this week the sun came out for like 3 days!!!!!!!!! hahhah it was actually so uplifting. when the sun comes out, toyooka is the most beautiful place on the face of the earth.

I can't even remember what happened this week; it goes by so soso fast. S. san is a champion and I also decided that she looks a lot like Yoda. hahahh which is not an insult because he's a jedi master. but she's still the most energetic woman i've ever seen besides her 87 year old neighbor who visits her every day and is also widowed. hahah Pipers shimai and I dropped by this past week when they were together and they were the cutest things I have ever seen. Also her friend was obsessed with Pipers shimai and I and asked if we used magic lotion to make our skin white. hahah I like her. and it also made my life because Satake san showed her her Morumon Sho and all of her books from relief society gospel doctrines class. She's a good missionary. hahah also she showed her all of the books we'd made for her. They think our art is like super impressive, but I know for a fact that any average 7 year old could do a better job hahha. but her friend said that we must have pure hearts because only people with clean hearts can draw ''such beautiful pictures''. maybe she'd come to the same conclusion. (;

Around each month our mission president gives us a training plan to study and apply to our missionary work. they are the BEST things ever and always always so inspired. At district meeting last friday he, through the district leaders, distributed a brand new one that is only in effect for 2 weeks and is centered purely on coming to know who Jesus Christ is. IT IS SO POWERFUL I LOVE IT SO MUCH. honestly, there are going to be incredible, innumerable miracles in these next two weeks. I feel like our area is going to pick up. I don't know how but I feel it. I have no clue, but our Lord, Jesus Christ does. And we study and learn about Jesus Christ everyday as missionaries anyway, but it's just another added focus. It's purely learning more of Him and strengthening our personal relationships with Him in our individual lives and in our dendo. One of the goals is to be able to bear powerful and simple testimony of our Savior, Jesus Christ. Ah man I love it. Also, next Friday a member of the 70, Elder Whiting, is visiting the mission and we get to travel to see him!!!!!! I'm so excited (: This week is going to be AWESOMＥ。but in reality, every week is awesome. When your life is centered on the Redeemer of the world you really can't ask for anything else. A mission kinda chips away your heart but it molds it and sands it and makes it just a little bit better than it was

I'M SO EXCITED TO HEAR WHERE STERLING GETS CALLED TO!!!!!!!!!!!! tell him I'm proud of him and that his mission is going to be so hard but so incredible and he's going to LOVE it!!! i'm so excited for him!!!!!!

have a good week!

ai shite imasu!

meg