This week has been great, and so much fun! For those of you who don't
speak Japanese, a shoukuji is basically a meal appointment with
members most of the time, and this week we had a lot of them!
Monday was just a way nice relaxing p-day, nothing much to report
there, it was just nice to relax.
Tuesday we got new chirashis for our activities printed and cut out,
which look awesom, and we also went finding and had dinner at an
amazing ramen place with the elders and one of members, it was so
good! But it seemed more like gravy with noodles than ramen to me, but
that's ok, it tasted good! And then we had our game night, and the
Browns were there, which was just a ton of fun, of course I am always
going to have way too much fun!
Wednesday started out with a shoukuji with Takeda kyodai at an indo
curry place, which was way good, and then it got way rough. It was
cold, and so there weren't very many people out, and we just walked
all over our area, because finding had been our plan, and it was just
a struggle. Plus, my companion and I felt a little burnt out from
finding, because of all last week being mainly finding, but we kept
going, and it was ok, and then I had salmon for my birthday dinner,
and we stopped at a little cake shop and got dessert as well, so it
was a lot of fun. Eikaiwa was also lots of fun, and I got to see
misato again, and it was just great! So maybe not the best birthday
ever, but still good!
Thursday was more like a birthday to me, and since you were all on my
birthday over in America, it counts right? It was a holiday, and we
had two shoukujis, and went finding at the park. At the park we taught
eight lessons in the couple of hours we had, and it was so much fun,
the elders also went to the park, and we happened to run into
eachother, which was funny. At the first shoukuji we had Okonomiyake,
cabbage pancakes, yakisoba, noodles and veggies fried up together, and
udon, noodle soup, which was way good. And then at the second one we
had more okonomiyakes, just a slightly different style, and at that
one I ate squid, which actually tastes pretty good. The second one was
with our investigator and a less active, with the elders and another
member, and for the lesson we decided it was time to extend the
baptismal invitation, she said no, but wasn't able to explain why,
because the less active, her friend explained for her, and I didn't
understand a thing. She was using way hard, old people Japanese, and
bouncing around subjects, and I found out from Matsumoto choro, the
Japanese elder later, that it was even hard for him to follow it,
which made me feel better, but that was interesting, luckily the
member is awesome, and wrote out what he understood for us, as well as
some ideas for how to solve the problems that she talked about. The
less active was supporting her friend, it was just way a struggle, but
that's ok.
Friday we had district meeting, which was way good, and also lots of
fun, I love having language class before, and since we have a Japanese
missionary that speaks pretty good English, it is way helpful, it is
amazing to me how many Japanese people speak English, they are all
super skilled! We had SKK as well, and then we went finding at night,
which is notoriously not a good time, but taught four lessons in about
an hour, so that was awesome!
Saturday, there was a typhoon.... The rain was coming down like crazy,
the morning and early afternoon were fine, but during that time we
were delivering notes to members and less actives that we had written
together, and then the storm really hit. We headed home and had
dinner, and then went to the church for ping pong, and had to wear our
kappas, rain gear. I do not like wearing my kappa, it is a struggle to
tuck the skirt in. But since this week no one really turned up for
ping pong except for a couple of members, we just turned it into a
meeting to talk about what we could do with members, which was way
good!
Because Sunday we had ward council, and were able to start putting
those plans in action, and the members jumped into it, they loved it,
it was great. They wrote valentines for less actives for us, and we
will be delivering them to the less actives houses, it was a great
idea. And then we gave a church tour to our new investigator, Kanako.
unfortunately the stake was having a meeting in the chapel, so we
couldn't go in there, and she really wanted to, but we were able to
show her the baptismal font, and sing hymns, which she loves,
especially Christmas ones, and it was just so much fun. I am so
excited for her! I was about bouncing off the walls when she came to
the church, we invited her to church the day before, but didn't get a
response asking about the time til the next day after church which was
surprising, but it all worked out, and the weather was actually way
nice, which wasn't the forecast, so that was awesome!
And then today so far, a member let us try on her kimonos, for my
birthday, though she does it all of the time, and fully got us dressed
up in them, it was awesome, she is the best!
So that was my week! Love you guys! Hope you are doing good! I love
you and miss you!
Love, Sister Makin
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