Sister T passed her baptism interview last Monday. The interviewer said that he's never met anyone more prepared for baptism. And he'sright. She's so ready. And so amazing. She gave up coffee the day wetaught the word of wisdom. When she went to go see her boyfriend up in Nagoya, she stayed in a hotel instead of his apartment (her own idea). She works so hard every Sunday to get someone to switch shifts with her so she can come to church. And she just glows. She is so excited. She loves talking about baptism. Whenever we bring it up, she says "my baptism date is so far away! Can we move it up?" She's precious. I'm so excited for her. She will be baptized on Thursday evening. I'm dancing up and down I'm so excited (and she probably is too). I'll send a picture of her. She's so cute Tuesday: we went to a Japanese class. It was WAY helpful. And it was an awesome missionary experience. We headed about it from 2 of our Eikaiwa [English Class] students who run the class. We talked about grammar and words and why I was in Japan. And we chatted about what I do as a missionary. All in Japanese of course. It was way good language practice. And it was way nice because they were just there to help me improve my Japanese. Three of them to help one of me. A major accomplishment of today was I made like 1000 phone calls. W shimai [Sister W, her companion] was feeling under the weather. So while she rested I called every number in our phone. Unfortunately not many answered but I did talk to a few people and left messages. Don't worry dad, when I get back I'll still hate making phone calls. Wednesday: we had district meeting. When we went out to eat (indo curry and nan), everyone ate with chopsticks... except the nihonjin [Japanese missionary], she ate with a fork. The waiter thought it was hysterical. We also mogied (role played? Practiced a lesson?) with a member. She's 18. And we challenged her to give a BoM [Book of Mormon] away to a friend. It was way funny. She looked terrified as soon as we said it. But she accepted our challenge. She also gave us kanji [Japanese Characters/Pictograms with meaning] for our first names. I'll send you a picture. We had Eikaiwa [English class] and we had a surprisingly big turnout. We played games. I helped teach the beginners again. It's so fun to teach them!
Thursday: we weekly planned in 70 degree weather in a park. It was beautiful. I have an awkward farmers tan now. We had another lesson with T. We planned out the baptism. We left her lesson glowing because she was beaming so much. Smiles really do make all the difference. Our dendo [missionary work] was so effective after that lesson because we were smiling our heads off. Friday: we dendoed [did missionary work] all day. I think it was fairly normal. We had a lesson with the K family. It was a train wreck. No one could understand each other. Our joint [local church member who was with them to help teach] saved the day. We just talked to her who talked to the K family. And vise versa. We need some serious help with them. We've talked to the relief society president so hopefully she'll figure something out to help us. Saturday: we had 2 kodomo Eikaiwa's!! Kids English classes. What the what? I love kids Eikaiwa. We play games. And talk about goofy things. It was basically the best. We met a lot of nice people today. None with interest but they were all saying things like "you are such hard workers" and "good luck" and "when you have faith in something it's good to work hard for it. Keep it up". It was nice. People were just telling us we were awesome. The next step is for us to be awesome and for them to want to listen. It will come. Sunday: we planned a baptism today. I felt way accomplished because it was all in Japanese. Then, after church, we went out and handed out tons of Eikaiwa fliers with primary kids. It was the cutest thing ever. At first, they were way scared. But as soon as they gave the fist one away, they were running to give away more. It was precious. I want to dendo like them.
I realized today, that I no longer dread leaving the apartment to go dendo. Which is crazy. And really nice. I like actually, like dendo now. For like real. Life is good. And so is the Japanese. And the food. So much good food. Love you tons. Stay tuned for baptism pictures next week! Love love love ベアーマン姉妹 Sent from my iPad
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