Hello beloved 愛する fambam,
The
cooler weather is starting to creep in here in Higashiku. And some
leave are starting to change. I was sad until I realized at home it hit
that point a while back. #blessed. Anyway, how is Maryland? I met a lady
the other day when I was on junkai (splits? Companion exchanges?) in
Fukuoka city and she has a daughter living in D.C. right now because her
American husband is a spy. It was fun to talk to her about D.C.
Junkai
in Fukuoka: a little about Higashiku: it's the outskirts of the
outskirts of Fukuoka city. So it's not city. Then we went on junkai (I
can't figure out what this is called in English) with the STL's in
Fukuoka city, the largest city in our mission I believe. It was so much
fun. It reminded me of Naha. I was dednoing with W shimai, a
missionary from Australia. We had TOO MUCH fun. We met so many cool
people including a lady from South Africa. She's in Japan to teach
English and we just chatted with her in the English language and it was
so refreshing. There was so many young people to talk to. We went to a
huge underground shopping mall and we dendoed by asking people for
directions. It was so fun. We met a ton of super cute nice people. 🔸🔸🔸🔸
Becoming
a broadway star: So we have a training with Kaicho this week and I got a
call on like Friday and one of the sister was asking me to do a musical
number. I laughed and asked if she called the wrong sister. Nope. I'm
aiming a musical number. Me and another sister and 2 elders. This a
first. We'll see how it goes. Then an elder who is a stellar dancer
decided he wanted to teach us all the "Thriller" dance for us to sing at
Eikaiwa on Wednesday for our Halloween party. And he asked us to dance.
So this week I will preforming in a dance and in a musical number. What
the what?
J:
she's the Vietnamese girl we met our 2 day in Higashiku. We went out to
dinner with her and talked about life and Jesus. She loved it. She came
to English class with us after. She said she wants to come to church on
Sunday because she always feels good when she is with us. She came
yesterday but late so we weren't outside to greet her. She was brace
enough to come in to the chapel herself and the biggest miracle
happened. She sat down in the back next to a member married to a
Australian so she speaks perfect English and was able to translate for
her. We had a lesson with her after sacrament meeting with the Fukuoka
sisters to pass her (she lives in their area...). And one of the office
missionaries at the missionary home is Vietnamese so she came and helped
us with the lesson. When the office sister missionary started speaking
Japanese to J, J started to cry because she felt so alone
moving to Japan on her own. We had a powerful lesson with her about
God's love and prayer. At the end she prayed in Vietnamese. She's so
sweet. It was sad to give her to the other sisters to teach but I'll
still be able to see her at English class and church.
Sister
H: she's the Vietnamese office missionary that helped with
J's lesson. She's a BEAST. She was born in Vietnam and in school
studied English and French. When her family was 16 her family moved to
the D.C. area for her father's new job. She lived in Silver Spring,
Maryland and went to Blair high school. She graduated, went to the
University of Maryland for college and taught French there for 3 years.
When I met her before the lesson yesterday, she asked "Sister Bearman,
are you from Silver Spring Maryland?" and I freaked out because no one
knows where Maryland is let alone Silver Spring. We both got excited and
it was wonderful. She's such a cool lady. She's serving a mission with
her husband now. I translated for her in Relief Society.
M san: we found her in our area book and we called her up one day during
phone dendo. She answered and said "I'm Christian. I love Jesus. Let's
meet, eat, and talk." So we did just that. She's this cute old grandma
with more energy than I've ever had. She was so fun to talk to. She
showed us pictures of all the oil paintings she's made and then pictures
of her famous j-pop star daughter. It was hilarious. Then we chatted
about Jesus and how we all love Jesus and it was so nice to teach
someone who loves Jesus as much as we do.
Chikushino
Ward: so we were greeting people in the foyer to the church and I look
up to shake the next persons hand and it's Brother Y, the father of
my favorite family in Chikushino. We both got really excited and I
couldn't give him a hug but I gave him an air hug. He came to the
Fukuoka ward with his recently returned missionary daughter. As I was
greeting people, several other people we from Chikushino and it was a
joyous reunion. 😊
I also gave a short introduction and testimony in sacrament meeting and
I was a bit nervous because it was in front of 300 people I didn't know
in another language but I looked out in the congregation and saw my
favorite people from Chikushino ward and it made me less nervous.
Tuesday:
was just a solid day of dendo all around. We met a plethora of kind
people. One lady, as we talked to her, said that she has a friend who
goes to our church and wants to talk to her friend about it now. It was
really cool as I talked to people I was using Japanese that I had
learned but never used before in order to teach and talk to their needs.
It was amazing to see the gift of tongues work over and over as I
talked to people. I'm definitely not fluent in Japanese, but the Holy
Ghost is so I'm covered.
That's about the sum of it.
Have
a wonderful week. And have a fun Halloween. Wait, I think that's next
week. Don't have a fun Halloween. Yet. But if there's parties and you
dress up take pictures.
I love you guys!!!
Love love love
ベアマン姉妹より
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