it was sososososososoossoosoooo awesome to talk to you on the phone (: I loved hearing your voices. hahah sorry i cried. 

they:re moving me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! </3 i:m actually sosososoo sad because everything is going so well with our investigators and we just met this awesome girl who:s Russian and is studying at the college right next to us and she:s fluent in english and and i was so stoked to be a missionary in ENGLISH but now i:m not going to teach her </3 and she has the best accent.Allred shimai is staying in fushimi so at least i know our friends will be in good hands. also i am officially a gypsy.   

they:re transferring me to a place named toyooka and my new trainer will be sister piper. Allred shimai will still be my sister training leader so hopefully we:ll be able to do splits (: ahhhhhhhhhhh i:m going to miss her. i can:t leave my people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but i:m excited for what lays ahead of me in toyooka! Allred shimai told me that my new companion hasn:t had a lot of success in a long time and she:s been kinda down. She:s a 7th transfer and that:s all i know about her! I:m excited to meet her!!!!! I:m excited to figure out why I need to be in this area right now and find the people i:m supposed to help bring unto Christ. 

And thus completes my first transfer! Christmas was amazing! half the ward had us over for meals and i was starting to really click with all of them. they spoiled us and everyone bought us Christmas presents too. i:m happy we already made our thank you notes and delivered those yesterday (: we totally thought i was going to stay. they were way cute: allred shimai taught me how to make paper cranes and we glued them onto pieces of paper and wrote little notes on the back. 

Oh! and last week we went to Fushimi inari which is a shinto shrine and we hiked up the mountain. woo! it rocked. Most importantly, our mission hit our year-end goal of 200 baptisms! we got 204! woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! 

again, sorry this is short: my computer was/is having major issues.

i love and miss you all! 

meg/daniels shimai