Dec 12, 2016 Accident Counter - 1

Hello everyone!  This is going to be about a day later than normal because we  have transfers this week. I'm staying, Aoki Chōrō is staying, Mizukawa Chōrō is staying, and Osborne Chōrō is going to the mainland but hasn't told us where. Now the Week:

Monday: Nearly died on my bike. We had gone to a music story that Mizukawa had found, he is really good at guitar and Osborne is really good at banjo and after we. And finished we were heading back to the apartment and they had all turned off the sidewalk to ride in the street and I was a tad bit late on turning. The side walk was a lot lower than the curb, so I hit the curb and bounce over it and landed in the middle of the street. It shocked me but I was able to ride and catch up, I am unhurt and fine. Tuesday: we had DTM this morning on how to use the Christmas season in the でんどう (Dendo - “proselytizing") and it was pretty fun.

Then we went out to eat and おいしかった(Oishikatta - “was delicious”).

Wednesday: we had lunch today with Taketomi 兄弟(brother) and we went to this Hotel and they have a restaurant that is basically an all-you-can-eat buffet, that was really good. Also I almost got hurt again. Riding on the sidewalk and there was a car parked on the sidewalk so, I slowed down to go around it and there were these two people walking and I couldn't get a round them so, I turned a little wider and my tire hit some uneven pavement and it launched me off my bike. Luckily I land on my feet so i was able to pick up my bike and ride away unharmed

Thursday: Oddly we did no でんどう (Dendo - “proselytizing") today, it was weird. We weekly planned until dinner then we went and taught Eikawa (English class). We did do some one on one conversation because only two people showed up and that was really cool.

Friday: じゅんかい (Junkai - splits). I went with Mizukawa Chōrō today and had a blast. I found out he is a huge Star Wars fan as well so, that was yet of or conversations. We also found this Lady who literal lives on top of a hill and she had a huge house. We taught her for about 10 minutes, baptism invite, gave her a Book of Mormon and tried to get a Return appointment, it was really cool. After dinner we went to the area by the church, oddly it was more rural feeling. We didn't get many contacts but we did visit a member who lives in the area and shared a message with her.

Saturday: we had a weird thing happen during the でんどう(Dendo - “proselytizing"), the last house we knocked on before going to go do “basketball でんどう” (Basketball Dendo) (get to that later), this lady answered the door and we started to talk to her and she told us to wait and she went and got this younger girl (looked like her daughter) to come talk to us. It was really interesting and part of it was because she has a bible, pretty much no one has a bible in Japan.

Basketball でんどう, we went to a basketball court near the beach (pretty much the only one I've seen in Nago) and we played basketball with who ever showed up and we had a pretty good turn out and it was a blast. Afterwards we invited them to A&W to get some floats but no one could come. We also had dinner with some members today, the Kasamura. They are really cool, the English isn't too bad. They were sealed in the Hawaii temple a couple months ago and both are really strong members.

Sunday: We gave Kouichi 姉妹 (Shimai - sister) the gift of the Hoy Ghost before sacrament part of sacrament meeting started, it was super cool. でんどう (Dendo - “proselytizing") was the usual but this one lady did tell us about the Water God, I understood none of it and neither did Aoki. Before dinner we went caroling with Taketomi 兄弟 (Kyodai - brother) and that was super fun, we went to 4 people but only 2 opened up their doors, one of them had us come in and we talked for a little bit and she gave us a little snack.

Monday: Not P-day. We went and でんどう (Dendo - “proselytizing") farther than normal, about anchor bike ride to a place called Yagaji island, it was a long ride but mostly flat.

Blue dot in the bottom center of the picture is the Apartment and the arrow at the top is where we went to.

After that we went to the mall to get some food with Miyagi 兄弟 (Kyodai - brother), a branch member who is nice but has some mental disabilities. After that me and Aoki went to go teach a patient all investigator we found while tracking, Miyamoto San. He is really nice and likes the mormons.

During the lesson I felt something on my neck so, I reached up to grab it and I felt it wriggle so I panicked and flung it at the ground, it was this pale worm looking thing, it was really gross. The bug thing left this on my collar, not happy and disgusted

Japan is a ton of fun. Thank you all for your prayers of protection. Here is a video for your entertainment of me eating Nato (it's fermented soybeans), enjoy!