Hello Fam!
This is a video about our trip to help after the tsunami. I haven’t watched it yet - but I’m pretty sure I’m not in it.
Sorry it’s so late. Today we took a little extra time out of p-day to try and find one of our investigators in a park and talk to her. We found her! But now I only have 30 minutes to write. Gomen. (sorry)
Wow! So the hike was post-poned? I have been wondering at random points of the day what my family might be doing these past few weeks with all the various activities planned.
Mom- I got your packages this week! Thank you!
So, Investigators: Misaki hasn’t responded to any of our communication for a long time. We still pray for her but are focusing on other people. Ko and Nie as well have stopped progressing, so we still keep in touch sometimes but right now are mainly focusing on:
-Kurusawa (Koo roo sauwa). We met her in the park a couple of weeks ago. She’s about 25 or 30. Maybe I already told you all this? Anyway, She came to church this week! Hooray! She hasn’t really gotten into the Book of Mormon yet, so we are going to try and focus on that more as we teach. I don’t really know what she thinks about the church or us yet, and I don’t think she really knows what she thinks of us either. We have set a baptismal date with her and are praying she will keep progressing (In our mission, we usually follow the rule of setting a baptismal date with someone after lesson 1. That sort of shocked me at first.. and to be honest I’m still getting used to it). The other day after we taught her we were leaving and she invited us to go out with her for drinks. : )
-Saraa is from Mongolia. I’m pretty sure I told you about her. She is a great person. The sort of person I would love to be roommates with if I weren’t a missionary right now. We had our first lesson with her Sunday night and wow... she had some tough questions. I’m afraid I didn’t do too well in answering them. It was a learning experience for sure in becoming a better teacher. More about that later, but anyway she thinks that if we are really God’s children then we shouldn’t make mistakes. If God is perfect, and He made us, then why aren’t we perfect? ... A lot of questions like that. I am really happy though, because at least that means she has a desire to know the truth. It’s a really sad thing when people seem to sincerely not care about whether or not something is true.
Wow, 3 minutes left:
So, I’ve learned lately that I’m not the greatest teacher. I get so confused about what I’m supposed to remember to make sure and do and the order of teaching a doctrine, that I’m unfortunately fairly ineffective right now. But, Lately I’ve been focusing on 1 thing: Ｉ ａｍ ａ ｃｈｉｌｄ ｏｆ Ｇｏｄ． And even as important, so is everyone around me. It has helped a lot. Somehow, things are a lot clearer when I actively keep that in my mind throughout the day. This week I have realized that when we truly know that single truth, our lives naturally align with the Lord.
Best wishes all! I love you!
-Waite Shimai
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