hello devoted readers,
[My companion was not feeling well] all this week. that meant that Friday through Sunday
she was sleeping in bed all day and I studied in bed all day. So sorry
for the lack of exciting news this time around. Don't worry, my doyro's [companion] fine now (thank goodness). But it was a rough 3 days when I was stuck in
my room all day.
Monday:
my doryo was feeling good enough to go to everything from here on out.
. . . In addition to our sempai [sister training leaders] leaving at 3
in the morning, our Fijian roomates left at 2 in the afternoon. I'll
miss them. they were such a good example to me of sharing God's love. I
knew them for 3 weeks and they loved my like i'd known them since birth.
As sad as i was for them to leave, I was a little happy because they
stayed up late and got up early then slept during class time. This meant
they kept me up late and got me up early. I didn't get to sleep during
class though so I was very sleep deprived. added on the the stress of
learning nihongo, I was feeling pretty lousy. Monday night was the first
good nights sleep I'd had in 3 week and it was glorious.
Wednesday:
i got the package (in all caps)!!!!!!! I gave the disposable ones [chopsticks] to
the people in my district and we played with them for an hour. It
totally counts as language study. It was practically Christmas. Also,
dad, I tried to be better at taking more pictures of random things. I
think I did better this week. For our goodnight hymn with our district
we sang As Sisters in Zion. we shimaitachi (sisters) suggested it as a
joke but the chorotachi (elders) were all for it. It was pretty funny.
They even wanted to sing all the verses.
the
shift bar is being temperamental so i'm not going to struggle to make
it work again. deal with my all lower case letters. it looks terrible;
it's causing me pain buuuuuuuuut does it really matter? (dad feel free
to fix it) [I fixed most of it from here on out].
[My companion was not feeling well] all this week. that meant that Friday through Sunday
she was sleeping in bed all day and I studied in bed all day. So sorry
for the lack of exciting news this time around. Don't worry, my doyro's [companion] fine now (thank goodness). But it was a rough 3 days when I was stuck in
my room all day.
Friday: I went to many
doctor appointments to figure out what was wrong with my doryo. and i
studied a lot in bed. I planned several lessons (most of them I didn't
end up teaching because my doryo was still bedridden). so that was
Friday...
Saturday: was a little better. Another girl in our zone was sick so we stuck the 2 sickos together and I
went to class with HM and C shimai. HM shimai is
really (in all caps) good at nihongo (japanese) so she helped me syl
(speak your language) a lot. Being around her all day really helped my
nihongo. It was weird to be without my doryo though. As nice as HM and C shimai are (i love them), they're not quite the same as my
H shimai. I was grateful to be with her again in the evening.
Sunday:
I missed all the morning meetings but the doryo's . . . was feeling
better come lunch. It was the last time we saw our sempai [training leader sisters whose time in the MTC finished up and they are off to Japan]:( I'll miss
them but i'm glad I'm not getting shipped off to nihon [Japan] yet. I don't know
enough. Our devotional was by Lloyd Newall (music and the spoken word guy).
We had an MTC and the spoken word and it was a great experience. We sang
some of my favorite songs and he talked about them. we sang how firm a foundation (my second favorite hymn of all time). I really loved the 3rd
and 7th verse. We also sang Redeemer of Israel, High on a Mountain Top,
Let us All Press On, and We Thank Thee O God for a Prophet. It was a
night full of the spirit. It was so fun to sing all those great songs.
Monday:
my doryo was feeling good enough to go to everything from here on out.
. . . In addition to our sempai [sister training leaders] leaving at 3
in the morning, our Fijian roomates left at 2 in the afternoon. I'll
miss them. they were such a good example to me of sharing God's love. I
knew them for 3 weeks and they loved my like i'd known them since birth.
As sad as i was for them to leave, I was a little happy because they
stayed up late and got up early then slept during class time. This meant
they kept me up late and got me up early. I didn't get to sleep during
class though so I was very sleep deprived. added on the the stress of
learning nihongo, I was feeling pretty lousy. Monday night was the first
good nights sleep I'd had in 3 week and it was glorious. 
Now
about what actually happened on Monday. We went to class for the first
time in a long while and we were soooooo behind. muzucashi to
overwhelming desu (it was hard and overwhelming). I guess it was another
Miracle Monday. We had TRC (teaching a member) and the first person we
taught was an RM of 6 weeks [return missionary from Japan, finished his mission 6 weeks ago]. He was really encouraging and made us feel
like we were doing ok. He even helped us understand what he was saying
by rephrasing things. At one point we asked him to share an experience
of when he had felt the spirit. and he said something. I didn't
understand the whole sentence but he said 2 vocab words that I had
studied that day. "koko" (here) and "ima" (now). I about cried. It was
something I really needed to hear. When teaching in nihongo, it's hard
to know whether you've invited the spirit because 99% of your brain is
focused on the language. I was trying in all my lessons to invite the
spirit but I just couldn't tell. Having him tell me IN JAPANESE that he
felt the spirit though my very broken, very poor nihongo changed my
life. yes, learning nihongo is important, but the spirit is way more
important. Also, he's a way better teacher than I am (and way better at
nihongo). Also the fact that that the 2 words I needed to understand
from his reply were 2 words I had studied earlier just shows that
miracles do happen. somewhere in scripture that I read recently, a
prophet asked the people "have miracles ceased?" I will testify as
loudly as he did in response to that: NO! miracles have not ceased.
miracles still happen! and if they can happen to a random 19 year old
girl who is struggling with a language- they can happen to anyone,
anywhere, in any way. kiseki wa subarachii desu (miracles are awesome).
Tuesday:
more tender mercies from the Lord (also, tender mercies is a great
conference talk [Every six months we have a church conference where the church leaders speak to everyone, next one is Oct 3-4th] . Bednar Choro. Read it.) i went to get ice cream form
the vending machines after a long day and there was graham canyon ice
cream. No spoons. But who needs a spoon? (the weak of heart). our devotional was by cardon choro. it was a bit confusing to follow but still good. We
sang Behold a Royal Army. i never really liked that song before but its
a wonderful one. And it describes what i'm doing so well!
Wednesday:
i got the package (in all caps)!!!!!!! I gave the disposable ones [chopsticks] to
the people in my district and we played with them for an hour. It
totally counts as language study. It was practically Christmas. Also,
dad, I tried to be better at taking more pictures of random things. I
think I did better this week. For our goodnight hymn with our district
we sang As Sisters in Zion. we shimaitachi (sisters) suggested it as a
joke but the chorotachi (elders) were all for it. It was pretty funny.
They even wanted to sing all the verses.
and
now it's p-day. We played zone beach volleyball, ate real food at the
temple, went to the temple, played 4 square, and ran. A nice break from
the MTC. Even though i thought nothing happened this week, this turned
out to be a long letter. have fun with the no caps :)
Ai shite imasu♥
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