Konnichiwa minasan!
Not gonna lie, I'm kind of excited to die just because it means I don't have to write long emails to everybody anymore. "But Sherwood shimai," you might protest, "you don't have to write that much anyway." to which I would answer that yes, technically, you may be correct, but if I did that I would feel bad about it so I can't. And thus here we are, with the second to last email.
Tuesday was great, though ridiculously busy. After district meeting and interviews, we tried to hop on a train back home but it turned out that the train line we were going to take was down because of an accident. This was worrying because we and the elders had an appointment at 3, which had just become impossible. So we, thinking it would be faster than waiting for the trains to start up again, hopped on another line going a more roundabout way. It did not end up being faster. We ended up getting back at the same time as the elders, who had just waited for the trains to start up again. Low key salty about it. But it ended up being okay because we were able to move our appointment to 5. What was this appointment, you might ask? Well, we and the elders teamed up to help our beloved friend, Myoujin kyoudai, more closely follow Brother Brigham's old addage that cleanliness is next to godliness because he'd just moved into a new apartment filled with all sorts of dingsbums (Dettmer 長老 taught me this word. It's the German equivalent of thingamabob and it's my new favorite word in the entire world) that weren't his. It was way fun actually. Hine 長老 was really good at finding all sorts of treasures, including, but not limited to, 34 yen, probably like 30 lighters, a weird thing that may have been an electric eraser but we aren't really sure, and enough socks to dub the room "Dobby's Apartment". Dettmer 長老 did a really good job of dusting all the books and also the light fixture because he is very tall. We invented a new Safety Zone video topic called "Don't throw lighters into the trash can while your companion is sitting in front of it." Tobler 姉妹 threw away a bazillion useless random things. I wrote a small essay in my head about the importance of keeping your cords clean and organized. It was a blast. We're going back again this Wednesday.
We also had a koukan on Wednesday with the Abeno shimai, and Magistro 姉妹 and I decided to travel to the farthest less active member on the map. It was an adventure. We found out the ever so important information that the member had died, but her mom still lives there, and is actually a community volunteer (if I understood her Japanese correctly). She was way nice, if a bit confused as to why we were there, and we're planning on going back to see if we can't get some sort of service project started up with her.
On Thursday, Tobler 姉妹 contracted a pretty bad cold, which got aggravated by us being out and about on Friday. But it was made slightly better because we got to go to a cool Relief Society activity where we went to the ruins of Yamatokoriyama Castle and saw lots of sakura and goldfish. It was great. And then we had an awesome lesson with Yoko san where we taught her how to pray, and she actually told us stuff that she legitimately wanted to pray for! It was so cool to see her exercise faith like that. We're really excited about it. Also the elders were super nice and brought us ginger and orange juice and a bunch of fancy German cold medicine. (Dettmer 長老 says colds are his specialty. He's basically become area dad. It's pretty funny actually)
Saturday was great too. We found a new person to teach at eikaiwa, and Fukuda Shimai bought us bread. We also got to help Ejima Shimai weed her garden, which was super fun, and we learned that when the Ejimas have random food packages written in English that they don't want to bother remembering the name of, they just call it "katakana." It's really funny. Ejima Shimai actually ended up telling us about all the things she's been learning through the Come Follow Me program and it was way cool. I think we got to build some really good kankei with her. We're excited. She's way cool.
But yeah that's the basic gist of the week. More to come as I attempt to use the fact that I'm leaving as leverage to meet with people who tend to be a bit flaky. Tune in next time to see what other treasures we find in Myoujin Kyoudai's house.
愛していますよ！💕
Sherwood 姉妹
1.) Im making shrink-a-dinks of the district (shh don't tell the elders. It's a secret)
2.) eikaiwa squad
3-7.) sakura at Osaka Castle
8-10.) at Yamatokoriyama castle
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