More Japanese hospitals and being a missionary at Tiffany's

Well, this week was not as happy and exciting as planned. There was a lot more downs when we were expecting there to be ups. K san, the amazing really to get baptized I love Jesus investigator, has dropped off the face of the map. She won't contact us. And we have no idea why. Good old Satan. Up to his schemes. Then, we went back to the hospital to check out my back because it's been acting up again. Despite Satan's hard work- fun times were had and miracles were seen, although not the flavor we were expecting.

Tuesday: we've been doing lessons with members to help them create their own family mission plan. We visited a lady who is a 30 minute bike ride and a 30 minute train ride away. She took us to an all you can eat pizza place (with her adorable grandsons!). Then we found out she has a TON of dedno [missionary] fire and wants to help with dedno and go out dendoing with us and joint for all our lessons. Wow. We were excited. In the evening we went to visit another member. She's single and been feeling lonely lately. It was really cool as we taught her and she realized that this message was from God at the same time we realized we didn't prepare the lesson, God did. We said things that she needed to hear for sure. Even though I speak and understand (to some extent) Japanese, there's still a lot I don't know. A lot I don't pick up. And it's cool to see how when I try my hardest to be prepared, even if I don't know what's going on, what needs to be said is said.


Wednesday: You think that I would be a pro at Japanese hospitals based on the number of times I've been. But kanji gets me. Also, I'm not super familiar with a ton of Japanese medical terms. Fortunately they speak slowly. Man, the gift of tongues is real. After another batch of X-rays we determined (again) that there's no bone problem. So they sent me to the rehabilitation center (which is the Japanese version of PT) where they shocked me with electricity and then I experienced some water torture. In actuality, I had the electric patches on my back and then I got to lay on a water bed and water was jetted at my back in a manner that resembled a massage. I felt so good after. When we got back, the elders called us an said that 2 girls we met on Pday while shopping were at the church so we ran over there an gave them a church tour. They came to Eikaiwa that night as well. Success!


Thursday: we had a zone conference where Kaicho, shimai, [mission president and wife] and the AP's [Assistants to the President - missionary leaders who help him] came down (all the head honchos). We didn't have to bike 30 minutes up because a kind member gave us a ride. I was thrilled. We didn't show up soaked in sweat!

Friday: we had an awesome lesson with M shimai and taught from the scriptures. Most Japanese people think the scriptures are super unrelateable and hard to understand. But as we read a Book of Mormon story with her to teach about enduring to the end, it all clicked. She was able to relate it to her own life experiences and she was SO EXCITED. So were we. For dinner, we had an appointment with M san, a 22 year old college student. She's way cute and we ate at this delicious restaurant. The food was cheap and to die for. Gotta love college town rinky dink restaurants. Our lesson with her was super casual but at the end when we asked if she has any questions, she asked "can you teach me more about your church?" Well, yes. Yes we can. She goes home for summer break but will be back in September.

Saturday: we went to the doctor again. More water bed and electric patches. While at the doctor a few awesome things happened- we crashed into 2 less active members who told us to stop by their house (we wouldn't have met them otherwise, were normally studying at that time), I got to chat with a bunch of nurses about being a church
volunteer, and the Olympics were on in the lobby. It was the parade of nations. It was good language study because it was in Japanese of course. Speaking of the Olympics, the next one will be in Japan so I need to start saving up money and becoming more fluent so I can go...Real life dream.

Sunday: we had dinner with a member and a part member family. There was 2 little kids under the age of 5 so that was a party. The members did a stellar time fellowshiping while we kept the kids occupied. It was really fun. Also, we had really delicious food. So that's always a plus.




This week was a lot of creative missionary work. We were stuck in our apartment for a while- my fault- but we wanted to be effective so we got a bit creative with the time we did have. We had doctors dedno, Tiffany's & co dedno, lost foreigners dedno, sparkles dedno, huge festival dedno, and talk to shop owners dedno. We're getting the work done, just though slightly different means. It's fun to come up with
creative ideas. And people listen. Today, we're doing dinner dedno- going to the restaurant area of the mall and wandering around and asking people for restaurant recommendations.

It was a bit of a rough week. That's what happens on a mission. Last week was so awesome, it was bound to happen. But good things will come!

Good luck on the home front,
Love love love,
ベアマン姉妹（＾∇＾）

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