Japan Ebetsu 20 months 3 weeks- 99

                                                                                      we look sooo good.

Yes. My best friends. The Henmi family. 

The picture quality is bad again, but look who I got to see!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kawashima Shimai! hahaha she wants to come home to America with me... 

I got my hair cut for 30$ this week. It is usually 80$.. hahaha these are the attractive men that cut our hair hahahaha it was so funny because apparently this hair salon is only for women. 

my last companion. Sorry the picture is kinda bad quality

So this was our last lunch as a district and we ate a place where you can order a kilo of meat and tons TONS TONS of food with it, and it you eat it all in 15 minutes it is free. We made these two elders do it and took pictures with them. It was so gross and awesome. 

They came to say hi to us at the transfer spot then we all went out to eat and missionaries followed. There were over 50 missionaries in one store. 


Last Transfer

It came a lot faster than I thought it would. I got my last transfer call. I am training for my last transfer in Ebetsu. I am so happy to be staying in Ebestu and training is going to be a lot of fun. I will also miss Elder Velasquez so much. Please enjoy the pictures we took of ourselves. 

I went to the mission home on Wednesday to go pick up my new companion. All of the trainers went into the mission presidents office to have a quick workshop and then go meet our companions. I walked in the room and saw my MTC companion! He is training as well! I was so happy to see him. Nakatsuka Kaicho talked to us about the need to be confident, but humble. He said that some of us felt insecure and inadequate to train, some of us felt confident and ready to go (I was that one) yet no matter what we need to rely on the Lord. He said that being nervous and having fear/doubt shows that you will rely on the Lord for help. I was then humbly chastised, repented and went upstairs to meet my companion.
His name is Elder Skinner from Tokyo! He is half Japanese so his Japanese is perfect. More than an American with fluent Japanese, he is a Japanese with fluent English. We communicate in English, but his Japanese is 100 time better than mine. It is so helpful. From there we were able to go out and dendo. We walked around and talked to people on the streets, had some hard rejections, had little 9 year old girls talk to us in fluent English, then we visited Ran san. One of my old investigators from when I was in Moiwa. He is not meeting with the missionaries because it became winter and too cold for him to come to the door or go to church hahaha, but it was warm that day so he came out. He told us he still reads the book of mormon every night and wants to be baptized, as soon as it is warm haha. No. Come to church. 

We came back to the mission home and had dinner and a testimony meeting. The dinner was so much fun. The group of new missionaries are so full of energy and they all sing. So they randomly busted out into some pound your fists on the table song, and then reverently sang the Efy medley haha. The testimony meeting was emotional. Usually it is just the new missionaries that share their testimonies and the trainers listen, well it is different now. Anyone who wants to can share their testimonies. I really felt the spirit, and I had the opportunity to share my testimony. It was a weird feeling. I stood up near the door, looked at everyone and started to testify about the importance of sharing your testimony. I shared some things I have learned on my mission and then realized, in 5 more weeks I will be standing at that exact same spot, giving my last testimony in Japan. It was so hard not to cry. I am not ready to go home yet, which is why I still have this last transfer. 

Hokkaido is probably going to explode this transfer from how hard we will be working. We are doing another concert. We are probably going to baptize at least 250 families and learn soooo much everyday. I am so excited and ready to grow even more these last few weeks. I love you all so much. Be excellent to each other.

-Mecham choro.

oh... I forgot to talk about a guy who fed us at a really expensive sushi place... so we have no investigators right now. only this one guy who is schizophrenic. He talked to us about how crows teach him things, how an animal broke into his head and put a white thing in his brain that gave him a 'super screen' so he can see the future. I am so happy this is the first person that my new companion had the opportunity to teach hahaha. We then gave him a Book of Mormon.