Konnichiwa! happy late thanksgiving!!!!! hahha my keyboard is the opposite this week and now the caps lock doesn:t work. otherwise that would:ve been in all caps (: 

I don:t have a ton of time, but I really want to talk about my thanksgiving (: Kyoto is amazing, and everyone started putting up the most precious Christmas decorations I:ve ever seen. basically everything about japan is wayyyy cute. even the pachinkos-- casinos. hahahh they play videogames in there and every so often when they come out with a new game they:ll advertise it and it never fails to include some sort of animated character. The last one kinda looked like wreck it ralph. (: 

anyway, that day we had our first real lesson with our investigators-- the daughter and mother. we were way excited because we got them to meet together. When we walked through the door there was this wayy cute 23 year-old girl standing there. O-san brought her friend from work who is CHRISTIAN. That lesson we taught that God is their Heavenly Father and the entire time all three of them were super engrossed in our words and *mmmmmm*-ing in agreement. ahhhhh the Spirit was sosososo strong. At the very end of the lesson I invited all three of them to be baptized. hahha which was almost intimidating in my first lesson, but immediately after I asked they all enthusiastically said, [ohhh itadakitai!!!! baputesuma o uketai!!!] -- we will! we want to be baptized! we didn:t set a date because we had to leave in a couple minutes, but before we left the husband (who used to be hantai, or pretty opposed to his wife and daughter meeting with us) snuck his wife some hand cream to give to allred shimai and i as a gift. and we talked with him quite a bit on our way out. he speaks really quickly so I can:t understand a lot of what he says, but i just *mmmmm* in agreement and laugh if I don:t hear a [ka] at the end of his sentence. also, before we started the lesson, they fed us delicious cheesecake and grapefruit juice with really tiny plates and cups and forks. i think it:s safe to say i:ve had my first real tea party, excluding the tea aspect. so i guess it:s just a paatiii. 

this new girl is pretty busy with her work schedule (which is expected because she works with O-san) but we did have a second lesson with her which was super awesome. It was centered on baptism and we made sure she wanted to stick with it and then tried to set a date. hahah she misunderstood us the first time and has already been baptized twice in different churches and wants to figure out if she likes our church first before she is baptized. But she soaks in everything we tell her and is super interested in why she is here on earth and what happens after she dies. Also, she is super different than any nihonjin i:ve met because she told us she wants to be best friends and will hug our arms all the time when we talk with her and she is crazy friendly and loves meeting with us because she always feels happy. She also thinks we look hilarious in our bike helmets and took a picture to send to her boyfriend-- whom she wants us to convert because he:s not christian. i think i:m really going to enjoy this experience. (: ahhhh i want them to get married sooooooo badly and see them through the temple before I go back home. 

this week we also taught my first eikaiwa! we teach english to whoever wants to come. None of them are investigating the church, but they:re the cutest people i:ve ever met and one of the older men brought us cookies. scratch that, the japanese kids are the cutest human beings i:ve ever seen in my whole entire life. i love these people. also, i think i will adopt japanese twins. 

haha i:ve got to email my mission president. i love you all! enjoy the first week of december!!! it:s still way nice here-- usually sunny and 50 degrees. 

love you all!!! i:m praying for you all! 

meg/ daniels 姉妹