Cereal for Days

Aloha, 

I would like to start off by saying that I have to take back what I said about no more cold cereal a couple of emails ago....We got about 10 boxes from a member so now we live off of cereal. (Sorry mom but the cookie crisps aren't going to eat themselves)

This week was like any other week, lots of visiting less actives, lots of funny quotes from Sister Iino, and of course the typical trying to save kittens that are trapped in car engines. I also started reading the book, Jesus the Christ, by Mr. Talmage and its absolutely  phenomenal. If you have never read it, read it, especially my fellow missionaries. If any of you have any suggestions for good church materials to read be sure to let me know, I love finding new church books to read. (I've literally read every ensign in our apartment twice)

I'm so happy to be able to see how far our investigators have come, especially one particular investigator Brandon who is being baptized this week! The district leader interviewed him for baptism and told us that he is so ready. I can't wait to see him grow even more and eventually get sealed in the temple to his wife. :)

This week an amazing thing happened: Sister Iino and I were taking pictures outside the temple and all the sudden she screams and starts running to these members (The Ferris's) in our ward that we don't know very well. I was like okay this is weird...but turns out the Ferris's  had a close family friend staying with them that Sister Iino recognized form Japan! Nobody had any idea they they all knew each other and the friend was basically Sister Iino's second mom from Japan. They invited us for dinner that night and as I was eating, this Japanese lady started taking tons of pictures of me. I was like what is happening I'm just trying to eat my pizza, and meanwhile everyone around me is speaking in Japanese, so needless to say I was very confused. Turns out that lady is a very famous artist and she said she wanted to draw me, which was so cute of her. So anyway long story short *Plays "It's a Small World"* and also if anyone ever sees a drawing of me by a Japanese artist let me know. ;)

I love you all and hope you all have a great week!

The church is true, I promise :)

Alofa atu,

Sister Bowen

Pictures: 

1) Frank Jr., our baby gecko that lives in our apartment 

2) Sister Iino and our cereal and new knifes

3) The missionaries getting VERY excited about the claw machine when we went bowling