Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Mexican Food, Miracles and Maybe I Should Stay in Japan and Never Come Home!

This past week was probably one of the busiest ones of my entire mission! 

Monday, we had zone Pday and we all went on base and ate lunch at Chilis and watched Ephraims Rescue at a small theater we were able to reserve. That night, we went and visited a young couple that recently moved to the island who are expecting a baby in January! He is a member, and she is Catholic, but said she would be willing to learn more because when she comes to church there are a lot of parts she doesn't understand.

Tuesday we had district meeting, taught a lesson with the Elders to one of their investigators that they are trying to pass off to us, went and had dinner on base with an American family and I ate some of the best mexican food I've had in a year and a half, and then my bike basket broke and we spent the night trying to resolve the problem :)

Wednesday we went to lunch at a SUPER yummy SUPER Japanese restaurant with a member and some investigators and the other sisters, then we visited a less active, and then we went and had dinner with an American family and their friend that wants to learn. Let me just tell you a little bit about this miracle. She went to church with her LDS parents until she was about 7 years old, at which point, the family became less active and stopped going. Recently in her life, being a single mother of an adorable 5 year old, she realized that maybe she needs some religion in her life, and she has always felt some sort of connection with the LDS church. Long story short, we taught the whole restoration lesson, and at the end of the lesson, the member who's house we were at said 

"Now you've got 2 days to think about. 1, when can we meet again, and 2. when do you want to get baptized?"  (It should be noted that we had already discussed baptism earlier in the lesson and invited her and she said that would be her ultimate goal, if all went well) 

Her response:

"Is it weird if I already have a number in mind?"

All of us

"Wait, what? For real? What are you thinking?"

Her:

"Well, I've always really liked the number 13."

We get out a calendar, realize that December 13th is a Saturday, and decide to make it our goal! It truly was crazy how everything with her has just been working out and how prepared she is. We were able to meet her again on Friday and we are going back over tonight to teach another lesson! Everyone please pray for her to keep all the commitments necessary! I haven't asked her permission to use her name on my blog yet, hence I just keep referring to her as "her" but I'm sure Heavenly Father will understand your prays and I know that she will need them! 

Other crazy miracles of the week include teaching Okamune San about the Word of Wisdom, and she response being "Well, ever since I was a college student, I've been going to starbucks a lot. However, it's weird because lately the taste of coffee just hasn't been that good to me." At which point she agreed to stop drinking it, and see how it goes! Please continue to pray for her as well as she continues to pray about baptism!

There truly were many other miracles of the week that I wish I could write including teaching an Oxford Graduate about the Book of Mormon, buying a backpack covered in cats, and having people trying to set me up on dates with their siblings that live back in the states, but there simply isn't time to write about it all! You will all just have to wait another couple of weeks to hear about it in person. 

Thanks again for all the love and support from everyone! Your prayers truly are heard. See you soon!

Sister Wells

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