A New Light

This last month we were able to experience the Festival of Lights. It's really a rather rare opportunity spending time in a Visitors Center.

We are surrounded by the support and love of Senior Couple Missionaries as well as our fellow Sisters. The forty of shared this experience, to support in hard times as well as rejoicing in the miracles.

There was one day, I was on exchanges with our wonderful Japanese sister, she of course, is the only one around that speaks fluent Japanese. As we were on shift, another sister came up and told us that there was a young girl visiting the US as an exchange student from Japan. While we went over to talk to her and her host family, she got the chance to talk to this girl who had been away from home for a little over a month or so. It was such an experience. I stood there and watched them communicate, obviously not able to understand their conversation but what I witnessed was remarkable. This sweet daughter of God had been in such a foreign land with no contact to anyone and little ability to communicate her feelings. As she talked to Sister Nakatska, her eyes welled with tears. We sat downstairs with her and cried a little bit just seeing this sweet miracle that she was able to talk to someone who had been in her shoes not to many years before. I talked to Sister Nakatska a little about their conversation. She just said she knew how the girl felt, to be far from home, to be alone. She said "I just shared my testimony" but I know it was more than just the words, that young girl felt the love of her Savior that night.

Its all we can give, to be an ear, to be a heart, to love, to serve. To do what our Savior would do if he "were ministering to the very people to whom he has sent [us]." Our call as missionaries, to learn, to love, to support to serve. To be witnesses of our Savior in word and in deed.