Sunday, November 2, 2014

Planes, Parties and Prayers

This last week was NON STOP. 
 
Monday night we flew to Fukuoka for MLC and then got to stay at the Mission Home, (Just a side note for those that don't know, our mission home is located directly under the Fukuoka temple) sleep in a BED for my birthday, and then eat breakfast the next morning underneath the Celestial Room :) 

Tuesday was MLC and President and the APs and some people from Tokyo came and trained us about how to be better leaders and better missionaries and then we flew home Tuesday night!

Wednesday we planned the Zone Training Meetings that we had to train at on Thursday and Friday and we went out for sushi and brownies and ice cream with some members for a combined birthday party. 

Thursday we trained our own Zone about all the stuff we learned at Fukuoka on Tuesday and then we had a birthday party for cute little China Tomi san who got baptized last Saturday and turned 84! We ate more birthday cake, of course. We also had our English class that night, and a Halloween Party with all of the students afterwards.

Friday we went to the southern part of the island and trained the other zone about the stuff we learned in Fukuoka. (There's only one set of Sister Training Leaders on the island, so we work with both zones) We also had the Trunk or Treat for all of the wards that come to the building that night so it was crazy madness with TONS of people and Japanese and English flying all over the place. I could hardly keep my languages straight. We missionaries borrowed the Senior Couple's van and made it into a mouth and passed out candy with little scriptures saying Open your mouth in proclaiming my gospel. We thought we were pretty clever :) 

Saturday we FINALLY got around to doing some planning so that I could tell my poor new companion about all the things to know in this area. And at night we had a movie night with the other sisters and a few investigators and we ate dinner, more birthday cake, and  watched Legacy and talked about Joseph Smith and had a nice night :) 

Sunday was the usual 7 hours of church and half way through the 2nd branch's testimony meeting, I realized this was my last Fast Sunday on my mission and decided to get up and bear my testimony. I also mentioned briefly that it was my last Fast Sunday on my mission. BIG MISTAKE. After that, EVERYONE and their dog came up to me and started talking to me about how sad it is that I'm going home and when it was and what I'll be doing and it was AWFUL. Haha. Now don't get me wrong, I'm totally at terms with the fact that I'm gonna be home in like a month, but having EVERYONE bring it up ALL the TIME is terrible. Future missionaries, learn from me, and don't announce from the pulpit that you're going home soon. Talk about your investigators or something instead haha. 

One thing I have been pondering lately though, as it comes nearer to the end, is weaknesses. I guess at the beginning of my mission I had this vision of coming out here for a year and a half, being completely morphed and coming home as the new and improved Nikki. As I reach the end, I had started to get a little frustrated at the fact that I've still got SO MANY things that I should be better at by now. I'm not at all a perfect missionary, and if anything, I'm much more aware of all my weaknesses than I was  a year and a half ago. However, those weaknesses are from our Heavenly Father, and we NEED them, yes need, them in order to be humble, and to learn the things that we need to learn. Through our weaknesses, we can realize that we CAN'T do this along and that it truly is the Lord's hand in everything that will ultimately bring success. Weaknesses are a good thing. Any of you wanna look it up, Ether 12:27 has some good words to say about it. 

Anyway, I've still got a full month to see plenty of miracles and continue in doing the work of the Lord and I am so ready to work hard until the very end! Thanks again for all the love and support and the birthday wishes! See you in a few!

Sister Wells

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