January 27, 2014

I cant believe how fast these weeks are flying. This last week was kind of a bust. We had "K" drop us. She kinda has schizophrenia and has to be in the hospital from now on... kinda sad but its probably better for her to be there... So right now we have one solid investigator. "Kat". We tried to give her a baptismal date but she said its too big to chose right now. She said going from believing nothing to getting baptized is a big deal. but she said she wants to do good things and keep learning and she asked us what she had to do to be baptized and stuff so things are looking good with her. Other than that we are just doing a LOT of finding and not seeing much success.... We have a lot of potential investigators. We just need to get things rolling with them. People in Japan are just SO busy. But we`re trying and working hard so please pray we can find a new investigator! Sorry that's about all I got.. Its short but I love you all and pray for you all! Have a good week! Until next time! mataneeee!!!

 

Love, Ames

January 20, 2014

We got transfer calls and I'm staying here with Kohler shimai. I'm so glad. We have a new investigator "Kat". She is Chinese. She came to church and loved it and we taught the restoration and she almost cried and kept thanking us for teaching her. She is so cute. she said she would get baptized if she finds out its true. She said the closing prayer in Chinese and after she was like I just asked for one thing and that's to get an answer. So she's pretty legit. It snowed this week. but it melted by 11am. but its been reeeeally cold!

January 13, 2013

Hello everyone! This week was good! We have a new investigator with a baptismal date on February 9! She has tons of faith and desire and loves the ward so much. She's 60 and a little bit... interesting. ha she's awesome. We are still just doing a lot of finding. we have a lot of potential investigators and we are trying to make appointments with them but everyone here is so busy. "R" hasn't been able to meet with us since our last lesson so she isn't going to make her baptismal date but we`ll just keep working with her. but Pray that "K" gets baptized on Feb 9! We had temple day this week and that's why my email is late but it was awesome! I'm so glad we have a temple in our mission :) I also cut my bangs this week. All the Japanese girls have the cutest bangs so I had to do it. So for New Years they do this thing called mochi tsuki. They make mochi (rice ball things) and just eat with everything. ha We did it at church and it was so fun. I`ll send some pictures. I love you all! Have a good week!



Mochi tsuki!



Me pounding rice



Still pounding...

Some more from mochi tsuki

Temple day

Shibuya at night is sooo fun!

This is a cute girl in my ward. it was her 20th birthday so she wore a kimono.

 



Teaching English class

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

January 6, 2014

 

 

We found  two new investigators who we scheduled a lesson with last night. Two Chinese girls. There is an international university by us so there are  toooons of Chinese people. Actually most of the people we stop are Chinese. Kind of funny, but also way cool.

 

From our Christmas party



The Filipinos!!

We had a takoyaki party last night and a ton of Chinese girls came.
 It was fun and delicious!



Sister Richards with the Chinese girls. 

Our church building!

 





Indian curry is my new favorite food...for real!!

 

December 30, 2013

Hello everyone!! It was so good to see you on skype family!

This week was good! We had a lesson with this Filipino lady named "R" and we talked about the atonement and how Christ knows everything we go through and she started crying. Her marriage is kind of sad and I think she is kind of lonely but we were telling her about that and about baptism and true happiness and help through trials and she was just crying and we asked her to be baptized and she said yes! The spirit was way strong. Her baptismal date is Jan 26. She is soooo busy so I'm afraid we won't get to meet with her enough and move her date but pleeeease pray for her to be able to meet with us. At the end of the lesson she gave the closing prayer and half way through she started crying and she said she was way grateful to meet us and that she promised to get baptized. so... yeah it was pretty awesome. The spirit was really strong and I'm excited for her! Pray she will make that date!! Christmas was good. Christmas eve we just caroled with some members to inactive members for 6 hours.. ha it was way fun though. This ward is so awesome. Christmas we woke up to a million treats and presents from our ward! So awesome! Then we had a few meal appointments with members, we spent a lot of the day finding though. No better way to spent Christmas than serving Christ right? It was good. This week is New Years and that's way bigger than Christmas here so we have a few days where the mission asked us to deep clean our apartments and then another to have a Book of Mormon read-a-thon.. ha. So we won't be finding this week too much because its too hard to right now, but we`re still just looking for people to teach here in Togane. People are being flaky about follow up appointments so pray that we get to teach some lessons! Things are good! I love Togane! I love you all! Thanks for all your prayers and love!

 

Happy New Year!!!

 

Just doing some housing (tracting).

 

Christmas from the ward!!

Christmas dayyy on the trains of Togane

This is Sister Richards, one of the other shimai in our apartment.
She came in and surprised us in her Santa suit (she ripped the pants like 5 minutes after this)
She is hilarious.

Just an average day in Japan

 

Togane Church. Its huuuuge! So pretty

 

December 23, 2013

Its been a good week here in Togane! We have taught a few lessons to some member referrals because this ward is awesome! We also taught two cute Chinese girls. We are meeting with them again today to teach about the restoration. I'm excited they're way cute and wanted to know all about the church. So for Christmas I don't know what we`re doing yet.. but I know Christmas eve we`re going to go caroling for a few hours with some members. It should be fun but freezing. Its getting so cold! Things with training are going good. Sister Kohler is awesome! Her Japanese and teaching skills are like waaaayyy good so she's pretty much training me. Easier than I thought it would be. ha So yeah things are moving along. I love it here and love the mission! Sorry my emails are always short... but MERRY CHRISTMAS! Love you all! #happychristmasharry

December 16, 2013

Hello everyone! I am in Togane and loving it!! The ward is awesome! They have done soooo much for us and are so excited to have us in the ward. My new companion is Sister Kohler. She went to Timpview. Some of you may know her. Tosha Kohler. Pretty funny how that ended up happening. She is way cool and we get a long great though! Training hasn't been hard cause she's so awesome! So yeah the ward has set up a few lessons with us this week to meet their friends and it has been such a miracle. I've never been in a ward to ready to do missionary work! Its way nice! It makes the work a little easier. "T" got baptized on Saturday! Unfortunately, I didn't get to go because the ward here had a Christmas party... I was sad but at least he got baptized! Bagley Shimai said it all went really well. We're just working hard over here in Togane now and loving the cold weather... ha.  Sorry my emails are short.. but I love you all! Have a good week! Happy holidays! Love you!

 

Love, Amy