This week was great! I can't remember what happened lastMonday but on Tuesday the Hermana's were out of miles so we bused down to zone training together! Wednesday we also spent the day taking the buses around Baltimore city! And I feel confident in riding them now! Which is awesome because that has been my goal. Man did we get into some SKETCHY neighborhoods! Wednesday the Hermana's GPS died and we happened to find each other on the same bus and got to help them get home safe! Tuesday night they got lost and the Elders had to go save them, so Wednesday we made it back safe together. But man were those two days interesting! And even though we got turned around a few times there were many, many people who helped us find our way. Even though we were in the city and even found our way to parts of the city we are not allowed in past 5pm we never came across a person who was not kind to us! It was a tender mercy of the Lord.
I got a package from my home ward in Texas! Some how after the Zone meeting the package got in the hands of the YSA elders and they got stuck bringing it back to our apartments while taking public transportation! Back to the package! Thank you so much everyone who contributed! One of the last pictures on the dropbox is of me with of those nice gifts! Also! Shout out to the RICKS! They sent me this adorable 2D nativity that I love! Thank you! Aussi Merci pour la package Nat et Jean Claude! Je vous aimez!
These holidays were awesome!! On New years eve the Hermanas who live 2 apartment buildings down from us spent the night together! We made an awesome dinner! So good!
Then we played a few games a member let us borrow! We did a Greg Olsen puzzle! That was fun! We spent a good 3 or 4 hours on that!
The next day we made breakfast and then played Mormon-opoly! It was so funny! we still have that game going! It is a fun one! They I got to rearrange our whole apartment and make it look a million times better!! I feel the spirit so much more in the apartment now that 3 large monstrosities were gone from our living room! (weight bench, unused recliner, a large ugly wooden desk). Then we went back to the Hermanas and played more monopoly and made another dinner! One of those pictures on dropbox was capturing the moment when 3 of us were in "spiritual darkness." Haha that game had so many mormon references I loved it!
We were able to meet the standard of excellence this week of getting 2 new investigators!! That was exciting! The first one was Carole! She was a referral from some spanish elders! She is the coolest! However, she is not a YSA and we had to hand her off to the Elders in her area :(
The other new investigator is Amy! She is a nanny from England! She is working for an LDS family and has expressed interest in the YSA activities and learning about the LDS faith!
Sunday night we also got to have another lesson with our investigator Claire! She is very sure of wanting to be baptized only she wants the approval of her parents. They have asked her to spend a year investigating other churches and if after that she still wants to be a mormon she can. So her progress is going to be slow :( but it is all in the Lords timing! She has spent the past 4 years going to church and YW with her best friend so she knows it all and is working on getting her Personal Progress!
I am excited for the week to come! I hope all of you have had a great new year and are starting 2016 off well!
Love you!
Sister Nakata
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