konnichiwa!!!!

DAD I MET YOUR OLD COMPANION, ELDER NAKATSUKA! He came to my branch yesterday and he and his wife are sooo awesome! hahah he told me stories about you two from when you were companions in Sapporo. He was just called as the new mission president for the Sapporo mission! alsoooo he and his wife gave Pipers shimai and I a bunch of gifts. also Sister Nakatsuka gave me a hug from you and mom. (: that was fun (:

cool story: we went and visited some former investigators-- actually people that my MTC sensei had found and began teaching. haha I totally used that and we bonded super hard and the grandmother invited us inside and showed us a Book of Mormon he had given her with pictures of him and his testimony inside. she gave us some moogicha which is tea that we're allowed to drink. haha the first time I had it it was awful and tasted like cigarette butts, dirt and oil but I'm starting to actually like it? It's definitely an acquired taste.

Anyway, she has half of a tongue-- the left half. and as you can imagine it was super hard to make out what she was saying, which added to the difficulty of understanding older woman japanese, which added to the difficulty of just understanding japanese in general. haha. but I just said a quick prayer begging for help that I could understand what she was saying, and be able to talk with her. IT WAS A MIRACLE. I understood almost everything that she said and she and I became best friends and the Spirit was so strong and we had a totsuzen lesson with her (on the spot) and we're going to meet with her again with the rest of the family and it was beautiful. It was soo cool. Words were just coming out of my mouth and it was the coolest experience of my life and now I can't understand a lot of what people say but I could that night! and that's all that matters. This is the Lord's work, deshoo.

I love you all!!!! have a great week!

meg