So this past week has been kinda hard to dendo because New Years is like Christmas for Japan. Everyone celebrates for like an entire week. But hey we got to do cool things anyway! We went to Bishop Okunishi's house for lunch and New Years games and it was super fun. I cleaned everyone's clock at the hiragana slap game and won the New Years candy of joy and happiness.
We've also been able to finally set up appointments with people because the holidays are winding down and people's schedules are more free. We're teaching a cute family now, the Osakis, and we're way excited about it.
Also we went up to Kyoto University the other day and met a way brilliant daigakkusei (college student) who's studying civil engineering and who explained to us the intricacies of Buddhist theology. He said that the basic idea is that all laws of nature, rules, etc that keep us from doing things and cause us suffering are there because we put them up in ourselves. Like aliens don't have to follow gravity because humans just decided way way back that we were gonna have gravity. It was way complicated. But he said that while he knows a lot about it, he doesn't really have much faith in it, so we gave him a Book of Mormon and he was like "cool I'll read it if I have time outside of my studies" and then dashed off to catch the bus back into town. It was an interesting conversation.
Today we're making mochi (sticky rice cake) because that's what you do for New Years in Japan and it's way cool! So I don't have a ton of time but I love you all and hope you're having a wonderful start of the year!
愛しています！
Sherwood 姉妹
my cool bike
Mochi tsuki! (mochi making)
Kyoto Tower
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