Konichiwa!
Hello again 皆さん (Minasan - everyone). It's been a 普通 (Futsū - ordinary) week.
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Cool thing that happened this week is we found some Japanese Tanks, way cool! They did a paraded around the streets in 川内 (Sendai - the name of the city that he’s in. Fun fact, the Kanji or Japanese letters for Sendai can also be pronounced KawaUchi. If you translate that Japanese word it says “River Insides”).
us in front the tanks
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The tank parade on Saturday was way cool. We also went down to 谷山 (TaniYama - another city name. The literal translation means Valley Mountain… that’s contradictory) for district meeting on Thursday and Campbell 長老 (Choro - Elder) is now in my district so, it was way cool seeing him, again. (NOTE Elder Campbell was Spencer’s MTC companion)
We got to 谷山 (TaniYama city) by 電車 (Densha - electric trail) and that was a WAY cool for a first time. 微妙 (Bimyō - subtle) moment of the week was Wednesday we were 伝道 (Dendo - proselytizing) in the rain, it rained about everyday last week. We started on this one apartment and we were working our way down and on the third floor from the top we knocked on the door, no answer, so we moving to the next one but before we knock on it we hear three massive thumps and the door we just knocked on opens up. We said こんばんわ (Konbonwa - Good Evening) a couple times but no response. Then they started chanting in Japanese so, with all our wits we RAN….fast! We had no idea what was said but we figured it was a 神道 (Shintō - one of the main Japanese Religions) curse of some kind. (Shinto is a Japanese religion dating from the early 8th century and incorporating the worship of ancestors and nature spirits and a belief in sacred power (kami) in both animate and inanimate things. It was the state religion of Japan until 1945. The other main religion in Japan is Buddhism)
That's all I got for this week but, last Pday we visited a 神社 (Jinja - a temple or Shrine) that is nearby, it was pretty cool.
またね (Mata ne - See ya!)
way cool shrine with endless stairs
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shrine
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stairs
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stairs
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the arch you had to cross before getting to the bottom step
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