October 27th

Hey family!

This has been a great week of many miracles! It was way sad to say
goodbye to Shitami Shimai who was transferring and Barnes Shimai who
finished her mission and returned home! I'm missing them!

My new companion, Sister Miller, is great. It's fun to work with
someone who is my same missionary age. There are lots of things I can
learn from her! She loves missionary work and she starts conversations
with everyone!! It's fun!

This week we met with Fumiyo San and Uemura Shimai. We reset
expectations and found out that she is not so much interested in a
church as she is interested in answers to questions she has pondered.
We had planned on teaching the restoration but felt prompted to change
our plans and teach the plan of salvation instead. Uemura Shimai is
the bishop's wife... And she was so helpful! The plan of salvation
answered a lot of the things Fumiyo wanted to know, she is really
interested in the doctrine of resurrection. She was so grateful for
the lesson and is willing to study the Book of Mormon before we meet
again.

We met with Asada Shimai for dinner and a lesson at her home. She is
one of my favorite people in Japan. She's like my japanese grandma!
She has the strongest faith of anyone I know. She has been through
many hard things including, losing her 5 year old son, all of her
children becoming less active, a difficult marriage, etc. A few years
after she was baptized, her family's home was destroyed in a fire.
They lost everything. But her Book of Mormon... Remained. That
experience strongly testified to her of the importance and
truthfulness of that sacred book. Here's a picture... She holds it
dear!

Halloween Party: Choi, Ishizaka couple, Sister Okuno

Lesson with CHOI