enough to have written in an entire journal. Like what? Speaking of which, Thursday is my 6 month mark which means I am almost 1/3 done with my mission. May I repeat: like what? SO CRAZY. I now have a little 4 next to my name on the mission roster meaning I'm a transfer 4 but let me tell ya, I definitely still feel like a bean chan. Kawamitsu Shimai told me I'm more like a junior high student in the grand scheme of mission life. That's not terrifying at all. Junior high was real rough. Let's hope my mission life doesn't imitate my real life.
Anywho.
How are y'all? I hope everyone is surfing the wonderful northern Utah winter! I'm not going to lie, I have become a baby when it comes to cold. Kind of.. I'm not a big baby but I'm definitely not as tough as I used to be. I'm real scared for next year when I have to go back to Utah in the middle of winter. I'm basically going to freeze the second I get off the plane. But that's awhile away and the moral of this story is that I'm usually always cold unless we're riding our bikes. Then I am pretty sure I'm going to die from overheating with all my layers on.
This week was pretty normal buuuuut we have a kiseki (miracle) here in Kichijoji. So. My first Saturday here we were doing a family history fair for the youth before stake conference and this lady came to the church with her two year old son and wanted to know why there were so many cars and what our church was like. WHAT!? We didn't get to talk to her but some other sisters talked to her and got her number and told her we would call her. So we did😊 and she gave us her address. SHE GAVE US HER ADDRESS. That is SO rare here in Japan because no one wants to be bothered at home. So we go to visit her one day and we come to find out she lives in a dead end where all of the houses and the apartment building have the same address.. so problem. So we left chirashis at all of the houses and the apartment building but never heard anything from her. So being the good missionaries we are, we followed up. And we called her multiple times throughout the next few weeks trying to get in contact with her. But nothing. The calls wouldn't go through. And THEN on Tuesday SHE CALLED US TWICE. And of course we were in a lesson and missed them. Of course. So we tried calling her back and it didn't work. She called again on Wednesday and again, we were in a lesson. Called back and what do you know, it
didn't work! So about 30 minutes before eikaiwa she called again and we finally answered! Yay!! She asked about eikaiwa and kids eikaiwa and church! She only lives about a minute walk from the church so she came to eikaiwa and kids eikaiwa on Saturday! What the!? Such a miracle! And then she came right at the end of church with her son and husband! GOODNESS WHAT AN ANGEL. She is so cute and just amazing! Her and her husband are insanely nice, too! And they're going to come to
sacrament meeting on Christmas!!🎄🎉 yes, big kiseki!!
Another kiseki: I translated a lesson from Japanese to English. Yes, you read that right. I, Haley Nicole Fishburn, translated a lesson. While it was happening. By myself. No help from anyone else. IM A GENIUS. JK. I'm not a genius. We taught a lesson to one of our investigators with the new sister who just got to Japan from the MTC and since we had a member there, Kawamitsu Shimai was like "is it okay if Sister Fishburn just translates for the new sister?" And I was like "no. I can't do that!" But I did it! It definitely wasn't me, though. It was all from my Heavenly Father. But it was so amazing to know that I can do it and I may not be able to speak the language very well right now but if I really focus and do all that I can to listen and understand, I can. I can do hard things!
I feel like I always just ramble in my emails. So sorry for that.. but I just want y'all to know all the happy things that have happened! And even sometimes the not so happy things because that's the missionary life!
Everyone's favorite part: Scriptures! Job 14:15, Job 19:25, 2 Nephi
8:24-25, 2 Nephi 10:20-21, 2 Nephi 16:8, 2 Nephi 19:6.
LOVE YOU ALL SO DARN MUCH!! If you have any questions or anything else you want to know, feel free to drop me an email. I've reached the point in my mission where emails are supposed to basically stop until my like last three months so feel free to share some love😉
Stay safe. Stay classy. Stay sassy.
愛しています！！！
--フィッシュバーン姉妹
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| From heart attacking the Horta Kazoku last night. Fun fact: their house is in this little village that definitely doesn't look like it's in Japan and it has GRASS. No where has grass here! When we found it,Kawamitsu Shimai laughed at me because I told her I had to lay on the dead grass for 1 minute before I could leave. And I did just that. It was glorious. |
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| Kawamitsu Shimai drew me again. |
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| She just cut the pepper and then all I heard was "Mitte! Scream mitai!" Meaning "look! It's like it's screaming!" She named it Charlie. |
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