Dec 18, 2016

Hello Everyone,

I have successfully survived my first transfer and have made it to being out a little under a year. To answer some unasked questions, yes I do hit my head on lot of things though probably not as much has a would on Kyuushuu(the island that has Fukuoka) or Hondo(the main island, has Hiroshima), kaicho has asked that we either say 'a little over a year' or 'a little under a year' when asked how long we have been out. And now to my Week...

Tuesday: Me, Aoki and Mizukawa and staying in Nago while Osborne i leaving to Yamaguchi to be a breaker(first companion after trainer), District Leader and Zone Leader, he is going to be busy. We went down to the beach and just hung out for a good amount of time, it was Kirei(beautiful) and there was a fantastic breeze, okay it was really strong but it felt great. 

(sign says "Dangerous beyond this point", but it looks really cool)

Wednesday: I got a package today, a little underwhelming

(the forced perspective is supposed to make the box from us look like the size of the Altoids can. It did not look like it to me, but I sent the box so I already knew how big it was)

 Okay joking, I was really excited and it is actually much bigger. It arrived around lunch and then we went straight to work. Since Osborne was leaving tomorrow, him and Mizukawa stayed at the apartment so he could pack. We made some RA (return appointments) for today but none of them happened, it was a little sad. When we came back for dinner, we waited a little longer to leave to でんどう(dendoing - tracting) so we could see Osborne off and so we could take Mizukawa with us on our でんどうing.

Yep, we have wands, I have Voldemort, Aoki has Harry, Mizukawa has Belatrix and Osborne has Ron

Thursday: the companionship was a threesome because Mizukawa doesn't have a companion so he came with us. We mostly でんどう in the inakas(countryside) and there weren't many people who talked to use. I did teach eikaiwa mostly by myself, which was pretty fun. Elder Houseknecht(the new elder) came near the end of it, so I had him come up and finish it off.

Friday:today we taught an AB(After Baptism) Lesson to Kouichi Shimai and I did teach a small part of the Lesson, it was mostly scripted but it went okay. Then we did weekly planning and でんどう, which nothing interesting happened. 

Saturday: I went on splits today with Houseknecht ad we started it of with a drive to Ginoza, a small town. We took part in a "Forgetting the Year" celebration, it was super cool and a ton of fun. Then we had our Basketball でんどう, still a ton of fun, but since Houseknecht's bike isn't here yet because he had to ship it from his last area so, we walked everywhere. It was a lot of fun, we stayed by the Basketballcourt to でんどう s that we didn't waste time walking back and forth. 

Sunday: church as usual, can't understand anything. We did do a song practice afterwards for the upcoming Christmas thing we are doing. Then we got back for lunch, and after lunch we tried in vain to contact some LA(less-active) but one where home. But, while we でんどう we did hand-out 2 BoM, which was really cool.

Things our great here, still super hard but it is fun. There is a lot to do and not much at the same time, is weird. 

The top and bottom are the guy who was in charge of the event and the middle is the group I sung with and I am next to Houseknecht

This video is of a 6 year old playing the piano.

This video is from the Forgetting the Year event.