This past week has been CRAZY.
For starters, Tuesday night, we had our schedule get a little bit mixed up,
and ended up with just an hour of random time that we decided we would just fill
with housing. We go to our bikes outside of the apartment, and then the phone
rings. Apparently there was someone at the church waiting for us, wondering
where we are. We respond that we will be there soon!
We arrive at the church at meet the lovely Shimabukuro San (Pronounced
she-mah-boo-koo-dough, or something close to that). She responds that she was in
the area, and decided to stop by the church because she had met some
missionaries before about a year ago, but at the time was too busy to meet. We
took her into a room and taught her about the restoration of the gospel, and she
told us that she just wants to continue to learn more! She also told us that she
plays the piano, to which we responded that we have a baby grand piano in the
chapel if she wanted to go see it and play it. (Side note, you RARELY see real
pianos in Japan. They are almost ALL electric just because of space. We are
SUPER lucky to have a nice piano here) We then went to the chapel, and proceeded
to listen to her beautifully present her piano skills to us. Safe to say, it was
an awesome night. We've been able to meet with her a few times since then, and
will continue to do so, so I'll be sure to have more updates next week!
Also, this upcoming Saturday, we are looking forward to having a baptism!
We were able to meet with Takeshima san this morning and review all the
interview questions and he'll be interviewed this Thursday! Please continue to
pray for him so that everything goes smoothly! We went over how his baptismal
service was going to be and we actually convinced him to let the guest list be
about 20 people :) Still a small service, but better than the original 5 that he
was so insistant upon. As long as everything goes as planned, I'll be sending
baptism pictures next week!
This past Friday, we also got to go on a companion exchange down south to
Urasoe, where it just so happens my old companion Sister Nihei is serving right
now! It was super weird because my current companion Sister Nagamine was
companions with Sister Nihei for three transfers at one point, I was with her
for 2 at another point, and then she was with her current companion sister Doi.
So she was just surrounded by her companions! It was a lot of fun and kind of
weird to not speak any English all day long since there's not Americans down
there.
Anyway, life is wonderful. We're just keeping working hard until the end!
Hope everyone has fun starting school and all that jazz that's going on back in
the real world! Love you all!
Sister Wells
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