I'm Dreaming Of A Warm Christmas

This week was crazy wonderful. No other way to describe it. Basically, the first half of the week was getting everything ready for Yamamoto San's baptism. Monday we all four met with her and made sure she understood all that she needed to, Tuesday she had her interview with our District Leader and passed it with flying colors, and Wednesday we just told the whole world that they needed to come to this spectacular event and then came THURSDAY! It was a beautiful service that included all 8 of us Nagasaki missionaries singing 'I am a Child of God' in English and Japanese (And it was super adorable because her 2 little boys started singing along with us super loud because they know the song in English and Japanese because we sing it every week in our children english class) and Eddy Shimai gave a beautiful talk about the Holy Ghost and one of the ward members spoke as well and everyone was just in such a great mood! When we went down to the font area, my companion asked her if she wanted a hair tie for her hair because it was down and she just said 'no thanks, I want my hair down because that's how Jesus' hair was'. HOW ADORABLE IS THAT! Anyway, Harvey Choro, one of the Nagasaki missionaries was the one to baptize her and he did SUCH an amazing job. She came out of the water looking so happy! After she was changed, we all returned to the chapel and she bore the most beautiful testimony with tears running down her face while her adorable little 7 year old boy stood below her and wiped her tears away. It was definitely a night to remember. But as if one miracle baptism wasn't enough, we had so many miracles that stemmed from that night! One being that Keiko San, an English class student came to the baptism and was so moved by it that she totally wants to start meeting with us! She's our newest investigator and she came to church yesterday and was able to witness Yamamoto San recieve the Gift of the Holy Ghost. Just as a side note, she speaks SUPER good English. I don't know how we have had this luck, but right now our top 3 investigators all speak REALLY good English. It truly is the biggest blessing. God truly has perfect timing in everything because we are such young missionaries with such insufficient Japanese. Our Korean investigator was also able to come to the Baptism, but only for about 20 minutes before her husband called saying he was home and wanted to eat dinner together. We were super sad to see her leave early, however, this coming Sunday she is totally planning on telling her Protestant Preacher that she doesn't want to be part of that Church anymore. We asked her what it was like to fast about it and she said 'Oh yea, fasting was a little bit difficult. Actually my husband really wanted me to eat lunch with him so I ended up fasting for breakfast and dinner which I don't think is probably how it's supposed to be, but I actually feel like I've gained a lot of courage from it.' Haha she is so cute! And even though she fasted for breakfast and dinner I KNOW that God is seriously SO PROUD of her right now because she truly is making huge steps in changing her life. It has been so incredible to witness. Well, I want to send a few pictures so I'm wrapping it up now! Thank you everyone for the love and support and I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas season! Wells Shimai