Back to Fukuoka!

Well...I'm in Fujisaki this transfer!  I'm so excited!  It's right in Fukuoka and it is SO much different than Okinawa...in good and bad ways.  First things first...my companion...is still Kuroki Shimai!!!!! Stop it!!! We transferred together from one area to another.  Weird right?  No one has heard of that happening before.  Making history...no big deal...I was SO excited when they told me!  I love her dearly!  I don't know how excited she is because she has to break me in, but I think it's great!


Kuroki Shimai and Babcock Shimai in Fujisaki (Fukuoka)

We also found a new investigator the first day we were here!  She was the second person that we talked to.  Cool right?  We meet with her tomorrow.

There are 4 sisters in the ward and we are all crammed in a tiny apartment again.  Our apartment is like 50 years old and the tatami (carpet, mat) has holes and gives us splinters!  :)  We have to turn like 3 knobs and push a button by the shower to make it work and it's the only place in the apartment that has hot water.  There is only room for 3 at the kitchen table.  We are on the fourth floor, so our view is pretty neat! There were 3 sisters here before and only one stayed.  The area pretty much got whitewashed so it's pretty much like starting over here.

Fujisaki is the northeast-ish (I think) area of Fukuoka.  It is way cool though.  There are temples and shrines all over the place here.  There are SO many people, which is awesome, but people here aren't nice like in Okinawa.   It's easy to get contacts, but hard to get GOOD contacts.  The weather here right now is wonderful!  It's way less hot, and not even close to as humid as Okinawa.  I love it!  But is gets cold in the winter and we only have small heaters in the apartment.  I am excited though!

Guess what's in our area???  The Yahoo Dome!!!  So awesome!  I want to go SO bad!  I'll have to talk to someone about that!  :)  The Fukuoka Tower is also in our area and the river is pretty cool..  We are really close to the honbu (mission home) and the Fukuoka Chapel is where we have district meeting every week.  It is pretty here.  They have mountains!

Leaving Okinawa was so hard!  I don't think I realized how hard it really would be.  I LOVE the people there.  They were all so nice.  People brought us treats, and gifts, and we took tons of pictures.  People cried, and it was just rough.  I'm so grateful that I got to know them.  They are amazing people!

We finally got to watch conference!  It was SO good!!  I love it every time!  They had a little English room set up for me and Wilson Shimai, and anyone else who needed/wanted English.  So it was just us, except for one session an American guy and his Japanese wife from our ward sat in. 

The Church is true!  I know it is!  I'm so grateful for it, and the knowledge we have.  Love you all!  You're in my prayers!