FUNBUN to FUKUOKA

August 15, 2016

This week we were able to get in contact with most all of our investigators that disappeared for a while! Very miraculous. My favorite lesson was with shomin chan and she shared an experience she had while praying that week. She said "when I prayed, I felt a really strong close watchful protection feeling, but when I opened my eyes no one was there!" Her prayer experiences make everything worth it. God is so present in our investigators lives!

Another memorable moment this week was in district meeting. We have all been in a little dendo slump lately, and our district leader took action into getting us out of it! Together we planned the 'twelve days of summer' which is twelve different themed days with topics like count how many people you can make smile, or how many scriptures you can share in a Totsuzen. It's been so refreshing to have different focuses every day this week and has made dendo fun again.

At the end of district meeting he also gave each of us a piece of paper and told us to write down our testimonies to then keep in our scriptures and read when we need to be reminded of what we know. The spirit flooded the room as we all started to write down our personal testimonies and it was such a special experience.

That's about it from this side of the world. Keep the faith, friends!

All my love, Sundell Shimai

Spiritual enlightenment: found this quote this week and absolutely loved it. "We must be careful that we don’t resent the very things that help us put on the divine nature." It's so easy for me to get grouchy about things that are difficult and challenging, but this reminded me that it is through difficulties that we develop our divine nature. See full talk--- 'More Than Conquerors through Him That Loved Us' by Paul v Johnson

It won't disappoint!

Hiked up to a castle this morning.

Funny story: we went to a yakiniku for district lunch after DM and may have ordered a little too much meat. I had just finished saying how full I was, then the waitress brought out three more trays of meat...YEAH. And since it's all you can eat, you have to finish what you order...somehow one of the Japanese sisters at our table literally downed three quarters of the meat by herself. We were amazed ! And now we are all a little scared and keep a safe distance from any yakiniku restaurants that we see.