Konnichiwa, or Ohaiyo, or Konbanwa,
Depends when you are reading this.
I hope everyone is having a wonderful week. I'd love to say thank you for your support and letters. (You'd think we'd get sick of saying this... but we missionaries really won't) Let's see if i'll be able to recall the weekly events here at the MTC. On Tuesday we had the first ever devotional at the mariot center in Provo. All the missionaries got to get some breath of freedom and hike the long way of about 3 minutes to the center. I got to get there early because I get to participate in the chior~ No big deal really, I'm pretty sure the whole MTC is in this chior. We got to hear from Elder Arnold of the 70. His talk really inspired everyone, I think. He spoke alot about using our gifts as missionaries to not, take away who we are, but to raise up and do what we can to spread the gospel, and invite other to come unto Christ. He also spoke about how the light of Christ can change anyone who choose to believe. He brought up 3 different kinds of metals. One that wasn't cleaned, one that was just a plain old sheet, and a clear glass dagger. It really was beautiful. Even though you may see people as the first two, you must change your expectations to what God wants them to be. See everyone as Children of God, and everyone who needs Christ.
There are some pretty exciting events coming up soon, so I'll try to have some organization to this letter. I think there are about 1500 missionaries singing. HOWEVER on sunday's devotional (on the 23rd) It will be different. There Is going to be a world wide broadcast missionary... conference... thing, and I'll be singing in that. The first Presidency and 8 of the 12 will be there. YA! I'm super excited. I've never been in a choir, or got to sing for the General Authorites. After the devotional on Tuesday Elder Arnold came into our classroom to shake everyone's hands. Honestly when he first came into our room I thought he was just one of the branch counselors from different branches... it wasn't until I looked up at his face as he shook my hand as I realized who it was. He talked to us for about 2 minutes about what we learned during our talk and left. That was so amazing!
Oshima Sensei left us T-T... He had to go teach the Nihonjin missionaries upstairs on short notice. It was sad at first, but then It just meant that we got to meet a new teacher. Now we have Holister sensei. He's pretty cool, I don't know much about him yet. I hope Bailey Choro won't be too harsh on him. Oshima sensei comes down every once in a while to say hi.
I'm sorry this E-mail might be a bit short. I'm starting to run out of time. I leave to Japan in about 9 days. I guess that's pretty big news. XD So I hope I can get some letters out before I leave. Though, things might get tough. Wish me luck!
Ai shite imasu!
-Money Shimai
Oh~ Also I've attached a fail of Oshima sensei and his tie. It has blue pickachus on them. He seemed pretty excited about it. Also I want everyone to appreciate Thayne Choro. He's an elder from our district who brings a smile to everyone's faces. Here is one of his very famous "Thayne Faces" Thayne Choro is the one on the far left. haha, Man I love everyone. ANYWHO~ Until next week!
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