San nin Shimai Senkyoshi no seikatsu

First off, I apologize for this being a day late, our P-day is Tuesday this week because we got to go get interviews with the mission president in Saga yesterday! But anyway, this week was awesome! I don't know if I've ever mentioned this, but pretty much every morning we do rajio taiso for our morning exercise. Rajio taiso consists of us three sisters, and about 20 other grandpas and grandmas doing some aerobic type thing (If you could even call it aerobic, its more like just lifting your arms up and down and bending over to touch your toes a few times) at the park just above our apartment. It's probably the funniest thing we do ever single day and I love it! All of the old people just love it when we come and join them. We even made it into their neighborhood newsletter haha :) I just had to mention that because I have the rajio taiso song stuck in my head right now. This week was super great, but also a little bit long since we had P-Day a day late. One of the cool things of this week though is that we got a media referral from the mission home at the beginning of the week and it turned out to be a super cute young woman from Korea who has a cousin on a mission in the Kobe Japan mission. The best part about is, is that she speaks English too! She's super interested in our lives in general as missionaries and just about our church in general. Her English is a little funny sometimes and she always calls us the 'mormonists' and calls the book of mormon our 'mormon bible' haha. It's super funny because I guess she's heard quite a few bad things about Mormons from various sources and so as we've told her what the truth about us is, she's just been so shocked and says things like "I just don't understand why some people say those things! They're so wrong! Everyone needs to come learn from you guys about what they truth is!" We've met with her twice already this past week and she came to our English class! So we teach english class once a week and we also teach a kids english class once a week. Its super fun. Especially the kids english class, where half of the kids participation consists of them just correcting our Japanese pronunciation haha. Two weeks ago we had just a random woman and her two kids show up to English class and they've turned out to be super awesome! She brought her kids to the kids english class too that we had, and then we tole her about church and primary and she even came to church on Sunday with her kids! She insists that she's not interested in our message and that she's "mecha mecha bukyo" (Really really buddhist), but we just love having her and her kids around and hope that she'll gain some curiousity at some point that we might be able to teach her more :) This past Sunday I had to give my very first sacrament meeting talk in Japanese. Saturday night, I wrote it all down nicely on a piece of paper so that I wouldn't freeze up or worry too much. Sunday, about half way through church, I realized that I totally forgot my paper! After a few moment of panic, I said a quick prayer, and just decided I would have to do without it. God truly helped blessed me with the gift of tongues for about 7 minutes last Sunday as I was able to calmly and clearly talk to a congregation of Japanese speaking people in Japanese! I don't know how I pulled it off but it was truly a miracle. I've been asked by a few people how the language is coming, and at this point, I can still say quite a bit more than I can understand. But, I am getting much better at talking during lessons and during finding without needing to have it all worked out in my head before I say it. It was a little hard at first with three of us, because my other two companions could very easily teach an entire lesson without any help from me and it worked out just fine. But, I've been trying really hard to push myself to speak more so that I can learn this language! I'm not scared to talk to people in Japanese, but sometimes I just get lazy because it takes so much effort to speak it and to listen attentively enough to figure out what people are saying. I am improving though! Just yesterday on our trainride to Saga, I sat next to an older woman and began a conversation with her about herself and talked to her a little about what we're all doing in Japan and I even tried to give her a book of Mormon! I did it all by myself too :) I try really hard not to let my lack of abilities keep me from talking to people. And I'm still learning new things each day! Finding is always such an adventure. This week we contacted a super crazy lady who punched me in the stomach and pinched my companion. We get a lot of people who just like to X us in the face with their arms. Kids and teenagers that we pass by often say "Herro!" or "I am happy!" or random english phrases that they know. It's always an adventure each day :) I wish I had more time to write but time is out once again! Thank you everyone for the love and support and I pray for everyone back home each day! Ai Shite Imasu yo! Wells Shimai