皆さん懇意痴話！
I hope everyone is doing fine and
dandy. :) Sorry to be emailing so early. :P Elder Harper and I got up at 5:00
am today because we're heading to the lighthouse today. It's supposed to be WAY
cool, on the edge of a massive sea cliff, and you supposedly can see the
curvature of the Earth from the top of it, so we're way excited, Elder Harper
has never been to it. So we're up early so that we can have plenty of time to
hang out there. I'm very excited, I'll take plenty of pictures. :)
So I totally forgot to mention that
last week on Sunday, we sang in sacrament. The ward as a whole loves my voice,
and they compliment me on it ALL the time, and so we got asked to sing. And so
we did. We performed Because I Have Been Given Much. Elder Harper played the
first verse with his clarinet, and then I came in on the second verse, and we
killed it. Went so good. :)
Quick question: For the pizza dough recipes
you sent us, how long should we cook them once they're all wonderfully
assembled? Thanks!!
So we've had a fun week, a very productive
week too! I LOVE being healthy again, it's the greatest. This week we made a
ton of appointments, like, 7. :P That's HUGE for us here in the Sapporo
mission! ;) We went on splits with the zone leaders on Wednesday, and since I
went with Elder Knighton last transfer, I went with Elder Kudo this time. Who
is a Nihonjin. Who doesn't speak English. So all day I was using the Japanese,
didn't speak a lick of English all day. And it ROCKED! Kudo Choro was way
impressed with how much I could actually say. For me right now the listening
comprehension is the hardest part. My pronunciation, and flow when I speak is
really natural says a TON of people in the ward, and Japanese missionaries. So
that's cool. :) But we had a crazy day of splits. It was WAY fun, you guys
don't even know! We just had a ton of fun dendoing. We always have a ton of
fun, but it was just extra fun being with a nihonjin companion, made things
interesting. We made THREE appointments that one day, :D one from a guy we
streeted, got his phone number, and one from a person we found housing, and one
we also found housing, who is actually a former investigator. So that's way
awesome. :) The guy we found streeting we taught a 30 minute what we call
totsuzen lesson. That just means sudden, or unexpected. We taught about God,
his nature and our relationship to him, and prayer. And he really liked it. We
asked him if we could pray together and he said yes, (which is a big deal!) And
he told us he felt really good after the prayer. We were flipping excited. :D
Got all his contact info and we have an appointment to meet again next week to
talk more about our message. Kudo Choro said that he thinks this Watanabe San,
is a kinjin. A 'gold person'. Just means someone who is prepared and ready to
except the gospel easily. So we're looking forward to teaching him more, and
becoming his friends. :) That I guess was my biggest miracle this week. Other
than that the rest of our week was pretty normal. We just did some standard
dendo, visited some cool places we haven't been out to work in before, and it
was great.
On Saturday we were pinging a house, no one was
home, and there was a Japanese dog chained up front that was freaking out at
us. The Japanese dogs are WAY cute.They're like foxes and dogs fused together.
WAY cute. But he was freaking out so we decided to just stare at him to see
what he did. Over the course of ten minutes he stopped barking, sat down, laid
down, and then started looking way bored. :P Lol!!! We were cracking up! We
then started joking that he'd become our dog investigator and that he'd be way
kinjin. Only missionaries man, would think that's funny, and we caught a kick
out of it. :) We named him Kurotaro.
We also found a stash of hot chocolate in our
apartment this week, and we've been making special drink. if you remember from
Community, Abed's friend Pablo makes a cold hot chocolate, calls it special
drink. We've been having cold hot chocolate, and it's actually WAY good. :P So
I learned some funky stuff about Japan this week also. So you know how thirteen
is a 'bad' number in America? Some hotels even don't have a thirteenth floor?
Well four is that number here. Apartments and buildings don't have fourth
floors or fourth rooms, and if one does, it's usually uninhabited because of
the four. :P Elder Kudo told me I'd likely NEVER see a four in that capacity.
Way crazy! And they also make this thing here called Kuroke Pan. It's basically
mashed potatoes that have been breaded and deep fried, and it's DELICIOUS. Oh
my goodness, it's wonderful. Also! A pizza here, from like Pizza Hut, is like
$30!!! HOLY COW!!! O.O Making it homemade is the ONLY way I'm gonna get pizza
for two years!
So anyways, that was my week. :) We also
made epic sandwiches on last week's pday, but I sent videos of all that home.
:) Love you all and hope you continue to do well!
Love!
Dialogue 長老
P.S MOM!! DON'T HURT YOUR FOOT!!! IT'S NOT GOOD!!
TRUUUUUUST ME!!!! Take it easy, and when you start to want to use it again in a
working out crazy capacity, don't jump right into it, eeeeeaaaaaase into it,
ok? Don't have to go to the doctor for it! Ne?
P.P.S OH! By the way, a funny thing about me. :P The
Japanese people have a grunt. They grunt or like make weird noises to show they
understand, or are following a conversation. I'll make a video showing what I
mean. :P BUT! I've picked it up! I'm grunting and making weird noises now!! :P
Just thought you'd like to know. ;) LOVE YOU!
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