`Tres pratos de trigo para tres tigres tristes.` Three plates of flour for three sad tigers.
It doesn`t look thaaat hard until you realize it`s Portugues and
not Spanish, and saying any word in Portuguese is almost a tongue
twister of itself. And that it sounds more like `tres pratus je trigo
para tres chigris trischis` with those crazy Portuguese R`s and then
it`s almost impossible to say at a decent pace and not sound like a
gringo. But I think I`ve got it! Well, almost.
We were teaching the advanced students tongue twisters for Eikaiwa,
and they taught us some back. (They gave up at Peter Piper.)
One in Japanese is `Namamugi, namagome, namatamago` Raw flour, raw
sesame, raw egg. (That one`s not that hard, in my opinion. Unless you
try to do it 7 times. Then it gets kind of hard.)
So that`s what I`ve been saying to myself all week. I intend to go back on Wednesday
and blow those Brazilian kids` MINDS, make them wonder whether or not
I`m one of them. :) (However, the Japanese people would never be
fooled.)
And that`s about the most exciting thing that happened this week.
Tuesday we had companion exchanges with the Sister training
Leaders, Allred Shimai and Uryu Shimai (who actually trained Watkins
Shimai, and then exchanged with her). It was really fun! I learned a
lot of valuable things from Allred Shimai about missionary work,
especially a handy little pyramid on how to determine what investigators
need to be taught next.
Wednesday
we had a lesson with H****** with Nakao Shimai! We`re teaching the
Plan of Salvation, and she believes Christ is her Savior, and really
wants to believe everything we`re teaching her. We`re really excited
about where she`s going. :)
We had Mission President Interviews on Thursday, and some training about teaching that I`m really excited to try out.
On Friday,
we had a lesson with H******* again. We had the wonderful
Shimauchi Shimai doseki-ing for us. We`re in the middle of the
restoration, so we intended to teach about prophets & dispensations,
and then Jesus Christ. Whenever we shared a scripture, she wouldn`t stop at just the one we
shared, but would just keep going on reading, and then have a billion
more questions.
Saturday
we taught Y**********, our new investigator from last week! She LOVES
prayer and is excited to pray every day! We will probably extend a
baptismal commitment next lesson. The problem is, she`s really busy and
doesn`t know when she can meet again.
Speaking of being busy, C****** and her family dropped us due to a
new part time job and no time to meet any more. So that was kind of
discouraging. But what do you do but keep working and look forward to
the day when finally everything works out? That`s it.
Anyway, I love you all! Sorry, this was more of just an informative letter home than anything else.
But,
The church is true!
The Book is blue!
Love, Sister Whitney
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