Weelllll...I didn't get transferred. And neither did anyone in my whole district! We all stayed exactly the same. That's fun. It's kinda boring, but I like 'em all so it's cool! I'm excited knowing that I will be in Fukuoka for Christmas! I hear it's pretty fun! There were lots of people who did get transferred...Bush Shimai left for Nagasaki. I'm sad. :( My ZLs (zone leaders) both left! They were great! I hear the new Elders are good, so we'll see. The STLs (sister training leaders) also got changed. They are both brand new! Kuchar Shimai stayed in Chikushimo, though, so I will get to see her a couple of times this transfer. I love her! Mostly I don't really know who else changed. We have Zone Training Meeting on Thursday, so we'll find out!
Sooo...let's see...what happened this week?...
We taught a continuing investigator again. It went pretty well, I think. I was on an exchange. We taught about Joseph Smith again and The Book of Mormon. She has a hard time learning. At first, I was having a hard time loving her, but now I just really love her! We have to take things really slow for her, but she keeps her commitments and we committed her to baptism! She said she would work hard. Sometimes we are not sure how much she really understands, but we hope to get her to really feel and recognize the Spirit. She is progressing little by little. It's going to take some time, but I think she will get there! She's been to church about 4 times, and she is always on time to church and to lessons. She's making friends in the ward, and she reads The Book of Mormon. We usually re-read it with her to help her understand, but it's going pretty good, I think.
We also met a lady on the street. She was a little rough around the edges....big metal things in her ears and crazy hair and stuff like that...all that means is that she especially needs the gospel!!! We talked to her and invited her to come to church with us on Sunday, but she said she was busy. We asked if she had time the next day to meet again. She said she didn't know, but she might, so we gave her our phone number and she said she would call us. People do that all the time, though, and then they don't call. But the next day, she called! Wow! I was surprised. So we met up with her and we went to the church together. We gave her a tour of the church, and taught her part of the Kaifuku lesson (some of you who know Japanese might be able to help with this one...I think Kaifuku is "restoration" but I was unable to find an exact translation!). She isn't from Fukuoka, and she's actually going home this week. We told her how to find the missionaries and a church where she lives. She didn't want to give us her phone number, so we couldn't forward contact information as a referral. Hopefully she will look up the missionaries there! So I didn't know a lot of what she was saying and I was kind of frustrated. After the lesson, I talked to Kuroki Shimai (my companion) about that. Kuroki Shimai told me she was using almost all slang and bad Japanese, and that she was glad I hadn't understood! She said to not even try to remember what the lady was saying and that I shouldn't try to learn ANY of it! Yikes, right?
What else...oh, we got invited to a member family's house for lunch on Saturday. Cool thing...they live on an island! So neat! It's like a 10 minute ferry ride. It was way pretty out there! We had a barbeque with some people from the ward, and then we dendo-ed (tracted?) around the island with some of the kids that were there. It was pretty good.
We also had a less active guy come to church Sunday! Yay! He's so nice. He comes to Eikaiwa (English class) every week and finally came to church! We're going to visit him this week, and see if we can get him to come again next week!
Oh, and I'm feeling much better. Blood tests came back good. I'm doing ok. I love it, but it's tough to be a missionary! I know The Church is true and I know the Lord loves me, and that's what gets me through every day!
Love you all!
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