感謝祭!🍴

Helloooooo

We've been trapped in our apartment for over 2 weeks now :) Imagine being stuck in a tiny apartment with no wifi, no tv, no social media, no internet, no friends, just you and your companion 24/7 for 2 1/2 weeks. Yeah, I've officially gone insane! I definitely appreciate the little things so much more now...fresh air, a little walk to the church, talking to somebody (literally anyone) even the giant crows have become my friends.

We did get to go to the hospital with President Nakatsuka one day. He sat next to me and we talked about trials and how good things always come from them. He shared a scripture with me that is now one of my favorite scriptures. Romans 5:3 "we glory in tribulations.." How great is it that no matter what we're going through we always can have hope for better days because that is the plan of our God! A plan of happiness!

Hope you all have a great thanksgiving! There's so much to be thankful for:)🍗🌽🍴🏈

次は....クリスマス!🎄⛄️🎁🎊🎅🏼!!!!!

PS if you love me... :)

Sister Whitney Ann Rigby
Japan Sapporo Mission
1-6-2 Oyachi-Nishi, Atsubetsu-ku,
Sapporo-Shi, Hokkaido
004-0042
Japan
💌📬📮📄💌

愛してるよ! 頑張って!

リグビ姉妹

"Does it not fill our hearts and minds with wonder and awe to contemplate the great plan of happiness our Heavenly Father has prepared for us? Does it not fill us with unspeakable joy to know of the glorious future that is prepared for all who wait upon the Lord? If you have never felt such wonder and joy, I invite you to seek, study, and ponder the simple yet profound truths of the restored gospel." Dieter F Uchtdorf

Everest Training 🗻☃️

おはようございます!

It's been a crazy week in shinks...

Thursday night my comp and I were riding home from とんれん, I was singing a song about how cold my toes were and we were crossing a street and a car came out of no where and HIT MY COMPANION!!!!! He didn't even stop and just kept pushing her bike into the middle of a busy road, ran it over then finally decided to pull over. He got out and picked up her bike then said it was too cold, jumped in his car and drove away!!! We went to the police station and sorted everything out and they tracked down the guy and it's all だいじょぶ now. But my companion is pretty beat up so we haven't been able to dendo the past few days.

Still got to break out the snow boots and parka this week!! Woohoo! Working in snowstorms is cold but I just pretend I'm hiking Everest and it's a lot of fun.

Yesterday we had ZTM and something the Zone Leaders said that I loved was that Satan knows our fears and he knows how to take those small fears and turn them into something big. But if we have confidence and trust in God we will realize we have no reason to fear.

Being a missionary is really hard. I'm pretty sure I'm homesick everyday, I'm so far out of my comfort zone, I'm learning the hardest language in the world in the coldest mission in the word and some days 14 more months feels like an eternity. But the strengthening power of the Atonement is so real. I wouldn't have been able to make it through the past 4 months with out it. I'm seeing my weakness turn to strengths and I'm becoming the person I want to be. Change is hard but when you just let go and trust God, he really will make more out of you than you can ever make out of yourself. So as hard as it is, I'm so grateful to be a "frozen chosen" in the best mission in the world, Sapporo Japan. 🗻🎌☃⛩🎎

愛してるよ!

リグビ姉妹

"It's not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." Sir Edmund Hilary

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

こんにちは!

I SURVIVED MY FIRST TRANSFER. Miracles happen. I'll be staying in shinkotoni for another transfer with Sister Massey! Im so glad because I love shinkotoni so much.

They don't really celebrate Halloween in Japan but we threw a ward Halloween party this week anyways and it was awesome!! We taught them how to trick or treat and we had everyone from grandmas to little girls knocking on the doors we set up in the church to trick or treat. It was so cute.

This week we tried to make the trek to Sapporo Eki (metro station) to do some streeting. We've tried a few times before but every day we've planned to go it was raining which isn't good for streeting. Wednesday it was finally sunny so we started riding our bikes down. Thirty minutes later we were caught in a rain and lightning storm. It was raining sooo hard and there was so much lightning that we had to stop at a 7/11. We were waiting inside and the thunder was so loud it was shaking the building!! It was crazy. So we ate some ice cream and waited for the lightning to calm down and made the trek back to shinkotoni in the pouring rain.

We got to go to an NAs daughter's elementary school play the other day. It was crazy. Japanese schools are awesome and slightly terrifying.

I read a talk yesterday called "He Loved Them Unto the End" that Jeffrey R Holland gave in the 1989 October conference. It's one of the best talks I've read about Christ's love and character. You should
read it.

Okay cool I'm going HIKING!!!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY! It's pouring rain but I don't even care

:):):)🗻

愛していますよ!

リグビ姉妹

"We are a blessed people. In such a marvelous time as this, I feel an overwhelming debt of gratitude. I thank my Father in Heaven for blessings unnumbered and incalculable, first and foremost being the gift of His Only Begotten Son, Jesus of Nazareth, our Savior and
King." -Jeffrey R Holland

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