HAPPY NEW YEAR
Hello everybody and happy
new year from the future. I sure hope y'all are enjoying your time. 2017 has
come and it's gone by SOOO FAST. I've come to the realization that I come home
this year, start school is year (hopefully), and just begin normal life again
this year. It's a weird feeling. Let's go through the week shall we?
Well Monday was Monday. We
really didn't have much to do so we went bowling. That's about all there is to
do here but we found a ton of cool looking shrines throughout this week so
maybe we'll start visiting those. Tuesday was a basic rainy, nothing much going
on Tuesday. We taught Brother Yoshida. We pretty much go over and make sure
he's okay because he's a little mentally unstable. That's pretty much my whole
mission experience. There's a lot of mentally ill people in Japan. We found out
that like half of our investigators are actually mentally ill. After all that
we ran and grabbed our stuff and took a train up to Niigata area for
splits.
Wednesday was the actual
split day. I went with Elder Burch. We ate at a buffet and then biked really
far to go to a college. We biked about two hours then ran out of time so we had
to turn back. We weren't even half way there. Thursday was just busy. We had
service and came back from Niigata but not necessarily in that order. Friday
was also busy with District meeting. We ended up having a little time to find
so we decided to house. That's when we met the Gwon family.
They're absolutely
prepared. The husband is atheist but he said he doesn't know if that's true and
wants to get back in touch with what he used to believe (Christianity). He said
to come back and teach them every week, and teach his kids English because he
understands if you want a good job in Asia, you need to know English. I love
hem already. We departed with chips and apples as a thank you present.
Saturday was an adventure.
We took the train to the next city over just for kicks and giggles and to see
what dendo is like in a city where people don't absolutely hate us. It was
pretty great but it rained way hard when we got there. The storm passed but by
the time we had to leave we just hopped on a train and caught up with the storm
anyways. It's actually not supposed to be raining. Everybody is way weirded out
because there's no snow right now. Maybe y'all Americans should just stop
driving cars and walk somewhere because you're making me have to deal with rain
every single day. Anyways, it's really weird apparently. We have a typhoon
coming in on Monday, in the WINTER so it's going to be very cold and wet. But
not snow apparently.
That's pretty much it for
this week. We stay inside for the next few days because it's the New Years in
Japan. The streets are absolutely dead and nobody walks outside or does
anything. President just lets us stay inside. Hope y'all have a nice week! See
ya! We went to a way sick shrine called Yahiko today. It has the biggest tori
gate in Japan standing at 30 meters tall (about 100 feet). I took a ton of
pictures for y'all.
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