I'm struggling to remember what happened this week. I really don't remember. The weeks and days are really just starting to blend all together. Tomorrow I will be officially half-way done in the MTC. It's weird though. I still feel like I know nothing. We had a few good lessons this week with our kyudosha. We taught Toshi san a couple days ago about the Atonement and God's love a little bit. We had him read John 3:16, but we crossed out the "world" and put "Toshi san" next to it. Let me remind you that our scriptures are in Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. That was quite a little bit of work that went into that. Anyways, we had him read that during the lesson. He started to read it, and then he looked up and smiled and asked, "Toshi san?" We just smiled at him and told him yes. He finished reading it, and just sat there for a minute. You could tell that he could feel it. He said wow and that it was a great scripture, but he had a hard time believing it. When we asked him why he told us it's because he's a bad person, and that he had done bad things, so why would God love him? It was one of the saddest things I've ever heard. I told him that wasn't true at all. That he was a good person, and that we all make mistakes, but it's ok because God will forgive us. He struggles with prayer though, and feeling God's love. He works on Sunday's though, so we try every lesson, but he can never come to church. Our lesson yesterday was only a short one, so we did a follow-up, and invited him to come on a church tour with us. He said he would. We also got him a picture of the Savior (O My Father by Simon Dewey) and put 2 sticky notes on it. One said "Don't forget to pray" (literally translated to something closer to: please will you not forget to pray) and the other one said "God loves Toshi san. John 3:16". All in Hiragana and Katakana of course because none of the kyudoshatachi (Teacher/pretend investigators) read Eigo (English) or romanji (The English spelling & letters of Japanese words). So we gave that to him, and he loved it! It was so cute. Anyways so those went pretty well.
Oh so neat experience. It really seems silly, demo (but) it was definitely a tender mercy of the Lord. I was having a really bad day on Wednesday. I started taking the medicine Tuesday, [She's been sick for over a week...had to go to the doctor at the BYU Health Center...a sinus infection...] but I felt worse on Wednesday. I just was having a hard time with all kinds of stuff. So I have the same meal schedule as Tyler W. [a good friend from her ward at BYU]. I see him quite a bit. So I was like ok, I just have to make it to lunch, and then I can see Tyler. So I get to lunch, and I'm looking for him, and he's not there, sasuga (of course). So I'm eating, and I just said a little prayer. I just asked that I could just please see Tyler. So I'm done with lunch, and no Tyler, so now I'm feeling even worse. I got up and starting taking my tray to the place where you put it away, and I hear behind me, "Hermana Babcock!". I almost cried right there. I turned around and it was Tyler. He was a host that day, so his meal schedule was a little different. I hadn't seen him come in because it was behind me. So I went back and we stood there and just talked for a few minutes. It seems like nothing, but I know in that moment the Lord answered my seemingly unimportant prayer. He was aware of me and my needs; and after the trial of my faith, I received the blessing I needed. I know that Heavenly Father knows and loves me. If he will answer something as small and seemingly insignificant as that, He is so aware of all of us. So talking to Tyler helped, and then later that day, on my way to gym, I hear someone else call my name. And it was HAMMY!!! [another good friend from her ward at BYU]Tyler was Hammy's host (awesome right?!) and they were just coming out of his residence hall as I was walking past. So I took a picture of them, and then Wells Shimai took a picture of all three of us. It was so awesome to see him. Hammy has the same meal schedule too, so that's fun. I see him at meals, and sometimes I see him around.
So overall, things are going really subarashii (wonderful!). Learning lots, and growing lots.
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