So I am starting to feel like my emails and letters are all really repetitive and just not fun for anyone to read and stuff. And it probably doesn`t help that my english is slowly deteriorating and yeah. anyway let me know more of what you want to know and I will try and be more interesting.
So Duren choro left the garbage outside the window one day because it smelled bad, and Japan has crazy strict rules with what days you can and can`t take out certain garbage and it`s very complex. Long story short we now have a friend ferret who scavanges our garbage for anything worthwhile and Duren choro won`t take care of the mess he made, and won`t go with me to kill the ferret. (lame lame lame!) We have since named the Ferret Nusumuto and even though I want to kill it, Duren Choro won`t let me because `it has a fluffy tail` You`ve got to be kidding me.
On Tuesday I went on an exchange with the district leader and I forgot the map of this neighborhood and so I was really frustrated because this was taking way too long to find this person and blah blah I was really mad and our lesson fell through on top of that so it was a rough day until EIKAIWA!
I finally brought pictures of our family to eikaiwa and showed the students and everyone was like all bug-eyed and could not believe SEVEN KIDS?! That is completely unheard of to them! They just couldn`t get over it. Then right as that thought was settling in their mind our district leader pulls out his family pictures. He is one of ELEVEN children. I thought their little Japanese heads would explode haha I don`t think I have seen anyone so surprised in a long time haha.
We finally met with Yazaki and he is doing well, he loves the scriptures and believes very strongly in God and Jesus Christ and he now understands AND accepts the principles of the gospel but he struggles to understand the priesthood and what authority has to do with anything.
Miyawaki (mr. kitchen god) finally accepted our free english program and so we will help him out. When we went to visit him this week it was snowing like crazy, and so we got there and he was awed by our diligence in coming all the way in the snow (barefoot, uphill both ways...) We also ran into another lady named Suzuki San who let us in (miracle in itself) and she expressed to us how she doesn`t really get what we`re saying, not like the words, she gets what we are saying, but struggles to internalize it, but she wants to learn and understand more and feels it is good. She also wants her family to learn too, but right now if she asked them she thought they`d probably say no so she wants to learn a bit on her own first and then introduce it to them. I think so often that Christianity just has this kind of label here and it leads people to regard it as weird without really knowing anything about it. Most people I talk to LOVE the idea of the gospel and the doctrine, but don`t want to join a church or be labeled as Christian, because that is odd in Japan a country where religion isn`t something that is practiced, or necessarily even organized.
SIDE NOTE: Elder Duren likes Dragonball Z and has a weird action figure dude of one of the characters and is talking about it all the time and I want to melt his little action figure on the stove.
Let me know if anyone at Olympus gets their mission call to Kobe! (or anywhere in Japan honestly) One of the girls in the Kitarokko ward went to stay with family in New York and sent me an email about how weird it was to run into missionaries who didn`t speak Japanese haha. I really do feel like being here on a mission in Japan is evidence that God knows me better than I know myself. I love Japan and even though I never would have called myself here, I am so glad that Heavenly Father did. I love just being out in Japan and experiencing life here on P-Day and Elder Duren tells me he likes to sleep on P-Day. LAME! I can sleep when I am dead! I love this country and I love these people even though they are super hard to teach the gospel and not as receptive generally as I would hope, I really do love them and I love Japan!
COOL THING! so now that I am better at Japanese I really enjoy reading the scriptures in Japanese. In english, the scriptures are written in a very archaic older english, which sometimes makes them harder to understand. However, the Japanese scriptures are written in more day to day Japanese and sometimes are much easier to understand I feel.
Someone once told me Japanese is similar to Hebrew but I really have no idea if it is or not.
ANYWAY, I love you all and really hope you have the most fantabulous week ever!
Love,
ペース長老
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