Hello Fam!!!
I’m so sorry I wasn’t able to write on Tuesday as usual. We went to the temple and then yesterday was booked. This morning we just had a mini zone conference which was great.
Well, first of all: A happy birthday soon to Janie!!! Hooray Janes! I love you! I sent a card but it will be late.
And Dad, I hope Fathers Day was wonderful. I thought of you all day, especially when the little Japanese kids in church sang to their fathers. I didn’t understand a word, but the tune was the same.
I am the recipient of so much mail!! Thanks to everyone! I literally do not have time to write everyone back and I’m so sorry! This week I got a great letter from Nancy Cox and one from Mary-Alice Westover, and a card from Hallie that was addressed to Cam (which I forwarded on to him) and a card from Sadie. Plus, Last night I received a letter from mom and a DE from Dad. Wahoo!! I love them. Thank you!
Mom, I have a card that I need to send to Aunt Helen... but I need her address. Can you send it to me?
Also, yes I did take almost $800 dollars out of my account. I did it when I thought I would have to buy a bike. Now, I can’t put the money back into the account- we tried at an ATM and it won’t accept it. A lady even tried o help us. grr. But anyway, do whatever you think is best as far as my account goes. I’ll try to figure out how I can get the money back in there.
Mom, can you send me the recipe for lemon bars, and the recipe for brownies, and the recipe for sweet potato soup? That would be good. This week I made mashed potatoes for Saiki Shimai. She’s had them before and likes them.
We are always so busy I don’t know exactly what to say... We ride bikes SO much. Nylons and bikes don’t get along very well.
It’s pretty hot here too - yesterday was hands down the most humidity I have ever experienced in my life. And things are only going to get hotter. .. : ) Usually I rarely sweat even on the hottest of summer days, but with the humidity I get drops running down my face all the time. I look great, I’m sure. Even so far though, I would still take this heat any day over being cold. Ha!
I’m glad to hear Ainsley is enjoying the house of Waite! That’s good.
Thanks everyone so much for your prayers for our investigators. Nothing has really happened with Lilly. She is too busy to make time for us. Misaki has a baptism date (!) that we set last week, but this morning was supposed to come for a lesson and baptismal interview but called a few minutes before and cancelled. Hopefully that still works out. We haven’t been in very close contact with her the past week because she went to France ( I have no clue why).
Ko and Nie are slowly progressing. They haven’t been reading the Book of Mormon so we decided to have a special Book of Mormon-reading lesson and emphasize the importance of it. Also, we really wanted to have a member come who could speak Chinese because Ko is from China. Nie (11) LOVES food, so we decided to have a dinner with them too. The lesson went really well, but was sort of strange. A member who is a butcher had given us some really good beef so we had decided to cook that. And we made soup and rice and cookies and I made some french fries. Nie piled his plate way high and started chowing down... well, the beef that the member gave us was literally the best meat I’ve ever tasted. It was perfectly marbled and sort of melted in your mouth. A few minutes into the meal, Nie got a glazed over look and pretty much fell asleep into his plate because the food was so rich. And Ko and the member were just going at it speaking Chinese. Finally we got to a point where Nie woke up a little and Ko and the member stopped talking and we all read Lehi’s vision together and talked about the Book of Mormon being the iron rod. When Ko would have a question she would ask the member and they would talk about it in Chinese. It was really good for Ko to hear the explanations in her own language and I think it cleared a lot up for her. I kept thinking about that scripture that talks about everyone hearing the gospel in their own tongue.
Also, we have another investigator with a baptismal date: Yufie. She’s in her 30s I think. She’s been ever so slowly meeting with the missionaries this past year. She’s doing pretty good at keeping commitments.
Well, I don’t know what else to say.
Best wishes to the girls on their young women’s projects! Gambatte kudasai! (Keep it up/persevere!) I love hearing the updates about that. And about everything actually: the hike, things Janie says, Aunt Sara’s baby, things about the extended family and people in Clifton. I love you all!!
-Sister Waite
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