愛する家族と友達こんにちは！！

ahhahahah this week has been the most mentally draining week of my whole life. My new companion is Kogure shimai, from an area in the tokyo mission boundaries. SHE IS THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahhahaha I love her so much. I don't quite understand everything she says, but she's hilarious and we have gotten really good at charades and using dictionaries and her beautiful electronic dictionary. She doesn't speak very much english at all, but does know some vocabulary words which is a tender mercy. And my japanese has gotten significantly better since last thursday at transfers. woooo! also she is AN AWESOME MISSIONARY!!!! she's constantly looking for ways to serve people and she's so friendly and speaks japanese and is a super clear and powerful teacher and she's basically perfect and even pretended to like the rice that I somehow messed up. hahahah and we have the same laugh which makes me laugh more. she loves inaka and loves to work hard and this transfer is going to be AMAZING!!! also it's her birthday today and we just went to sushi roll (my 2nd time this week... i recently discovered it) and also to a delicious cake shop and also to mcdonalds and bought SAKURA JUICE FLOATS. it's the best birthday I've ever spent with someone. and I feel soooooo full. sushi roll is this amazing restaurant where a conveyor belt constantly displays different plates of sushi in front of you and you just take as many as you want and each plate is about a dollar and has 2 adorable little sushis on it and you're happy for the rest of your life. today I discovered the delicousness of eel. who would've thought?

hahahah on the flip side my headaches are picking up but they aren't nearly as bad as the ones I had at the MTC or a few times at home. Tender mercy!!!! but they've moved a little bit and now I mostly feel them behind my eyes? they're okay though, really, and if they get any worse, which they probably won't,  I have loads of powerful american medicine in the depths of my suitcase and we have the power of God on our side so there's really no concern at all. just a casual update.  

also satake san is confirmed and an official member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- Day Saints!!! It's the coolest thing of my life to see someone's life change so drastically and to see their entire complexion change. She's doing really well. we're going to go visit her tomorrow and I just love her to pieces and she's the cutest thing I've ever seen in my life and when Pipers shimai had to leave she gave her 11 dollars and refused to take it back since it was the 'feelings of a grandmother'. So we gave them to her nephew to give  back to her or use for tithing or fast offerings. hahha. she's sooo cute.

Kogure shimai and i taught mao chan about eternal life this week and I don't have any more time but i think I wrote about it in my journal but summary-- she's the most pure and ready-for-the-blessings-of-the-gospel person I've ever seen. we started out by saying we were going to talk about eternal life and she said, ''ahhhh I want eternal life!!'' hahah but we taught her why she wants it because she didn't actually know what it was and she currently wants it so bad and at the end prayed so that she would be able to be  baptized because her mom is hantai but we're going to visit with delicious american cookies hopefully tomorrow and melt her heart with love. the lesson was super awesome. I LOVE HERRRRR. otherwise Toyooka is full of searching for more people like her and satake san whom we have yet to find. but we're being faithful and we'll find them. Woo!!!

i love you all!!! have a wonderful week!!!

love,

sister daniels

p.s. eel sushi

sakura juice and the beautiful mao chan

post-eternal life lesson with kogure shimai (left) mao chan (middle) and misa chan (right). I'm the gaijin