Sister Allison Jones week2

皆さんこんにちは！

It's been an exciting week so far! My companion was super excited when we found out the devotional on Sunday was from the BYU basketball coach, Coach Pope and that some of the members of the team would speak as well. I kinda wished I'd followed BYU sports a little better but Fletcher姉妹 loved it and I'm glad she got to get a picture with him. It was really nice though to be taught by a professional coach about the gospel, I feel like we all came out feeling very motivated. I really liked that he talked about dropping our nets like the apostle Paul and following the Savior "all in". He also mentioned how serving the Lord without hesitation can help us overcome the difficulties and uncertainty ahead, he mentioned the missionaries assigned to Japan specifically which was really nice, a lot of the missionaries in our zone felt like this devotional was written just for us. 

There's been a lot of excitement over the coronavirus for all of the missionaries going to Asia. Our district has gotten really close with a district of native Japanese missionaries that are in the classroom next to ours that got here last Wednesday. We have similar schedules and usually eat together. This Tuesday at a workshop though, one of the elders came up to Fletcher姉妹 and I and asked if we would pray for his companion who was feeling really sick. Later that day while we were teaching practice lessons with our teacher some MTC employees came and taped off the Japanese district's classroom as well as the classroom we'd been using for our practice lessons. The entire Japanese district was put in quarantine for a few days and the devotional was canceled. Luckily none of them had symptoms except the one elder still being held in quarantine. It's been such a blessing and answer to our prayers as both of our districts have been able to continue our preparations to serve. We've definetly been able to feel the Lord's hand of protection. A scripture that's helped me a lot this week is John 16:33. 

We had some excitement late Monday night when the sisters from one of the French districts knocked on our door because they'd all been locked out of their room. When we asked what happened they told us that they woke up to the sound of one of the toilets flushing continuously and they all left the room to try to fix it. Luckily Fletcher姉妹 and I were able to get them back into their room but the toilet continued to flush and fill constantly for the rest of the night until maintenance could come to fix it in the morning. Thus the legend of the residence hall ghost was born. 

At choir we learned the story behind the hymn Nearer My God to Thee and Jacob's experience seeing Heavenly Father in Genesis 28:11-20. It was super cool and D&C 88:63 is a good one too! 

Also! Fun Japanese of the week! The Japanese word for the sabbath (安息日) could be translated literally as peaceful breath day and it has the same character for safety( 安全)! So I hope everybody finds safety and peaceful breath this week! 

Make sure to tell Courtney thanks for the package! Definitely a highlight of the week! Feels good to have a coat again and the pockey  was awesome!  

愛しています！ 

ジョーンズ姉妹