I lost the kouhai😳

Yup.

It happened.

We were on our way to visit some people in the Takao area and Patch Shimai and I had split up on the train to try and talk to some people. Well, we reached the station we wanted to get off at and I got off and thought she saw me get off and when I realized she hadn't, I turned around to get back on the train and the doors shut! Yeah. And off went my companion.. with no phone.. and we kept forgetting to write our phone number down for her.. so after some waiting, going to the next station, searching, and coming back and waiting some more she finally showed up again and all was well! And she now has our phone number written in her planner and we have a plan for if this happens again.
Oops..

I'm sorry but I literally didn't take any pictures this
week.. we were just too busy trying to find those kinjin!

This week we worked real hard. And we weren't really seeing anything come from those efforts. So we were kinda sad. But on Thursday we had a lesson with a new investigator. She is so cute. She's retired but wants to try and learn English for the 2020 Olympics so we're doing half English, half gospel lessons with her. She's REALLY beginner so we worked on pronunciation of the alphabet and she just laughed at herself the whole time. Hahaha so cute. Then we talked about God and who she thinks He is and who we think He is. We read 3 Nephi 14:9-11 with her and she seemed to really understand from that. And then we related it all back to prayer and taught her how to pray. It was a good time:) she promised she'd read the introduction to the Book of Mormon and try to pray and when we called her a few days later she said she did both!! Yaaaaas. I have high hopes for this one!

But then after that lesson we just kind of fell into a slump again. We were trying SO hard and just nothing was working out. Nothing. And we had one investigator who said she was going to come to church and she never showed up so we were kind of bummed about that.

But wait.

Half way through sacrament meeting a member came up and asked us if we had anyone who was going to come today because a random girl just walked in and sat down. Wait, what? Yup. So we go to see who it is and we have never seen this girl before but we found out she doesn't speak Japanese so we invited her to come sit by us so we could translate buuuut I think she was kind of embarrassed to get up and move during the meeting so she stayed where she was. We got to really talk to her after and she is from Nepal. She had met the elders while they were handing out fliers and decided to come. Her English is okay, you just have to speak clearly to her. But she's a Christian and wanted to stay and learn more about our church. So since she can't speak Japanese and English is kind of hard for her we were like "uh.. she can't go to normal Sunday school and relief society..what do we do!?" And one of the ward missionaries is fluent in English and offered to teach Sunday school for her. So the member, ward mission leader, and another ward missionary and us three all went and had Sunday school together. The members were all trying so hard to speak English for her and it was so cute and nice of them! We got to build a good relationship with her and when the member, Yamada Shimai, asked her why she stayed for Sunday school she said it was because I was so nice to her and she wanted to spend more time with me. MY HEART😭 it exploded. She was SO nice and she's going to come to church early next week so we can have a lesson before sacrament meeting with her. Heavenly Father saw we had been doing our best and He helped us see a miracle. He's looking out for us!

Today we were supposed to have a Zone pday and climb Mt. Takao buuuut yeah. Didn't really want to do that and half the Zone isn't coming so that got canceled. The elders still want to go and play sports with those who can go buuuut man, it's just too hot to be outside right now more than we have to. So Patch Shimai and I have decided to opt out of that and take some nice break time where there's air conditioning.


Now for some of the word of God for ya. Moroni 7:44-48, Moroni 8:3, 16-17, Moroni 9:5 and this part from Moroni 8:28 "Pray for them, my son". I really liked that part of that scripture because I feel like if you truly love someone you should always pray for them. If you want to love someone (because not everyone is as easy to love as I am😉) you should pray for them. Basically you should just pray for all those around you. Show 'me some love!

Again, sorry there's no pictures this week. I'll try to be better for next week! I can't wait to email you again next week and tell you what miracles I've had this week!

Love you!!

Stay safe. Stay classy. Stay sassy.

愛しています💕

--フィッシュバーン姉妹🐟🔥