The Brooklyn Bridge

Greetings, Fellow Hitos. On page 156 Preach My Gospel so lovingly lets us know that "Nothing happens in missionary work until you find someone to teach." I can therefore, confidently tell you that n o t h i n g  happened this week! Uuuuuuuunntillll last night of course! Because end of the week miracles are definitely a thing.  We decided to go streeting near the Nagano eki! Not because we had nothing else to do, but because that was our definitive choice. Yes. So after a couple hours we headed back toward the front of the eki, and talked to this really tall and pretty woman. She was definitely not Japanese. So we asked. She was from Morocco! And you know what they speak there? ARABIC. And what does my most radical companion speak? ARABIC. Needless to say, she accepted to meet with U.S. Tonight to hear about what happens after we die. HOORAY!  As I have testified of before, the Lord answers our prayers. My testimony of that grows and strengthens each week is this remarkable fi...

And it feel so good. SHO, after tragically saying goodbye to the Papenfuss  Shimai Monday I stayed he night in Meito and picked up Sister Rogers in Nagoya Tuesday. It was so weird and cool to be back together again. She described it as, "being born (trained) for two transfers, dropped off at to the babysitter (new companion), and then back again now that her mother (me) is done vacationing for the summer up North (Nagano)." But we've been having way too much fun cracking the lame jokes we've saved up and making new goals to ROCK as missionaries. We hope.  We taught a total of FOUR lessons  under  15 minutes this week. Hooray! Ha ha no one. NO ONE could/wanted to meet because it was a holiday this weekend called O-bon. It is to respect the ancestors who has passed on. Really cool! HoWeVeR, we went back down to Nagoya Thursday night for Mission Leader Council on Friday. It was definitely the highlight of the week! President and Sister Ishii gave great lessons on the Ato...

Greetings, Blog Reader. Please submit your guesses now for transfer announcements! I woke up this morning after having the strangest dream. I had finished six really short transfers and only had six left. It was quite startling! Luckily I woke up, realized I was still a Beanchan.  Phew! This week was full of exciting and emotional appointments on account of this being Sister Papenfuss' last week in the field. WHAT. NO AUGUSTUS WATER HAZEL WE ARE  NOT  OKAY. She has been working so hard right up to the end, which is inspiring. She loves the people here from the sincerest part of her heart. She has given it all her courage, effort, patience, and love in six blessed areas. And I've been soooo exceedingly blessed to partake in her companionship. Tears were shed and we closed our planners on the final Weekly Planning Session together (do cue 1980s soap opera elevator music). The point is I'll miss her a whole lotta much! We are on the train right now heading to Honbu. What is th...

Hey guys, iss me Miranda-- Ehem, oh, no I mean Sister Brooklyn Brewer, reporting live from Nagano Japan.  Tuesday, we had to do some major iPad training for the area book app we dont have yet. Wha hoo, so fun. We also taught the Eikaiwa! We teach the junior high students and they are so good. As hard as I sometimes think learning Japanese is, learning English from Japanese is way harder. Seen on T-shirts in Japan: "Exceptional dispose immensely, its lovely to see you" "Catharsis Staunch Lovely Eulogy" "Blowing" "Wreath" "Fact the truth is Boat" On Wednesday we left our rice fields to visit the ones in the far away land of Matsumoto for interviews with President Ishii. It was a wonderfully uplifting time. He is such an energetic, dedicated man. Good news: Despite being an imperfect missionary, I get to stick around for the next six transfers! Hooray! Sister Ishii is also very cool. She made us experimental anko cookies (yum) and even wen...