"Shakes" in McDonald's, Japanese kids at church, Eikaiwa students turned church members

Hello my beloved brothers (Evan and Josh) and sister (camille), Hello to all my 


other beloved people as well,

This week was a strange one. Weird cool things happened that made me remember that God does keep Hos promises. Sometimes, you just have to wait for the blessings. We've been investigator-less in Shimizu for 15 weeks (I don't know what that is in normal time). But our hard work has paid off and we have 4 Eikaiwa students who are ALL INTERESTED IN JESUS. Which it perfect because I'm interested in Him too.

Tuesday: overall not an eventful day but I was able to feel God's love through 2 amazing members. So a member and his wife have an acupuncture and other Japanese-y magic medicine shop that I go to and they fix my back. Well, normally there's 4-5 other patients there but that day it was just me so they focused on fixing just me. And we chatted about being a missionary (they are both RM's [returned missionaries or have served a mission before]) and practiced Japanese. They made me feel loved. They're like my Japanese parents (I've found them!!). Then after their magic we snacked on banana chips. I was ordered to bed rest so we chilled the rest of the night.


Wednesday: we had a BBQ. In Japan. With rice. And squid. And horse. Strange but good. 2 of our Eikaiwa [English class] students came and we set up a time to have a lessons with them. A and E. We met them on Pday shopping for stationary. They're sisters and we met them on Friday.  More good news to come. Most of the day was taken up at the doctor. BUT NOT FOR ME. For my lovely companion who has something growing out of her foot. It's probably an eyeball. Eikaiwa was crazy. I did kids Eikaiwa with a new missionary who's been out 2 weeks. And the kids were all over the place, screaming. The usual fun. I love kids English class. Screaming (not singing) English songs and writing the alphabet on EVERYTHING.

Thursday: I dendoed [missionary work] at the doctor. To the doctor, a nurse, a new worker, and the lady at the front desk. They were all just asking all the right questions!!! Perks of being a foreigner. They always ask why you're in Japan. Perfect segway into God and His love. Man. This is so fun. We ran to a return appointment afterward who didn't show. Since we were in front of McDonald's we went in and got a shake or 2. Lol. That was unintentional. But we did have 2 kinds of shakes. Chocolate shakes and earth shakes. We've been having quite a few of the latter kind recently. And they've been 3 and 4's on that scale. Which is huge
on the 8th floor. We went shopping in this Japanese stuff store and we got chatting with the workers and found out they all liked English. So we invited them all to Eikaiwa. This week we've had cool dendo opportunities in strange unexpected places. It's the best. And so fun.


Friday: what an amazing day. We met with A and E. AND THEY ARE SO PREPARED. We showed them the bless4 "I am a child of God" and the Spirit was so strong. We taught them to pray after and they both were so excited to pray. Their prayers were amazing simple and sweet. But very sincere. It was the most Spirit filled lesson I've ever had. I wasn't saying my words. I was saying words from God that they needed to hear. It was really humbling to see Him do His work through me. After they left we had a dance party because we were SOOO happy. Today was a good follow the Spirit day, now that I think about it. With our recent convert- M shimai- I totally changed the lesson plan once the lesson started (surprising my companion, but she's good and went with it) and the lesson was exactly what M shimai and the member that came with us needed to hear. As we read about Jesus together, we all really felt love and strength from Him. Probably something we all needed to talk about. Before dinner we went to the park and had a play date with the 8 year girls we've been plying with every week. We have so much fun together. And it seriously makes the little girls and her mom's day. We made up swing games together. Preparing people's hearts
for the future missionaries coming their way.

I'm too tired to write what happened on Saturday and Sunday. I might make a video. I'm sorry!!!! I still love you. I'm iPad-less right now. 
So all of this is a lot harder to do. Sorry.

Well, it was a happy week. With happy stuff.

Love love love
ベアマン姉妹

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