Week 33- 5/16/16 Goodness I'm So Tired

Yes it's me again. I hope everybody had a good week because mine was

long and tiring. I'm stuck in the hospital right now because every

time my companion eats sugar he gets dizzy so we decided to tell this

to sister Nagano today on p day instead of when it started and now I'm

here. So I figured I'd write my emails!

Really not much happened this week. It just felt really long because

of transfers. Even if the transfer doesn't affect you they still feel

taxing. We had a few lessons this last week but other than that,

nothing terribly exciting.

Recently we found out we need permission to teach our sixteen year old

investigator, Andy. So we called him up on Saturday and told him. He

said he already talked to his parents and they said that "it's good to

be looking for a religion" which is really strange for Japanese

parents. Usually they're super anti against religion but not these

ones. We can continue to teach Andy.

We had a district leader training in Koiwa this week as well so we

took the train over to the next area. As we were leaving, we saw a man

laying down on the ground in front of the entrance to the station with

a bunch of people surrounding him. We got closer and it seemed like he

was overdosing on something, so we told people to call the ambulance

(because they hadn't yet) and stayed by to make sure he's okay. That's

when he threw up everywhere and started shaking and coughing and

grunting. Scary stuff. Koiwa isn't the safest of places.

That's pretty much it. I've been so tired lately and just want to

sleep. This last transfer wore me out and by the looks of it, this

will be another rough one. Hopefully we'll start seeing some more

success because this is a rough area. Hospitals are so boring. Also

the Japanese is really hard. I figured out that 内視鏡室 means endoscope.

The literal meaning of the symbols are inside, inspection, speculum,

and room. Also, this hospital skips the numbers 4 and 7 because you

say "shi" which means death. That's pretty much it for the week. One

thing I've noticed is that Japanese people follow medical instructions

to the letter. I'm listening to old people say "yes. Yes. Roger that."

To all the instructions the nurses give. No wonder they live so long

here. Oh by the way I'm running on my 5th hour waiting in this

hospital. There's so many old people in Japan.

So we finally got out of the hospital. It's been six hours, our p day

is gone, and we have no new news on what's going on medically. Waste

of time.