Chewbacca, rain, rain, rain

Happy day guys! Life is good. Japan is the best. The longer I'm here, the less I want to leave. But that's another story. This week!

Tuesday: In district meeting we had a eating contest where your companion was your arms and had to feed you from behind you. I have a video. We were the second fastest companionship. We went out and dendoed after and everyone just seemed to want to listen. Which was amazing. Recently, as a zone we have been focusing on the standards of excellence. And the crazy thing is, as we focus on the standards of excellence, we actually meet them. Who knew (do you know what standards of excellence are? They're our mission wide goals for things like how many people we talk to, how many lessons we have, how many people came to church, how may BoM were given out). And because we are focusing on the standards, we are so much more effective missionaries because we are prioritizing our time better. In the evening, we went up to a cello concert at the stake center. It was WAY pretty. The cello rocks.

Wednesday: My comp was feeling sick so we took a chill day. Did go out and dedno for a while. We also had an awesome lesson with our recent covert, M. We had a member joint and she brought us homemade bread and guitar to serenade us. It was awesome. This 60 year old lady rocking out on the guitar.


Thursday: we planned a lot of the day. And made phone calls. But when we were out in the evening, my lovely comp had to go to the bathroom but the only close place was this really fancy sports club. So we went in. And asked to use the bathroom. They thought we were so funny- these soaking wet foreigners who can speak Japanese who are asking for the bathroom. But they bowed pretty low to us.

Side note: our phone has an alarm for everything on the earth. "5 minute until" alarms and "2 minute till" alarms and "time to" alarms. But the sound of our alarm is chewbacca screaming. It's the best. It makes me happy every time.
Sign on apartment door
to motivate missionaries
Friday: we met this nice deaf lady and we had to write things out to communicate with her. Which was hard, seeing our Japanese writing skills are limited. But at the end we just we love you and God loves you and see just started grinning. It made me happy because we couldn't reach her much but we could share God's love with her. And that's my purpose. That's why I'm in Japan. Saturday: Was a power house of a day. We called people for 2 hours (from a list of past investigators and potential investigators) and set up 4 return appointments. It's nuts. We then went out to dedno and we talked to each other ALL DAY in Japanese. We chatted and told stories while we dendoed but no English. It was very fun and very rewarding. It was way good language practice. By the end of our day, our Japanese sounded so much smoother because we practiced thinking in Japanese. Because we spoke all day in Japanese, when (at the end of the day) someone answered the door and started speaking to us in English, we didn't really understand them! We were so shocked to hear English. It was funny.
IndoCurry after District Meeting
Sunday: The only day this week with sun! And it was way strange not to have to get dressed up in our rain gear to go out. Today was just an amazing Spirit filled day. Church was amazing. During the sacrament part of sacrament meeting the cutest thing happened. There was a 3 year old who was busy playing under the chairs so he missed taking the water as they passed it around. And the people we handing back their trays and the little boy started crying because he realized he missed his chance to take the sacrament. One of the people passing the sacrament realized his little boy hadn't taken the water so he hurried to give him some. The little boy, realizing what was happening hurried up off the floor to sit in his seat so he could take the sacrament. It was really touching to see him calm down one he realized that he could still take the sacrament. He's 3. He doesn't really know much about church yet except that Jesus loves him and that the sacrament is important. But he taught all of us something. I think I really realized how important the sacrament is. And I'm very grateful for this little boy's example. After church we biked up a mountain only to realize we weren't in the right place. We were very lost on the top of a mountain. But we were supposed to be there. We met some amazing people. People we were definitely supposed to meet. God works then our weaknesses for sure! While we were dendoing today, B shimai and I talked about deep religious things. It was way fun. This gospel is just SO COOL and makes soooo much sense.


I love you fambam.

Sister Bearman
Houses with blue tarps were damaged in earthquake