So last Monday afternoon we went to Imabari Jou: castle. So this experience was really similar to when we went to the Lourve- got there around 4:20 and found out that it closes as 5, so we had 1/2 her to see it all and it's big! We saw EVERYTHING. They have a route you take and there are different buildings within the place, so we were running from building to building and it was really cool and we got to the last place with 5 minutes and left at 4:59 - pretty sure that's got to some kind of record, right? :) Asa congrats for seeing everything, they give you a post card, though they gave us ours at the beginning as a "sorry you won't have time", but we DID, so we got 2 postcards!
Lots of fun!
Lots of fun!
Look it has a moat- I guess that's really rare for Japanese castles. Also the original was destroyed, this is the rebuilt one, but it seemed old and accurate to me!
Tuesday- Fujiki Shimai made tempura- yum! Also at Kodomo Eikaiwa: children's English class, the Scott's (member couple who teach KE) had everyone fill out an info sheet that includes missionary info like what messages would you be interested in (Jesus Christ, importance of family, purpose of life, what happens after we die, etc) and while most people said no interest, a couple moms said they were INTERESTED!! This week we're contacting them and will hopefully get a few new investigators from this!
Also for dinner we made gyoza again- we eat a lot of gyoza because it's really simple and we have a ton of ready-made dough things at our apartment. You can put anything inside- we usually put cheese and veggies (onion, pepper, edemame- like peas).
Wednesday we went over to Betsumyo- area of town we go to a lot and tried to see a bunch of investigators, but basically no one was home. But then at the end, we checked one last person, but since she's in high school and we didn't see a car in the driveway, we figured she wouldn't be there and we might drop her, BUT she answered! In high school they had a lot of big tests this week and she only had a little time, but we talked about praying for God's help. Little miracle!
In the evening we had Eikaiwa and since he branch put an ad in the local paper, we knew we'd probably get some new people. New people came!! I had 5 new students in the intermediate/advanced class (Watabe Shimai teaches the beginner). There were 2 women who have previously lived in New Zealand for a time, funny thing was they didn't know each other. Then a high school kid who's really fluent. And last a 7yr old girl and her mom- they used to live in Kobe and she went to an international school. I was a little worried about keeping them all interested and learning- not leaving anybody behind (I teach the whole class in English, so I always have to be careful and slow down when I talk).
For Tash! So we do phrases and one was "I wish I had..." So my example was "I wish I had gone to the Taylor Swift concert." Everyone knows who she is, also the new high school boy is a fan. So that was fun and I thought of you!
So Eikaiwa was really good, though the real test is if they come again this week...hopefully!
Thursday we had 2 unexpected lessons in the evening! A member called us and said she was going to go get a haircut from an investigator she had referred to us, but who's always busy. So we had a doseki lesson (lesson with member present)! I taught her very basically about Joseph Smith. She's really nice, though not very interested (kind of typical), BUT she listened and we got to teach! Then after, Ochi Shimai took us to dinner at a Chinese restaurant and we had ramen! During dinner we talked about family history (that's her calling and she really likes it). I told them about an ancestor from Grandma T.'s line who served a mission in Denmark (probably? Also couldn't remember his name), but after, Ochi Shimai said (in English- she comes to Eikaiwa and tries to speak a little with me), "Wow, your family history is just like church history!"
Friday was District Meeting and lots of focus on working with members. Also we got interrupted a little by these giant "o-mikoshi" - these big fancy things that they carry that are honestly like the arc of the covenant in the Old Testament- the Aoba's were explaining it to us (Area Authority- teaches an Institute class at the same time as our District Meeting). Really cool!
 
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So true about having things to look forward to- zone conference is on Thursday, then the next week we get to go to Kobe for TTTM- Trainer/Trainee Training Meeting. So excited to go back to the homebu-mission home/office. I think technically it means "headquarters"
Thank you for all the pictures!! Downloaded them to look at later when I want to. People, okay really other missionaries and members love to see family pictures. Of course with our family pictures it's "WOW. So
tall!"
Woohoo everyday is a bike adventure here, no charge :) (minus that I had to actually buy the bike, but...)
it.
Yeah, inherited the crying gene. Basically anytime in church you say "family" I'm teary. Shouldn't have mentioned you guys in my talk intro :) And I assumed it would be like our churches with the tissue box
next to the podium. No tissue box. So I was kind of sniffling through the rest of it. Maybe that covered my probably bad Japanese?
Thank you for all the pictures!! Downloaded them to look at later when I want to. People, okay really other missionaries and members love to see family pictures. Of course with our family pictures it's "WOW. So
tall!"
Woohoo everyday is a bike adventure here, no charge :) (minus that I had to actually buy the bike, but...)
it.
Yeah, inherited the crying gene. Basically anytime in church you say "family" I'm teary. Shouldn't have mentioned you guys in my talk intro :) And I assumed it would be like our churches with the tissue box
next to the podium. No tissue box. So I was kind of sniffling through the rest of it. Maybe that covered my probably bad Japanese?
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