February 24, 2014

Konnichi wa! How's everyone doinnn?? Sorry it's been awhile. It's hard
to type on my iPad so I don't like writing long emails... But today we
went to the temple and I have awhile on the train so I'm gonna write!
This week we did tons and tons of housing. No luck.. But R** is
progressing and so is T** and her daughter M**. Oh we did find this
Chinese guy, K**. He is fluent in English so we chatted a little and
then he came to eikaiwa and we handed him off to the elders. We were
bummed cause he's totally kinjin (golden). The Elders set a
baptismal date with him for next month. Way cool. He keeps telling the
Elders that God led me and Sister Kohler to him. 金人。Temple day was
awesome. I love the temple! I wish we got to go more but I'm already so
lucky that I even get to go on my mission so I probably can't
complain. I'm just happy we have one in Provo so I can go whenever I
want when I get home! Today Kuwahara Shimai (my trainer) showed up at
the temple. Haha she's such a spaz. I love her! Transfer calls are next
week. Crazy. This transfer flew! Are they going faster and faster for
you too? I'm starting transfer 8 next week. Only 4 more to go. 2/3
left. Weird. 早いすぎる！ So yeah... That's about all I got. I'll send some
pictures too.

Love you all!

Kuwahara Shimai

This wall was too cute!!

February 17, 2014

Things here are good. The weather is totally the worst, it's like sleeting rain. Well it's sunny today luckily but all last week it was way rough. We haven't found anyone recently so just finding. We have one investigator with a baptismal date. Her name is Risa. But it sounds like Lisa when you say in Japanese. She's 17 and lives with her boyfriend and dropped out of high school. But she is the cutest thing and she loves us so much. We are teaching her today. I'm excited. We have iPads now. They're nice for studying and stuff. Apparently we are going to be using Facebook pretty soon. Weird!!

February 3, 2014

Hello! This week was good! K** is doing awesome. She totally wants to get baptized but she's a little nervous she won't be ready. We will keep working with her so that she will be! Her baptismal date is Feb 22. She can do it! She's the cutest. We asked her if she has felt the spirit and she told us this story how she didn't know if she should move back to China and be with her mom so she prayed and read the Book of Mormon and she had a feeling she should be with her mom. She was so excited that she had that experience! She's totally awesome. We just need her to be baptized before she goes back to China..! She`ll make it. Other than that, we are just finding. We have an appointment with a family this week and are praying it goes well. They are way cool. They surf, even in the winter. We love them. Okay, well that's about it.


Does this kid not look like Alex? The first time I saw him and every time still, 

I think it's Alex for a second. It weirds me out.



This is the cutest little girl ever in our ward. Love her.

Basically I live for Costco.



Costco baby!!

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!!