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| Christmas Goodies |
"...you never know who you are gonna find...or when...or
where...or how...or why....and that's all I got to say about that."
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| The Skit..."Making Nabe" |
Above Quote is courtesy of Lake Chourou from the Christmas
Taikai, which featured a missionary talent show. Lake Choru and Tucker Choro, from my MTC district are currently...or at least they were...companions, and
they put on a hilarious skit titled, "What if your mission president
was..." And it was the funniest thing.. Featuring our mission
president as characters from Lord of the Rings, and Bane, Forest Gump...and
many others. Welch Kaichou (My Mission President) loved it.
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| Good to be together, some MTC mission friends |
The Ibaraki/ Takatsuki district featured the "Making
Nabe" skit - a spin off of "Making Beans" from the Annandale
Stake Girls Camp. I did not tell the Elders that I stole the skit idea from
Girls Camp, because I had a hunch that might make them want to perform it less.
However, it turned out to be pretty good and we had a lot of fun performing
it!! Also, at the Christmas Taikai, I was able to see a lot of the members of my
wonderful MTC district... and we took a picture together and it was so crazy to
see everyone after a year. Also, one of the Takatsuki Elders is being transferred (poor Takatsuki all of their missionaries are being transferred, quick and not regularly scheduled transfers) he is going to Kobe to help put together the portal for the iPads
that we will receive in March - and Tucker
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| Christmas party! |
But...back to the first line of this letter! You never know
who you are going to find, or when, or where, or why or how....
This week we had a lot of amazing experiences where the Lord
led us to exactly the people that we needed to find! We were really focusing on
being where the Lord wanted us to be in order to find new investigators,
because if we listen... the Lord will guide them to us, or guide us to them. So, after
visiting a few members and sharing Christmas messages with them, we were housing
near the church because we had a few minutes before Eikaiwa...and we felt
prompted to leave and go house in a different area. Which we did. And the first
door that we knocked turned out to be a lady who used to be an investigator and
was SO excited to see us! She practically threw the door open and invited us
in. She had absolutely zero money because it was the end of the month, she was
super, super humble, but heated up water for us to have something warm to drink.
It was so sweet. She became an investigator on the spot...and then we had to
sprint to Eikaiwa to make it there in time. It was an amazing Christmas Eve
Miracle!
The whole week we were led by the Lord, and He is
really allowing His work to move forward here. This morning we ran into a lady
who flagged us down and told us that she wanted to meet with the missionaries
and pointed out where she lived. It was kind of crazy and I thought she was
really confused about who we were...but it turned out that she did know that we
were the Mormon missionaries and used to meet with missionaries and had also
recently been missing meeting with us. So, that was also a neat morning
miracle.
I LOVE being a missionary during Christmas time, and I feel
super lucky that I get to be a missionary twice during Christmas. :) We had a wonderful Christmas dinner with a member in our ward who is AMAZING. And we
talked about her mission, and when I shared a scripture with her, tears just
started running down her face. And I don't really know what I said that she
needed, but the spirit must have guided my words because I don't really
remember what I said and I also shared a scripture that I was not planning on
sharing -but, when we teach by the spirit we will be able to teach to the needs
of the people around us.
The Lord loves us! He is our Savior! It is a special time of
year and a wonderful time to be a missionary.
SLASH IT WAS SO FUN TO SKYPE MY FAMILY AND SEE THEIR FACES!! I
LOVE YOU AND I MISS YOU!!!
Love,
Grundvig Shimai
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