I am in Kurume! I love it! My companion Sister Oi is wonderful. She keeps me laughing. It's been a great week and a wet one. _rainy season as a missionary is... wet. Extremely. Since I got to call home I:ll just make this a short email but Mom happy mothers day! And rachel happy birthday this week! have fun! And good luck with your drivers lisence! :)
I thought Iwould just tell about my last lesson in Okinawa and the new investigators we have found in Kurume thus far.
Sister Wedekind (I miss her!) let us have a big lesson with some of our investigators at her home. We taught about the Atonement of jesus Christ. I was really neat! Language and cultural differences are always barriers so we had lots of examples. I shared the experience of me breaking my nose and how when that happened I needed more than a bandaid... I needed a doctor with experience. The same principle applies in our lives. We have problems, difficulties and pains in life that can:t be healed by our own attempt of putting a spiritual bandaid on it. We need a physian and that is our Savior. We had lots of good examples, visual aids and Sister Wedekind and her daughter Meadow shared really power testimonies. We watched the because of him video on mormon.org (which is wonderful! look it up!) and then I shared my finally testimony with these ladies that I love so much. It just kind of hit me at that point that I was leavning and these wonderful people I had spent so much time with weren:t going to be able to come with me. Of course I started crying :) shocker but I really felt the spirit. I shared my basic testimony that _God really does live. That he is aware of us and that he is involved in the details of our lives. And because of the Atonement of our Savior Jesus Christ we can return to live with him and our families eternally. We all balled :) It was a wonderful lesson to end on and I pray for those people everyday. I miss them!
Lastly just to make you guys laugh. My japanese is coming along but I:m also attempting to learn... Vietanese! That has got to be the hardest language i:ve ever heard. I:m horrible at it. Sister Ooi is great at finding international investigators. We are teaching one Japanese man, and everyone else is either Chinese or Vietanese. Fuin stuff! Lots of pictures and confused faces as we speak a mix of english, japanese, and vietanese. Pray for us! :)
I love you guys! I was so HAPPY to be able to hear you and know that you are doing well! Have a wonderful week!
ホキンス姉妹
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