Notice for those serving in Kobe:
A 日本人 missionary serving in Kobe recently returned home to Urayasu, Yoshihashi長老. Scroll down to ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ for the (short) story.
こんにちは!
It's only been a few days since our last P-Day so it feels kind of weird to be writing again so soon, but it's a good feeling.
Spiritual Stuff:
Over the past week or so, as we've met with members, we've shared the same message with almost all of them. We start by singing a Christmas song, which usually makes them laugh because Christmas was almost 2 weeks ago. Then we talk about how Christmas is a very easy time to remember Christ. There are lots of reminders everywhere, for example, the Light the World program set up by the church. However, we should be remembering Christ throughout the year, not just between Thanksgiving and December 25. We then ask them, and I ask you, to make a New Year's resolution to better remember Christ through one way of their choice. Whether it involve service, Come Follow Me, or other actions, we would like everyone we meet with to think of one way they can better remember Christ this year. And I ask you to do the same.
Daily Life/Fun Stories:
Thursday morning, around 3:30am, Augustus姉妹 and I were suddenly awakened by our phone screaming out:
--blaring alarm--
JISHIN DESU
--blaring alarm--
JISHIN DESU
--blaring alarm--
Jishin= earthquake. No sooner had the alarm stopped than there was, in fact, an earthquake. It was one of the longer ones I felt, and obvious, but it wasn't what I'd say merits an emergency alarm sent out through everyone's cell phones. Funny thing is, we didn't even say anything to each other. When I woke up I may have been like "what the..." but besides that, nothing. We didn't comment on it at all lol.
Thursday was 大掃除 (oosouji= major cleanup), as ordered by our mission president. Let me just say, it is very obvious that a 日本人 (nihonjin= Japanese person) has not lived here in a very long time because us 外人 (gaijin= foreigners) clearly have no idea how to clean things here in 日本. As evidenced by the mold. Lots of mold. Lots and lots of mold. It was nasty.
On Saturday we went to an exercise class led by a ward member. To give you some idea of what we went through, he's a professional dancer. Also a trainer at Gold's Gym... I'm still sore in places I didn't know I could be sore. It didn't help that we did a lot of biking yesterday, visiting several people even though it was also Fast Sunday... Hence the subject line lol.
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On Saturday as we were starting 英会話 (eikaiwa= English class), a person we'd never seen before walked in. We were like "ooh, a new student!" No sooner had our district leader started talking to him, though, that we heard a loud "おかえり!!!" (okaeri= welcome home). We were very confused until he said the name Yoshihashi, at which point we realized that he was the very recently returned elder who'd been in Kobe. It was fun to talk about and see pictures of mutual acquaintances, and also doscover some random differences between the missions. For example, in Kobe you buy your own nametags, so you can get one with English? In Tokyo South the 本部 (honbu= main office) pays for it, and getting English is more expensive so just katakana (script used for foreign words) names for us.
New Foods:
-New Year's soup (not as it is traditionally, though, missing the mochi)
-A bunch of really delicious food made by a nutritionist member that I have no idea what it's called
-okonomiyaki Osaka style
-chocolate chip oreo cookies (evil. But delicious)
About the Pictures:
- Everyone's telling Augustus姉妹 that she looks like Mary from the nativity video
- She put her sweater on backwards and didn't feel like fixing it lol
愛しています!
-スナ一姉妹
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