Konichiwa!
I'm having a blast! So much has happened. My doryo [companion] is so sweet. We work really well together and she helps me stay in line. I've learned so much Nihongo [Japanese] but I still feel like I'm drowning. SO much info that I don't understand. I taught my 1st lession IN Nihongo today. It was so scary and so hard that I cried after. Well, cried and laughed. We teach again tomorrow morning and we have a better lesson planned (I hope). On Thurs my doryo and I got up an hour early without realizing it. So we were an hour ahead of schedule until after breakfast when we found our district and asked them where they'd been. They said they were going to breakfast and we realized! We thought it was so funny . . . My district [group of missionaries learning Japanese together] is great. 4 shimai [sister missionaries] and 6 churu [Elders or male missionaries]. We're like family, especially after that lesson in Japanese. My roomates (all 4) are from Tahiti and are going to Fuiji. They're a hoot and they've been here for 4 weeks and have 2 more weeks to go. More about my doryo. She's from Vernal, UT . . . . and she eats ice cream before dinner with me. We have both got in trouble for taking off our shoes in class. She can ride a unicycle. She's going to Fukuoka . . . . . Yesterday 2 elders learning English (from Korea and Taiwan) came up to us and bore their testimony, it brought me to tears. It showed me how important the spirit is because He'll make up the difference. It gives me hope for my Japanese. . . . This morning for exercise we played Frisbee. Before we threw we had to say a word in Japanese. It was fun. WE also ran and did lunges to keep our biking muscles in shape. Dad, Dear Elder does work. Use it more! Put my district leader to work because he has to pick up everyone's mail . . . The spirit here is amazing. I'm constantly overflowing. The food is eh. But today we had Papa John's pizza! Totally necessary because my brain felt like it had been run over 1000 times. I'll email Thursday but hopefully this gets there 1st. Love yall. Almost out of space. READ YOUR SCRIPTURES! They're life changing. Love Love Love Bearman Shamai
[on the outside of the envelope]
Dobby is a free elf!
P.S. [she is looking for some headbands she packed]
P.S.S Just taught my 2nd lesson in Japanese. It went a lot better. I even said a sentence from memory! Kamisama wa watashitachi o ai shite imas. God loves us.
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