I miss you all so much! And I love you so much!
This week is President and Sister Rasmussen:s last week here
in Japan! Our new Mission President comes this week! We had our last zone
conference this week with the Rasmussens, and then Morioka also had District
Conference (like Stake Conference) on Saturday and Sunday, so we got to see the
Rasmussens then too! The District Conference was so cool! It was broadcast live
to all the stakes/districts in Japan from Salt Lake City! Elder D. Todd
Christofferson and a couple other general authorities spoke to us! It was so
good!
The biggest news of the week is that our sweet investigator
Ryo chan finally received permission from her dad to get baptized! She:s wanted
to get baptized for a long time, but her parents wouldn:t let her. But this
week, her dad finally gave her permission! So she will be baptized this coming
Sunday morning!! She has attended church for the last year, and is so faithful,
brings her friends to church, and is basically a member. But now, she:ll get to
make the covenant and receive the Holy Ghost, which she is super excited
about!
This week me and Morita Shimai were walking on the road that
goes by our apartment and up in front of us was this big guy walking up ahead
of us. He had a crutch under both of his arms and one of his legs had this
medical leg equipment all up and down his right leg. His foot couldn:t even
touch the ground as he walked because the medical equipment suspended his leg
up in the air a few inches above the ground. He walked so slowly and uneven. I
walked behind him and just watched him. It made me so sad. I don:t even think
about walking, but for him, every single step is hard. We caught up with him
and told him hello and talked about what beautiful weather it was and asked him
where he was going. He was so kind and just seemed like a good soul. We only
talked for a second and then went our different ways, but I was thinking later,
that I hope I can meet him again. I want him to know that because of Christ,
one day, he is going to walk! I really want him to know that! It was a sad
moment, but I am thankful for what I felt, because it was one of those
"life moments" where you just kind of stop and remember just how
beautiful and fragile this life is, how really dependent we are on our God, and
the gift to be human and to be alive.
This week we went again to Muraki Shimai:s house out in the
country and helped her stack a pile of firewood and pull some weeds. She is so
sweet! We got to meet her husband for a second, who isnt a member and he told
us thank you for the help! Then today, we had a cooking party here at the
church with Muraki Shimai and some other sisters in the ward, and Muraki Shimai
invited a less active sister to come too. It was so fun! We made tacos and Oreo
pie!
Something I do pretty much every morning is 100 JUMPING
JACKS out on our back porch in the morning sunshine!! I LOVE it. It is so good
and invigorating!
Well its time for me to go. I love you!
Love Kingu Shimai
Hi my Mama! I love you so much! I was just looking back at
your letter to me a couple of weeks ago, where you wrote all about your
honeymoon to Jackson Hole and the wedding day. Thanks for writing all of the
wonderful details of beautiful life!
One of my favorite parts was you sharing so specifically
about when you were getting married and you walked up and hugged Grandma Kerr
and she was crying. It was so short and sweet and simple what you wrote, but it
was beautiful, and just knowing about that little moment with you and Grandma
Kerr has so much meaning.
Also it was fun to read that now you are an army wife! Whew
how exciting! You are so official!
Then in this last weeks letter to me you wrote something
that my heart really needed. The week after the wedding, I started feeling
worried that maybe you might not love Dad as much as Dave. I didn:t want to
write home about it though. I just tried to let it pass and keep trusting. Then
I felt like your letter to me this week was the little reassurance that I
needed from my Mama, cause you said that you had a strong feeling of missing Dad
and that Dad will always be your sweetheart. Thank you so much for telling me
that Mama. But I am so happy you can be married right now to Dave! The other
day I started feeling a little mad that you moved to Kansas, feeling sorry for
myself I guess, and thinking that "I didn:t ask for this!" kind of a
thing. But then the thought came,...but I did ask for my Mama to
have this miracle in her life. I prayed for you to be able to get married! So
the thought that came was that I would much rather have you so happy and
married and in Kansas, than I would want you to be at home, alone and not as
happy. So I am just completely grateful, even though it is a little hard that
you are in Kansas. God is good, He is taking care of us!
Do you know about the Facebook page that my mission has?
Remember how I told you last week in my email about dancing in the festival
here in Morioka? Well, it got filmed and apparently its on YouTube and Sister
Rasmussen told me this week that they posted it to the mission Facebook page. So
if you want, you can check it out! We are Happy from Morioka, Iwate
I hope everything I said in this email is okay. Here:s my
heart!
I love you so much!. Thanks for being my beautiful wonderful
MAMA!
I LOVE YOU.
Love Courtney Elise
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