week 4: ups and downs

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Konnichiwa!

Man the week has passed so fast here. Everyday flies by. This week was the same schedule. It's fun with the snow, all the international missionaries love it and get so excited! We taught our investigator, Higashimuki San (he is one of our teachers that we practice teaching with). It was awesome though! Our Nihongo (Japanese) is improving a ton. It's hard to see it at first, but after a while you can see the improvement!

Funny keiken: two good ones this week. 
1. Gawrys Shimai and I were walking and she started to slip. She said "I'm going to fall" and a few seconds later she was on the ground laughing! Some sweet Chorotachi (elders) slid up to help.
2. One night Hippolite Shimai was watching old videos we made and someone was laughing. Rasmussen Shimai said "man I have an ugly laugh." Hippolite Shimai looked over and said " that was me laughing!" We all couldn't stop laughing. It was super funny.

Spiritual keiken: Our speaker this week was Tad R. Callister. He talked on the Book of Mormon.  It was really cool. He went through a bunch of facts that prove that the Book of Mormon is true but at the end he said the way to know it is true is to read it and pray because the spirit is the only certain and sure witness. 

New words: Nihongo ใซใปใ‚“ใ” :Japanese 
                      Senkyoshi: missionary 

It was a really cool week with a lot of ups and down (usually from slipping ๐Ÿ˜‰)
I miss you all and I hope you all are well. I know this church is true and the Book of Mormon is true.

Love 
Thompson Shimai 


picture breaks are ALWAYS needed!




Rasmussen and Gawrys Shimai 


epic photobombing



BEST MTC ROOMIES


One of the highlights of the MTC has been participating in the MTC choir.
Brother Eggett doesn't just teach us songs, he teaches us the meaning and stories behind the hymns we sing. It is one of the places where I feel the spirit so close, and it testifies to me of the truth in the words I am singing.


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