So Katsura area is a gonin now (五人, five people) because a new chourou, Eddington 長老, joined Emerson 長老 and Slack 長老. He's chill and incidentally, he was one of my dai-senpai in the MTC. So that's a thing now. There's too many missionaries. We're like a fifth of the ward.
In other news, we went around to a couple hospitals looking for service opportunities, but alas we couldn't find any. Japan is very self reliant and nihonjin don't like onegai-ing (asking for favors) other people. Even when we ask its alwayss "no no its fine." They're all very humble and polite and don't want to put other people out in any way.
Also Thursday we had zone conference so that was way cool. President Smoot talked a lot about family history and the prophecies given to us about Japan. We've finally got lesson plans and tango (vocabulary) lists to practice for dendo-ing family history and we're way excited. We also played fun games as a part of the lessons from the zone leaders and the sister training leaders about improving dendo, and there were literal stacks of chourou-tachi. It was wild.
Shinji came to church again this week and it was way awesome. We've started calling him Kyoudai (brother) and he's way cool with it, it's so great. In our lesson he said he's been telling all his friends and coworkers about how he's been taking lessons from us and going to church. He's been dendo-ing on his own! It's unheard of! He's a literal miracle. We taught him about the creation, fall, and atonement, and he really liked it. The spirit was really strong in the lesson and he kept saying how he felt really warm and good about what we're teaching him. He's so cool! We're so blessed to get to see him progress.
Other than that the week has mostly just been us doing our best and going out and finding people. Until next week!
愛していますよ！
Sherwood 姉妹
(P.S. Eaton 姉妹 gave me an intense awesome study quad pdf made by an old Seventy that expounds every verse of scripture in the entire standard works so if anyone wants that, hit me up)
1. Kyoto has Pokémon signs under all the lampposts and I found my precious sweet baby slowpoke.
2. I found a cute Pokémon themed "Pocket Veggie" juice with Eevee in it in a Kyoto vending machine. (it was way oishii. Tasted like oranges and carrots)
3. A cool jinja (shinto temple) on the way to visit Ono Shimai
4. Catron Shimai and I got chocolate melon pan with chocolate chips and chocolate cream filling at the Lawson's near the Shimogamo church building. It was delicious.
5. I'M THE WORST GOMEN HERE'S THE PICTURE OF THE CHRISTMAS BANNER FINALLY ARIGATOU MINASAN (People in our church ward (congregation) all wrote messages to Brittney on this banner that we mailed to her for Christmas)
6. The sannin (三人, three people) chourou being nerds (Slack 長老, Eddington 長老, and Emerson 長老)
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