and last week challenged him to pray if God was there or not. He said he did and didn`t get an answer but it was okay because he already knew God was there. Then after the lesson he said he actually didn`t ask because he was afraid he wouldn`t get an answer. So we will have to see how that goes. </div>
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And our other investigator wasn`t able to meet because she got sick. But she said she is reading the Book of Mormon little by little.</div>
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Then we had a cool miracle yesterday we were out dendouing, we took a train to go visit a less active and shared a short message and he didn`t want to pray at the end. Which was a bit awkward then I prayed in English (because he is American) and that prayer was awkward too because I forgot how to pray in english! Haha! So we started to dendo and it was WAY cold and rainy, but we talked to everyone, and we met this way cool girl named Mao. She was 14 (she looked 20) and we shared a quick message about the purpose of life and made a return appointment, she was way cool! Overall it was a pretty good week. Nothing too out of the crazy and normal, which is nice sometimes. </div>
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I hope you are all having a great January, time is flying by so quickly!!!</div>
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Marinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555705018976706207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146729967602444441.post-74264093080619800042016-01-17T11:40:00.000-08:002016-01-17T11:40:09.845-08:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hello everybody!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This week was way busy and so great! And as usual I only remember the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">second half of it, haha! Let's see </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_556336329" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Monday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> we went to visit Brian</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">who didn't end up being there, but then we housed the rest of his</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">apartment and talked to like 10 more foreigners some said they might</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">come to church, it was really weird. I'm not used to foreigners. Then</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">we dropped off some presents to the people who invited us over to eat</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">at their house and share a message and I could really feel that their</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">felt our appreciation even though as missionaries we cant do much for</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">them.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Then we had another lesson with our investigator yuuji-san. And we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">asked him if he has ever prayed and asked if there was a God before.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">He said he hasn't and said he will try it. So we will see how that</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">goes.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Then we got to go up to Sasebo and junkai with the sisters up there</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">which was awesome! We talked to some pretty awesome people and taught</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a lesson to their investigator who is getting baptized next week! She</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">was so cool, super ready! Then we started to house. And in Sasebo the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">hills are pretty intense, but we just kept going from door to door,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and soon we found ourselves at the top of this mountain, and we just</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">looked out and it was beautiful! We found the ocean too! It was so</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">pretty! Then as we were climbing down we ran into this 91 year old</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">woman climbing down this ridiculous mountain. So we talked and climbed</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">down with her. Gave her a pamphlet on the gospel of Jesus Christ told</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">her to share it with her family and we parted ways.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">#</span><wbr style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></wbr><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">thingsyouonlyexperienceinJapan</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">And we met some awesome families and made return appointments.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Then we had our activity on Saturday which was way fun, I was just</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">mostly just playing ping pong with the kodomo eikaiwa kids while</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sister Lai taught her Chinese class. Then that night we knocked that</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">last door and made a return appointment, went back the next day and it</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">was kind of a weird visit so not sure if we are going back. But so</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">blessed that a member came with us!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Then </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_556336330" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Miyuki-san came to church with Hara-shimai! And we got</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to teach her a lesson! The whole thing went down kind of weird.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hara-shimai got injured from work because a child threw a toy at her</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">face. So she couldn't see out of her left eye. So she asked Miyuki to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">drive her to church. We taught her and she still wants baptism, but</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">maybe doesn't want to become Christian yet, but she wants to try and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">read the book or Mormon. And she has been praying and feeling like</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">when she prays someone is coming closer to her and watching over her.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">She is so amazing!! Please pray for her whenever you have the chance!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Or right now! Then we had the opportunity to help a member clean her</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">house and man we cleaned it good. It looked completely different after</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">we were done. It was such a good week!! And today emailing is a little</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">late, i apologize, but we had a huge mochi suki (where you make rice</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">cakes) with the ward so that was awesome!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I love Japan and the mission! It is so great! I know this church is</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">true and that we can receive revelation through scripture reading!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Love,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sister Johnson<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1ca7d348-5117-b7bf-82b0-416998f51234"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kurume primary mochi suki!!!! (nakazono, adachi family, maki family, kamakura family, hiyama kyoudai, akiyama kyoudai, kawanami family, mimaki shimai, ogata-shimais friend)!!!!!</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Blog: New Year Part 2</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hello everybody! I feel like it has been so long since I have had the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">opportunity to sit down and tell you about things that are happening</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">right now in the mission. But I actually do have some time today. So</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">sit down, get some hot chocolate. It's been a good week.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">First of all I would like to thank all the members, friends, and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">family that sent me letters, packages, prayers, love and faith. It is</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">always nice to get a touch of home away from home during the holidays.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">And with every letter that I read I truly did feel the love and spirit</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">from each one of you. So this is a little shout out for all you</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">wonderful children of God! Thank you so much!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">As I have reflected on this last year I think a lot of thoughts spun</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">through my mind since it will be the only entire year of my life being</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a full time missionary. And I thought about all the people I had the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">opportunity to meet, befriend, and love. And oh how the love of God</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">filled my soul. Every doubt that Satan tries to put into the heads of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">God's faithful servants seemed to vanish as I felt probably what was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">just a small fraction of the love Heavenly Father and my Savior Jesus</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Christ have for me. Oh it is wonderful, wonderful to me.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Years. It's 2016!!!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I can't even believe it!!!! It's literally beyond my comprehension.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Anyways, this week was really good. Even though I just emailed last</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_682465672" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Friday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">, it was kind of a short bara bara email (I can't think of the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">English word). But basically this week we ate... and ate and ate and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">ate, SO MUCH FOOD!!!! It was very delicious, but I think I will need</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to be doing some more biking for a while. As some of you may not know</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">in Japan new years is like Christmas. People are not super inclined to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">listen to us very often. So the ward members got together and made an</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">eating schedule for us so we wouldn't have to be out so often. And</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">some of them fell through which gave us some time to go out and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">dendou, which I was actually grateful for since it had been what I was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">praying for. But eventually we found ourselves having time to dendou</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">on New Years Day night. Literally nobody listened to us. But we kept</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">knocking doors, praying, knowing God would lead us to someone who</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">would hear our message. We were walking around having no idea nor</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">promptings on where to knock. When we found ourselves right back where</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">we started so I looked at the apartment and noticed some lights on so</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">we started up the stairs to the first door. We knock and wait and hear</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">footsteps coming. And who comes out of the door, but lo and behold</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Brian (we're pretty sure that's his name). An american guy from Iowa.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Who was also very surprised to see us. Said his past girlfriend was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mormon and after talking with him for a bit said we could come back</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and talk with him </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_682465673" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Monday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">. He said he probably won't change</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">religions, but maybe the Lord has other plans. But it was such a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">beautiful night where we were able to feel the blessings of God. It</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">was amazing!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Then this last Saturday we had another amazing miracle. A member had</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">invited her friend to have a New Year party with us at the church.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">When they came over we just chatted and things and got talking about</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">prayer. The previous day the two of them went to visit her friend,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Miyuki-sans, grandma. They got lost and didn't know where to go. So</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hara-shimai stopped and suggested that they say a prayer. They prayed</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and literally a few minutes later found the house. As we talked about</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">this experience my companion, in all her awesomeness, shared her</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">experience about her brother and grandma who had passed away and the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">great blessings about the temple. Then Miyuki-san opened up about her</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">grandpa and how she felt she had been selfish towards him her whole</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">life and how much she loved him. The spirit was so strong. She was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">crying, I was crying, my companion was crying. Not that the spirit is</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">indicated by crying, but it was so amazing to see the spirit help her</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">open up so she could hear and accept the message. We all looked</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">fantastic. And we taught her about baptism, eternal families, and she</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">said she wants to learn more about our church and that she had been</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">studying religion lately. Hara-shimai was shocked and had no idea. It</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">is amazing to see the Lord prepare people to hear this message! She is</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">so prepared by the Lord, and I can feel the Lords love for her and her</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">grandpas love for her as well. I know she felt the spirit so strongly</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and that God really needs her to hear this message. Because it CAN</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">help people and it WILL bless their lives if they only let it.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The gospel is so true and I can see it changing me and those around me</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">everyday. Glad we have the knowledge that we do and the opportunity to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">share it. I love my Savior and am getting to know Him better day by</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">day.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hope you had a happy new year and a merry Christmas!!!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Love,</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8px;">Sister Johnson</span></span>Marinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555705018976706207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146729967602444441.post-70849603650797351652016-01-01T11:33:00.000-08:002016-01-01T11:33:04.318-08:00<span style="font-size: large;">Blog: Happy New Year 2016</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I have like no time today! It is new years in Japan and we are going</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to go to this giant shrine with a friend of ours and it is gonna be</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">crazy crowded! Just want to let you know that Christmas was so fun and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">new years has been such a blessing.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">One of the things I have appreciated most this Christmas season is I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">think it is the Christmas where I have felt closest to the Savior in</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">my entire life. I am not sure a year ago if I knew what my life was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">going to be like at the end of 2015, but it is far better than</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">anything I could've imagined.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I love Japan. I love being on a mission. And I love my Lord and Savior</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Jesus Christ.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">On Christmas Eve I read some of the experiences from the quorum of the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">12 apostles on the LDS website. And as I was reading one in particular</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">touched me. I really felt that the Lord was talking to and watching</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">over me that Christmas Eve as I was trying to watch over His children</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">in Kurume Japan.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The Lord never forgets nor forsakes us. In good times and in bad. He</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">merely prompts us to find happiness and joy in the only way we really</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">can. I am so grateful I can know about this church. And have had an</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">opportunity to serve for the year 2015, it was a great one. I met so</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">many wonderful people. And have received so many wonderful blessings.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Merry Christmas でした</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">。そうして Happy New Years!!!!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I love you all and hope you had a wonderful holiday season!!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sister Johnson</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span>Marinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555705018976706207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146729967602444441.post-13744489078505792792015-12-21T23:45:00.000-08:002015-12-21T23:48:01.964-08:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Blog: Merry Christmas</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">So this week we get to email at a seven eleven because the wifi t our</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">church isn't working. Yay! Haha well anyways this week was kind of</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">crazy because it's transfer week and the week before Christmas and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">just so much craziness! but last week on pday we ended up going to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">like a zoo where you could go in and pet some of the animals which was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">way fun! I will attach some pictures. Then </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_354321774" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Tuesday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> we had district</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">meeting and some dendou. Then I don't remember much about the rest of</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the week honestly. These last couple of days have been so crAzy that I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">just can't remember. So you ar probably wondering what happened this</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">week, alright I will tell you. It is transfer week and I am</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">staying!!!! Yay!! however, Kurume is becoming a two man so we are</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">shutting down the other area! We were so surprised! We found out on</span><br />
<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_354321775" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Saturday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> and </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_354321776" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> I just felt so stressed out! But I was able to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">feel the peace of my Savior who overcame all things. And I am still</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">depending on Him so much now, but I know that He loves me and that I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">can do all things through Christ. The King of kings, Lord of lords. He</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">who overcame death both spiritually and physically. And I feel so</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">comforted to have someone like that by my side. When things feel</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">overwhelming or that we need strengthening we always know there is</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">somebody we can depend on. And I am so glad I have never had to go a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">time without that comfort.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">And </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_354321777" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Monday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> we had a really cool experience where we helped a member</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">move. And she was telling us about her conversion story. Basically she</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">was the daughter of a monk who found the church while training to be a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">priestess and she joined and was disowned by her family. But she</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">worked hard and served a mission! She is seriously such an example to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">me. We went to her families shrine to help pack her things to move her</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">closer to the city, and we met her dad who was once so hantai (opposed) and he</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">has accepted the church as a good thing and loves members and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">missionaries and brought us in for tea and was showing us his cool</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">books and took some pictures in the shrines. She herself cannot</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">believe how much her father and family have changed. Once demanding</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">she come home from the MTC, now inviting missionaries into his home. I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">know this church really changes lives and that we can find them and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">help them.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We also had a cool experience with meeting this girl named haruna at</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the train station. She had met bair shimai on splits, and the STL</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">accidentally called her, but set up an appointment with us, and we met</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">her and she was so cool!! we have another meeting with her to give her</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a tour of the church. I hope she feels that this gospel can bless and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">help her life. I am so excited! Thank you for all your prayers. I hope</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">you have a merry Christmas!!!! My next pday will be Christmas and I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">will be spending it skyping my family! So I hope you all have a great</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">time with your families!!! Think of Christ and ponder, like d. Todd</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">christofferson said, as if you were there that silent, holy night</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">standing next to the baby Jesus. What gift would you bring? What would</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">you say if you stood next to the Savior of the world? I think that on</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that night even for just five seconds the whole world was silent. I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">hope I am here for when he comes again, my Savior and King.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I love you all so much!!! Happy 2016 Christmas!!! Make it more</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">meaningful than last year!!!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">parmley, and Riyo in front!!! Chilling at her new bachelorette pad!!!</span></td></tr>
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This week don't have a lot of time to email because we are going to a bio park in sasebo :)</div>
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I will send pictures next week!</div>
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This last week we had some miracles!</div>
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One of our investigators Yuuji made a baptismal date! For Valentine's Day.</div>
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He was an investigator that came up to us in eikaiwa and asked if we could teach hi how to pray. And he has been praying! His prayers have gotten so much better! He is so awesome! He is stressed about his test and is having a hard time right now, but I know the gospel can help him! We also had another investigator who was struggling with prayer working his way up, so that's good. The power of prayer is so important! I a currently working on prayers of mighty faith, like alma. Haha, key word, working on it. But I am so grateful for this time to really exercise my faith!</div>
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One of the really cool experiences I had was that we were getting ready for our activity and I felt that should do some phone dendou. I said a prayer and felt like I should look up a specific name, Akira, it wasn't there, but as I was looking in the A's I kept coming back to this one name. And they answered and we were able to set up a return appointment! It was so cool! </div>
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The power of prayer works!</div>
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Sorry no time this week!!! LOVE YOU ALL!!!</div>
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Marinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555705018976706207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146729967602444441.post-9808367566336956522015-12-13T09:58:00.000-08:002015-12-13T09:58:24.743-08:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Blog:Thanks</span></span><br />
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1. I am thankful for this opportunity to be on a mission and grow and learn in ways that I never could`ve at home.</div>
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2. I am thankful to be part of a ward. Both on the mission and at home. Everyone is so loving towards me and each other and it is great to see the hand of God work through the people around us. And also giving us a change to serve those around us.</div>
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3. I am thankful for all my companions up until now. Each teaching me such great things, and each being such a friend to me. I can never thank God enough for giving me great companions to help me both learn and to learn so much from. And people who became some of my greatest friends :)</div>
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4. I am grateful for the Christmas season. How lights just warm up any kind of atmosphere. The light of Christ is evident even in the small things.</div>
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5. I am grateful for friends who care, including my best friend and Savior Jesus Christ. Who whether I'm in a good mood or a crummy one is always willing to listen to every complaint and cry I have. And all my joy and pleas as well. And to all my other wonderful friends who do the same :)</div>
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6. I am grateful for every good influence through leaders, friends, and family that has been such a great example to me. From<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_900349929" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span> school teachers, to district leaders. Your effort was not wasted on this one.</div>
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7. I am so grateful for my family. Sometimes we`re crazy, or incredibly lazy. But we always stick together, and we`ve had a good time doing it. I know they will always be there for me and support me in my righteous decisions, and sometimes even in my dumb ones. I know that families are eternal, that my family was given to me for a specific reason. And I love them so very much. </div>
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8. I am so grateful for a knowledge of this gospel. Without it I now I would be lost. Even with it we can get lost. But Christ will always come to get us, and take us back into his loving arms. This gospel changes lives, as it has with everyone that`s out on a mission, and everyone that is back home. Past, present, future. He loves us all and I know that I am incredibly blessed to know even what I know and have the opportunity through prayer, scripture study, church, temples to learn more about his eternal purpose to bring me joy and eternal life.</div>
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This Gospel is so true, and I see it in all the things the Lord does for me daily. So grateful, but I can never be grateful enough to my Lord and Savior who cares so much for me and for everyone that I see. I can never count the infinite blessings I have, but I am glad God gave me the chance to at least feel as grateful as I can. It brings me so much joy. I hope you can all feel so now as well, especially in this holiday season, but most importantly year round.</div>
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LOVE YOU ALL HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!</div>
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Felt like I was going to end it there, then I forgot I never said anything about this week, haha! So every day kind of felt like a separate week. We started off p-day with an investigator who took us to some really cool shrines. Then he had a problem with work so he was driving us around places. We prayed and his problem was solved. The power of prayer works.</div>
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Then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_900349930" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Tuesday</span></span> we had a surprise birthday party for one of the members in our ward. She seemed really happy, and a lot of members showed up to be supportive it was awesome!</div>
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Then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_900349931" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">On Wednesday</span></span> we had a pretty awesome miracle. One of our previous investigators who was too busy to meet called and asked us to meet at the church. So we went and gave her a present from a previous missionary who just finished her mission. And she told us she was coming to church <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_900349932" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span>!!! It was such a miracle! And <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_900349933" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span> she came and we had such a spiritual lesson about baptism and preparing her for baptism. She said she wants to try and learn more, so we are excited to help her!</div>
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Then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_900349934" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Thursday</span></span> we had an awesome meeting with our mission president who talked about faith. And this morning I was reading about Alma and the Zoramites and what great faith Alma had. He prayed with such great faith and saw miracles. Sometimes I forget that the Lord can do all. I`m pretty sure you all know what I am talking about. And everytime I repent and think that I have limited myself with my lack of faith, it is sometimes painful to think about that I don't always trust in God so willingly. But the mission has taught me so much about faith and trust in God. He truly loves us and will allow miracles to happen by our hands if we trust in Him. And I have seen some awesome miracles because of faith. This week included. </div>
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We had a few people cancel on lessons, but through that we were able to meet some more awesome and prepared people. God prepares people everyday if we but have the faith to go and meet them. I know that God only wants us to see miracles daily. So that we can partake of His joy and blessings. </div>
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So grateful to be grateful!!! So many things to be grateful for!!! Hope you all had the best thanksgiving and can`t even believe<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_900349936" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">tomorrow</span></span> is December and Christmas is coming up!!! Love you all so much! Thanks for all the prayers in my behalf!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">Us at the kawanamis, I love this family. They always feed us until</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: start;">we die, but it's so good!</span></td></tr>
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Marinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555705018976706207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146729967602444441.post-21013159609451504332015-11-29T23:39:00.000-08:002015-11-29T23:39:26.878-08:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Blog: Lots of Traveling</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This week was another crazy one full of lots of miracles again!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_797493215" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">On monday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> we went out to eat with our Eikaiwa students at this deep</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">frying place. It was so amazing! Except we had eaten not to long</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">before so we were already stuffed when we got there! Too bad, the food</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">was so delicious! Then afterwards we booked it over to a return</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">appointment we had at the train station. She was literally so amazing!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">She was so bubbly and asked so many good questions! We invited her to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">church and we called her the night before but she didn't pick up, and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">didn't come to church which was unfortunate, but she ended up texting</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">us later saying that she forgot. So hopefully we will be able to meet</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">again with her this next week.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Then </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_797493216" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Tuesday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> I went up to Fukuoka for a training meeting. I learned</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">so much and one of the elders that was giving part of the training</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">stood up and gave one of the best testimonies I have ever heard about</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">missionary work. He was baptized about 2 years ago and as already been</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">serving for about a year. He said he knew missionaries worked hard,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">but coming out on a mission really shows how hard everyone works and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">he started to cry and to thank us all. And I the spirit was so strong.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Being a member all my life, I understand how it is a good thing. But</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">someone that receives it as a convert really just understands how much</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">it changes their life. The gospel is just amazing.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Then </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_797493217" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Wednesday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> we went out and went to some return appointments</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that weren't there. But God was leading us to some more people who</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">were prepared and got to meet some interested people in the gospel.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">One being a 15 year old boy. Who listened really well to the message</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">we gave him and was way excited about prayer. But not so much about</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the other things plus when we visited him a second time his Mom was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">there and she seemed a bit frantic about the whole ting which I think</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">made him nervous as well. So we will try and go back and visit, just</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">know the Lord has a plan for us all. And we also got to go visit a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">less active with a member, which was so great! She was a really fun</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">lady and her kids were so cute! She seems to be having a hard time</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">lately, but she was so nice! And her kids were adorable! Plus she is a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">cake chef, so we literally ate our weight in cake!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Then </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_797493218" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Friday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> I went down to Sasebo to go on splits with the sisters</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">down there. Okay, so down in Sasebo they have a base so there are a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">TON of Americans down there. With lots of american shops and</span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">restaurants as well. So the elders bought us pizza. Like real dominos</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">pizza. It was heaven! Most of the day was spent dendouing though, and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">we saw SO MANY MIRACLES!! It was amazing!! First of all I was like way</span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">weirded out by all the American things. There was one point where we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">were walking down the street and I saw a girl coming out in her</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">military clothes. We had passed her because she wasn't right in our</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">pathway, but we went back and talked to her. And we had such a good</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">conversation about God, why she is in japan, and her love for Japanese</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">culture. As we were leaving she told us that she was so glad we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">stopped her. One of those moments where you heart stops thinking,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">"what if I hadn't" And that is why we have to be SO in tune with the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">spirit. But yes, that was so awesome! Then that night we had a goal to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">hand out 4 book of Mormons. And as we were trying to hand out the last</span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">one with only 15 minutes or so left, nobody would take the book of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Mormon. We were a bit discouraged thinking that we had tried our best</span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">but nobody would take it. But we kept praying and with only 5 minutes</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">left and no where to really house we headed down an empty street. When</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">it was time to turn back and go home we saw this one lady walking</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">towards us. We stopped her and she said she was busy heading to work,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">so all we had time to say was that we were telling people about this</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">book which can help guide your life and we are giving it away for</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">free. And she seemed to excited, took the book, and went to work. Does</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">God answer prayers? Indeed.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Then </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_797493219" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Saturday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> and </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_797493220" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> were busy trying to get to return</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">appointments and proselyting. We met some really awesome people and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">got to give out a lot of book of Mormons! And our new investigator</span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">came to church! He is so cool and wants to change, which is the best</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">kind of people! He is just awesome!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Saw so many miracles this week, and my faith has been strengthened so</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">much. Sometimes it takes effort, but miracles only come by faith,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">which without works is dead! The church is true, Christ lives, and the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">scriptures are such a good map for my life!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Also so crazy that it is Thanksgiving!!!! Be so thankful for all the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">wonderful things God has given. Spend some time with your family! Give</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">your neighbor a hug! Lift a child! (Doesn't even matter if it's yours)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">And give thanks for the knowledge we have of a Loving Heavenly Father</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and Savior who love us so much!!! I am grateful for all the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">experiences in my life, and all the people I have had the opportunity</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to love, and have had the blessing to receive their love. Best</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Thanksgiving ever!!!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Love,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sister Johnson</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span>Marinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555705018976706207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146729967602444441.post-3030670104947034162015-11-23T00:36:00.000-08:002015-11-23T00:36:30.622-08:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Blog: Bearing Testimonies</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This week was full of MIRACLES!!!! Yayaya!! So lately we have been</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">struggling with finding and teaching people. So we decided to stop our</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">dilly dallying, not that we were doing anything bad or wrong. But we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">decided to be EXACTLY obedient and to work really hard. And oh does</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the Lord bless the effort, haha!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">So to start off this week we had a p-day and we were finally able to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">relax a bit! It was the best! Now with a little bit of energy to work</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">off of we set out to dendou! (tracking) So we went out and we worked hard and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">found some waaaaay awesome people! Then we had a lesson with our</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Chinese investigator! Haha, he is 15 and loves basketball and wants to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">be a professional singer. Literally have no idea why he is in Japan,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">but he is the coolest! So in order to have a lesson with him since he</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">doesn't really speak English, or Japanese, we google translate</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">EVERYTHING!!! So sometimes he understands us and sometimes he does</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">not. And we have tried a hundred different pamphlets and book of</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mormons and stuff from the gospel library, and every time he tells us</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">it is Taiwanese so he can understand some of it but not perfectly. So</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">maybe one day we'll actually find some Chinese stuff, haha!!! But the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">first lesson we had went pretty well, he was a bit embarrassed to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">pray, but we went back </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1084733857" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Friday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> and had him write down his prayer,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and he prayed!!! And in Chinese!!! It was so cool!! Maddie Giles, I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">feel like I understood you more that day! He is seriously the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">greatest! But he has basketball practice a lot, but we want to bring</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">him to the Fukuoka ward where there are some Chinese speakers, so</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">cross your fingers!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Then </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1084733858" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Tuesday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> we were going down to visit a member who lives about</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">30 minutes away to help her think of ways to help her husband. Sounds</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">like he works a lot :(. If you ever work too much, then stop it. Just</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">seeing how his son talked about his Dad just made me so sad. So stop</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">working people and spend time with your family, you'll be glad you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">did!!! But yes, while we were down there we ran into some way awesome</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">people. Then afterwards it was getting a bit dark and I kept feeling</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">like instead of visiting a potential investigator who really wasn't</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that interested we should go try and dendou some of the apartments</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that we saw. So we went over there with not a lot of luck. Then we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">knocked on this one door that a teenager answered and I could see her</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mom in the background. So after talking with her for a bit the Mom</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">came up and asked if we were Mormon. I was a bit shocked and a little</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">scared, thinking that she had heard who knows what. Then she tells us</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that her older sister was a missionary for our church and used to go</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to Kurume ward before she moved!! And we asked her if she would like</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to know if these things are true for herself, and she said yes!!!! So</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">we made a return appointment, but unfortunately we made it for a day</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">we wouldn't be able to make it so we went back to reschedule but she</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">wasn't there, but she basically told us any day in the afternoon would</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">be good, so we'll just visit her in the afternoon :) so no worries!!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">And on the way there we met this waaay awesome girl who I am not sure</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">we'll ever meet again, but she will definitely get baptized!!! We gave</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">her a book of Mormon and tried to make a return appointment, but she</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">was a bit busy, but she asked if she could tell people about our</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">English class and the book of Mormon, and we were like, "no." Just</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">kidding! We were like, "Please do!!" So we didn't get a return</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">appointment, but I think we just got a new missionary!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Then on our way back from trying to change the appointment, we met the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">COOLEST girl!!! She was waay genki(excited) and I first saw her and then we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">stopped this other lady, and she went out of site. So we kept biking</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">down that way and I saw her again, and I like chased that girl down!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">But everything we said pretty much got her way pumped and she</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">basically made a return appointment with us, at a donut shop!! Can you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">imagine anything greater?!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Then </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1084733859" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Wednesday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> (sorry I have to do this play by play because</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">seriously miracles happened everyday!) we had a lesson with our recent</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">convert who is on his way towards being endowed!! Then we had weekly</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">planning and we had a party with the other sisters recent convert. Who</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">was drunk when he came :( but he bought us a cake because</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Bair-shimai's birthday was the next day and it was fun talking with</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">him. He read our palms and told me I would have two husbands, haha!!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Praying that doesn't happen. The cake was super good! Looked good and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">tasted good! It was fun, but then he told us he was drunk because he</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">lost his job, but I think he might have found a new one. Not sure yet,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">but please pray for him if you get a chance.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Then </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1084733860" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Thursday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> we went up to have zone meeting. And the spirit was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">so strong. We talked about our goals, and working diligently. Clements</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">shimai (my STL partner) and I planned to teach about diligence, and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the spirit was SO STRONG!!! I cried and snot ran down my face, it was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">really a great image. But that was one of the best zone meeting I have</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">had in Nagasaki zone!! We came closer together, and it's crazy because</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">half of our zone is third transfer and under!!! God setting us up for</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">miracles, I think so! And at the end our district leader sang a self</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">composed birthday song to Bair-shimai, it was so awesome!! Lots of</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">talented missionaries. Then we had a surprise party for Bair-shimai</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">during Eikaiwa, which was way funny! Everyone sat and awkwardly ate</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">ice creams in their chairs, haha, but then we got people playing games</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and it was awesome. We played do you love your neighbor, and people</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">got taken out!! It was fantastic!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Then </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1084733861" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Saturday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> we had a relief society activity where we made</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Christmas gifts for less actives and investigators, they are seriously</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">such awesome sisters! Then we had our </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1084733862" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Saturday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> activity and the member</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">brought American hot chocolate (yes!!!) and we got to watch meet the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mormons (double YES!!!!) It was way fun and delicious! Then we went</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">out for the night and it poured rain, both upon our spirits and our</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">bodies. Nobody was answering :( or eating at ridiculous hours :( So we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">prayed about it and felt like we should go to this one apartment where</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">we met an awesome lady who wanted baptism and wasn't able to make a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">return appontment because of work, but said we could go back, so we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">have plans for next week :D! We also ran into a lady with police in</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">her house, handed her a chidashi (pamphlet) and got out of there. Haha! It was SO</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">awkward!!! Then on our way back we got stuck behind this fire truck</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">who had it's lights on and siren, so maybe some kind of emergency. But</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">we could've passed them on our bikes, they were moving very, very</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">slow. So we just ended up following behind them for like 10 minutes</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">because we weren't sure if we could pass them or not. So that was vey</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">interesting. Met lots of officials that night, fortunately none we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">after us :)!!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Then </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1084733863" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> we had an awesome day at church and the priest quorum</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">made lunch for all the sisters, and it as so good! Then that guy we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">ran into on the street last week came! Early! So we went down and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">taught him a lesson, which was kind of all over the place, but the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">spirit carried us along and we were able to make a baptismal date with</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">him!!! It was so cool!! He is a waaaay cool guy! Told us that when we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">stopped to talk to him, he thought it must have been fate. Indeed it</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">was. Then we went and visited a member ho has been kind of sick</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">lately, and she was so funny, introduced us to some of her online</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">friends through face time, and we delivered some food to her. Then we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">went out to work again and found these apartments, had very little</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">luck. So we stopped and prayed and asked Heavenly Father if we could</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">hand out one more Book of Mormon to meet our goal. And few doors later</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">pops out this man named Yamamoto-san. He told us he was Buddhist at</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">first, but we introduced him to eternal families and the Book of</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mormon and he said he would try to read it and made a return</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">appointment!!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">So God answers prayers, loves and knows His children, and will use us</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">as productive tools if we work diligently. This church is so true.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sorry this is so long, but I know this is the good stuff you want to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">know!!! Love you all!!! Have a great week!! Thank you for all the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">prayers in my behalf.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">May God bless the people and missionaries in France.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Love,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sister Johnson</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6cea2fbd-3379-c199-3806-96d4c8d6812c"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Us at EKW for Bair shimais birthday! Everyone awkwardly sitting and eating their popsicles!</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-44fad508-337b-d4ee-4dd5-80ee998fad07"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the Sisters in our zone! (mccuen, parmley, me, bair, ketch, akahori, whithworth, clements)</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span>Marinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555705018976706207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146729967602444441.post-47964774504503112982015-11-16T02:09:00.001-08:002015-11-16T02:09:42.712-08:00<span style="font-size: large;">Blog: Crazy Food Lady</span><br />
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<br />
So this week was kind of crazy but fun. Yes, it was transfer week and<br />
I'm....... staying here in Kurume!!! YAY!!! Bair shimai is still my<br />
companion! And she is doing a lot better this transfer so far. Given<br />
it's the first day, but her coughing and various other symptoms have<br />
gone down so I think she is getting used to Japan, yay! The first half<br />
of this week was mostly dinner appointments and craziness because<br />
Crump-shimai was reaching the end of her mission and going home. So on<br />
<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2094249260" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Monday</span></span> we went to the front of a mall and did a huge chidashi kubari<br />
where we just hand out eikaiwa (English class) chidashi's( invites) to<br />
people on the street.<br />
But after about an hour or so the mall police came and moved us down to<br />
the corner of the street, to be honest I am surprised they didn't come <br />
earlier. But ya it was crazy we talked to like 100 people in those<br />
couple of hours. Unfortunately you don't really get a huge chance to<br />
talk about the gospel all that much, but we had somebody call us back<br />
and tell us they were coming to the eikaiwa, which is amazing!!<br />
Then after that we went with the sisters to eat at this yakitori<br />
(grilled meat on sticks) place with a crazy lady they met on the<br />
street, haha! Yep, so what happened was we met her on the street, then<br />
took us to park our bikes in the bushes at a park. Them took a taxi<br />
like two and a half blocks to this yakitori shop (could've walked<br />
there, but paid 6.50 to go two blocks :) I was planning on buying like<br />
2 things because i knew it was going to be expensive, but she just<br />
started buying things for us, like some normal stuff, then some weird<br />
stuff. Like pigs foot, and chicken hearts. Half of it I would have<br />
brought back up and handed back to them because the bill was<br />
ridiculous! But anyways we made it, and that's what counts!<br />
Then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2094249261" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Tuesday</span></span> we went to visit a member who is struggling and she<br />
surprised us with a shokuji ( meal) which was very nice. Then we shared a<br />
message with her and the spirit was felt so strongly. Every direction<br />
we took, every thing we testified about seemed to be what she needed<br />
to open up. Now she loves the missionaries quite a bit. She still has<br />
a long ways to go, but nothing God can't fix!<br />
Then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2094249262" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Wednesday</span></span> we did a lot of running around to help get Crump<br />
shimai ready to go. Like getting pictures off of things, packing,<br />
saying goodbye. Just craziness! But she is seriously so awesome and we<br />
miss her!! But she'll be an awesome missionary on the other side of<br />
the veil.<br />
Then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2094249263" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Thursday</span></span> we waited for the new missionary coming in and had<br />
EKW, which was way fun!! Plus this next Eikaiwa should be good,<br />
because Bair shimai's birthday is on it, so we will probably have a<br />
party!!<br />
Then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2094249264" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Friday</span></span> we taught our recent convert who has been doing so<br />
great lately! He asked about challenges and why people have them. And<br />
what happens when we are wronged. So we talked about the justice and<br />
mercy of our heavenly father and showed Him the mountains to climb<br />
video and I think we all just felt the reassuring spirit that God is<br />
all knowing and we need to trust in Him and His plan and what He would<br />
have us do. Then we got to go teach a member about missionary work,<br />
and her husband is less active. Which is awful, I feel like there is<br />
so much of that in Japan. Which just makes me so grateful to have had<br />
men in my life who are strong in the gospel and so willing to<br />
undertake the responsibility of the priesthood. She is such a good<br />
member, so we will be trying to think of ways to help her.<br />
Then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2094249265" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Saturday</span></span> we got to meet a less active, and a member came with<br />
us, finally!!!! And what a help they were! She asks a lot of questions<br />
about the BOM, which we always have difficulty answering because she<br />
like the difficult Chinese characters. So definitely a testimony<br />
builder on members!! Then we had a really cool return appointment with<br />
a couple on the street who want to get married, but one lives in Kobe<br />
and the guy lives here. But when we explained baptism and eternal<br />
marriage he seemed interested so we were able to make a return<br />
appointment and called him that night to try and move it to this<br />
<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2094249266" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Sunday</span></span>, but he said it was a bit difficult so we still kept it for<br />
<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2094249267" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">next Sunday</span></span>! So fingers crossed!!<br />
Then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2094249268" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Sunday</span></span> we had a HUGE meal appointment because Crump shimai<br />
came back to church with her parents to visit. They then went to a<br />
neighboring ward to visit her other area so she was late getting to<br />
the shokuji and we were all kind of freaking out because we didn't know<br />
where they were and they didn't have phones either! But somehow they<br />
got there. And our investigator Yamamoto-san came as well! We haven't<br />
been able to see her for this whole last transfer, so that was<br />
awesome!! And we shared such a powerful message on the Book of Mormon<br />
and Joseph Smith. And it was so cool because it was blazing hot in<br />
this room with so many people and the kids were getting a bit tired,<br />
but during it they were practically silent and everyone really felt<br />
the spirit.<br />
And another miracle is that today we finally get a p-day to kind of<br />
rest!!!!! I love the church so much and know that it is true with all<br />
my heart. The more I study about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon.<br />
The more I know with surety that it is from God written specifically<br />
for me. Prayers are answered and God loves and is aware of all his<br />
children!!!!<br />
Hope you all have a great November!!! Probably getting little cold in Utah!!!<br />
<br />
ジョンソン姉妹<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Us at the huge shokuji crump-shimais goodbye party! (up left to<br />
right- nihara-kyoudai, mori-san, kawanami-kyoudai, akiyama-kyoudai,<br />
kawanami-shimai, crump's parents, nihara-shimai, mori-san, shoutaro,<br />
yamaguchi, kinjo, crump, yamamoto, parmley, makiko, me, bair, mccuen,<br />
and megumi-chan)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bye to Crump-shimai!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ali, parmley, crump, me, bair, megumi at the Saga balloon festival!!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">all the crazy balloons!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">all the little tiny balloons racing behind us!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">panoramic view!!</td></tr>
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<br />Marinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555705018976706207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146729967602444441.post-14672158866588678232015-11-16T01:41:00.000-08:002015-11-16T01:41:26.144-08:00<span style="font-size: large;">Blog: Halloween</span><br />
<br />
So this week was a challenge, but also ones with a lot of rewards!<br />
So basically we were mostly scrambling around to get our Halloween<br />
party ready, and had junkais, and member lessons and what felt like a<br />
big event every day of the week! <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_573726125" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Monday</span></span> we had a lot of member lessons<br />
so we weren't able to get a lot of dendo( tracking) time in, but the MIV's that<br />
we had were SO great! Some people got pretty excited about sharing the<br />
gospel and I felt the spirit so strongly at both of them.<br />
One of the MIV's we had was with a member whose husband was less<br />
active. And during the member video we were watching I could feel her<br />
own longing for her family to be similar to the one in the video. Her<br />
tears and her desires were so touching and brought the spirit. So I<br />
felt him take over and prompt me to challenge her to pray daily with<br />
her family. Whether they all came or not, she should invite them each<br />
night and pray together. She said she is doing it, so we will wait and<br />
see :)<br />
Then we had district meeting, and tried to do a huge dendou get up at<br />
the college there, but it ended up raining and one of the elders bikes<br />
fell apart so we kind of wandered around not sure where we should go<br />
and talked to some people. Which was good, except we didn't eat before<br />
so we were all kind of zombified an hour in, haha, but it was still<br />
great!<br />
Then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_573726126" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Wednesday</span></span> we went to visit this less active with a member<br />
because she felt prompted to go help. And so we waited... and<br />
waited... and nobody was home. So she had to go, but we decided to<br />
dendou a little bit and around 4 go and see if anybody was home. So we<br />
went back and the son was home. So we waited a little longer and the<br />
daughter came home, but still no Mom. So we waited until about six and<br />
ended up going home because we had something to do, but it was a<br />
blessing because we got to meet the kids and found out that that<br />
shimai actually did start working. So when we go back we will have to<br />
go later :) miracles in disguise!<br />
Then we had a great junkai. Where i literally felt like all my<br />
weaknesses were revealed, haha! It's been a while since I have been<br />
with a nihon-jin (Japanese) companion. Yep, basically when I talk to people on<br />
the streets I have been getting into a pattern and now realize that I<br />
need to speak more with the power of the spirit. So it is time to<br />
learn and improve. And sometimes we had to be put through a week of<br />
finding no new investigators, and having everyone cancel on you :) A<br />
little bit of refiners fire. I wonder if God just takes a chance us<br />
wondering if we will choose to walk through the fire and come out<br />
stronger on the other side. Not sure I am quite out of the fire, but<br />
God needed me to change so I will try and do that at a pace God knows<br />
is right for me. He has to take this little bit of dough and stretch<br />
it to make a delicious pizza :) Probably a little more stretching is<br />
needed, but I am in the makers hands so I just need to trust Him.<br />
But we did have a really awesome miracle that happened in the<br />
Halloween party. It was a blast!!! Everyone in the ward participated!<br />
We had a great turn out of about 30-40 people, about half members, and<br />
half non-members. Some were people we knew who brought friends, some<br />
people off the streets, some members brought friends. It was the best<br />
and everyone kept telling us how fun it was!!! The kids were a bit<br />
crazy, but we were hyping them up on a lot of candy. Your welcome<br />
Japanese parents!!! I can't think of any other way I would've wanted<br />
to spend my Halloween!!!<br />
Love this gospel and this church. Isn't it so great that we can learn<br />
and grown. Everything is a reflection of our eternal purposes. What a<br />
lovely plan indeed! Something I have learned this week and am still<br />
learning is to trust in God, but understand where my agency takes<br />
place as well. Hope you all had a great Halloween and had a great<br />
week!!<br />
Love,<br />
Sister JohnsonMarinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555705018976706207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146729967602444441.post-27819718549977140462015-11-06T21:44:00.000-08:002015-11-06T21:44:05.974-08:00<br />
Blog: Mormon Meal<br />
Hello to all you wonderful people!!!<br />
This week was fantastic and weird at the same time! We taught a lot of<br />
members about missionary work this week. So to start off the week we<br />
went to Sasebo (which is about 1.5 hours by express train) because we<br />
had district meeting there the next day and to see one of the sisters<br />
previous investigators. And we were invited to an American members<br />
house (because there is a base in Sasebo) and I was like thrown for a<br />
loop. We were like taken up to the mountains into a small American<br />
community. When I walked into their house it was like a parallel<br />
universe. It was completely American with Halloween decorations, large<br />
couches, a big TV, American dining area. I was so freaked out, but<br />
completely engulfed in the American member spirit! It was awesome, but<br />
I felt like I was in a dream the whole time. Maybe it was a dream...<br />
Plus we had like lasagna, classic original Mormon salad, garlic bread,<br />
and ice cream. All American sized. It was glorious. Such a strong<br />
spirit about members houses, I just love it! (not just American<br />
members houses, this one just rang stronger to me because it was<br />
familiar :))<br />
Then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_557250583" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Tuesday</span></span> we had a wonderful district meeting where we sang...<br />
haha, yep, we got through... kind of. If our district leader knew how<br />
much we practiced that the shame would be very real! Haha!<br />
Then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_557250584" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Saturday</span></span> we had some pretty awesome miracles!! The first was<br />
that we tried to visit a P.I's house and the grandpa came out and gave<br />
us back the book of Mormon and said that him or his family didn't need<br />
it. He was pretty nice about it, but it frustrated me when we told him<br />
that his granddaughter wanted to know about God and he just laughed in<br />
our face. I walked away with some tears welling in my eyes. But then I<br />
felt it. That strong desire to make it known unto all the remnants of<br />
the Earth that this gospel is true. Not only is it true but it is<br />
everything. Without purpose, direction, or will so many people walk<br />
blindly in the darkness searching for that iron rod. And we have it,<br />
and we need to call out to these people and let them know what they<br />
are missing out on. In that moment I felt that I need to let my light<br />
so shine before the world (3 Nephi 12:14-16) that the people may<br />
glorify my Father which is in Heaven. I can't say what changed, but<br />
the feeling so strongly felt within me is that I want people to just<br />
look at me and say, "I want what she's got." And that is what the<br />
gospel does my friends :)<br />
Then that night we had a cool experience of going to this concert and<br />
talking to that professional singers friends again. Except this time<br />
it was in a more family friendly setting and we talked to a lot of<br />
people. And they were a lot nicer to come up and approach us in that<br />
setting as well! So that was really nice! Met a lot of children who we<br />
invited to the Halloween party! Hopefully they come! Then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_557250585" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Sunday</span></span><br />
night we had another shokuji (meal) with a member and taught her the MIV. She<br />
as 6 kids, the youngest just left on his mission. Love seeing her<br />
strong family and light! She also shared an awesome experience with us<br />
about when she first entered the church and taught her friend about<br />
eternal marriage and then she was baptized and they got tons of people<br />
to take lessons after that! It just got me thinking about if I<br />
actually realize how great the promises are that God grants unto us.<br />
Sometimes it just feels like we are entitled. Tis not so. I was<br />
reading in 2 Peter 1:4-8 where peter talks to us about making our<br />
election and calling sure. And he lists out how. If you haven't read<br />
this scripture I encourage you to read it. You might find some room<br />
for improvement. I know I did.<br />
I love being out here on a mission! I hope you are are all doing well<br />
and have a Happy Halloween!!!!!<br />
<br />
Love,<br />
Sister Johnson<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Us at a members house after teaching tem about member missionary<br />
work (me, bair, parmley, brother kawanami, crump, megumi, sister<br />
kawanami)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Us in the country side of Japan. If you can't see there is a tractor behind us :)</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><span id="goog_536408827"></span><span id="goog_536408828"></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> A beautiful sunset that I took a picture of while we were on the train. Rice fields and a sunset.<br /></td></tr>
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Marinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555705018976706207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146729967602444441.post-62462436490355515802015-10-28T10:48:00.000-07:002015-10-28T10:48:00.282-07:00<span style="font-size: large;"> Blog: P-Day Outing</span><br />
<br />
This week was crazy amazing and busy!!! So very very busy! So to start<br />
off the week wonderfully an eikaiwa student and her friend took us on<br />
a road trip to a beach about an hour away. Basically went to heaven<br />
and back on p-day! We ate at this ocean side Thai restaurant (not as<br />
good as your Thai cooking dad, or real Thailand), then hung out at the<br />
beach, then went to a cute little bread shop, then took this crazy<br />
road up to the mountains where we saw this waterfall, which was way<br />
cool!! Then hung out at some aeon mall afterwards. Apparently the<br />
biggest one in Kyushu... or so they tell me. Ya it was pretty big I<br />
think. Anyways, so that was amazing! Then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_426333945" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Tuesday</span></span> we had 4 sisters<br />
come down for junkais and that was crazy! We covered our whole tatami<br />
room with blankets and futons and just slept wherever we had room.<br />
Needless to say, did not get much sleep! But had an awesome time<br />
junkai-ing with a Japanese companion and meeting a lot of awesome<br />
people! Then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_426333946" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Wednesday</span></span> we had mensetsu's (interviews), which I loved. Absolutely<br />
love kaicho! Then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_426333947" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Thursday</span></span> and Friday consisted mostly of planning<br />
for our musical number at district meeting, weekly planning, and<br />
planning with the ward mission leaders for the Halloween party. Our<br />
heads were spinning by the end, but it was great! The Halloween party<br />
actually looks like it can take a step forward!! Yay!<br />
This week unfortunately our investigator cancelled because she was<br />
going to Tokyo to visit her kids, so not a lot of lessons this week.<br />
Which is sad, but just let the Holy Spirit guide and do what I can,<br />
right? But we have started doing a lot of lessons with members talking<br />
about member missionary work. And it is awesome to see how much they<br />
are already doing and where they want to improve. So we will have to<br />
work hard and see what God has in store.<br />
Then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_426333949" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Saturday</span></span> we had the opportunity to go to the temple. Which was<br />
amazing!!!!! Something that i realized during the two sessions is that<br />
other than the love of God and Christ. The love between Adam and Eve<br />
was probably the strongest in history! Adam literally gave up the<br />
perfect life to cleave unto Eve. What a guy! So to all the single<br />
people out there if there are any that read my blog (this can apply to<br />
all the married ladies in my ward that are probably the majority of my<br />
readers) go find your Adam!!! Settle for nothing less, but be an Eve<br />
that deserves him!!! And although you will have to labor hard in the<br />
toil of the world, God will bless you!!! I love this church and<br />
learning things everyday!!! Have a great week!!<br />
Sister JohnsonMarinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555705018976706207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146729967602444441.post-12262210116269738252015-10-18T23:52:00.000-07:002015-10-18T23:52:59.483-07:00<span style="font-size: large;">Blog: Love Conference</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>So this week was pretty crazy. Pretty crazy. Yes, yes indeed. And<br />
you're probably thinking, what week isn't for a missionary. I say this<br />
is true. But this week a lot of unexpected things happened. So<br />
scheduled crazy is good, unscheduled is also good. So on P-day we went<br />
and window shopped at this HUGE mall which was way fun, then we had<br />
like an apartment meeting to try and organize who will visit which<br />
member for this member missionary message we were asked to share and<br />
we were able to share it with the bishop which was so amazing! It was<br />
so spiritual. The video is called I'll go where you want me to go. Go<br />
watch it it is amazing!! Then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2076313993" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Tuesday</span></span> we had some lessons planned<br />
but they fell through. Unfortunate, but the member that came to joint<br />
called like 10 people on the phone and I got to talk to her friends<br />
and invite them to church which was way cool! Then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2076313994" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Wednesday</span></span> we<br />
went waaaaaaaay down to visit a member in like the middle of the<br />
darkness with both our headlights broken and no sidewalk on the road,<br />
so that was pretty wild, but with prayers and some directions from<br />
nice bar owners we were able to make it and wake them up and share a<br />
small message. Haha! Didn't think they would be asleep so early, but<br />
they were so nice to us! Then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2076313995" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Thursday</span></span> was mostly just weekly<br />
planning and eikaiwa (English class). Then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2076313996" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Friday</span></span> we went up to go look at some<br />
colleges to see if we could do some volunteer and one of the sisters<br />
tires popped so we changed it, and the new one popped so we had to<br />
look for a bike shop and got the college by like 7 so nobody was there<br />
at the front desk and all the students kept saying hi to us and asked<br />
if we had boyfriends. Haha, crazy kids! So we handed them some<br />
chidashi's (pamphlets) and left and went home to finish planning.<br />
Then we had conference! OH the sweet joy of conference!!!! Wasn't is<br />
just the best! I especially loved the talk from Larry R. Lawrence what<br />
lack I yet. And also the general woman's session from President<br />
Uchtdorf. This conference really spoke to me as trying to look at<br />
things in an eternal perspective. Like sometimes the mission requires<br />
me to speak kinder words and have patience. Which as all mothers,<br />
especially my own, probably know is a skill required for parenting.<br />
The Lord has taught and humbled me in so many ways and I love it...<br />
afterwards, haha! But yes, <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2076313997" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Saturday</span></span> we went to a BBQ from one of<br />
our EKW students which was great! Then we went to the only American<br />
members apartment and watched conference the American way, a bunch of<br />
friends with a bunch of food, basically in the dark sprawled on the<br />
floor. It was the best. Yay American conference. Then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2076313998" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Sunday</span></span> we<br />
watched it at the church in a separate room from the members. But a<br />
crazy miracle was that this girl we had met on the street last week<br />
just came to conference on her own. She thought it was regular church<br />
and that it was really strange walking into a dark room with a<br />
projector and probably very confused at all the gospel words. But she<br />
handled it like a champ and it was amazing! We were able to teach her<br />
a little, but because she is so busy with work wasn't able to make a<br />
return appointment, but will call her again this week :)<br />
Then that night we had an amazing dinner appointment with a member!<br />
Her husband is less active and her two kids are the cutest! On our way<br />
there though we found a dog about to get hit by cars, so we called it<br />
over and it came and we put it in a bag and rode with it to the<br />
members house. Then another member that came over put it in her car,<br />
so that was a miracle. She said she would bring it to the police to<br />
see if anyone was looking for it. Then one of the members that kind of<br />
needs strengthening surprisingly came over as well. And she was so<br />
kind to Bair shimai and really took a liking to her, which was just a<br />
miracle because usually she is quite stand offish. It was so heart<br />
warming to see her open up to Bair shimai, bean-chan miracles!!!<br />
That was basically the week. Love you all and hope you are doing so<br />
good!!!! Apply something from conference. I already have my ponderize<br />
scripture!! Church is true!<br />
Love,<br />
Sister Johnson<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A selfie we took with a store clerk who carried our bike to the bike shop. He's so nice. And we're so rude. Haha! (me, parmley, and store clerk man)<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The shokuji we went to, love these sisters!!! (me, Ali, Bair-shimai, wataru-kun, riyo, crump-shimai, kamakura-shimai, Parmley, itsuki-kun, ushijima-shimai)<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Had to send this picture! It's her son (wataru) that literally ate his weight in food. But as he was stuffing down some chicken he got distracted by the onigiri and obviously all his thoughts were on that rice ball. Haha he was the cutest!<br /></td></tr>
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<br />Marinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555705018976706207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146729967602444441.post-57797365135895137212015-10-12T00:57:00.002-07:002015-10-12T00:57:41.212-07:00<span style="font-size: large;">Blog: Being Fed</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>So, this week everybody cancelled on us. Fiddlesticks. But, God never<br />
leaves the starving hungry for long to say the least. And I mean that<br />
in both the literal, missionarial, and spiritual terms. So at the<br />
beginning of this week we basically did planning, dendou, and<br />
studying. We did get to teach a recent convert to get him ready for<br />
endowments because is year mark is coming in the next couple of<br />
months. So SUPER excited for that. Hopefully I will still be here!<br />
Then we had an awesome zone meeting. Where they talked about our<br />
mission not being a zero baptismal goal mission. So Bair shimai and I<br />
talked and moved that goal zero up to a 1. Aaaaaaand, no baptism this<br />
week, sorry folks. But still lots of crazy miracles. So let me start<br />
out with literal starvation. I don't know if you know but food on a<br />
mission is both the enemy and the rescue. This week was fast <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1160447162" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Sunday</span></span>,<br />
and oh how Bair shimai and I were dying. We had about 3 hours of just<br />
straight dendou before we could eat. And a member invited us over,<br />
which was the best. So we went out to visit a P.I. wasn't there. Then<br />
housed around, no luck. Walked through a Japanese forest and got eaten<br />
alive by mosquitoes. Visited another P.I. still no luck. Then here<br />
comes the spiritual food. So we were basically on our last breath of<br />
spiritual strength looking out at the sunset after knocking on a door<br />
and nobody came. Then our phone started to ring. And lo and behold a<br />
girl who didn't show up to the lesson that day who I called called us<br />
back and told us she was sorry and forgot and made a new<br />
appointment!!!! Fed. Then after that we crawled back home and put on<br />
some ointment to calm our itching and went to the meal appointment.<br />
Where they fed us just the most amazing food (ex: apple pie mochi,<br />
spicy fried rice, curry chicken, pasta) Fed. Then they showed us<br />
pictures of their wedding (35 years ago) and it was the cutest thing<br />
ever!! Made me really feel the atmosphere of love and the spirit in<br />
their home. Fed.<br />
Then we also had the women's general session of conference. Which was<br />
AMAZING! Conference has marked a special place in my heart since I<br />
watched it the first week in the MTC, at my 6 month, and now.... Well<br />
we don't need to say. I look forward to this next conference so much.<br />
I was so sad to hear about those apostles who had passed away. But I<br />
was reading a comment Elder Nelson gave to the newspaper that said how<br />
these spiritual monsters have passed on, who had such an influence in<br />
the church, and yet the church continues on as if nothing has<br />
happened. And THAT is how you know that the front of this church is<br />
the Lord. And I know that is true. The Lord will never leave us in<br />
times of darkness, nor in times of light. And this is His work, and we<br />
are only limited by our own lack of faith. Have ye sufficiently<br />
retained in remembrance that he has delivered their souls from hell?<br />
(Alma 5) Everything is centered on this gospel and Christ's atonement.<br />
Even if we lived a perfect life, it would still not be enough. We need<br />
Him, and He needs us to trust Him. In an all loving, almighty God who<br />
has and will give us all that He has if we just choose to accept it.<br />
Though sometimes it seems hard, but we can notice even in the bad<br />
times the bright fervent colors of the gospel along our glowing path<br />
to eternal happiness. Now is part of eternity, or so Aunt Rose told me.<br />
Love this church, love this gospel, so excited to watch conference,<br />
love you all and hope you are appreciating the fall weather! Have an<br />
awesome week! Don't forget what you learned at conference!!!<br />
Love,<br />
ジョンソン姉妹<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Her first black thunder ice cream. Yep, I'm a good Mom.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This guy next to the flower shop of a lady we befriended, he gave us free, piping hot salt water from his special salt, and miso soup, and oranges. So we bought a onigiri from him :)<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The beautiful sunset of Japan!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Us at the super delicious shoukuji, Thanks Nihara Mom and Dad! (me, bair-shimai, nihara-shimai, nihara-kyoudai, crump-shimai, akiyama-kyoudai, kinjo-kyoudai, and parmley-shimai)<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My new homescreen :) </td></tr>
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