This past week was kind of Cray.
Monday was Naha Zone Pday which was tons o fun. Tuesday we did a companion
exchange with two of the Sisters down there and then we ended up coming back to
our area earlier than we expected because of the way our ride situation worked
out and had this chunk of time at night with no plans. Oops. So we ate dinner,
and said a prayer, and still had no plans. We decided we needed to go type
something up on the computer for a lesson, and went to the church, not knowing
quite what else to do. Usually, yes we would just go knock some doors, but for
some reason that just didn't seem like a good idea. About 5 minutes after we
arrived at the church, we get a call from one of our investigators who had been
SUPER hard to meet with lately, and she asked us if we happened to be at the
church. We were able to meet with her and have an awesome lesson about
repentance! Miracles.
Wednesday, was slightly uneventful until about 8:30 at night when we got a
call from the APs. So last week Thursday, our mission president scheduled a
training for all of us missionaries on the island to attend. The APs told us all
that it would be in Okinawa, our area, at our building. We had called a bunch of
the Relief Society sisters to bake lasagnas for the lunch too. However, at 8:30
Wednesday night, we recieve a call telling us the training was NOT in our area,
it was down at the Naha builiding, which is like an hour and half bus ride away.
We then ran around to 6 different ATMs trying to take out enough money for bus
fares, and called a bunch of Relief Society sisters asking them if they could
deliver the lasagnas to the church earlier so that the senior couple could then
drive them down to Naha. In the end, it all worked out, but it was a little bit
of a shock.
Thursday, we woke up at 5:45 to make it to Naha by 9:30 and had a wonderful
training by our mission president. We then had to hurry back to our own area to
make it to a lesson that we had scheduled for 5:30. Then at 6:30, we started
English Class and at the end of me welcoming everyone and asking for
announcements, one of the Elders says "Today is the last day that Elder
Horstmeier will be with us. He is transferring to Naha tomorrow! Be sure to say
goodbye!" Apparently one of the Elders down in Naha tore up his ankle playing
kickball, and was going home. And because we have a trio in this area, they
decided they would just take one of our Elders and replace the Elder in Naha. So
Elder Horstmeir got emergency transferred to Naha! It was SOO sad :( We hardly
even got to say bye to him because it happened so fast!
Then to top everything off, we got a call from the Elders that night,
telling us that Elder Wynn, our zone leader who had attended the missionary
conference earlier and had been hugging and shaking hands with everyone there,
had just gone to the doctor and got diagnosed with the CHICKEN POX. So far, no
one else seems to have gotten it, but that was quite the shocker as well
haha.
All in all, it was an awesome week. We also learned how to tahitian dance
for our luau next week, and the Japanese Ward had another Karaoke party that we
got to go to with a bunch of investigators and English Class Students.
Apparently, however, there is supposed to be a typhoon coming in this weekend
possibly, which is exactly when our huge luau is scheduled to be. Please pray
for it to be good weather because we have spent a lot of time and energy on
planning this luau.
Thank you all for your love and support! Hope conference was wonderful!
We'll get to see it this weekend. Peace and Love!
Sister Wells
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