Monday, August 18, 2014

Baptisms, Birthdays and Billions of Calories of Birthday Food

This past week was full of fun! Sister Malone (The bean) had a birthday on Tuesday and my companion had her birthday on Thursday. We ate WAY TOO MUCH JUNK FOOD. Just sayin. 


Notable events include: 

George, one of the Elder's investigator, got baptized on Saturday! The Elders met him housing a few months back. and he is half Japanese, half American, lived in Okinawa his whole life, is fluent in both languages and SO funny! He calls me Nicole, for some reason, and I actually don't even remember telling him my name so I'm not sure how that happened and hasn't stopped despite my constant efforts of reminding him I am a missionary and he should call me Sister Wells. Or Ueruzu Shimai if he wants Japanese. But it's ok, because we're pals, and his baptism was AWESOME. 

This next week, the other Elders are having one of their investigators Gisuju San be baptized on Saturday. And then the Saturday after that Takeshima San is scheduled to be baptized! August is proving to be a month full of miracles! 

On another note, that lady that we met 2 sundays ago at a nearby store before church who couldn't come that day, came to church yesterday! We were starting to worry just  a little bit because she wasn't answering our calls, and we even stopped by her house a couple times with no response, but then she just showed up to church! Her name is Toshiko and she's Okinawian, but married (maybe was married? Still not sure) to an American from the military, and thus had WAY good English, and all of her kids live in the states and are members of the church, so she's been quite a lot, and the first thing she asked me when we came into the chapel was "So who's the bishop?" so it appears that she is pretty familiar with the church organization. She made friends easily and even invited Sister Crosby, on of the Senior missionaries, over to her house so she can cook her some Japanese food. We still haven't actually taught her much, but she sure has a lot of potential! 

Anyway, there is always TONS of things that happen each and every week, but when it comes to Pday I'm just too tired or can't really remember much so I'm sorry for the slightly short emails. Thanks again everyone for the prayers and support. See you all in 3 and half months!

Sister Wells

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