Sato sensei!

So many miracles this week! But I will tell you the biggest one.

I got to go to church with Sato Sensei who was my brother's elementary

school teacher when we loved in Japan before! I wrote about her a little in my blog around Christmas time last year.

In the last few weeks I kept finding myself thinking about her and

feeling like I needed to contact her again. 

Well, the Senzokuike sisters called during the week and said that she had come to church

out of the blue! We set an appointment for the sisters to call me with

Sato Sensei when she comes to church again on Sunday. I was able to

talk to her before church and it was amazing! She had gone to church with Nagayasu shimai. 

It was so kind of Nagayasu shimai to go to church with her. The member had since been

transferred to a different school so they are not even working

together anymore. How nice of her to go the extra mile.

The most surprising part of this whole experience was that after that

phone call my companion and I went down to participate in Relief

Society (our ward does RS, SS, then sacrament). I said the closing

prayer and looked up and Sato Sensei was sitting there! Crazy! What

was she doing here? Nagayasu shimai had taken it even a step farther!

She invited Sato Sensei to slip out of church in Senzokuike and they

got on a train headed to Shibuya. They had a arrived and sneaked

into the back of the RS room! What? It was amazing to see her. She had

not changed at all. You know that friend that you can just pick up

where you left off? That was what it was like. We were hugging and

crying and telling the members around us our story! She bore testimony

that she had been guided by the Spirit and that what we had was an

eternal friendship! 

She stayed for the rest of church and then we got to go to the church

potluck. It was such an amazing experience. We got to talk about

everything that happened in both of our lives since we had moved back

to America. She told me that the next step for her was to come to

church every week. She's worried about her parents who are against her

joining a religion, but she knows that when the time comes she will be

baptized. We both felt like we will see each other again and that one

day she will be baptized!

We owe so much to Nagayasu shimai, the member who stayed true

to her covenants and kept the word of wisdom. I know that she was used

by God to bring about this great and marvelous work!

Orton shimai, Nagayasu shimari, Sato sensei, Palmer shimai