The tale of a cockroach killer

Yeah. Our house is crawling with them. We keep the apartment clean but they live in the drain of the sink and the washing machine. Gross. Perks of living in super hot and sticky Japan. Fortunately it's not super bad. Yet.

In other news, this week wasn't too exciting. My back was all over the place this week so some days it was fine and others it was not.

Well, let's start with Tuesday: There's a member in my ward who has his own therapy shop. So we went there after district meeting. Man, we were so pampered. Back massages, foot massages, and stretching machines. It was very Japanese. And then, I got stabbed with some needles. Because he's an acupuncturist. No big deal. When in Japan, do as the Japanese. I actually didn't feel the needles at all. I had one in my head, on in my finger, a couple on my legs and arms. I'm here to testify that acupuncture works. I left their place and my back didn't even hurt at all. Not in my upper back, not in my lower back. I felt so light. In the evening we tried 2 different types of dedno- "you're cute" dedno and "lost foreigner" dedno. Lost foreigner dedno is SO effective. People are always willing to help us find places. Then we tell them about the gospel. It's great fun.


Wednesday: We dendoed at a huge store. Because we are Americans, people just came up and talked to us. It was great. It was also good because it was air conditioned.

Thursday: We planned at a restaurant called Joyfull. They have these HUGE mango shaved ice things that are basically to die for.

Friday: lesson with M shimai! She's so cute. We talked about her family and how their hearts are being softened. Before they were all WAY against religion and would leave the house when missionaries came for lessons. But now when they find out we're coming over they clean up the house and make sure there's juice in the fridge for us. It's amazing how the Lord works. We also felt like we needed to bring her ice cream to eat together before the lesson and so we did. When we got there she was SO excited because she wanted to buy some the other day but couldn't leave the house beaches of her sick mom. So we were an answer to a prayer and a small reminder that God loves all of His children and knows their desires.


Saturday: It was a bad back day so we tried to go to the doctor- but it's a huge Japanese holiday this weekend so literally everything is closed until tomorrow (Tuesday). So we went to 31 ice (baskin robins) before deciding to go back to the apartment to rest. So laid on my futon and slept a bit and studied a bit. Then we went to a 8 year old baptism. The girl and her mom and sister are American but are half Japanese. And the girl wanted to be baptized in Japan with her grandparents. It was the strangest mix of Japanese and American baptism. American: big fancy baptism dress, food after the baptism, baptism book, taking pictures with everyone who came. Japanese: introduction of the baptized person, shaking everyone's hand after the baptism, the baptized person giving a talk. I didn't even realize that baptisms were so different. Well. The important parts are the same. In
the evening, our apartment had wifi which was a blessing because we stayed in all evening as well. We watched church movies and MOTAB and devotionals.

Sunday: we had a movie night after church in the evening and quite a few members showed up. We watched meet the Mormons.


Even though this week wasn't too eventful, but something I learned is that even when you can't give your 100% if you give the 40% you have, God makes it be enough. Some days, I've had only 10% to give. But it's always been enough. We met the people we've needed to meet and done the things we've needed to do. We do our best, Jesus does the best.

I'm sorry this week is a little sparse, there was a lot of time spent in the apartment because of my lame back. But we are still having fun and trying to be creative in how to dedno. Also, my companions an angel so... Also, my iPads acting weird so it's hard to type this up.
Sorry.

More miracles next week.

Love love love
ベアマン姉妹🐻


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