A new week, a new transfer, a new dawn about to rise in this the Land of the Rising Sun. Except winter is coming so the dawns are way later now. But that's neither here nor there.
Also, I'm a trainer now! πππ
*turns baseball cap backwards and throws a pokeball*
My bean chan's name is Pilling Shimai. She's from Canada and I love her. Lots of stuff has happened this week. We are pleased.
Monday: hiking with Suenaga san. It was great. We even got to talk to a solid couple of people on the train to the hiking spot. I love "wow your Japanese is so good" dendo. It makes me laugh.
Tuesday: met with both Nakamura-san and Suenaga-san. We were able to set up a lesson on Friday with Nakamura-san. He's a sweet old man. Thinks too hard about things. He needs to feel more. Suenaga-san has read all the way up to Jacob 7 and I am deeply impressed. He said he didn't understand Jacob 5 but this is to be expected. We ended up having a very lovely discussion about the Plan of Salvation. He was very surprised by the doctrines of the Spirit world and the resurrection and the kingdoms of glory. Finally realizing that Buddhism and Christianity have differences! Progress! Woo!
Wednesday: met up with Jenny for lunch. Had a really nice conversation with her. She seems really lonely. I hope we can continue that connection with her even though Jones Shimai has transferred. She's really sweet and is well on the path to being prepared to receive the gospel. She also happens to be writing a really cool book about the Civil War interestingly enough.
Thursday: Went to Kobe to pick up my bean! Got all of Pilling Shimai's stuff in order and had a really solid SKK. She's really excited to learn Japanese. I actually have to tell her to take breaks from studying haha or she'll just go all day. We've got awesome plans to strengthen the youth and get them to join the Youth Battalion to gather scattered Israel. Busyness is a lie. All in your head. The hard part is getting them to break out of this matrix if you will. I also made her eat natto and then gave her black thunder all in one day. Mighty successful if I do say so myself. She's basically all trained now. Beans don't need to experience anything else lol.
Friday: had a lesson with Nakamura-san. Not the best lesson in the universe, but then again they can't all be, I guess. His Japanese is difficult to understand. Also he struggles with the whole faith thing. He wants proof before he'll believe but that's not how it works, so he's struggling a lil bit there. We're working on it. We did some solid McDonald's dendo after the lesson and met a really cute couple of high school students. We helped them with their English homework, which was to write a scary story involving a witch, a graveyard, and a surprise. It ended up turning into a semi-scary story where the surprise was the witch falling in love with a werewolf lolol. It was really fun actually and we swapped contact information too! They were very cute.
Saturday: Koyama Shimai invited us to this dance festival for Culture Day where this singer called Bolo-san who was really popular like 30 years ago came and played this song he wrote for the 2019 Tokyo Olympics all about friendship and love and stuff. And then we danced to it like seventy bazillion times. I'll never be able to forget that dance. It's engrained into my soul now. But it was way fun and we got like seven contacts out of it too. It was way cool. We also got to go in sort of costume. I drew polka dots on my face to become an alien and Pilling Shimai wore a red dress to be a ketchup bottle. We even won a prize of fancy anko for being from a far away place. It was very great.
Sunday: miraculously! We met Natsuki chan for like 5 minutes! And she said she'd meet with us every week from now on! Blessings only! This is the only thing that mattered that day. Nothing else compares. Except that Pilling Shimai accidentally obtained the nickname Pin-chan (like bean except a P) because her name is hard to pronounce apparently. It made me laugh.
But yes! This is the kanji of the week. It has been a party. Until next time!
ζγγ¦γγΎγ！ π
Sherwood ε§ε¦Ή
1-2) hiking again with Suenaga San and the amagasaki shimaitachi
3.) another crab in the gutter. He was very alive
4-5) IT'S SKELETON MAN
6.) us at the dance festival
7.) Bolo san and some bomb costumes at the dance festival
8.) MY CHILD
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