I
hope all of you had a wonderful day!! I know my Thanksgiving was one I
will never forget!! It was so wonderful, but we will get to that is a
min... First the Day to day update.
Monday: All the Sisters
our Branch had FHE together!! :) It was so wonderful. We ate treats and
read "You are special." Such a GOOD book! I will send pictures. I am so
blessed to be surrounded by such amazing people.
Tuesday: Happy Birthday
mom!! :) So this week we started teaching each other. We all had to
create and become an Kyudosha (investigator) and then each of us as
companions were assigned someone to teach. My comp and I are being
taught by the trio of elders in our branch and then we are teaching the
Other shimaitachi. :) It is so cool! You learn so much about teaching
simply so that they will be able to understand. It is SO great. I love
it and I learn so much from the chorotachi and Shimaitachi in my
district. We are like one big family. They for sure have become some of
my best friends. Devotional that night was good. :) A member of the
Seventy came. I don't remember everything he said but whenever a they
come they bring such a spirit with them. I love it so much!!
Wednesday: My journal was
written like the scripture that day. I wish I could copy and paste it to
show you. We were all so excited for thanksgiving we went a little
crazy. :) Being in the MTC for a month will do that to you. Good thing I
only have ONE MONTH LEFT!! YAY!!! :) HALF WAY!! Anyway Wednesday was a
good day. We really studied hard and I really felt the blessings from
it. I love the Japanese language. Did you know that?? haha :) But really
I feel so blessed that the lord trusts me enough to learn it and to
learn it well and to teach his children. I mission is the best calling
in the world. I am so excited to go to Japan. Our Sensei(s) this week
have been talking a ton about their missions and Japan and it just makes
me so excited to go!! They people there are SO ready to hear the
gospel!! And Some of them are SO prepared!! :) And the culture and food
sound so amazing!! :)
Thursday: THANKSGIVING!! :)
It
was such a good day and I have so much to tell you so hopefully I will
touch on all of it. So first Elder Russell M. Nelson came and spoke!! IT
WAS SO GOOD. He talked about the importance of becoming best friends
with the Ward mission leader and Family History consultant in whatever
ward you serve in. (I thought of you mom) Those two people are the keys
to helping you reach out to gods children. People really have a desire
to know where they come from and who they are and especially the family
history consultant can help with that. After his talk we had time to
write letters and read and study for a bit. Then we ate a pretty descent
Thanksgiving Lunch. For the MTC it was good! They even had bacon in the
green beans... haha :) Lunch we packed sack dinners and then had more
time to write and study. Dinner then was eaten in our classrooms....haha
It was okay. I will send pictures. But the funniest thing happened....
So the trio of elders thought it would be funny to stick a fake rat in
my bag. And so during Dinner I reached into my bag to grab out my camera
and I felt something nasty. I pulled out my hand and looked and saw
this nasty rat in my bag. I looked at my comp and was like "ew what is
that?" Funniest moment of my whole life.... She screamed at the top of
her lungs and ran out of the room. I was on the ground laughing so hard.
I was dying!!! haha Because of the scream all the people on our floor
came to see what happened. It was the funniest moment. Totally made the
whole day that much better!! I was legit scared when she screamed
though...haha :) It was so funny though. (There are pictures of "Remmy"
the rat below. He has scared a lot of people these past few days...haha)
It was so great to just have time to take a break from studying
Nihongo. :) haha After we had a really cool Humanitarian devotional. The
Helping Hands Program in the Church is AMAZING!! If you haven't heard
about it go look it up. We watched a video about the church helping in
New york after the Huge storms there. It was amazing. Just by looking at
how much the church does world wide concerning service and giving
donations.... There is no way the the Lords Hand is NOT in this work.
The truthfulness of the gospel is manifest in EVERYTHING that the church
does. It is subarashi! :) (wonderful) We were then privalegde to
participate in a HUGE service project. We filled 360,000 Soup bags/meals
to be given to children in Utah who don't have food at home on the
weekends. :) IT WAS SO FUN!!!! I LOVE DOING THAT TYPE OF STUFF!! we did
is assembly line style and I was the one who sealed all the bags. IT was
the best job. My group filled 9 boxes of 96 soup bags. And each soup
bag contains 3 servings. :) or something like that. I don't know all the
facts but it was so cool!! :) We then got to watch "Ephraim rescue"
Which is a great movie :) Then we went to bed. It was great!
Friday: Nothing exciting.... haha :) Just learned lots of Nihongo
and read the scriptures. Oh but they turned the Christmas lights on!!!
:) It is magical here at night!! :) I love the MTC and all I am learning
here.
Read the Book of Mormon
everyday!! It really does bless lives. :) I am really learning to be
humble. I am learning so many of my weaknesses everyday but then as I
learn more about the gospel and the atonement I am filled with hope to
know that it is okay to be weak. The lord promises that he will make
weak things strong as we turn to him. Turn to the lord in all that you
do. Don't forget to look up and be happy! :) "Whenever you get
discouraged look up and say it is going to be a great day!" Brother
Willis told me that. He is in our Branch Presidency. He also is
President Hinckley's Nephew!! :) He looks a lot like him and he is Such a
good and sweet man! I have learned a lot from him. But the most
important thing is to look up! :) Everyday! Look at the sky and feel the
love that Heavenly Father has for you and all of his children. He has
blessed us so much. Oh and if you get the chance read the talk by
President Monson About Gratitude. It is form the 2010 october conference
I think. SO GOOD!!! It has become one of my all time favorites :)
I love you all and pray for you everyday! Have a wonderful week and enjoy the pictures :)
Love, Ashby Shimai
アシベ姉妹 Ps This is what my name tag is going to look like in Japan!! SO COOL HUH?!?! :)
A-Shi-be Shi-mai :)
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