tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40247168758069366682024-02-19T04:16:01.560-07:00The Adventures of Sister FishburnThis blog is all about the wonderful adventures of Sister Haley Nicole Fishburn. We will be documenting here as she prepares for and serves her LDS mission in the Japan Tokyo South Mission. She has asked that when she sends letters from her mission that they are posted here for everyone to see. That way we don't miss anyone's email address and whenever it is convenient you can pop on and catch up on what is happen in her life. Welcome, we hope you all enjoy it.The Adventures of Sister Fishburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15740382034439315364noreply@blogger.comBlogger90125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024716875806936668.post-84859927072208543842017-12-17T23:40:00.000-07:002017-12-17T23:40:05.911-07:00So many tears.<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>
<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Well. The last pday is upon us. Just to clarify early on, no. No, I am </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">not okay.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">This past week was crazy busy. So many people were so generous and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">wanted to meet us for meals and such before we left so we were running </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">around like mad women. But it was so good to get to say goodbye to so </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">many people and spend some time with them one last time.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1843101816" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">On Friday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> and </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1843101817" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Saturday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> we got to go help at the missions international </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Christmas open house and it was so fun! We got to sing and carol and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">talk to people about Christmas. I was happy. Real happy. I also got to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">see some members from Kichijoji and Hachioji so I was just grinning </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">like a fool. But saying final goodbyes was NOT fun. Didn’t enjoy that. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We were also super late for curfew because it took us much longer to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">get back to Yamate than we had expected. But it’s fine. We repented.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1843101818" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">On Saturday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> we went back to Kichijoji to sing some more and help </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">explain nativities to people who came. And I had seen Michiko Shimai </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the day before and she said she’d come back </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1843101819" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Saturday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> to say final </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">goodbyes but she thought I had left before she got to see me on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Saturday so she got sooo sad. So I went and found her and she just </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">burst into tears. My heart. I love Michiko Shimai so much. She just </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">makes me so happy and makes me feel like I actually did do something </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">good on my mission. I got to help her grow in the gospel and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">understand God and His love for her a little bit more. But saying </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">goodbye to her was so much harder than I expected it to be. I’m not </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">going to lie, saying goodbye to everyone here was SO much harder than </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">saying goodbye to go on my mission.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We had the Yamate Ward Christmas party and it was way good! We had 5 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">eikaiwa students come and an investigator and we were like “YAAAAAS”. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">It was a good time. There was also a missionary who went home last </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Christmas but decided to come back and say hi to everyone so that was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">cool to see him since he was my zone leader before he went home. He’s </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">also going to Utah State so he was like “see ya in Logan” and I was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">like well that’s odd and I don’t like it. Yeah. But anywho, the party </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">was good!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Everything is coming to an end. I am not handling it well. I don’t </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">think it’s a secret that I did NOT want to go to Japan. At all. But I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">am now so glad I followed God’s will for me and came. This tiny island </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">country has a piece of my heart now and I can’t ever imagine serving </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">anywhere but here. Everything is totally opposite of the States and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">our culture but it’s somehow become home. The people I have met here </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and the places I have been will always be special to me. I know first </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">hand that the work in Japan can be real hard but I also know first </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">hand that there can be so many miracles in this blessed land. I may </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">not be a part of it as a full time missionary anymore come </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1843101821" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">tomorrow </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">evening but I know the work will move forward and the people of Japan </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">will continue to let the gospel into their hearts and feel of His love </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">for them.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I love you all!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Stay safe. Stay classy. Stay sassy.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">See ya soon.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">愛しています💕</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">--フィッシュバーン姉妹🐟🔥</span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yamate Ward killing it with the Christmas party group picture✌🏻 the giant white boy in the back<br />is the returned missionary who came back, Elder (Brother?) Spackman.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My beloved Yamauchi Shimai!! She went to the open house and I got to see her!</td></tr>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>The Adventures of Sister Fishburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15740382034439315364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024716875806936668.post-85853950564237791402017-12-04T02:47:00.000-07:002017-12-10T02:48:27.072-07:00I can’t go home.<b><br /></b>
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<b>Why? Because the number of sister missionaries in the Tokyo South Mission is getting SOOO small and I can’t let that happen. I can’t let them close Yamate when Taylor Shimai and I go home. Nope. Sorry, fam. </b></div>
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<b>Anywho, this past week was just kind of a blur. Between getting everything ready for Ikeda Shimai to transfer and then starting the new transfer, things have been pretty busy. </b></div>
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<b>And saying goodbye to Ikeda Shimai was no fun. Just so y’all know. I miss her<img alt="😞" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f61e" goomoji="1f61e" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f61e" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /></b></div>
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<b>Okay. Getting the “returning missionaries training” and then going back and being a normal missionary is weird and I’m not a fan. It was way good but it just feels so.. off.. they gave us “life training” and talked about sooo much good stuff and I was like “Yeah! I’m gonna do all this! <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_981916174" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">In 3 weeks</span></span>.. when I actually go home..” yup. President Warnick also did a training and it was super good. There were only five of us there; me, Taylor Shimai, Beck Shimai, Tanner Shimai, and Hirata Shimai. So it was super personal and way cool. After we had dinner at the mission home and ate some delicious sukiyaki. You use raw eggs. Google it. So good. Then we had a testimony meeting and everyone was crying and I just love those sisters and President and Sister Warnick and wow. Emotions. Then Taylor Shimai and got on a train around <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_981916175" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">9:15pm</span></span> and got back to our apartment at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_981916176" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">11:00pm.</span></span> Let’s just say we were pooped<img alt="💩" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f4a9" goomoji="1f4a9" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f4a9" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /></b></div>
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<b>Fun fact: Ikeda Shimai told me I’m an egg. I’m white on the outside but yellow on the inside. I have become Nihonjin. And I am like really proud of myself but then I’m like “This was the exact thing I didn’t want to happen before coming to Japan..” conflicting emotions are going on right now. </b></div>
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<b>Have y’all seen the new #LIGHTtheWORLD video? Please watch it. Also, there’s a video and an act of service for each day up until Christmas and y’all should do that too! Taylor Shimai and I have been doing it and have even planned out how we can do something for each day and included the Elders in some of them. It’s such a cool thing to see everyone working together to #LIGHTtheWORLD this Christmas season! Let me know how you’ve done it or will do it! And post it on Facebook! Let everyone see! I mean, we celebrate Christmas because of Christ so what better way to celebrate than to try and do as He did? That’s just my two cents.</b></div>
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<b>Also, I forgot to write down scriptures for today.. classic me. So please do the #LIGHTtheWORLD! And read the Book of Mormon on your own<img alt="😊" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f60a" goomoji="1f60a" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f60a" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /> I finished it again yesterday and all I can say is that it truly is another testament of our Savior and IT IS TRUE. Please read<img alt="☺" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="263a" goomoji="263a" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/263a" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /></b></div>
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<b>Well. That’s it for now, I think..</b></div>
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<b>Stay safe. Stay classy. Stay sassy.</b></div>
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<b>Love you!</b></div>
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<b>--フィッシュバーン姉妹<span style="margin-left: 0.2ex; margin-right: 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;"><img alt="🐟" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f41f" goomoji="1f41f" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f41f" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><img alt="🔥" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f525" goomoji="1f525" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f525" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /></b></div>
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The Adventures of Sister Fishburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15740382034439315364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024716875806936668.post-21536029715253018202017-11-27T02:33:00.000-07:002017-12-10T02:33:59.436-07:00Recipe for real happiness:<b><br /></b>
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<b>You’re welcome. Also, sorry mom but I can’t promise I won’t be coming home with a cute Japanese child as my carry on🤷🏻♀️. But really, we had the Yamate ward primary program yesterday and my heart just about burst. It was the best thing ever and I was so sad that there weren’t many investigators there to feel of the pure innocence of the kids and the truthfulness of their simple testimonies. It was great. Well done, Yamate Ward Primary<img alt="👏" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f44f" goomoji="1f44f" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f44f" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" />🏻<img alt="👏" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f44f" goomoji="1f44f" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f44f" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" />🏻</b></div>
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<b>Also on the agenda this week: Thanksgiving in America! Yay! One of my favorite holidays!! Seriously, it’s the best. Eating yummy food, watching a little bit of football, a nice nap, family, and the overwhelming feeling of “I’m never going to be able to give enough thanks for all the wonderful people and things in my life”. I LOVE THANKSGIVING. I hope everyone had a great day and and will continue to “live in thanksgiving daily” Alma 34:38. As for my Thanksgiving, it was great! We got to go down to the Yokosuka Navy base and had dinner with the Peacock family. Super nice. I was talking to the wife and she said “Oh, so you went to Davis High? You might know my sister who taught there! Do you know Amber Williams?” To which I replied, “I danced with Hailey!” What a small world. Haha she was like “I’ve probably seen you dance then!” Hahaha that’s weird. She’s probably one of like maybe 4 people in the entire country of Japan that’s seen me dance in real life haha. But they were so nice and their family is adorable. They’re moving back to the States in December and will be in Kaysville for a little bit so we’re hoping we’ll be able to see each other when we’re all there. All in all, it was great and I’m adding the Peacock family to the list of things and people I'm grateful for this year. </b></div>
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<b>On Saturday we did a district blitz and focused on Christmas. So Ikeda Shimai and I took a whiteboard, wrote “Christmas quiz” on it and did some streeting while asking people what traditions they have and if they knew the true meaning of Christmas. That was probably the most effective hour of streeting I have ever done in my mission hahaha Christmas is the best! </b></div>
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<b>As for now, here’s some scriptures! Mormon 7:3,5-6, Mormon 9:6,12-13, and Ether <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_981916173" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">3:14</span></span>.</b></div>
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<b>Love you!</b></div>
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<b>--フィッシュバーン姉妹<img alt="🐟" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f41f" goomoji="1f41f" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f41f" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /><img alt="🔥" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f525" goomoji="1f525" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f525" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /></b></div>
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<b>I started with Taylor Shimai and now we’re going to end together! Yup. Taylor Shimai will be together for our last three weeks. But that also means that they’re probably going to close the Yamate Sisters when we go home:( that’s sad but I guess it’s what the Lord needs for Yamate right now!</b></div>
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The Adventures of Sister Fishburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15740382034439315364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024716875806936668.post-18455443299790970422017-11-19T00:17:00.000-07:002017-12-10T02:18:27.110-07:00One month!?!?<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>
<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Yesterday (November 19th) marked two one month marks. The first one was it had been one month since Ikeda Shimai and I became companions. Yay! The second is that I leave my beautiful Japan </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_981916167" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">in one month</span></span><img alt="😭" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f62d" goomoji="1f62d" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f62d" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /><img alt="😭" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f62d" goomoji="1f62d" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f62d" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /><img alt="😭" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f62d" goomoji="1f62d" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f62d" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> you know the meme with (I think) Kevin Hart and he’s like “She wasn’t ready!!”? Well, that’s how I feel right now. Life is just smacking me in the face and I am not ready. But it’s okay. Because that’s just life, right?</span></b><br />
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<b>In other news, this week started off really hard with a lot of rejection and feeling like I just wasn’t doing what I had been called to do. It was rough. But then things turned around. We have an eikaiwa student who I LOVE and she has been pretty shy about church things but has slowly (VERY slowly) opened up. About a month ago we were able to give her a Book of Mormon and then this week when we followed up on if she had been reading it she said she had! Yay!! It may take some time with her but I feel like she could really truly accept the gospel one day. We were also able to give a copy of the Book of Mormon to a cute girl we met on the street and she was super happy to take it. That was such a good moment for me. Of course I’ve done it before and it felt good but that day it was exactly what I needed to feel like I really was doing my best and even though it doesn’t always turn out exactly how we want it to, if we are patient and keep pushing on we can and will see success in one way or another. (Wow, run on sentence much? Sorry to all of my former English teachers..) </b></div>
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<b>Another cool miracle we saw this week was with our investigator that we’ve been doing half English, half gospel lessons with. After we said the opening prayer she said “I can learn English on my own but I can’t learn about church things on my own. Is it okay if we just spend the whole hour from here on out to talk about church things?” Um... YES! It was great. Seriously. It made Ikeda Shimai and I so happy but at first we were kind of like “what do we do! We weren’t prepared for this!” Because we were so shocked haha. </b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Saturday was craaaazy. We met with one of Jenny Shimai’s friends daughters and just talked with her for a little bit. She has a lot of different things she believes and is still looking for exactly what it is she believes but was waaay open about talking about religion and things like that. I am not sure if we’ll be able to actually teach her but I’m praying that we may be able to spark enough interest in her to have at least one lesson to help her really feel the spirit testify of the truthfulness of this message. She’s super cool, though. I like her. After that we hurried back to the church and helped at an English speech contest that was actually sponsored by Utah Valley University. A member of our mission Presidency was like the head dude of it all so he asked us to come so the participants could practice talking to native speakers. It was pretty cool. And one girl even went up to Ikeda Shimai and asked her first about religion (because the announcers were all church members and very open about us being missionaries haha). Whaaat? So cool. Then we hurried to a members house and got to meet with her and help her come up with her own mission plan. Super busy but a super good day. </span></b></div>
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<b>Also, to end the week on a fabulous note, one of the American members in the ward invited us over for Thanksgiving dinner last night! Yaaaaaas! It’s just him and his mom and they don’t eat meat so they gave the missionaries all the left over turkey and you can bet I’m making turkey sandwiches for days now. And the stuffing. He gave me left over stuffing. Bless Brother Oba’s heart. But really, we’re so blessed to have great members who are so kind to us. I love them. And it just makes me want to work harder to serve them!</b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Then Jenny Shimai was like “this one<br />is American! Stand in front of it!<br />Give me your iPad!” So that<br />picture happened.</span></b></td></tr>
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The Adventures of Sister Fishburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15740382034439315364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024716875806936668.post-88706077520259486332017-11-13T01:39:00.000-07:002017-12-10T01:40:29.229-07:00*Shakes head*<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>
<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Yesterday we went to the train station right by the Yokohama baseball </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">stadium and as we were walking there were SO many people wearing </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">orange and blue. I was like "what is this? Some one explain." So then </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">we got closer to the stadium and turns out there was a football game </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">that night! Yaaaaaas. Love me some football! So everyone was doing </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">some nice pregaming and having fun and whatnot and I was just happy to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">know that while it's football season in America, it's football season </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">in Japan as well. I even met a nice lady named Sister Stance from </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Hawaii who is living in Japan because her husband coaches football for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a college here. Woot woot! But here comes the *shakes head* part. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Ikeda Shimai asked me the difference between rugby and football and I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">was dumbfounded. She then later asked me if football was the one with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">all the pads and helmets🤦🏻♀️ I told her she needs to come visit me </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">up in Logan and I'll take her to a football game to teach her the true </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">joys in life (that is not including the gospel because that's the real </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">joy in life but like ya know, football is pretty great).</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">So recently we've been housing till our little feet can't handle it </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">anymore because there's sooo many tourists in Yamate that it's hard to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">find people for us to actually teach here. Well. We hadn't been that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">successful but decided that sometimes these things take time so we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">kept at it. AND GUESS WHAT!? We met a super nice girl and talked about </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">families with her and when we asked if we could come back SHE WAS SO </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">NICE AND SAID OF COURSE AND I COULD HAVE CRIED. Pretty happy about </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">that, not going to lie haha. We tried to visit her again last night </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">but she wasn't home.. so we're going again tomorrow because she needs </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the gospel! Everyone needs the gospel!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Also, my BFF Jenny Shimai has been on a roll with the referrals. She </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">had us over for lunch this past week to meet three of her friends </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">again (we had previously met them) and then on Friday nights we do a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Book of Mormon study class and she shows up with this lady from Israel </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and we're just like "what the heck!? Where does she find these </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">people!?" So that was fun. I am not so sure the nice lady from Israel </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">has interest in learning from us but she was super nice and accepted a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">copy of the Book of Mormon so that's good! Hopefully she'll read it </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and realize that Jesus really is the Messiah and He loves her sooo </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">much and then she'll be like "I need to meet those girls again!" </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Fingers crossed.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">When we went to Jenny Shimai's for lunch with her friends I was able </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">to tell them about the Book of Mormon and share my testimony of it in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">ENGLISH and oh man. It's been such a long time since I've done that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and it was so crazy. Of course I love sharing my testimony in Japanese </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">but I still feel slightly limited on my ability to fully express my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">feelings on it so getting to do it in English was amazing. As I was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">testifying I felt the spirit so strong and I KNEW that those words I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">was saying were true. The Book of Mormon truly is a blessing and a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">gift from God because He loves us and He continues to guide us today. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">With that being said..</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">This week for scriptures (because I remembered!!) you just get an </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">entire chapter to read because I read it this past week and I think it </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">became one of my new favorites. It's 3 Nephi 17. Nothing beats the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">words of our Lord and Savior, right? Jesus is the best😊</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Well, I hope you all have a great week and see your own little miracles!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Stay safe. Stay classy. Stay sassy (by the way, because Japanese </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">people don't really understand sarcasm we've been told to not use it </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">AT ALL and I'm just like "oh, no. I'm in trouble." Halp.).</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Love you!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">愛しています💕</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">--フィッシュバーン姉妹🐟🔥</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">My original title to this email was "which will get to America first? </span></b><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Me or the package I just sent?" Buuuut post office Japanese is much </span></b><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">different than my every day Japanese and I ended up paying much more </span></b><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">than I should have and my package will arrive in 3-5 business days. </span></b><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Oops. Well fam, enjoy the chopsticks and fans (those aren't actually </span></b><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">for you.. I have other things for you still in Japan😊).</span></b><br />
<b><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Anywho. I'm also a loser who forgot to write down the scriptures I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">wanted to share with you AGAIN. SO SORRY. But, I have almost finished </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the New Testament and let me just say that while I love the Bible and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">think it is fantastic, I'm SO glad we have the Book of Mormon to help </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">us understand Christ's teachings better. Wow. Revelation is killing </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">me. That's some tough stuff. Anywho, please read the Book of Mormon on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">your own😀</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">This week we did a lot of finding with no luck.. kind of sad.. BUT my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">bff Jenny Shimai called us and said she set up two appointments with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">some of her friends for us to teach them the plan of salvation!! Yay! </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">So we taught one a little bit at her apartment and she said she'll </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">read the pamphlet and accepted a Book of Mormon but right now doesn't </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">have a tooon of interest so we'll just keep being her friend and share </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">good messages with her to hopefully spark her interest. After that we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">went to lunch with two of Jenny Shimai's other friends. They were so </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">cute! We got to teach them the plan of salvation too and one seems to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">have interest so hopefully we'll be able to meet with her again soon </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and teach her more:) yay for members being great and introducing us to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">their friends!! Member missionary work is the best!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Honestly, that was my week. Haha super exciting, right? But really. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Being a missionary is great and I love it and even though people don't </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">always have interest it's so cool getting to talk to them about God </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">with them and maybe helping them start to think about all that He's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">done for them. SO COOL.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I hope you all have a great week!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Stay safe. Stay classy. Stay sassy.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Love you!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">愛しています💕</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">--フィッシュバーン姉妹🐟🔥</span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;">We went to a park and there were real life fall leaves on the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;">ground so I made Ikeda Shimai take a selfie with me with the leaves in</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;">the background.</span></td></tr>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>The Adventures of Sister Fishburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15740382034439315364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024716875806936668.post-64969729780441478882017-10-30T00:03:00.000-06:002017-12-10T00:47:46.090-07:00Once upon a time..<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">There were typhoons every weekend in Japan. The end.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Don't worry, they're not stopping me. They are stopping our </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">investigators from coming to church so that's a bit bothersome. Darn </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">typhoons. This is what I get for doing rain dances back when I was in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Hachiōji. I've made a mistake and I regret it. Oh no.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Anywho. This week was pretty good! Basically all we've done is housing </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">because whenever we try to street here we just find a lot of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">tourists.. and while they need the gospel too, our ward mission leader </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">has asked us not to do that.. sooo we house. All the time. We haven't </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">found very many people that will listen to us quite yet but we're </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">going to keep on keeping on and doing what we can to find our friends.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Zone conference this week was suuuper good. It was all the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">missionaries from the stake so it was huge. Oh, there's a new bean </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">chan here in the Yokohama stake that I went to high school with! He </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">actually did moonlight my senior year when he was a sophomore! We were </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">in the same dance. His name is Sam Low and at first I didn't realize </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">it was him and then he said my name and it all clicked and his trainer </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(who was in my MTC zone) was like "do you two know each other..?" Haha </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">it was kind of funny. Go Darts!💛 but yes, zone conference was way </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">good. We talked a lot about working with members and helping them be </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">missionaries themselves. Which reminds me, did y'all know that the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">brethren have asked all members to study Preach My Gospel? Well, they </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">have. So I challenge all of you to start studying it! Plus, I forgot </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">to write down my scriptures for this week so instead of reading the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">scriptures I normally send, read part of PMG. You can find it for free </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">on the gospel library app😊</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I don't know what else to say... so I guess I'll end this weeks email </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">there. Short and sweet, I guess?</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Well..</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Have a good week!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Stay safe. Stay classy. Stay sassy.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Love you!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">愛してます💕</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">--フィッシュバーン姉妹🐟🔥</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">These are from lunch today! We went to Sakuragicho which is basically </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">what everyone thinks of when they hear "Yokohama". Soooo pretty. I'll </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">definitely be going back there one day and being the biggest tourist </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">ever. Also, the wind today was trying to help us be more Vogue but </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">that definitely didn't happen.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>The Adventures of Sister Fishburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15740382034439315364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024716875806936668.post-83660225130096140572017-10-22T23:27:00.000-06:002017-10-22T23:27:01.018-06:0011!? ELEVEN!? Gross.<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I'm so old. I am an old woman missionary, or as they like to say in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Japanese, I am an obaachan. Seriously. Wow. I can't believe that I am </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">now transfer 11. Where the heck has the time gone? 分かりません。</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">First of all, I want the world to know that I love Rodriguez Shimai </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and I miss her so much and I cannot wait for </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1381514994" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Wednesday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> because it's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Zone Conference and since we're in the same zone still I'll get to see </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">her. My life has not been the same since she left me. I may or may not </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">have started crying after the nice man came to get her luggage for her </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1381514995" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Wednesday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">. I also may or may not have told her that she cannot </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">leave me. Well, sadly she didn't listen to her senior companion and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">now I miss her so much.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">But it's okay. Because now I have Ikeda Shimai and she is wonderful. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">She is from Nagoya and worked as an occupational therapist before </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">coming on her mission. She's 25 and soooo nice. Also, she loves </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">chocolate just as much as I do so we get along swimmingly. She wants </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">to learn English but doesn't think she's good so we mainly speak </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Japanese together. Which is cool because then I get to learn more from </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">her but I also want to help her with her English so we're trying to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">find a nice balance haha.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">It has been raining nonstop for like a week now. I feel like I'm in a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">rainforest. So. Much. Rain. So because of that, finding people to talk </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">to us has been kind of hard buuuuut we've been able to do a lot of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">housing so I mean, there are pros and cons to all sides haha.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Speaking of rain, the big typhoon that just came through didn't manage </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">to kill me or kick me out of Japan just yet but it did manage to keep </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">all missionaries inside until this morning. So we did a lot of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">studying and phone contacting yesterday. 'Twas a party, let me tell </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">ya.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We only had one lesson this past week and it was good but she just </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">can't get over the fact that her religion was "chosen for [her]" (her </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">words, not mine) because her father is the one that takes care of a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">religious shrine. So we're struggling with that because she keeps almost </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">all of her commitments and really wants to learn but like, won't get </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">baptized. Uhh.. yeah. We're in a pickle right now trying to help her </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">overcome this little (big) hurdle of hers.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">This weeks scriptures are Alma 58:10-11, Alma 62:48-50, Helaman 3:8, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Revelation 1:8, and Revelation </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1381514996" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">3:10</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">. Please read and enjoy the word of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">God😊</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Well, I love you all and hope you have a fantastic week!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Stay safe. Stay classy. Stay sassy.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">愛しています💕</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">--フィッシュバーン姉妹🐟🔥</span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">We had dinner with the elders before eikaiwa at this super American burger place and wow. Delicious. I love Japanese food but man, I REALLY love America.</span></b></td></tr>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>The Adventures of Sister Fishburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15740382034439315364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024716875806936668.post-48967034188715841922017-10-15T23:30:00.000-06:002017-10-15T23:30:57.064-06:00😷<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">That emoji is me right now. I pulled a classic Fishburn Shimai and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">caught a cold. And it's kicking my butt. Sister Warnick told me I had </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">to rest and sleep so I literally slept from </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_215135380" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">12:00pm</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> yesterday until </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_215135381" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">6:30am</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> this morning, only waking up once for chicken noodle soup made </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">by my amazing companion. And yes, I am still sick but I feel better </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">today so that's good! I'm going to sleep some more later so hopefully </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I'll just sleep this bug away real fast.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Because I've been sick, this past week wasn't too exciting.. we've </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">done a lot of contacting from areabook.. and we've found a lot of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">people who don't have interest anymore or don't have time right now..</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">but we're still digging for the kinjin!!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We tried to visit the young mom we found last week but she was busy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and couldn't talk then😕 so we'll try again this week and see if she </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">has time then! Also, we had a lesson planned with the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">lady the elders found for us that is just amazing, but she had to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">cancel.. but we'll hopefully be able to set up another appointment for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">this week. We're going to call her </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_215135382" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">tonight</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> and get that figured out.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Rodriguez Shimai has been a complete doll and has been taking care of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">me. She's seriously an angel. So great. I love her.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Speaking of companions, we got transfer emails😳 I'm super sad because </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Rodriguez Shimai will be transferring to Yokosuka😭 we're still in the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">same zone but I will miss her soooo much. She's great. My new </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">companion is named Ikeda Shimai. She's Nihonjin, if you couldn't tell </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">haha I think she'll be transfer 4.. but she's probably a much better </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">missionary than I am so I'm excited to learn from her and get to work </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">with her these next six weeks. But I will miss my beautiful Rodriguez </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Shimai so very dearly😔😔</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">With transfer emails comes a new transfer. Transfer 11 is upon us. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Wow. This is my last full transfer since I'll be leaving a few weeks </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">into my 12th. Taylor Shimai emailed me today and pointed out that we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">only have 9 weeks left (she's going home the same day I am) and that's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">how long we were in the MTC for. Whaaaat? I have an MTC stay left. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">That's not very long.. I mean, in the MTC it seemed like forever but I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">feel like here it's going to go by much, much faster than the MTC did. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">AHHHH I AM SUCH AN OLD WOMAN MISSIONARY👵🏻 HALP.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Yup. That's about it for this past week. Sorry, it was kind of a lame </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">week since I was sick for most of it..</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Anywho..</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Here's some 聖句 for ya! Alma 40:11, Alma 42:13-15, and 1 John </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_215135383" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">3:18</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Please read them and enjoy them:) also, I hope y'all are reading the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Book of Mormon on your own because our beloved prophet has asked us </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">all to do so. So please, read:) and receive some nice personal </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">revelation for your life! Yay!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Have a good week!!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Stay safe. Stay classy. Stay sassy.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Love you!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">愛しています💕</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">--フィッシュバーン姉妹🐟🔥</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>The Adventures of Sister Fishburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15740382034439315364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024716875806936668.post-6080968831035512912017-10-10T23:01:00.000-06:002017-10-10T23:01:37.733-06:00Happy Columbus Day⛵️<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Someone recently told me that emojis were created in Japan and my mind </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">was blown. Then it started to make sense as to why there are so </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">many emojis that have to do with Japan and Japanese culture. That's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">what I learned this past week.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Well, that's one thing I learned this past week. Now I'll enlighten </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">you all with a few other things I learned this past week.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The first thing on the agenda for today isn't something I learned </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">buuuut I finished my third journal this past week. Yup. Three whole </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">journals since leaving dear ole Kaysville. I'd never even finished one </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">before leaving on my mission.. the mission changes you, man. But here </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">we are, moving on to journal number four! Special shout out to Talise </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">for the past journal I just finished and to Abby for my "adventure </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">book" I've just started.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Okay, here's something I learned: I feel like I've recently said this </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">in an email but it just keeps being relevant so I'm going to say it </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">again. The Lord hears and answers our prayers. As a mission we've all </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">been asked to have an exact idea of the type of people we want to find </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and so Rodriguez Shimai and I decided we wanted to find a young mom. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">So we prayed every day this week to find one. Well, </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1433740884" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Saturday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> before </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">conference we had like 40 minutes to go out and dendō so we decided to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">go housing at this place close to our apartment. And as expected, we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">prayed to find a young mom who would listen to our message. And guess </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">what!?!? We found one!! And we almost didn't knock on her door because </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">it was really hidden and hard to see and kind of had the "don't bother </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">me" feeling to it but we decided to bother it anyway and a way nice </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">mom answered the door with her 2 year old son. SO CUTE. We talked for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a little bit and were able to set up a return appointment for </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1433740885" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Tuesday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">He hears us, you guys!!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We also had a waaaaay good lesson with a super nice lady who the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">elders found while housing. And by the way, her house is so American, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">it's crazy. Rodriguez Shimai and I were freaking out the whole time, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">haha. During the lesson we talked a lot about prophets and so we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">invited her to come to General Conference. Most of the time when we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">invite people to church or things like that they're like "yeah.. if I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">have time but like.. yeah.. I don't know.." but she was like "oh, I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">don't have anything! I can come!" Yaaaaaaaas!!! And she really did </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">come! She said it was hard but she liked it. I told her that we can </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">read the talks on an app and she was like "what's it called!? Can I</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">download it!?" Whaaaat? She's so cool! We're meeting her again on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Friday:)</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I know I'm a week late (because we're a bit behind here in Nippon) but </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I hope everyone had a chance to watch conference and received sooo </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">much personal revelation and answers to prayers and questions. It was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">such a good weekend! A few of the themes I noticed were service, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">focusing on the now and putting away social media and our phones, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">humility, and (my personal fav) THE BOOK OF MORMON!! Also, how good </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">was Elder Andersen's closing talk!? Wow. Talk about a mic drop. I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">mean, I quite enjoyed it. Also, President Nelson's talk was waaaay </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">good. Basically I could go on for days so if you would like to know </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">specifics, please email me at </span><a href="mailto:Haley.fishburn@myldsmail.net" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Haley.fishburn@myldsmail.net</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> and I will </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">respond to you ASAP.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Well. Since I brought up the Book of Mormon, it's only fitting that I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">add some scriptures to this email (yes, I remembered this week!). Alma </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">34:8-15, Alma 36:13-21, Alma 38:8-9, and Alma 39:15.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Have a good week! And find someone to serve along the way😊</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Stay safe. Stay classy. Stay sassy.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Love you!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">愛してます💕</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">--フィッシュバーン姉妹🐟🔥</span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">When the members really like you😏<br />Just kidding, it just has some Japanese<br />candy in it haha #yamatelife</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Mama Fish is the real MVP and sent<br />Reese's puffs all the way to Yokohama, Japan</span></b></td></tr>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>The Adventures of Sister Fishburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15740382034439315364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024716875806936668.post-8652231445400922032017-10-02T22:12:00.000-06:002017-10-10T22:13:32.338-06:00"I don't particularly love this hill"<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>
<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Those are the wise words of a young American boy living here in </span></b><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Yokohama who was riding his bike up a hill with his friend. I felt the </span></b><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">meaning his words on a deeper level in that moment and wanted to share </span></b><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">it with all of you.</span></b><br />
<b><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">This week was a pretty average week. But it was a good week, none the less.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We had interviews with President so we went to Kamiōoka on Tuesday and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">every time I go back there I'm just really glad I don't have to walk </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">those hills every day. It was a great area with great people but the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">landscape was definitely not my fav..</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The elders found a woman housing a few weeks ago and passed her over </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">to us and we went and visited her on Wednesday. Well, it was perfect. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">She had just gotten home right before we got there and she came out to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">talk to us. She was so nice and said she had read the pamphlet that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the elders had given her! She had a lot of questions about the Bible </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and the Book of Mormon and all that so we were able to talk to her </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">about it for a little bit and then gave her a Book of Mormon. She was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">so happy to receive it! It always makes me happy when people are like </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">that. It's just like "yes, you can already tell it's a special book! </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Please read it and feel even happier:):):)" it was way good. And we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">were able to set up a return appointment to meet with her this </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Wednesday as well. We're pretty excited about her.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We also had a less active member come to eikaiwa on Wednesday! It was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a day of miracles. She's only less active because she moved to Yamate </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">10 years ago from Hokkaido and didn't know where the church was here. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">So it was cool to get to talk with her. She said she's also been </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">trying to share the gospel with her friends and wants us to meet them. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Yay! Member missionary work!!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I've realized I never write a whole lot about my companions but I just </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">want you all to know that I love Rodriguez Shimai so much. We're </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">really similar in a lot of ways but really different in a lot of ways. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">It keeps things interesting, hahaha but we get along super well and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">it's been so much fun being her companion. She's helped me more than </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">she'll ever know.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I just realized I'm the worst missionary ever and forgot to write down </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">my scriptures for y'all AGAIN! They're in my journal... in our </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">apartment. G*sh d*rn it. I'm sorry..</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Zone Olympics were held today and I think they were one for the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">history books. It was quite interesting and we even had a flag </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">ceremony where we sang national anthems. And old lady who lives by the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">park we were at watched us from her window and clapped for us when we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">finished USA's national anthem. It was beautiful. And yes, I failed </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">miserably at most of the games but hey, I had fun🤘🏻</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Well... I can't really think of anything else to write about at the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">moment sooo.. I'm going to leave you all with the invitation to (if </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">you haven't yet) watch general conference and enjoy hearing the words </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">of the leaders of the church. I know I'm a week behind.. but in my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">defense, this week is conference week for us in Japan so I'm doing </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">good if we're going off of that, haha. But yes, please watch it or </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">reread the talks:). We got to watch the general women's session on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Saturday and it was sooo good. I loved the talk that Sister Joy D. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Jones gave. She said something along the lines of "you maybe a little </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">less worthy but that doesn't make you worthless." AHHH SO GOOD. The </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">leaders of our church know what they're talking about.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I also heard that Elder Hales passed away. My STL told me that at our </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">zone Olympics and it made me so sad. But I'm sure he was welcomed home </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">with a warm hug and more love than any of us could ever imagine.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I love you all so much and hope you have a great week!!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Stay safe. Stay classy. Stay sassy.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Love you!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">愛してます💕</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">--フィッシュバーン姉妹🐟🔥</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>The Adventures of Sister Fishburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15740382034439315364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024716875806936668.post-3397850422420953082017-09-25T21:08:00.000-06:002017-10-10T21:46:19.935-06:00Well.. uh..<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>
<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">This week was filled with a lot of experimenting and failing.. but now </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">we know what not to do so that's good!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">One cool thing happened on Wednesday while we were walking to the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">church for eikaiwa. When we prayed before we left, I specifically </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">asked to be able to find someone who we could give a copy of the Book </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">of Mormon to. On our way to the church there is basically NEVER any </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">younger people over there because it's all just old couples that live </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">on those streets. But as we were walking we saw a high school student! </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">So I was like "don't freak out. You gotta risk it to get the biscuit." </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">And we stopped her and talked to her for a little bit. We talked about </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">families and how much they mean to us and how we're all children of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">God. We were able to share one of my favorite scriptures, 1 Nephi </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1433740881" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">11:17</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">, with her and she accepted the Book of Mormon!! Whaaaat!? God </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">hears all of our prayers. And He's just waiting to help us with what </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">we need. When we ask, He will help. He will bless us. He will guide </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">us. The power of prayer is seriously insane. Heavenly Father loves us </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">so much and has given us a way to talk with Him. How cool is that!?</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">On Thursday I went back to Kamiōoka! I was on splits with my new STL, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Miyagawa Shimai. She is so cute. We taught a lesson to their </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">investigator who is straight up adorable. We taught about tithing and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">fasting. We were kind of worried about it because she LOVES to shop </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and tends to spend all of her money on that.. but after we taught her </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">it we asked her what she thought and she said she wanted to keep it! </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Yay! She is still praying about baptism but Miyagawa Shimai and I both </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">feel like she will be baptized one day. She just needs to recognize </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">her answers first. It was a way good lesson! I love going on splits </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">because there's always sooo much you can learn from other </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">missionaries.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We also had a lesson on Saturday and it was sooo good! We gave her the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Restoration pamphlet last week and asked her to read it before our </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">next lesson. And she did! She even took notes and wrote down what </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">questions she had! It was so cool. She's just like a sponge who soaks </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">up information and can't get enough. She was like "can I keep learning </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">about this?" YES!! It was amazing!! We're going to meet her again this </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">week. We're pretty excited about her and hope we can continue to help </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">her learn and grow in the gospel.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">This past week we learned a lot about what not to do.. but we're </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">hoping to take that and be better this week. We fall so we can stand </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">up and try again, right? Well, that's what we're going to do! I'll </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">hopefully be able to report back to y'all next week about how that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">goes, haha.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">This past week I hit my 15 month mark. Whaaaat? So crazy, right? I am </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">such an old woman missionary now.. I'm always tired and Rodriguez </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Shimai was like "well, when you're an old woman, you need more sleep!" </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Ouch. But so true. Hahaha I'm going to sleep like a baby on that plane </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">ride home. But that is still far away so for now I'll just keep poppin </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">mints to keep me alert, haha.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I hope you all have a great week and know how much I love you!!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Stay safe. Stay classy. Stay sassy.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Love you!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">愛しています💕</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">--フィッシュバーン姉妹🐟🔥</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>The Adventures of Sister Fishburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15740382034439315364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024716875806936668.post-52612503151454267212017-09-18T19:48:00.000-06:002017-10-10T21:08:16.152-06:00Big shock here..<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I forgot to write down my scriptures again..😒 so sorry. Please read </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">on your own, folks. You'll get more out of it that way, anyway😊😊</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Hahahaha today in Japan is respect for the elderly day and so we want </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">to make cards for elders because we think we're funny😂</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">This week in Yamate was a good one! But not overly exciting, if I'm </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">being honest haha.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">It rained a looooot. Like a lot. So going out and trying to talk to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">people was a bit rough but we did our best. Actually, speaking of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">rain, it rained all day Saturday and Sunday because there was a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">typhoon! Yaaaas! But to my disappointment it like really came Sunday </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">night when we were sleeping. Lame😒</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">On Wednesday we had zone conference but it was the whole Yokohama </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">stake so there were a buuunch of missionaries here in Yamate. It was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">way good. We focused on Enduring to the End and working with the ward </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">and stake leaders. So good. Definitely inspired. It was cool to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">see all of the Yokohama stake missionaries. But it also made me </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">realize that I don't know like any of the younger missionaries anymore </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">and I am just an old woman now. I don't know them and they don't know </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">me. Sad, right?</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">So fun history fact for all of you: back on September 1, 1901 here in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Yamate, not far from where our church is, the dedicatory prayer for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">the the Japan mission was said. How cool!? So all Zone conferences </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">were held here in Yamate in honor of that. And because of that there's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">a ton of church history stuff in the Yamate church and I'm just like a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">kid in a candy shop. It's the best. Seriously. So cool! We also had </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">the first stake president in Japan come and speak to us. He's like 91 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">years old and so cool. He wants to live to be 129. I like him. He also </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">basically told us that if we want to run away and go home to just do </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">it. I don't think President Warnick enjoyed that part😂😂</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Okay. This broke my heart. We went to meet one of our investigators </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">here and her husband is pretty opposed to church things. Well, he </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">wasn't supposed to be home and he actually was home. So he answered </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">when we got there and told us his wife had "stoped the Christ thing" </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">and that we weren't allowed to talk to her anymore because he said so. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">We tried to leave some banana bread and he wouldn't even accept that. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">He wouldn't listen to literally anything we said. It was bad. And I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">started to cry and then he apologized but I was just done and couldn't </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">take it anymore. His wife wants to follow Christ so badly but he won't </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">let her. I don't understand. I mean, I do because Christianity doesn't </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">have a good reputation here in Japan but at the same time it just </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">makes NO sense to me. None. So as he was apologizing I just had to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">walk away. Rodriguez Shimai and I are praying that one day his heart </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">will soften and he will allow her to be baptized like she wants to be. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">If he never does, I know she'll have the opportunity in the next life </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">to fully receive the gospel and all that it has to offer her.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Missions are hard. They're real hard. People tell you no a lot. Way </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">more than any other time in your life, I think. But even though that's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">true, you also get to meet people who tell you yes sometimes and they </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">make up for it all. But if you let those "no"'s stop you and keep you </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">from trying to find those who will say yes, you'll only find the sad </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">parts of being a missionary. So you have to keep going and keep </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">trying. The blessing don't always come right when we want them or how </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">we want them but they will come. You just have to endure to the end! </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Keep enduring, fam.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Well, I hope you all have a wonderful week! Oh! Next week we're going </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">with the elders to a zoo where apparently you can ride camels. But </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">it's kind of far so I don't know how much emailing time I'll have..</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">but I love you all SO much!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Stay safe. Stay classy. Stay sassy.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">愛しています💕</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">--フィッシュバーン姉妹🐟🔥</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>The Adventures of Sister Fishburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15740382034439315364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024716875806936668.post-62738298860150911302017-09-11T20:07:00.000-06:002017-10-10T20:33:59.362-06:00First week in Mountain Hand✌🏻<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>
<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Yes, the kanji for Yamate 山手 means "mountain" and "hand". I live in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">"Mountain hand". Cool. It's actually really pretty here and I quite </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">enjoy it. I mean, tears were definitely shed when I left my beloved </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Hachiōji but change is a good thing, right? Also, Yamate is like the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">most fancy area I have ever seen in my life. It's filled with lots of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">rich people and lots of gaikokujin (foreigners). It's weird. I have </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">heard more English in the last 4 days than I think I have my entire </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">mission. So weird. I also feel like I am waaaaay too poor to live </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">here. But it's okay because I live in the "normal" people part. It's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">kind of like how in Kaysville when people live up on the mountain, you </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">know they are rich. It's the same here in Yamate. SO MUCH MONEY. It's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">crazy.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Before I left Hachiōji I called basically all of the ward members and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">told them I was leaving and it was the worst thing ever. I don't like </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">saying goodbye. Not one bit. Nope. And they were all so cute and a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">bunch of them came to eikaiwa to say goodbye or set up appointments </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">with us for before I left. My heart❤️</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Yamate is a good place. I like it! I really do. The ward is smaller </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">than Hachiōji but everyone is suuuper nice. We had dinner with the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">bishop and his family on Friday and then met a bunch of the other </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">members at this like summer festival the ward put on. It was way fun. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">They did this thing where they make a little noodle slide with bamboo </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and then they put soumen (noodles) down it and you just stand around </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and try and catch the noodles as they whiz by. It was fun haha I'll </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">send some pictures for you:)</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The Yamate Ward is really great. They have all been so welcoming. It's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">also probably the most diverse ward ever. Like really. So many </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">different nationalities! My favorite thing is that there's a Chinese </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">woman who speaks really good English and okay Japanese and she's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">married to a Japanese man who speaks perfect English so they speak </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">English to each other and their son has lived in Japan his whole life </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">but only speaks English. How does that happen!? Mind blowing. But I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">think it's cool haha when you live in Yokohama, you don't actually </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">need to speak Japanese, apparently.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We have an investigator here and she's so cute. She </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">loves the Book of Mormon and has received all of the lessons but can't </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">be baptized even though she wants to because her husband won't let </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">her😭 it makes me so sad. So we're trying to figure out how we can </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">soften his heart so she can come to church and be baptized😊</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Speaking of baptisms... LIZA GOT BAPTIZED!!! AHHHHH!!! Words cannot </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">express how happy that makes me:) really. It was hard knowing I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">couldn't be there for it but it was slightly easier knowing that mama </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and papa and brother fish went and supported her. Liza is so strong </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and I'm SO blessed to have her as my best friend😊</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Today we're going to Costco! Woot woot! It's been so long since I've </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">been to Costco haha. It's my first time going in Japan! So I'm excited </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">hahaha. We're going with the elders and should be good:) Gotta buy me </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">some big bags of delicious Japanese granola!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">To end I'll leave you with some scriptures:) Words of Mormon 1:8, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Mosiah </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1433740880" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">3:20</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">, and Mosiah 5:7.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">This week I learned that change is hard but it's a good thing. We just </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">have to trust in the Lord and it will all be okay.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Have a good week and never forget how much I love you!!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Stay safe. Stay classy. Stay sassy.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Love you!!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">愛しています💕</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">--フィッシュバーン姉妹🐟🔥</span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">There are SO many churches here in<br />Yamate and this one is across the street<br />from ours hahahaha I died😂😂😂</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The noodle slide! So funny hahaha<br />People take these things seriously here.</span></b> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>We had lunch with Yamaoka Shimai before I left Hachiōji. She's so cute.</b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Hatanaka Shimai💕 she gave me chopsticks<br />because I told her I love them:) and a cute<br />handmade holder for them. I love her so much.</span></b></td></tr>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>The Adventures of Sister Fishburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15740382034439315364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024716875806936668.post-77885673946261578912017-09-04T19:26:00.000-06:002017-10-10T19:29:18.322-06:00The week of trashed shoes👠<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Hey, fam!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Yup. My shoes are reaching the end of their lives (mom, this doesn't </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">mean you send me more, I have plenty!). This week I noticed that one </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">pair has holes in both shoes and another is just straight up falling </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">apart😂. I guess that's just life when you walk literally </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">everywhere🤷🏻♀️. Not going to lie, makes me feel like I'm maybe doing </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">this whole "missionary" thing semi correctly. Idk.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">In other news for the week.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We had a good family home evening lesson with the Kurogi family on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Monday. They are great! The parents both graduated from BYU (although </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I have yet to hear them speak English..) and are SOOO nice. They have </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">three daughters; Riana, Riria, and Riira. Riria just got back from </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">spending a month in Utah and was so happy when she heard I was from </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Utah and lived close to lagoon hahaha she also gave us waaay too much </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">American candy that she brought back. It was even in a Smiths bag and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I was like "woah. #throwback". The Kurogi's LOVE A1 steak sauce so </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Riria brought some back with her and because of that, we had steak for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">dinner haha it was so American. I mean, except for the side of plain </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">white rice haha. We shared a message with them based off of an article </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">from the September Liahona called "Physical Comfort from the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Scriptures". We can always get comfort from the scriptures but when we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">need it most it's best that we've practiced finding that comfort each </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">day so that it's easier when those hard times come. Read your </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">scriptures, y'all! Find the comfort!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Okay, here comes the sad part. On Wednesday we met with one of our investigators. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Last time we met with her we asked her to do Moroni's challenge again </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and read and pray about the Book of Mormon and if it's true and if </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">this is the true church. So we asked her how that went and it went </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">great! She said she got an answer and the Book of Mormon really is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">true and this is Christ's true church! Buuut then she followed it up </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">with "but I was trying to figure out how to tell you this.." no. No no </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">no no no! She says she realizes the importance of baptism but for now </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">she thinks studying other non-Christian churches and "taking another </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">path" is what's best for her. She believes she'll end up back at the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">same place we're at but she'll just take a different route. No! </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">There's only one route and it's through repentance and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">baaaaaptissmmmmm. It's safe to say there were tears shed during that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">lesson. She basically dropped us. She said she'll still come to church </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">when she can but probably won't take lessons. So sad. 😢</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We also got to meet with one of my favorite members, Tomoko Shimai, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and her daughter Momo Chan! We talked about peace and how we all can </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">find peace through different ways but it's all the same and that's so </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">cool! Because it's all a gift from God! I think it's cool anyway.. it </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">was a good time and we were really happy because we weren't expecting </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Momo chan to come so when she did it was a little miracle for us😊</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I got to go on splits with the beautiful Hirata Shimai and as we were </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">walking around we saw this older couple walking while holding hands so </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">we commented on how cute it was and next thing we knew we were on our </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">way to have tea with them. Hahaha it was great. They're so cute. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">They've met missionaries before but never been to church even though </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">they live like a 3 minute walk from it. If even. But we offered to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">give hem a tour some time and they said they'd like that! So we'll go </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">back and follow up on that very soon:). Also, Hirata Shimai is just the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">best and I was able to learn sooo much from her. It was a good day:)</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We also met with a super nice lady and her cute kids. They're 10 and 7 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and she wants them to learn English so we're doing half English, half </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">church lessons with them. The jury's still out on them but I think </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">this could be really good! I'll keep you updated on them.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Here I am, rambling. Yet again. So sorry. I'll wrap this up now..</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Scriptures!! Jacob </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1433740873" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">4:12</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">, Jacob </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1433740874" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">5:41</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">&50, Jacob 6:4, Jacob </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1433740875" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">7:12</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">, and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Enos 1:5-7. I'm trying to learn as much as I can about the Savior and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">His Atonement while I'm a missionary so now you all get to do it with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">me:) you're welcome😊</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Oh. Good news! It's starting to cool off here which is making me REAL </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">happy because last September was hotter than hades and I was not </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">looking forward to that again. But according to the weather forecast, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the highest it will be in the next ten days is 80 and that makes my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">heart leap for joy🕴🏻like, I wore a cardigan to church yesterday. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Yeah. That's right. The Gods of Fall are smiling down upon us here in</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Hachioji (and by "Gods of Fall" I mean Heavenly Father because, ya </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">know, there's really only one God.. sorry, Buddha).</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Okay. I'm done.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Have a great week and enjoy your Labor Day tomorrow!!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Stay safe. Stay classy. Stay sassy.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Love you!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">愛しています💕</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">--フィッシュバーン姉妹🐟🔥</span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>These fruit leathers look like tongues😜</b></span> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The always beautiful Hirata Shimai and I after<br />walking up a hill that just about killed our<br />grandma missionary bodies✌🏻</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">This picture is for Heidi and Crae.<br />Yes, it is a dinosaur.<br />And it's holding a dinosaur skull in its hand.<br />I found it at the train station</span></b></td></tr>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>The Adventures of Sister Fishburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15740382034439315364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024716875806936668.post-37181878841954443062017-08-28T17:20:00.000-06:002017-10-10T17:27:44.748-06:00Trains are great things..<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>
<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Unless you miss yours and have to wait for the next one😕. Last night </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Patch Shimai and I went to visit a potential investigators the elders </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">had found for us and heart attack a member that lived close by. It all </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">went fairly well until it came time for us to return to our humble </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">abode and missed the train because we thought "hey, let's get on the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">car one more down." So we walked for literally three seconds and then</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the doors shut and we weren't on the train.. and the station we were </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">at doesn't have trains super often so we just had to chill and wait. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">But I thought y'all would get a kick out of picturing two Americans </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">watching their train pull away because they wanted to go down one more </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">car before getting on. It's all good, though. We did some good phone </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">contacting while we waited for the next one because there was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">literally no one at that station😂</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">On Tuesday I hit my 14 month mark and I just feel like such an old </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">woman missionary now. Like what even is this? 14? Gross. Also, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Wednesday was my year mark of being in Japan! Yay! But also, I'm an </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">old woman! Yay! My mission life is coming and going much faster than I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">thought it would during those nine weeks in the MTC.. *shivers*</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Last week wasn't super exciting.. we didn't have any lessons.. so sad, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">right!? But we were able to set up quite a few for this week so that's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">good😊 I'll have to let you know how those go next week.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We had lunch with the always entertaining Yamauchi Shimai hahahaha </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">that woman kills me😂 she is like 84 years old and just loving life. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">She's so funny. I love her. She made us food from her home town, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Nagasaki, and even threw in some Italian food in there haha it was an </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">interesting meal but very yummy:) the members here in Hachiōji are the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">best. We also had dinner on Saturday with the Maeda family. Porter </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Shimai and I went and had dinner with them when I was a bean but I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">couldn't understand literally anything that was going on then. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Nothing. And this time it was cool to really be able to talk to them </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">because they're so nice and so funny hahaha and their three kids are </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">adorable. I love them. Maeda Shimai and the kids made this pumpkin </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">cheesecake which was actually waaaay good. Like, I want that recipe.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Friday was blazing hot. Seriously. We left the apartment at 10 to go </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">visit some PI's and it was already sooo hot. And we had decided to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">walk to the PI's so we could try and street as we went. Well, we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">couldn't actually find the PI because the missionaries before didn't </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">put an apartment number.. uh.. okay.. it's okay, we just decided to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">house the entire apartment building haha we didn't find the PI so we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">went on to the next building. And by the end we were so gross and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">sweaty. So bad. Like beads of sweat dripping down my nose. It was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">gnarly. I took pictures:) I'll send them later so you can see how </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">dedicated I am to the work hahahahahaha😉</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We had a district kubarikai (passing out English class fliers) with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the elders and it was pretty good! I got to talk to a few people who </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">seemed to really have interest in coming to eikaiwa and I even met a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">man who came years ago but stopped but even knew that the mission home </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">is in Kichijoji. Nice. 'Twas a good time.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We had a PI come to church that we had never met! Yup. Haha we had </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">texted her forever ago inviting her to family home evening at the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">mission home but she couldn't come and then she randomly texted us and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">was like "hey, I'm coming to church!" She's been before so she knew </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">all about it and figured since the missionaries had changed she wanted </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">to come and meet us. Awww yiiiiis😎 she was super cute and actually, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the first missionary she ever met was my home girl, Gappmayer Shimai. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">She's cool. And she speaks fluent English. I like her. I'm praying for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">her.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Well. That's it for now! Other than sweating my bum off this week, it </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">was a pretty good week. But just for the record, I want you all to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">know how excited I am for fall and winter because I am SO over this </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">whole "summer" thing. Not my fav. At all.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Don't worry, this week I remembered the scriptures😘2 Nephi 11:5-7, 2 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Nephi </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1433740872" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">20:27</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">, 2 Nephi 22, 2 Nephi 25:26, and 2 Nephi 26:33.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I hope you all have a marvelous week and always remember I love you!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Also, good luck to everyone starting school! Have a fun semester😊💕</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Stay safe. Stay classy. Stay sassy.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Love you!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">愛しています💕</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">--フィッシュバーン姉妹🐟🔥</span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The beloved Yamauchi Shimai</b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Elder Dowdle (our zone leader) turned 20 this week<br />so we got him an age appropriate present😊 #noregrets</b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Our selfie that you can't tell we're actually dripping sweat in <br />and trying not to die from the heat and humidity.</span></b></td></tr>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>The Adventures of Sister Fishburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15740382034439315364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024716875806936668.post-43455727618698909432017-08-21T17:05:00.001-06:002022-05-14T01:17:53.055-06:00My One True Love😍<b><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">So since we are lucky enough to have iPads that have our areabook on </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">them for us, we get to type our reports and such in there. And this </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">week I told Patch Shimai that I'm a very visual person to which she </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">responded "now all the emojis in areabook make sense"😳 she has come </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">to realize that emojis truly are apart of my vocabulary. I even draw </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">them on the board for eikaiwa😎</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Anywho.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">This week was pretty good! After temple pday last Tuesday (which was </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the last one of the mission because they're closing the temple to </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">remodel it) we went to visit a potential investigator who lives pretty </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">close to the church. The elders found her in November (yeah, forever </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">ago, right!?) and no one has been able to contact her or hasn't really </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">tried so we went! And she was there! And she said she read the </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">pamphlet the elders gave her last time! And we talked for a good while </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and gave her a Book of Mormon and she said she'll read it! And then </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">she gave us her phone number and told us to call anytime! いいねー!We're </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">going to try and visit her again this week since she lives so close to </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the church. Miracles are a happening, y'all!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Thursday we had splits with the Kofu sisters and I went further into </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Tokyo to see the doctor so basically we spent all day on the train. </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Smith Shimai came here to Hachiōji with me and she's a funny one haha </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">she's transfer one and is from Tennessee. Super cute and just goes </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">with the flow. When we got back to Hachiōji from splitting in Ōtsuki, </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">which is an hour away by train, the Kofu sister called and informed us </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">that Patch Shimai still had the keys to the Hachiōji apartment *face </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">palm* but we got it all figured out and just stopped by my beloved </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Kichijoji on our way into Tokyo to get the spare key. All was well!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The doctor was a very nice man and definitely was NOT full Nihonjin. </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Nope. His eyes were green, y'all. Green. But he has a Nihonjin last </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">name so I'm still figuring him out haha but he was very nice and all </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">was well with that as well.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">This past weekend we had stake conference here in the Machida Stake. </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">And it was swell. So good. But embarrassing part: the Hachiōji Ward </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">choir sang at it and they recruited the missionaries to sing too so I </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">was in the middle back (of course) and we sat on the stand. Well, I </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">was perfectly positioned so that I was on the camera for the waaaay </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">back people the entire time and I also woke up with the largest zit of </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">my mission thus far on the left side of my mouth. #mylife. But the </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">talks were all SO good. Basically our stake president, President </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Savstrom, is a spiritual giant and blows my mind every time he speaks. </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">And then we heard from the Tokyo temple president and his wife, Sister </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Warnick, and then Elder Choi from the area presidency and his wife. </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Wow. So good. And the members who gave talks too were so great and </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">basically I just love this gospel and it's the best when lots of </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">people gather together to talk about it.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">A few things that really stuck out to me were from Elder and Sister </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Choi. Sister Choi just like straight up apologized to the youth and </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">young adults of the church for our parents because she knows they have </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">all messed up at some point. But then she said that she hopes we know </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">they're trying. So I grabbed my planner and wrote this "our parents </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">aren't perfect but they are trying and Heavenly Father trusts them." I </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">don't know about you but I think that's pretty great. So thanks, </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">parents, for trying. You're the best😘 the other ones were from Elder </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Choi. He said that the gospel is "the most delicious food from heaven" </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and that it was even better than kimchi! He's from Korea so that's a </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">big deal. But I liked that analogy. He then also talked about climbing </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Mt. Fuji recently and how he started with no walking sticks and ended </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">with two walking sticks and related them to the priesthood and the </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Book of Mormon. We need both on our journey up the mountain! And we </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">have to use both! It was just a fun little thought that I wanted to </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">share with you all😊</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Well, here's me rambling again.. but I'll stop now..</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Scriptures! 2 Nephi 2:6-7&26, 2 Nephi 4:32-33, and 2 Nephi </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1433740871" face="arial, sans-serif" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); color: #222222; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">8:11</span></span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. Isn't </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the Atonement of Jesus Christ the best!?</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Have a good week and always remember there is a crazy sister </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">missionary in Tokyo who loves you!!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Stay safe. Stay classy. Stay sassy.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Love you😘</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">愛しています💕</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">--フィッシュバーン姉妹🐟🔥</span></b><br />
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The Adventures of Sister Fishburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15740382034439315364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024716875806936668.post-33756357955032103442017-08-14T14:25:00.000-06:002017-10-10T14:54:32.306-06:00Last temple pday😭<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">You know, you always imagine your last temple pday to be during your </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">last transfer.. not during your 9th.. I hope this isn't some bad </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">omen.. 😳 jk. I'm not going home early hahahahahahaha</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Anywho, the temple today was PACKED and as a missionary, that fills my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">heart with joy. So many souls being saved, y'all! </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">This past week was way good! We met with the cute older lady who </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">giggles at herself when she speaks English again. SHE IS SO CUTE. When </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">we met with her on Wednesday she said she had read all the way to 1 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Nephi 10😱 whaaaat!? Yup. She's great. And she came to church! I think </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">she was slightly confused about sacrament and then in relief society </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">we talked about priesthood blessing sooo yeah, not the easiest day for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">her but she was so cute and so nice and the members really helped her </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a lot. I have a lot of hope and faith in her!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We also had my friend come to church finally! She's been </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">saying for like 6 weeks that she would come to church and she hasn't..</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">until Sunday!! Yay!! And she said she really likes coming church </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">because everyone's hearts are so pure she she gets energy from coming. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">いいねー!we're hoping to get to meet with her this week and actually start </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">teaching lessons and try and answer her questions because she has a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">TON. Seriously. So many.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The YSA dendō activity was sooo fun! So it was part of an all Japan </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">conference that was held in Tokyo so they spent one day in my beloved </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Kichijoji. And we had about 100 YSA members who we got to go out and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">dendō with for an hour! It was so cool. I was with Marisa Yagi Shimai. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">She's half Peruvian and her parents only speak Spanish. She's hoping </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">to leave for her mission in December so she was so excited to go out </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and dendō. She was so cute! We just did some housing so nothing super </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">exciting but it was cool being with a member and seeing her excitement </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">about it. Made me want to be more excited about housing and getting </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">rejected over and over again haha members are the best! Also, y'all </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">should go out and dendō with the missionaries. It's cool. Also, I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">realized y'all probably don't know what "dendō" means.. I believe it </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">translates to "proselyte".. but like I don't know what people actually </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">call it in English so yeah.. idk. I'm just gonna stick with dendō.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The ゴキブリ. Or for those of you who can't read Japanese, The Cockroach. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I HATE bugs. With a passion. And cockroaches are absolutely awful. Not </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a fan. At all. Nope. So we actually found it a few weeks ago so we put </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">out some cockroach killer and hoped for the best. IT DIDN'T WORK. So </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Monday night Patch Shimai all the sudden says "don't turn around" and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I'm like "okay" *turns around* it was the freaking <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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cockroach! NO. So </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">since we had to stay inside because of a typhoon we decided to end </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">this battle once and for all. And then it FLEW!!! THEY CAN FLY!! And </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">it hid in our bedroom light so we turn on the light thinking it will </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">come out. Nope. They're not actually afraid of light. That's a myth. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">So after it had fallen onto my bed and touched literally everything on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">it and hid under my mattress for a bit, I had decided it was time to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">end it. So we got the dish soap and a Tupperware and just went </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">hardcore on it. It fell onto Patch Shimai's bed and then we trapped it </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">with the Tupperware and then managed to get the lid under it and we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">had done it! We caught it! So then we opened the lid a little bit and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">drowned it with the dish soap. And then taped the Tupperware shut and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">threw away the entire thing hahahaha so that happened. But we did it! </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">And then we washed all of our sheets and blankets ha. Not fun but </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">entertaining to say the least.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Of course there were a million other good things that happened this </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">week but we'll just leave it at that for now. And of course I forgot </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">to write down what scriptures I wanted to share this week so I'll just </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">share one that I found and LOVED. Jacob 2:8. This message heals "the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">wounded soul". Wow. I quite like that. Please read the scripture and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">enjoy it as much as I do😊</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Anywho.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I hope you all have a good week! And always remember that I'm praying </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">for you and I love you!!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Stay safe. Stay classy. Stay classy.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">愛しています💕</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">--フィッシュバーン姉妹🐟🔥</span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>We had a YSA pre-mission event with YSA from<br />all over Japan and this was who I was with! <br />Her name is Marisa Yagi and is sooo cute.</b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>It's raining cats and dogs here so we just took some<br />nice selfies outside of the temple hahaha</b></span></td></tr>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>The Adventures of Sister Fishburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15740382034439315364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024716875806936668.post-52568852298507539742017-08-07T22:59:00.000-06:002017-08-18T23:01:00.740-06:00I lost the kouhai😳<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Yup.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">It happened.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We were on our way to visit some people in the Takao area and Patch </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Shimai and I had split up on the train to try and talk to some people. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Well, we reached the station we wanted to get off at and I got off and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">thought she saw me get off and when I realized she hadn't, I turned </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">around to get back on the train and the doors shut! Yeah. And off went </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">my companion.. with no phone.. and we kept forgetting to write our </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">phone number down for her.. so after some waiting, going to the next </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">station, searching, and coming back and waiting some more she finally </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">showed up again and all was well! And she now has our phone number </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">written in her planner and we have a plan for if this happens again.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Oops..</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I'm sorry but I literally didn't take any pictures this</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">week.. we were just too busy trying to find those kinjin!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">This week we worked real hard. And we weren't really seeing anything </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">come from those efforts. So we were kinda sad. But on Thursday we had </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a lesson with a new investigator. She is so cute. She's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">retired but wants to try and learn English for the 2020 Olympics so </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">we're doing half English, half gospel lessons with her. She's REALLY </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">beginner so we worked on pronunciation of the alphabet and she just </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">laughed at herself the whole time. Hahaha so cute. Then we talked about </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">God and who she thinks He is and who we think He is. We read 3 Nephi </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">14:9-11 with her and she seemed to really understand from that. And </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">then we related it all back to prayer and taught her how to pray. It </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">was a good time:) she promised she'd read the introduction to the Book </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">of Mormon and try to pray and when we called her a few days later she </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">said she did both!! Yaaaaas. I have high hopes for this one!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">But then after that lesson we just kind of fell into a slump again. We </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">were trying SO hard and just nothing was working out. Nothing. And we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">had one investigator who said she was going to come to church and she </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">never showed up so we were kind of bummed about that.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">But wait.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Half way through sacrament meeting a member came up and asked us if we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">had anyone who was going to come today because a random girl just </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">walked in and sat down. Wait, what? Yup. So we go to see who it is and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">we have never seen this girl before but we found out she doesn't speak </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Japanese so we invited her to come sit by us so we could translate </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">buuuut I think she was kind of embarrassed to get up and move during </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the meeting so she stayed where she was. We got to really talk to her </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">after and she is from Nepal. She had met the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">elders while they were handing out fliers and decided to come. Her </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">English is okay, you just have to speak clearly to her. But she's a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Christian and wanted to stay and learn more about our church. So since </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">she can't speak Japanese and English is kind of hard for her we were </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">like "uh.. she can't go to normal Sunday school and relief society..</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">what do we do!?" And one of the ward missionaries is fluent in English </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and offered to teach Sunday school for her. So the member, ward </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">mission leader, and another ward missionary and us three all went and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">had Sunday school together. The members were all trying so hard to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">speak English for her and it was so cute and nice of them! We got to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">build a good relationship with her and when the member, Yamada Shimai, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">asked her why she stayed for Sunday school she said it was because I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">was so nice to her and she wanted to spend more time with me. MY </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">HEART😭 it exploded. She was SO nice and she's going to come to church </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">early next week so we can have a lesson before sacrament meeting with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">her. Heavenly Father saw we had been doing our best and He helped us </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">see a miracle. He's looking out for us!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Today we were supposed to have a Zone pday and climb Mt. Takao buuuut </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">yeah. Didn't really want to do that and half the Zone isn't coming so </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">that got canceled. The elders still want to go and play sports with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">those who can go buuuut man, it's just too hot to be outside right now </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">more than we have to. So Patch Shimai and I have decided to opt out of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">that and take some nice break time where there's air conditioning.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Now for some of the word of God for ya. Moroni 7:44-48, Moroni 8:3, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">16-17, Moroni 9:5 and this part from Moroni </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1036203339" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">8:28</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> "Pray for them, my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">son". I really liked that part of that scripture because I feel like </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">if you truly love someone you should always pray for them. If you </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">want to love someone (because not everyone is as easy to love as I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">am😉) you should pray for them. Basically you should just pray for all </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">those around you. Show 'me some love!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Again, sorry there's no pictures this week. I'll try to be better for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">next week!</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> I can't wait </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">to email you again next week and tell you what miracles I've had this </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">week!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Love you!!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Stay safe. Stay classy. Stay sassy.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">愛しています💕</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">--フィッシュバーン姉妹🐟🔥</span></b>The Adventures of Sister Fishburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15740382034439315364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024716875806936668.post-88743519927813758732017-07-31T21:59:00.000-06:002017-08-18T22:36:13.777-06:00Transfer 9 is upon us!<br />
<b style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Yup. That's right. 9. Nine whole transfers. Well, 8 whole transfers </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">and the first few days of a 9th. Is it just me or is time starting to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">go faster and faster? I swear I was just transfer four. Gross.</span></b><br />
<b><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I would just like everyone to know that saying goodbye to Tomori </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Shimai was not fun and I'm still not over that. She will be greatly </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">missed here in the land of Hachioji. But the people of Yamate need her </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">more than I do so I let her go.. slightly begrudgingly but none the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">less, I let her go.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Patch Shimai is great. Really. She's a super hard worker and you can </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">tell she loves the Lord and this work with all her heart. She's from </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Michigan and did a year and a half at BYU before her mission studying </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">environmental science (yeah, if that right there doesn't tell you how </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">opposite we are, I don't know what will). But she's super relaxed and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">we get along really well. And boy, have we seen some miracles together</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">already!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Now for the miracles.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">For starters we had like 6 new people come to eikaiwa on Wednesday! It </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">was way good! Slightly scary teaching that many people but it was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">good! Everyone was super nice and I think most people had a good time </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">so that's good, haha.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Thursday was transfer day and I just don't like transfer day so we're </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">skipping over that for now.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br /><br /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">On Friday Patch Shimai and I went to the Hachiōji-Minamino train </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">station and did some streeting around there. We were also going to do </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">some housing so while we were walking to the housing spot we had </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">picked we stopped this lady and wait for it, she's been looking for a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">new English class to go to! Yay! So we introduced our eikaiwa and our </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">free family English program and she said she wanted to do it! So we</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">exchanged numbers and she was sooo nice. She's busy this week but said </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">she'll call us next week so we can set up an appointment to meet. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Yaaaaaaaaas. But then after that the sky started getting reeeeeeal </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">dark and scary and since we had no idea what the weather forecast was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">we were slightly concerned. So we prayed. And decided that housing </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">wasn't what we were meant to do that night and streeted back to the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">station. Fun fact: we talked to three beauticians in like one hour. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">What are the odds, right? One told us if we ever go to Shibuya to call </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">her salon and they'll cut our hair for free so they can use it as </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">advertisement for their salon, haha. Too bad we can't go to Shibuya😔</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I've come to the conclusion that areabooks in the Tokyo south mission </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">have been seriously neglected so we're cleaning up our areabook. And </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">we texted a girl that we found and MIRACLE SHE TEXTED US BACK AND WE </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">MIGHT GET TO MEET HER ON SATURDAY IN TAKAO. YAAAAAAAS WHAT A GOOD DAY.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Saturday we found a new investigator! Well, Patch Shimai found her but </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">still. I was writing our report for our missionary correlation meeting </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(I think that's what it's called in English..) and Patch Shimai was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">calling some old lady's in our areabook and she set up an appointment </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">with one for the free family English program so we'll do half an hour </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">of English and half an hour of gospel with her. We're pretty excited </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">about this, haha.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Here I am, rambling again. So sorry. So I'll end this now.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Here are the scriptures for the week! Mormon 9:11-13, Ether 2:24-25,</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Ether 4:12-14, Ether </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_397437080" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204 , 204 , 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">6:12</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">, and Ether 12:4. As always, remember the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">love💙</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Stay safe. Stay classy. Stay sassy.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Love you!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">愛しています💕</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">--フィッシュバーン姉妹🐟🔥</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I also forgot to add something in my big email.. last night when I got </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">out of the shower I looked up and there was a COCKROACH on the wall. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Yeah. I was surprisingly very calm and Patch Shimai said she'd catch </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">it if I'd kill it so we made a deal. But then as I was getting dressed </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">she screams sooo loud so I hurry and finish getting dressed and she </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">then informs me that SHE LOST IT. So it's still running free somewhere </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">in our apartment but we put down a bunch of cockroach poison stuff so </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">hopefully it finds that and dies.. also, I had a dream about </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">cockroaches after that and it was not pleasant. GROSS.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>The Adventures of Sister Fishburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15740382034439315364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024716875806936668.post-42039150505760902902017-07-24T19:06:00.000-06:002017-08-18T19:18:22.832-06:00Bringing world peace one cup of water at a time<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I know what you're thinking, "Oh, Fishburn Shimai, you're so great </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">trying to bring peace to the world!" Well, it wasn't me. I was on the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">receiving end of the cup of water. Tomori Shimai and I went to the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Takao area on Friday and spent ALL day walking around there and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">since it was blazin hot. We were taking a break at this like department </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">type store that has a food court called Ito Yokado. While we were </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">sitting there trying to cool off a bit before heading back out this </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">random guy walks up and sets a cup of water in front of me. What? And </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">then he starts going off about how he believes it's important to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">respect people no matter their race, faith, gender, etc. I was so </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">surprised. Especially because he was Nihonjin and he was saying all of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">this in REALLY good English. He also may have accidentally spit in my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">eye during his speech but I forgave him because of the nice water he </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">gave me (but didn't give to Tomori Shimai😂). He told me to come back </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">for the olympics and that I am always welcome in Japan. How nice, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">right? Tomori Shimai told me at first my face was that of "what the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">freak?" Hahaha that's my funny experience of the week.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">On Wednesday after kids English class we were leaving the church and a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">member, Kumiko Shimai, walks up to the church with all this food and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">is like "You ready!?" And we were like "Uh.. for what?" We had asked </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">her before to message and become friends with our potential </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">investigator, and she was able to set up an appointment! She </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">had messaged Tomori Shimai on Facebook but we didn't look because it </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">was a crazy day but luckily we were there when she came! So we had </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">dinner with Kumiko Shimai and our investigator and then were able to teach some </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">of the Restoration. And she asked sooo many good questions. She </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">was really opening up to us and we think she really trusts us! It was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">way good. But this week she's moving to Yokohama😭 Once she moves we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">want to get her set up with the missionaries there so she can keep </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">learning:) she also loves English and comes to eikaiwa every week so </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">we want to help her figure out which church is closest to her new </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">apartment. But she said she googled it and they're all far from the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">train stations so she's just going to come back to Hachiōji for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">eikaiwa and to see us 😂😂 I love her.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">After eikaiwa we always teach a short gospel discussion in Japanese </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and English for those who are interested and Tomori Shimai and I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">taught English this week. The "Obon" holiday is coming up in Japan and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">it focuses on ancestors and such so we taught about family history. I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">showed the class my family tree that I have on the "FamilyTree" app </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">that the church has and they were all so impressed haha. So hopefully </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">we can help them learn about their families and start their own family </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">trees! It was cool to see them all be so interested in family history. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Family history is cool, y'all. Do some. Do it for the fam.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Hahahahahahahaha recently Tomori Shimai asked me what "What the heck?" m</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">eans and I died laughing when she asked me hahahaha. She was like "all </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the gaijin missionaries say it ALL the time and I'm just like "What </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">mean!?'" Hahahahaha so funny. So now she uses "What the" and "What the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">heck" and it's the best. I also taught her "We fly". When she was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">looking at pictures of us and said we were cute and cool. She uses that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">quite frequently now as well. She has the best vocabulary ever. I love </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">it.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Next funny story: we visited this potential investigator who's name in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">area book is literally "obaasan" meaning "grandma". She is so cute </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">hahaha we didn't actually get to talk too much about the gospel but </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">she gave us a bunch of corn on the cob and edamame. I think she likes </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">us! She was just randomly like "Here, take this! I want to give it to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">you so take it!" Hahaha so funny😂 We want to go back soon and try and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">really talk about the gospel with her.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Hachiōji knows how to put on a show. Wow. During the summer there's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">all these festivals and what not in Japan and on Saturday here in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Hachiōji they had fireworks! For AN HOUR AND A HALF. So long. It was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">great. We went to a member's apartment with our investigator </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and watched them from her balcony and ate some yummy food. Fun </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">fact: "firework" in Japanese is "hanabi" and it literally means </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">"flower fire". I like that🌸🔥</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Yesterday we had two investigators come to church! One</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> hasn't actually started taking lessons yet </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">but she seems to really want to know about the church. She's just </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">really busy but recently she's had some free time! She is so funny </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">haha she texted us before church and was like "I bought a bunch of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">candy and I want to give it to the kids at church". So that's what she </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">did haha and then after church all of the primary kids came up and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">thanked her for the candy and she was soooo happy haha. She also asked </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a lot of really good questions during Sunday school and she told us "I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">am sad we ran out of time because I have a lot more questions" so we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">told her that answering those questions was why we're here and we'd </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">love to answer them! So hopefully we can set up a solid appointment </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">soon. We're also going to family home evening in Kichijoji with her </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">tonight:)</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Wow, I'm sorry, this is a really long email.. so here are some </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">scriptures that I hope you read and enjoy and find some love in them! </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">3 Nephi </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_397437075" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">12:44</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">, 3 Nephi 22:7-8, 4 Nephi 1:15-16, Mormon 3:3, and Mormon </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_397437076" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">5:23</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">They changed when we get transfer emails so I still don't know if I'm </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">transferring or not.. I should find out today so I'll email y'all when </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I know:) but it is kind of blowing my mind that I start my 9th </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">transfer this week. Gross. I'm getting so old. WHAT THE!?</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Well. I'll stop now.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I love you!!!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Stay safe. Stay classy. Stay sassy.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">愛しています💕</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">--フィッシュバーン姉妹🐟🔥</span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">While we were climbing mountains and walking alllll over Takao all day on Friday. <br />I have become very Nihonjin with my fan and my Hello Kitty water bottle cover.</span></b></td></tr>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>The Adventures of Sister Fishburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15740382034439315364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024716875806936668.post-91393634960531556762017-07-17T18:47:00.000-06:002017-08-18T18:47:58.645-06:00"もう回やりたい!"<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">You're all probably like "Sister Fishburn, we can't read or understand </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Japanese. Why did you put it as your subject line? Well, my dear </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">family and friends, that is because today's subject line is what an 8 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">year old in the ward that we've been helping get ready for baptism </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">said after he was baptized. It means "I want to do it again!" Wise </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">words from an 8 year old, right? Don't we all want to be baptized </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">again? I mean, I do..</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We were super blessed this past weekend and were able to see two </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">baptisms! On Saturday we went to Takao for the baptism of Alexandra </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">(that's her English name, she's actually from China. I love Chinese </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">people😊). She is so great. She has super strong faith and she just </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">kept saying that it was the happiest day of her life. Ahhh yiiiiiis. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">And her boyfriend came to her baptism and was like "I've only been to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">church once before but I think I'll probably start going more now with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Alexandra" Yes! Please come! It was a good day:)</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">It came. My "death letter" came. Or as the mission office calls it my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">"Six months left letter". Wait, what? That's gross. We're moving on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">from this now and won't speak of it anymore at this time.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I had the wonderful opportunity and privilege of giving a training at </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">district meeting and basically I have just decided that I should never </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">give trainings because they never go well. Ever. Blah. That's how I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">feel about trainings. Not my strong suit. That's for sure.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">When we went to Takao we decided to spend the day there and work there </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">since we've been kind of bad at having two areas and have slightly </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">neglected Takao.. so we visited some people and didn't actually end up </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">talking to one lady we had meant to talk to because she wasn't home </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">but her daughter was home and we talked to her. She is only 12 years </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">old but is waaaay mature and seems to have thought about faith and God </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a lot before. She said we can come back and talk with her more next </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">week so we're excited to see how things go with her!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">President has decided that instead of sending transfer emails on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Saturday, from now on we'll get them on Monday. So next Monday when I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">email I'll hopefully be able to let ya know what's going on with me </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">next transfer!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Scriptures! Helaman 15:3, 3 Nephi 1:10-11, 3 Nephi 4:8-10, and 3 Nephi</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">4:29-33. Remember the love💙</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I hope you all have a good week!!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Stay safe. Stay classy. Stay sassy.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Love you!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">愛しています💕</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">--フィッシュバーン姉妹</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>The Adventures of Sister Fishburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15740382034439315364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024716875806936668.post-79085559100002788412017-07-11T18:28:00.000-06:002017-08-18T18:29:31.307-06:00I found one!!!!!<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I did it. I have found a Wendy's in Japan!! There is one at the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Machida train station. Despite the pure joy I felt when I heard this </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">news, I did not eat Wendy's. After the initial feeling of euphoria </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">left I was left feeling nothing but straight fear. What if I ate </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Japanese Wendy's and it ruined all Wendy's for me? So I have decided </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">to wait and not eat Wendy's until I am back in the land of bald eagles </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and cars on the right side of the road.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">In other news this week was hotter than hades in Tokyo and it's just </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">going to keep getting worse. It is safe to say that my dislike for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">summer is still there and stronger than ever.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">HAPPY LATE INDEPENDENCE DAY TO THE LAND THAT I LOVE SO DEARLY🇺🇸🇺🇸 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I hope y'all had a great day and felt the love that our forefathers </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">had for that beautiful land.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Okay. I'm done gushing about America now.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">In celebration of the Fourth of July I wore a red and white striped </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">dress that's pretty long. Mistake. We went to Toyoda that day and we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">were there all day so we just brought with us little umbrellas in case </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">it rained. It did. And we were like "oh, it's fine. Well just go do </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">some housing and we'll be fine". WRONG. I was drenched. The bottom of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">my dress got so wet and was so heavy it started dragging on the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">ground. I was walking around holding it up off of the ground. It was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">bad hahaha and the rain was coming down soooo hard. We couldn't hear a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">single thing through any of the intercoms. But hey, we were trying </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">haha.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">On Thursday Tomori Shimai went to MLC in Kichijoji and I went to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Machida on splits with Ni Shimai. She's cool. I like her quite a bit. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">She's half Chinese and half New Zealander(?). But she grew up in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Fukuoka haha interesting, right? Her first language is Japanese but </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">when she decided to go to BYU Hawaii she started learning English </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">again (she learned when she was little but forgot it all) and now </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">she's fluent in English too. She's wicked smart. And SO nice. We </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">taught a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">lesson to their investigator who I had taught before when I went to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Machida last month. It was way good. The investigator is really </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">wondering why we have the Book of Mormon and why it's so important. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">When she said that I was like "this woman needs the Restoration! Give </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">it to her, Machida Sisters!!" Haha but she's way nice and I feel like </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">she will definitely be baptized one day. It may take some time but one </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">day.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We also taught another investigator on Thursday. Hahahaha she's so funny. I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">wish you could all meet her. Seriously. I love her. We help her with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">her English class homework and then teach her after that. We taught </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the plan of salvation to her and she was like "I actually have thought </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">about what happens after we die and it's always RIGHT before I fall </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">asleep and then I can't sleep the entire night because I just think </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">about it the whole night" hahaha so at the end we asked her "did we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">help answer your question?" And she was like "yes!" Hahaha the gospel </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">truly does answer the questions of the soul, yo!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Saturday night our district leader called me and asked me to give a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">training at district meeting next week and let's just say I'm a little </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">worried about that. I become the least eloquent speaker ever when I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">have to give trainings. Nothing at all ever comes out how I want it to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">haha but for now I'll just hope and pray that my district can at least</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">learn something from my rantings about the Book of Mormon that I've </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">prepared haha.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Yesterday we had splits with the Kofu sisters and luckily they both </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">came to Hachiōji and we had two companionship working here. If we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">didn't do that, I would have had to go to the temple from Kofu. That's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">like a 3 and a half hour train ride. And I did NOT want to do that. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Nope. But we also had a Zone blitz last night so it all worked out </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">perfectly in my favor haha. Our zone blitz was good. We had a goal to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">give out 10 copies of the Book of Mormon and gave out a total of 7. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Cranston Shimai and I streeted for about two hours and talked to more </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">people than I think I ever have in one day but NO ONE wanted to accept </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the Book of Mormon. They were all really nice when we were talking to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">them and introducing the Book of Mormon but when we tried to give it </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">to them, they all were like "why would I want this?" So that was rough </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">but again, we were trying! And at least we've given those people </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">something to think about and hopefully left a good impression of the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">church and missionaries.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">This weeks scriptures are Alma 61:9, Alma 62:40-41, Helaman 3:27-30, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and Helaman 5:9-10. Remember the love💙</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I hope you all have a wonderful week this week and never forget </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">there's a crazy sister missionary in Japan who loves you!!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Stay safe. Stay classy. Stay sassy.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Love you!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">愛しています💕</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">--フィッシュバーン姉妹🐟🔥</span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Ni Shimai and I</b></span>We got "Mr. Waffle" which is Belgian waffles. So yummy!<br />Ni Shimai's sweet tooth is probably worse than mine (not even joking)<br />so we were both very pleased with our choice of a break timesnack.</td></tr>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>The Adventures of Sister Fishburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15740382034439315364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024716875806936668.post-89552269772971099702017-06-26T08:54:00.000-06:002017-07-03T08:54:55.558-06:00After all this time..<b><br /></b>
<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">All I can say is at least I'm consistent.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Why am I consistent? Well. I forgot the scriptures for y'all again. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">#classic. So sorry bout that. I had some good ones this week too. GOSH </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">DARN IT. It's okay. Just promise me you'll read your scriptures on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">your own, okay?</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">In other news I have finished journal #2 (shoutout to Liza for that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">one) and am now starting journal #3 (shoutout to Talise for that one). </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I feel like that's how you know you're getting far into your mission; </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">when you have to start writing in a third journal. Crazy stuff, right?</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Anywho.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Bowling with the elders on Monday was very much fun indeed and I was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">just very awful indeed. So there's that. Tomori Shimai's only gone </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">bowling twice in her life and she beat me. Isn't there a saying that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">goes something like "whatever you're good at, there's an Asian that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">does it 10 times better than you"? I can testify that that statement </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">is true.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">On two separate occasions this week we went to visit potential </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">investigators and they were just definitely home (we could see their </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">lights and such) and they just definitely did not answer the door. So </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">that was a real bummer. Why does no know want to talk to us?😞</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Tomori Shimai went to the dentist twice this week and I think all the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">people there were wondering why there was a random gaijin sitting in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the waiting room. It was also funny when a lady sat down next to me </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and I complimented her Hello Kitty bag and she was so shocked to hear </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Japanese come out of my mouth. No one ever thinks the gaijin can speak </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Japanese. Ever. Hahaha but I like to say what little I can and amaze </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">them with my mad skillz (that's a joke, I don't have mad skillz).</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">As for the investigators: no one likes us anymore. No one can meet (or </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">they don't show up to lessons. Rude, right?) and our one investigator </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">who can meet won't accept the baptismal invitation sooo.. yeah. Not </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">much news on that. Also, no one EVER wants to exchange contact </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">information when we meet people on the street. WHY, PEOPLE!? WHY!? </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Wait. I know why. They're frightened by the amount of frizz that is on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">my head. Seriously. The frizz is real bad and it's becoming a problem.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">There is a family here in Hachioji that is semi less active and their </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">son turns eight next week so we've been working with them to help get </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">him ready for baptism. He really wants his dad to baptize him but the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">problem is, I have never seen his dad at church. Ever. Until </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">yesterday! We visited them earlier this week and we're leaving right </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">as he got home from work and asked if he'd be able to come to church </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">on Sunday and she said probably and he came!! Yay!! Things are </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">starting to look like he'll be able to baptize his son!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Hahahahahahaha again with the #classic. We were heart attacking a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">family last night that we always have dinner appointments with and as </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">we were about to tape the last thing (a picture) on their door THEY </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">FREAKING OPEN THE DOOR. So naturally the first thing Tomori Shimai and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I both do is run. Just sprint. But then at the exact same time we both </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">stop, turn around, and just smile at the dad. Hahahaha he was like </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">"uhh.. what are you doing?" Hahaha so we gave them the picture and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">acted like we weren't doing anything suspicious at all. And then they </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">gave us apple juice. Nice.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Thank you to my fambam for the package and the letters for my year </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">mark! Well, thank you to everyone except Macrae because dweeb didn't </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">write a letter. But I still love him. He just doesn't get any thanks. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Anywho, so many treats! I think I'm going to make the no bake cookies </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">tonight and take some with us when we go visit some members tomorrow. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Give them some of that authentic Fishburn love through a Fishburn </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">favorite. I'm excited. Also, I'm hoping that when I make the brownies, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I don't mess them up this time.. because I was so sad last time..</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">that's my life.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Well, fam. It's been real. Have a good week!!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Stay safe. Stay classy. Stay sassy.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Love you!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">愛しています💕</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">--フィッシュバーン姉妹🐟🔥</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>The Adventures of Sister Fishburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15740382034439315364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024716875806936668.post-70706583691905773092017-06-19T04:50:00.000-06:002017-07-03T05:19:11.742-06:00Week 52-- who knew I could even count that high?<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I would like to start today by reporting on the trip to the zoo. I'm </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">sorry to all those Hoogle Zoo enthusiasts out there buuuut Tama Zoo is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">like 30 times better than Hoogle Zoo. I'm sorry. But it's true. It was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">so cool! We were there for like 3ish hours and didn't even see </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">everything. They have a butterfly building where butterflies are just </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">free and fly around and land on the elders and it's magical, y'all. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Also, I saw a koala bear sleeping and nothing will ever beat the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">cutest level of that. Ever. I'm glad to report that it was a good trip </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and I highly recommend it to all (fam, when we come back and visit </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Japan, we're going, okay?).</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Tomori Shimai's tooth is kind of like breaking off in little pieces </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">(yeah, no bueno) so we went to the dentist this week and it was real </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">fancy. Like real fancy. Japan never ceases to amaze me with it </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">cleanliness and level of fanciness. Just in case y'all were wondering. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We're also going back every week for about a month so I'll be spending </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">much time there just soaking up the fanciness and hoping it rubs off </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">on me a little.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">One thing that I think is hilarious is that in basically every church </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">in America there is a basketball court. In Japan, only stake centers </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">have basketball courts and even that is iffy. BUT without a doubt, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">every church in Japan has a ping pong table. It kills me😂 and because </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">of that of course we invite our friends and neighbors to play ping </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">pong with us once a week and I would like you all to know that I'm </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">still absolutely awful and will never take ping pong as seriously as </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the average Nihonjin. But I enjoy watching them get super into it haha </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">it's the best. This week we had a new friend, come and she </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">is adorable. She also came to eikaiwa and I've decided she's actually </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">an American in disguise because she definitely does NOT act like a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Nihonjin. At all.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">On Friday we had a lesson with an investigator and taught the word of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">wisdom. As we were teaching she said some beautiful words. Those words </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">were "oh, I don't do any of these things! This is easy! Of course </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">these things are bad for you". Well. She's kinjin, y'all. But she </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">still won't commit to baptism so that's frustrating but whatever. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">After her lesson we were walking her out of the church and it was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">raining REAL hard. And then it started to hail. Yup. BIG hail. So </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">naturally Tomori Shimai and I both ran outside to play in it😊 Ogawa </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">San and two other members that were there thought we were hilarious </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">haha I'll send some pictures and videos for y'all to enjoy.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">On Saturday we were able to go with quite a few ward members to a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">retirement home and sing some traditional Japanese songs and talk to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the people there. It was so fun. I'm convinced Nihonjin are much cuter </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">when they get old than Americans are when they get old. Old Nihonjin </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">are my favorite. SO CUTE. Every time we finished a song or something </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">one lady would always say "ohh jouzu" meaning "so good!" Haha she was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">so darn cute. I was in heaven. I want to be Nihonjin just so I can be </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">as cute as they are when I'm old. That's my life dream.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Yesterday (Sunday) was Tomori Shimai's birthday so happy birthday to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">my beloved companion, Tomori Shimai! She hates that she's now 21 and I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">think it's slightly hilarious how much she hates that hahahahahahaha</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">PAPA FISH. HAPPY FATHER'S DAY, PAPA FISH. I HOPE IT WAS GOOD AND YOU</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">WATCHED LOTS AND LOTS OF MOVIES AND ATE BUCKETS AND BUCKETS OF POPCORN </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">AND MILKDUDS AND HAD YOUR BLACK AND WHITE PUPPY DOG BY YOUR SIDE THE </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">WHOLE DAY. LOVE</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">YOU💕😘💕😘💕😘💕😘💕😘💕😘💕</span><wbr style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"></wbr><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">😘💕😘💕😘💕😘💕😘💕😘💕😘💕😘</span><wbr style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"></wbr><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">💕😘💕😘💕</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">This week there's a lot of scriptures.. just think of it as making up </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">for the weeks when I forgot or only had like 2😬 Alma 26:14, 32-33, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">37, Alma 29:9-10, Alma 31:5, Alma 32:37-38, Alma 33:4-11, and Alma </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">34:38, 40-41. Again, remember the love💙</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">In other news this week, I have reached transfer 8. Gross. That's what </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">transfer Porter Shimai was when she trained me. That's crazy to think </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">about. This week on Thursday I will hit my year mark. That's also </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">disgusting.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Well.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Stay safe. Stay classy. Stay sassy.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Love you!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">愛しています💕</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">--フィッシュバーン姉妹🐟🔥</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">You know you live in Japan when your first instinct<br />when taking a picture is to throw up the peace sign.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">"When you take a missionary to the zoo.." am I the only one who thinks <br />this looks like a bunch of private school kids on a school field trip?</span></td></tr>
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