Hello!
So Random story of the
day, we visited a less active earlier this morning to bring her chocolate
filled pancakes, and while we were waiting outside I watch this old dude walk
down the street to his neighbors house, pee in this guys front yard and then
walk back home. Weird. I guess it`s more rude to chew in public than it is to
pee in Public in Japan. Good to know ;D
Sorry you all probably
could have survived without knowing that culture point...
Anyways I`m in TOYOTA!
Woo Hoo! My Companion is Hardcastle Choro! He`s way fun! He`s also in the
airforce acadamy, which is weird, there`s only three elders in the acadamy,
and two of them are training me, and the third replaced me in Toyama.
Hardcastle is a really young trainer, he`s only been out 6 months, and he`s
never left Toyota, this is his bean area. And he doesn`t know how to cook
anything...but sandwitches, which is what he eats for every meal. Good thing I
learned how took last transfer :D He`s got a way good work ethic, he ran cross
country and track in high school, and he works out hard everyday, so hopefully
I`ll get in shape. He wakes up at 5:30 everyday to do an extra hour of language
study, which I figure probably wouldn`t hurt, so I`m doing it to now.
Toyota area itself is
beautiful. All of Japan is pretty awesome :D The ward here is totally insane.
Like absolutely crazy. A lady two months ago called the whole ward to
repentance from the pulpit for fifteen minutes...then last fast Sunday a guy
professed his love for the organist from the pulpit...But apparently it`s
improving alot right now. The ward used to hate missionaries, and now
they like us, so that`s good.
It`s rained everyday
since I`ve gotten here, I decided today that I love the rain. Because if
I didn`t it`d be way hard for me to love my mission. So now. I love the
rain. At least that`s what I tell myself. Hopefully it`ll be true someday.
Conference was way
good. I only got to listen to saturday in English. Sunday we went on
splits to fellowship our investigators. I didn`t really get anything out
of it...Formal Japanese is rough. We get Ipads soon though, so I`ll re-watch
them then.
Soo we didn`t
get to do too much dendo this week. Alot of it
was Hardcastle showing the other two missionaries and me around,
since they white washed this area. But we did have some miracles! My first day
here we had a lesson at night, but we got there 20 min early, so I asked if we
could go tracting in the mean time...He said ok, and we started
knocking doors. The very first door we knock...the peopledidn`t answer...BUT
their door was unlocked and something cool I learned from my last companion was
that apparently the Genkan, the first part of the house where you put your
shoes, isn`t considered part of the house in Japanese culture, so you can
open the door and go in to that part and it`s not rude. He calls
it Gomen Kudasai-ing since that`s what you yell when you walk in
the person`s house. Anyways I open their door and
yell Gomen kudasai and step into their house, and my new
companion about has a hart attack. But a guy came to the door, and talked to
me, he was way nice, it turns out he had investigated the church in Kobe, he`s
came to church before, read the whole book of mormon, and wants to meet
with us. So we got his number, he and his wife said they`d try and come to
conference (which they ended up not being able to), and we got two new
investigators! Fun stuff!
Anyways Hope everyone
Enjoyed conference! The prophet is awesome! The church is true! Go do member
missionary work!
愛してます！
Coleman choro
No comments:
Post a Comment