peace as I go about every day now. As I talk with people on the
streets and teach lessons to investigators I feel full to the brim
just to be apart of this work. I don't feel like it's ending at all,
not one bit. I just know how to do missionary work now and I will
continue to do it. You bet the provo sister missionaries are my new
best friends. I love missionary work. I love you all. I love my
Savior.
This week was wonderful as usual! This email is going to be shorter
because I don't have a lot of time today. But we have met with lots of
investigators and I guess I will tell you about a couple lessons we
had, on Wednesday we had a lesson with Hiyori in the morning and she
tries so hard to strengthen her faith. We talked about the plan of
salvation and how we can live as families together forever. She told
us, "I only want to be where my husband is, if I'm not with him, it
won't be heaven for me." We promised her that both her husband and her
could be together forever if she made those certain steps in life to
follow Jesus Christ, we want to see if next time we can meet with both
her and her husband, he is a pretty strong buddhist.
On Thursday we had lunch with a lady who was really curious about us
as missionaries. She is a piano student of sister Iwanaga in our ward
and sister Iwanaga brought us over and she was so amazing. Iwanaga
Shimai is a bomb missionary. She basically taught her about the
restoration and we just smiled and bore our testimonies and gave her
the tools to do it. I love the members so much!
Later that day we went to Sato san's apartment and taught her about
finding faith in Christ and she says she wants to follow his example
and be baptized but she won't be able to come to church that much for
a while because she is getting treatments done to see if she has
cancer. Please pray for her that she can make this step. We love her.
We met this random lady on Friday who was a former investigator and
she came to a baptismal service the church had on Saturday night and
she left within the first ten minutes of it and we had to go see if
she was okay and she was having a hard time we found out a whole bunch
of her life out there and she has had it pretty rough, she was able to
watch the baptism and it lifted her spirits a lot but we aren't sure
how to help her, hopefully it will work out for her.
On Sunday Hiroko, our brazilian friend, came to church and I tried my
best to speak some portuguese to her but I usually can only speak
japanese with her. But she is wonderful anyway, the ward loves her and
we are excited for her. She is going home to Okinawa next weekend to
figure out when and where she should be baptized with her family, I am
so excited for her. Her brother is going to baptize her. So wonderful!
I loved having Jordan baptize me. It was special to me and I know it
will be special to her.
I know that this is God's work and it is done in his own time and in
his own way. I love Japan and the people I have met here. They have
such beautiful hearts. I am so incredibly blessed.
Love, Sister Staples
ステイ姉妹と坂本姉妹より
末日聖徒イエスキリスト教会
Oscarson's family! I love them so much! Oscarson shimai is so good at cooking!!!
Hiyori-san! She is awesome! She is one of our investigator - ps: I ate all that sushi by myself!
Walainuch! Our new investigator! She is from Thailand! We love her so much already!
Isa shimai's house! Awesome doseki lesson for Hiroko! Who is investigating the church!
