Rainy Day in Tokyo

Fambam!

I totally forgot to tell y'all that my P-Day this week is Tuesday..Sorry! (Actually, I'm pretty sure I told dad but it's okay, I forgive him for forgetting) But the Tokyo temple is lovely and I highly recommend everyone go at some point in their life. It was weird having to use headphones to translate, though haha I'm not used to being the minority. It's a new feeling haha. Actually, when we got off the train and started walking towards the temple, at one point all we could see was the Angel Moroni and I had to physically force myself not to cry because I was so happy to be going to the temple. It's so strange being in a foreign country where I can't drive 20 minutes and get to a temple whenever I please. But yes, the temple is great and I love it.

But anywho, it was a pretty good week! First off, we have been having some great lessons with the members here and building that relationship has been wonderful. Second, we had 7 new students at eikaiwa on Wednesday and 5 of them were women so yes, good day! We're hoping to meet with a few of them this coming week to teach them the good Word of God. They are all so cute. We also talked to one of the moms of one of the little girls who comes to kids eikaiwa👍🏻

I'm definitely still struggling with the language. It's super weird and super frustrating because I'll hear things and think that I have no idea what was said and then Porter Shimai translates and it's usually things I do know. My brain just decides not to work. But it's okay. I'll understand one day. For now, I just sit and smile and try to listen SO hard. My brain is always exhausted at the end of the day haha.

Baptism!! On Saturday there was a baptism for our friend Tou San, who is now Tou Kyōdai! But we call him Jack because that's his "American" name. He's from China and is great. He was so happy the whole time and Sunday in gospel doctrine he answered basically every question that was asked haha I love him. It just makes me want others to have that same happiness!!

We had one of our investigators come to church so that was good! But she only stayed for relief society.. It's okay, though! It's a start!

So we don't have a ton of investigators right now because no one EVER wants to meet with us. Ever. But we have this nice 90 year old lady named Ono San who is Catholic and really likes the Catholic Church so she's a little bit of a struggle for us. But she's so nice and the typical Japanese old lady. We also have Nomoto San. She's from China and is married to a Nihonjin. She's so cute! And so nice! She's the one that came to relief society, I really like her haha. Other
than those two we just have a bunch of potential investigators that we're trying to progress. The work is hard but the reward will be great!

I still get huge blisters. I pop a new one at least every 3 days or so. It's rockin. I've never sweat so much in my life. That's also rockin. I've never been so exhausted in my life. Not so rocking but still rollin. It's starting to cool down a little bit so that's 👍🏻. Japan is weird. Everyone stares at me. Everyone. I watched this guy across from me on the train take a picture of me last night. He thought he was being sly but no, he was not. It's okay, though. I'm cool with it! Also, everyone always laughs at my name. They laugh, say "omoshiroi" followed by "burned fish" in Japanese, and then they look at me very confused and say "honto?". So yes, everyone loves it. And random people laugh when they walk by me and look at my name tag. I'm
very entertaining to the Japanese people. I also get asked ALL the time how tall I am. And I have to respond in cm which I didn't know how tall I was in cm until today. So I normally would just be like "uh... Wakaranai haha" meaning I don't know and then everyone stares again and just "ohhhh". Like I said, very entertaining to the Japanese people.

OH. Weird thing about Japan number 271937281: little kids go everywhere by themselves. As we speak I'm sitting next to two little boys on their way home from school by themselves that cannot be older than 6. On a train. In Tokyo. WHAT. So crazy. Also, I hate that they drive on the wrong side of the road and such here. It's also weird. And messes with my head. It's a good thing I won't be driving here.

Funny story. We were on the train (I know, big shock) and these three teenage boys get on the train and one just starts freaking out. Like a little girl. There was a big ole bug in his friends hair and he did not handle to well at all😂😂 he started scream the equivalent of "no no no no no" in Japanese and tried using his backpack as a shield. The friend with the bug on his head instantly went into the stance that we all do when there's a bug on our head while the third friend just laughed. The entire train was dying. And the bug stayed there until the next stop where the third friend karate chopped it off his friends head out the door. I was dying (as you can tell, I don't get many forms of entertainment so the little things make me real happy).

Sorry, this email is forever long. Please forgive me. This is why I have a blog and not an email list.

BUT DO NOT FRET, IT IS NOT OVER YET.
I have to put in my scriptures for y'all.
2 Nephi 9:45 10:25 11:7 21:10 22:2 25:8 28:2 31:19-21
D&C 108:7-8 109:32-33 111:8&10 112:7,10-11 112:28 115:5 117:13 121:7-8
That's a lot.. I know.. But pick one of two and read them. They're good stuff. Maybe a little random but I promise you there's a little nugget of gold in each of them.

I love you all sooooo much!! Always remember that someone in Japan loves you💕 and Jesus loves you so basically, you've got some good love flowin your way.

Stay safe. Stay classy. Stay sassy.
--フィッシュバーン姉妹

The view that made me almost cry

Jacks baptism! Look how happy he is!! I love it😊

Tokyo Temple

Zone meeting👍🏻 

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The district👍🏻 which, apparently, is a huge district..