Hi my FAMILY!! I love you ALL!
Guess what!? I:m TRANSFERRING AGAIN!! I:ve only been in
Morioka for 2 transfers, but President Smith I guess loves moving us around and
giving us new experiences, because here I go to AKITA! Its by the Sea of
Japan!!!! Whewhew! I will transfer on Wednesday morning. My next companion is
Carlson Shimai!
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| Sister King is transferring from Morioka to Akita. |
And what I:m so excited about is that MATAOA Shimai, my very
very first missionary companion (in the MTC) will be in the same apartment with
us! I:m so grateful and excited to have a second chance to be her friend, since
the first time around was a lil` bit rough. But now I love her and can:t wait
to make lots of memories with my Tahiti sister!
This week we went to a lady:s house and helped her clean it.
She is not a member, but her daughter in Tokyo is. Her daughter was the one who
called us and organized the project for us to come with 4 elders and go help
her clean her mom:s house. It:s an old traditional Japanese house and we got to
help clean out cupboards and vacuum and such. As we pulled out tons of stuff
from the cupboards, it kinda turned into a mini garage sale! They gave me this
cute little wooden set of Japanese dolls of a prince and princess, that you put
out on March 3rd for Girls Day!
This week was Obon, which is the holiday where everyone goes
with their families to put flowers on the graves. People are really busy
because of Obon, and so this week there were only 2 members who came to English
class. We decided to have English class anyway, and me and Butler Shimai
started teaching English to everyone (the other missionaries and the 2
members). But then a girl who had come to English class last week walked in
with 4 of her friends! They are all Chinese and they were so genki! Manjyu:s birthday
was the next day so she:d brought her friends and came to the church so we
could all have a birthday party together! We put up tables and chairs and had a
wonderful birthday party! One of her friends brought wine, so Oomija Choro, our
District Leader was just like, Oh hey, lets just have this be a center piece tonight,
okay?
We all just talked and they could all speak English really
well. As I was sitting there talking to Wong, who is a college student at the
nearby college, it was just such a cool moment, to be in Japan talking to one
of my Chinese brothers! Its just so amazing to be able to talk to someone who
lives on the other side of the world from me. Its just a very
real-earthy-soul-human being-feeling...like we:re all just here doing the Earth
Thing! And I:m a Utah girl, and your a China man, but here we are talking and
laughing and talking about our families and showing him our family picture!
Life is so wonderful!
This week we went out into the country again and visited a
member in our ward who lives all by herself out there. We had snacks and had a
good time with her and she was really grateful for our visit!
Then we tried to visit a less active who lives out there
too, but he wasn:t home. So we knocked on a couple of doors. And the 2nd house
we knocked on, the man answered the door, and right off the bat, he kind of
motioned to us to look inside and he said he had a cat. Sure enough we looked
in and there was the cutest lil: kitten named Mimi! So cute! We gave him a Book
of Mormon and we are going back tomorrow with the elders to help him pull weeds
in his garden!
Another door we knocked on earlier, wasn:t so friendly and
no kittens...the lady came to the door and Isogai Shimai said we were
missionaries and that we were sharing a message about how God loves everyone,
and she said "if God were real, He would help us." And then closed
the door.
Its hard to see so many people who don:t believe in God.
Another man we talked with this week, I tried asking him about what he believes
in and he said he believes in "nature". So I asked him if he believed
that God created nature, and he said no. Sometimes I wonder how someone can
start believing in God, when they seem so hardened against it.
But I love the hope I feel from the Book of Mormon, and Alma
and Ammon and the Sons of Mosiah who through the power of the word of God and
the power of Christ:s love, were able to help bring thousands of the Lamanites,
who were hardened against the truth, to come to know and embrace the Gospel and
the Atonement of Christ. That's a true story! So if it happened then, it can
happen again!
This morning as I ate breakfast, we were listening to the
hymn "I Stand All Amazed" on an EFY cd. The phrase that stuck out to
me was this: "...that He should extend His great love unto
such as I, sufficient to own, to redeem, and to justify!..." Isn:t that
beautiful, about our Savior:s love? His love is sufficient. Its complete. He
loves us so much, and I am so grateful for that! I love Him too.
Thank you for sending Dad:s journal entries! I:m so excited
to read them! Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!
I love you!
Love Kingu Shimai
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