The Brooklyn Bridge

If they published a newspaper for each day of the week, here's what they headlines would say! But I'm not sure, because I don't read the newspaper, because I'm a missionary. Book of Mormon for days. Like. Every day. Monday: Sisters Rejected Even Harder Whilst Trying Out New Family History Approach But Eventually Finds Golden Brazilian Family To Teach Tuesday: Less Active Member Stands Mid-Lesson and Declares "We Are Going to the Culture Festival!" Wednesday:  Investigator Makes Major Breakthrough With Holy Ghost-Feeling Experience Thursday: True Church of Christ Restored By Joseph Smith and Sisters Given Opportunity to Testify About it To Amazing Recent Converts Friday:  Brazilian Member Requests Sister Brewer Cook Six Large Steaks 'American Style;' Sister Brewer Has Never Made Steak Saturday: Japanese Family Serves Missionaries Hamburgers Standing 30 Centimeters High Sunday: 85-year-old Woman Sisters Spoke To On The Side...

Hello Kind Readers! How was your week? My favorite moment this week was yesterday! A great member invited us to her home up in Toyokawa for dinner. SURPRISE. No authentic crazy Japanese foods ladies, she MADE tortillas and we had slammin soft tacos! Her non-member mother happened to be there, and she had a lot of great questions about Christianity. It wasn't too crazy, but we were able to do some simple, direct testifying about the savior and it felt SO good! The spirit of God, like a fire is burning here in the field because He LIVES! I remembered in my past life that I did a lot of acting and theatre and stuff. Some skills I learned there have been rather useful here in the field! Sometimes the play you're in is lots rainbow sunshine and happy scenes and sometimes it's tragic or boring. Usually you just have to act like you have your act together. However, I think acting isn't about pretending to be what you're not, it's about creating the ...

Dearest Mom, Dad, Katelyn, and Eavesdroppers, Hey it's me! Sister Brewer in the Japan Nagoya Mission. Currently stationed in Toyohashi city, working happily but you haven't heard much about it recently, sorry! We have been delightfully busy, and sometimes even busy with the things we want to be busy with. We had lessons this week! In Japan: We've been teaching English/Gospel lessons to a sweet, spunky woman who loves the church but doesn't want to join it. You know, which we've heard a couple of times. She's really nice but has been pretty closed off. In this weeks lesson, Suleman and I were trying really hard to decide what she needed. It's all the same as other machine stories that you've heard from me and other missionaries… We prayed really hard, tried to feel the spirit, and felt it! I taught the lesson and it wasn't perfect but it went really well. We were able to feel the spirit and she opened up a little bit more. Little by ...