Hi!
This weekend we got to watch General Conference with our ward! We watched in Japanese and I was able to pick up on a lot of words, but totally missed the overall message. I will be "reviewing" and watching in English throughout the week! Yay I love Conference!
This week was not very eventful, I am sorry. I will try and think of the exciting things.
Yagisan is progressing really well towards baptism! Her baptism will be NEXT WEEK!!! AHHH! Right now we are figuring out how the baptism will work because she is in a wheelchair. We have a plan that will hopefully work. I will update everyone next week on what happens. I anticipate and really hope it will be a spirit filled experience!!The weather is getting so nice! We did a lot of our studies outside in the fresh air. Luckily I am not suffocating by the humidity anymore! Riding bikes around used to be the worst thing ever, but I really enjoy it now. I am just a little nervous for when it gets cold. I think I actually might die.
I know there were other fun things that happened this week, but I really cannot remember right now! Oops!
A couple things I missed from last week:
I hit my 7 months!! Woah crazyyyy. It is weird to think that this time next year I WILL BE HOME!! This time last year I though the same thing but that I WOULD BE IN JAPAN! Well here I am. I know the time is going to go so fast, so I really have to be careful as to what I take for granted. For example: the amazingly cheap ice cream you can find everywhere!
Basically I record music now. For real! After zone conference a handful of missionaries were recording music for a mission video and someone must have forgotten to send me the music in advance to practice or something... but I happily joined and surprised myself by my sight reading. Just don't tell the people in charge that I snuck my voice in there. 
Japan Tips- in just about every apartment/house I have been to there is a little square in the top right corner of the bathroom door. It is like a piece of plastic that you cannot see through, but you can see light through. This makes it easy to tell if the light is on indicating someone is using the bathroom! I hope that made sense. I will attach a photo!
- 1$ equals roughly 150¥! I carry around bills that say 1000 and coins that say 100. Wild
- the water cups they give you at restaurants are TINY. I am talking like Dixie cup sizes!
- 面倒くさい- Mendokusai (pronounced men-dock-sigh) means "too much work" I love this word!
Happy JapaneseThe current hot topic on my mind is how perfect God‘s timing is. I see it with the people I meet and looking back on my life, the way things have worked out. I had a lot of worries at the beginning of this transfer, but as it has played out, my testimony of the perfectness of God has immensely strengthened. My companion is one example. She is fearless and has such a huge desire to help everyone around her. If I was training a missionary that did not have this courage, I would be in the gutter for sure. I know God is perfect and so is His plan. Trust in Him even when it gets hard. I love you all! God loves you!
Make it a good week!!
<3 Sister Peterson
10/14/24
Photos!
- I became a samurai in training!!!
- some firefighter asked if we wanted a picture in front of the firetrucks haha we were like okay!
