And I spoke in the night

So we meet a part member family in the rain under a bike cover by the side of an 
Emma "bought an apron 
so I stop ruining all my 
clothes when I make meals 


apartment on Thursday. We decide to open in prayer so I start praying in Japanese. Half way through the prayer I forgot why I was praying so I hurried and finished the prayer and said amen. And then my companion, from another dimension said amen. And I woke up. Freaked out. I had said the whole prayer out loud in my sleep and woke
up my companion. So at 3:00 am, we were laughing our butts off. There were tears of mirth streaming down both of our faces.

Hello family!

This week, if anything, was a hilarious week. I decided to start off by telling the funniest part. That did indeed happen. It was hilarious. Apparently I talk in my sleep on the occasion. In a hilarious mix of Japanese and English. But it's always coherent. It causes my companion many giggles. Man, God is one hilarious perfected
being.

Tuesday: we were on the way to the doctor in the morning and we were waiting at a stoplight, chatting and giggling as usual, and I turned around and saw a cute Indian girl. She said hello in English so we started chatting with her. She was really nice and seemed happy to be able to communicate with us. We exchanged numbers and she wants to meet and talk again. Then, in the evening we had a family home evening with the T family (part member family). The parents seemed so happy and it's cool to see how their relationship improves and the husband learns more about the gospel. For the lesson we had to play zone, I was on kid duty, M shimai was on parent duty. I had fun playing with their son. He prayed at the end with his moms help. It was super cute be aide she started to close the prayer and he wouldn't close the prayer until he said thank you for Jesus. It was precious.


Wednesday: rough day. No one wanted to talk and people rejected us sort of rudely. We got to our lesson with M shimai (recent convert) early so I decided to turn down another road to street for a bit longer. The first girl we met was a cute college student and had a blast talking to us. It was nice after all the rude "no's". A little miracle to make the day a little sweeter. Then we had a rocking lesson with M shimai about priesthood blessings and patriarchal blessings. It was a really Spirit filled lesson because I felt God tell me that He keeps His promises even as I was promising M shimai the same thing. Then we went to baskin robins (called 31 ice in Japan) because on the 31st of any month with a 31st, a double scoop ice cream is 31% off. So we partied hard by eating fancy on sale ice cream. In the evening there was a scale 4ish earthquake (according to a Eikaiwa student) for 15-20 seconds during Eikaiwa (English class). Everyone in the room got quiet REAL fast.

Thursday: our alarm was on silent so we didn't wake up at 6:30am but at 6:31am there was another earthquake (as big and as long as the night before) that totally woke us up. Who even needs alarms? On a side note: it's been a while since we've had earthquakes this big. Things should be ok? Then we had a...beach trip!! So, when I first got here and was looking at maps of the area, I realized that in the far
reaches of our area, we had a beach. So this transfer, one of our goals was to have a beach trip. So we planned one out- visiting 5 less actives and 1 member on the way. The elders decided to tag along so we could decide and conquer finding houses. It was a 45 minute train ride and we didn't meet a all of the people (3/5) but we ran into and chatted with a lot of people who have probably never seen missionaries
because they live so far out. We walked all over the place and saw lots of beautiful rice fields. We ended off the trio by going to the beach. We could see Nagasaki's huge mountains in the distance. [Likely Mount Fugen] It was beautiful. And we got into the water (only knee deep) and it was such a happy moment. We also found cool shells and sea glass on the sand. When we got home, I was emptying out my bag and I saw something more. Upon further investigation, I discovered a tiny crab in my bag! I named him Cornelius.


Friday: a year ago, on this day, I entered into the MTC to begin learning Japanese. It's crazy how far I've come in a year. I can like, someone communicate with another person in another language. It's pretty cool. We had a zone conference. There was 22 elders and 4 sisters. It's was fun. In the evening we went to the park for a play
date with the 8 year old girls we met the other week. They showed up and we played until their moms came. Then we were swinging at the park a little longer and a cute high school girl bikes by. I say "hi" and she says "hi" back and bikes away. Then, 5 minutes later she comes biking back and starts talking to us in English (with Japanese thrown in here and there). We end up chatting with her for 10 minutes and set up a time to eat lunch together and practice talking in the English. Huge miracle!

Saturday: we weekly planned at a restaurant. I had a huge mango shaved ice thing. It was awesome. That's about it? We probably did more... We went to 2 return appointments right next to each other and neither was home. So we decided to knock on the nice looking house next door and a really cool lady answered. She listened and we had a good conversation about the purpose of life. Unfortunately, even though she loves singing gospel music, she doesn't think she needs Jesus. But it was
cool to meet her. 
Wind blowing off helmet
of Emma's Companion
Sunday: So, apparently a typhoon was coming so we only had an hour of church and were confined by Kaicho's (presidents) orders to stay inside from 12pm to 5pm.  [I think Tropical Storm Namtheun] But the typhoon got held up in Kagoshima so we just had some crazy rain. Now they say the typhoon might hit today. We'll see. Because we had a bunch of apartment time (and we've already called all our formal and potential investigators 3-5 times) we decided to make a fancy dinner. So we made mashed potatoes, stuffing, fruit salad, and rosemary chicken. For dessert we had pudding and ice cream. It was a feast. We had a lot of studying time and journaling time (which is nice because on Sunday we don't normally have studies). It was a way lax day. Huge miracle: all of the sudden the phone rings and it's an unknown number. I answer and hear a familiar Japanese voice on the other side. The voice says their from the Naha 1st ward and that their name is K shimai. I freaked out because I KNEW HER!! She was in my first areas ward!! I told her who I was and she got really excited. We were both SO happy. It was really cool because the last time I saw her, I couldn't really understand her and I could only say really really really basic things to her. But I was able to have a real life conversation with her. And understand her. She was calling about a less active friend who she heard lived in our area. It was a huge miracle to be able to speak with her again. Man, God is SO AWESOME!

So this week was fun. And miraculous. But what's new? It looks like we might finally make some investigators out of people this week. I'm excited 😄 Keep killing it guys!!

Love love love
ベアマン姉妹

P.s. I went to the doctor this morning and I realized something really cool. All the nurses want to help me and want to say goodbye to me when I'm there. And they always look more cheerful when I chat with them. How cool is it that I have the chance to share God's love with a bunch of nurses everyday. And they feel that love so that makes them want to be around me when I'm there. They feel the difference the Spirit is making in their life. Keep sharing your light guys!


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