Talent Show

(Elder Tschirki thought he sent the group email but apparently it did not go through). This is the family email. I asked him if he was getting transferred...

I have no idea where I'm going yet, we usually don't get our calls until around dinner here and so ill tell you next week I guess! It's a toss up. Either of us could leave. Tell the neighbors they're going to want to move when I get back because I'm going to get an amp and trash it on guitar all the time and get way good and start a punk band and get famous and have so much money that I'll use to be a van and live in the parking lot of vasa for free and shower there and work out and
eat at home. That's a pretty good life I think. Just warn them.

Anyways, this week we came home from Kagoshima on Monday night, so we got home at 5 AM on Tuesday and got back into work. My bike brakes got ruined somehow and nobody on Amami fixes mountain bikes because nobody uses mountain bikes, just mamacharis. So our zone leader in Kagoshima is buying some brake pads and sending them down this next week. So that means we had to walk everyday! YES. In case you aren't aware, Amami is always about 100% humidity, and this last week we hit Thirty-one degrees. That's way hot. It was so hot that both me and my comp sweat through out clothes completely lol it's disgusting, so ain't nobody going to complain about heat to me or I'm going to just point at us and say "excuse me".

But besides that, we did a talent show on Saturday night and it was very fun. We had a few investigators show up and it was a good time. I played piano and I'll put that at the end of the email. THEN, we had 31 people at church! We average
8-10. Now before you get too pumped, let me explain. We had the district president and his son come, which is the Sano's son and grandson, and then another member in the district presidency, and then one of our investigators, Miwa, came with her two kids, and the others investigator Nori, who also brought two kids came, and then we had two other investigators come on our side. We had three! That's a lot for here. Four total. Awesome! And they all enjoyed church too! Anyways so talking to District President Sano Kaicho was amazing. He speaks so cleanly and clearly. He speaks like he's from Tokyo. He speaks actual Japanese. Now I know that I'm on Amami and that is a part of Japan, but everybody here speaks very dirty (like southern in America, but worse) and not clear Japanese and then on top of that, old people only speak in Amami's language (it's not written so it's going to die out, but we like learning phrases because the natives love it) and then they mix them and it's not really Japanese. So while missionaries in Tokyo learn probably faster and clearer Japanese they can't come here and understand anything, whereas we learn dirty Japanese and are also able to understand clear Japanese too. Plus dirty Japanese is fun :)

That's really all that happened this week. Lots of walking, sweating, and drinking Mugicha. My bike should be fixed next week so we will see.

 愛してるわ～

シャーキー長老

Elder Tschirki

#getbuckets

Japanese graffiti is usually just something like this. It says "unchi" which is poop.

 

Here is Drew playing the song for the talent show.