2017 02 26 It's Cold, Rainy And TONS of Fun!

Konichiwa! Well, i surprised about how much has actually happened this week. It's beginning a ton of fun and its the beginning of rainy season so sweet I love the rain. Also its been way windy and overcast so its also been way cold.

Monday (月 Getsu 曜日yobi):

Pretty normal day up until about 9ish because Faust長老 (Choro - elder) came to pick us up for めんせつ (mensetsu - interview) tomorrow. So, we had a long car ride before we could get to sleep. Funny thing that happened today needs some background. So, i thought that my trainer, Aoki長老 (Choro - elder) had gone to Fukuoka to be a ZL. While looking through the list of missionaries who finished their missions last transfer I see Aoki長老 (Choro - elder). Apparently I was his LAST companion and is now back home, everyone so far has loved my reaction.

my reaction to finding out Aoki was home

Tuesday (火 Moku 曜日yobi):

We had a めんせつ (mensetsu - interview) today and training from the ZL, Lords長老 (Choro - elder) and the Naha Zone's STLs (because my zone doesn't have any). Way fun, I love talking with Kaicho (Mission President) and Shimai (sister (referring to the president’s wife)). Afterwards we came back to Nago and had lunch and did some studies. An interesting thing happened during でんどう (Dendo - tracking), so we go up to this house and there is the huge dog just chilling up by the door and it doesn't react at all when we get up to the door but when Lords長老 (Choro - elder) knocked on the door the dog flipped out! I jumped back and Lords just ran around the dog but, thinking back on it had I been a second slower, the dog probable taken a chuck out of my leg, 奇跡 (kiseki - miracle). Then we had a しょくじ (shokuji - meal) with the Branch President and his family, really good food.

Wednesday (水 Sui 曜日yobi):

Today we had a major misjudgment. So, Sunday we were planning on visiting the Kishimoto family and today we were think "Hey, what could we do for them?" SOOOO, we decided on making them some cookies. We didn't know how many cookies that each batch made so we decided to triple the recipe. Here are the reasons why that was a BAD idea;

1. We didn't have an actual way to scoop out the cookies

2. The pans we had could only cook about 6 cookies at a time

3. We did not have the amount of time we thought we did.

It turned out... interesting. After dinner we went to visit them but no one answered when we got there so we wandered around trying to find them and at that same time it started to POUR rain and we got soaked. We went back to the bikes and while we were there Makiko came down the stairs. We followed her back to her apartment and no one was home but her so, we talked to her for a little bit and gave her the cookies to give to her family.

A basket full of cookies, before we left the church

transporting cookie dough from the church to the apartment

Thursday (木 Moku 曜日yobi):

All day long it was raining but it was more like a fine mist falling from the sky. For some reason the entire apartment is really into diet plans so, that's what we did before our weekly planning. They did figure out what we are going to be eating now, chicken on spaghetti... for EVERY meal, should be interesting... eikaiwa (english conversation class) was ふつう(futsu - normal).

Friday (金 Kin 曜日yobi):

We decided to Blitz an area, that meaning talk to EVERYONE in that area. It’s a slow start. When we finished with morning でんどう (Dendo - tracking) we saw a kid sitting by himself and we went to go talk to him and agreed to come back and play soccer with him. Soccer was a ton of fun, and I got kicked at a toTON because I was goalie for a little bit, yeah I'm not good at it.

Saturday (土 do 曜日yobi):

We met up at the church with most of the brothers in the branch and we all went to go help a less active on his farm. It took all of the afternoon but it was WAY fun. It was way rainy again this evening and that made things interesting.

Sunday (日 nichi 曜日yobi):

しぶたいかい (Shibu Taiki -branch meeting), but their than that church was ふつう (futsu - normal). But afterwards the かいいん (kaiin - church members) did a しょうくじ (shyokuji - lunch) and it was pretty good food. Interesting thing happened tonight was that we took a little break from でんどう (Dendo - tracking) to use the bathroom in the store across the street. While I was waiting around I saw Kishimoto, the one family we contacted from the first week of the transfer. So, I talked with the mom for a little. When we were leaving we saw the whole family so we talked with them for a little bit. WAY fun to talk with them.