"Hello. How are you? I'm fine thank you. And you?"....that's right. The tipicle japanese/english introduction. Do you know how many times I've heard that??? That EXACT phrase! haha...Anyways...Everything is going pretty good. I'm still in Tsuruoka for those of you that don't know. It's like 3 hours away from EVERYTHING else...next to the Sea of Japan, which is the Super cold side...but yeah, this week was Great!
On Tuesday we met with Saito-san...dunno if I mentioned him, but he's a pretty cool guy. His aunt and uncle refferred us to him and for the first few lessons it felt like he was being forced to listen to our lessons, but its getting way better, so thats good.
Wednesday, we met with Tadokoro-san. She is a 50 year old lady that always talks about how shes going to the hospital in and out, but everytime we see her she is always super happy to see us. So it's kinda hard to believe that she is going in and out of the hospital. We also went down to a place called Shinmei to visit this old grandma that is like 60 years old, and she thought we were the Catholic missionaries...it was kinda awkward, but yeah...haha. We also got super cool pens. The coleto pen...0.3mm lead. Japanese pens are the best, btw...just in case you didn't know...haha.
Thursday...so today was my first District Meeting...and I had my paps there! In japan, your trainer is your Dendo dad, and you are born in a certain place...mine was Nagamachi...and then you die in a certain place. But my trainer, dad, is the Zone Leader and they came for to see my Meeting and then we did splits. It was fun. I think the meeting went pretty well too, cause the zone leaders were surprised at it, but yeah, the Zone leaders are dieing soon so when that group dies, I think my group will be one of the oldest ones. So Sendai mission is changing drastically.
Friday...yay by birthday! We actually had 4 lessons that day...and no time do do weekly planning. We visited Kaneko-san, his a pretty cool old guy. He works at the airport and his lesson went pretty good I think. Then we had one with Tadokoro and we commited her to obey the Word of Wisdom. I think that the Word of Wisdom is the hardest commandment for Japanese people to follow. Cause if they are not addicted to Coffee, then they are addicted to Tea...and then they tell us that there is nothing else to drink cause...blah, blah...the excuses go on and on....I'm pretty sure it's the same all around the world, but yeah...I can almost expect the person to say something about coffee 100% guarentee that they will say something about coffee...seriously, I think coffee has taken over the world. There is Coffee everywhere here! But anyways....Then we had another lesson with Saito-san and his lesson went pretty good. We got a Baptism Date for him and for Tadokoro-san. We'll see how it goes. Then Friday night, we had a lesson with the Sugawara family. and we showed up and they bought this elaborate sushi thing...it had soba and sushi and like a salad and tempura...it was pretty good. And then I busted out the Double Stuffed Oreos and milk and we had a good birthday dinner. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Then I taught them lesson 2 in like 15 minutes...for those of you that know what Lesson 2 is...it's really hard to teach in 15 minues...but we were kinda running out of time, so I had to do it. But that night was a pretty good one.
Saturday...I got my package from home! I was pretty excited. But that day...we just taught Eikaiwa and visited a bunch of people and then did weekly planning that night...which is not good. Don't do weekly planning on Saturday night...I felt zaiakukan all night! (Guilt) But yeah, the Youth in our ward came and Heart-attacked us for Valentines day...it was kinda funny. Me and Ruefenacht choro heard something outside the door, but we just thought it was the neighbor and his college buddies, but then when the Youth were done decorating they rang the door-bell for some reason and they didn't run away...haha, I guess they didn't think we were home. But it was sure nice of them...sounds like something I'd do...haha.
Sunday! Tadokoro-san came to church! Yay! It was super blizzardy and she still came which was way good, but after sacrament meeting she left cause I didn't think she remembered that it was 3 hours. But afterwards, we did another lesson with Saito-san, and then we visited this one lady...Toyota-san, and the only reason that she wont meet with us is because she saw some movie a long time ago that had Jesus Christ in it and Jesus Christ killed some boy...so she kind of has a bad image of Christ, but we met her daughter and grandson, so maybe they'll give in, eventually, and here our message of LOVE!
Monday...ohhhh yeah, We busted out the cake mix, I got from the Migliori's and we made 2 pans of Funfetti cake and me and my comp ate a whole one each! Plus I blew out candles...(unfortunatly it was only 18, but that's the reason we made 2 cakes...haha) It was a good time! Then we just wrote letters and stuff, but did you know that Funfetti cake was that easy to make??? Who knew? It seriously took us like 20 minutes TOTAL to make 1 cake from the box...then for the second one it took like 10 minutes. Crazy! I felt like a professional baker. We also took pictures, so once I can find a SD to USB reader here then I will post some more picts, but until then...I'm Sorry! But yeah, then we had a lesson with Sugawara-san and then went to the Abe families(a member) for dinner, and that was fun fun. Not really much to report on, but everyone is slowly moving along.
Then today we have only just begun the day...we taught Mizuguchi kyodai, but he can't remember anything! I taught him how to pray again for the 2nd time in a row...and I'm pretty sure I will have to teach him how to pray a 3rd time too. But yeah, then we ate some lunch earlier with Tanaka kyodai! He has been looking for a job forever and finally found one, so he's been busy doing that. He doesn't get payed much though...he has to put fliers in 800 mailbox's and he doesn't have a working bike...so it's crazy...Anyways yeah, it's been a good week, I enjoyed my birthday, thank you everyone that told me to have a happy one. I had a happy one. Hope all is well with you!
Btw...thanks Oldemar! I am doing very good! How's you?
Thanks a lot Aja! I had a happy one! Hope school is going good!
Kami...weirdo...haha...peace out hippsta.
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