music. Anyways, this week Egan Kaicho called, and it's hopefully not everyday that you're getting a call from your mission president. Anyways he asked me to play the piano and accompaniment at the zone training/ specialized training on the 26. That has two meanings. One, WE ARE LEAVING THE ISLAND!!!!! And second, I had to call the Sisters in the zone and see what they were planning. Well, as I was talking to them, they said they hadn't thought about it (it was still the same day) and don't have any arrangements. So they were like "you play piano, can you write an accompaniment part as we sing the melody from
the hymn book?" So pretty much like a hymnplicity deal (shout out mom because I'm probably the only here that knows what that is because of you haha) and so I agreed and now I have to write an accompaniment part. Like that's not a big deal, it will just take some time today because it's pday. But so this all happened on Saturday. Well, Saturday night, we visited a less active dude named Ueno Kyodai, and in the past I had only ever been able to talk to him for about 30 seconds at most, but he let us in and I was surprised. Well, it turns
out he was a music teacher and writes TONS of music and taught my companion music theory during our visit haha. I still remembered and very poorly sang the do re mi Fa so la to do thing to the hymns that he was singing with him. I'm not good at singing but I can read music. Anyways, he had tons of staff paper and he wanted to give me about 500 sheets, but I only took about 30 sheets and a book and now I have paper to write the music on and figure everything out, and I told him I will bring him the music when I am done with it. So that's a lot of music talk, but really, everything is falling together perfectly. God's hand is in the details, even the little things such as a musical number in Kagoshima Zone, or helping out a less active guy because we have the same interests. But I am positive that without God, we
wouldn't have even been able to do any of this, or see even these small miracles. So I guess that's why I'm shouting out Mr. Durtschi. Oh also, Ueno Kyodai says that "Music is not knowledge. It's training." I'd say I agree. You can KNOW music and how it works but unless you have experience it doesn't profit you anything. So that's pretty cool. That's the meat of this email this week.
Other experiences that happened. I finished the Book of Mormon in Japanese this week. I have been reading it every day for three transfers, or about four months, and I finished it, usually understanding it. Like that's pretty cool and I know that if you are learning a foreign language, the Book of Mormon definitely has power. Even if you aren't learning a foreign language, the Book of Mormon has power in every aspect of your life. So just read it.
I also ate a 2.5-3 kilogram plate of curry. It was so much but I did it. Ever since I came to Amami, I knew I would do it, so I did it last week because I thought it might be my last P Day here. It was hard. Oh and for those of you that don't know the unit of kilograms, that's
between 5 and 6.5 pounds of curry. They took my picture and it's on their blog and probably social media, and probably on their wall. Go look it up. Just search go go curry and check out their website.
Anyways, that's about it for this week! Oh I forgot to say but I'm still here on Amami with my beloved Japanese companion, Elder Ishizu, and we are still working hard every day and may have made a return appointment with a retired Yakuza guy that has tons of tattoos and no teeth, but his fingers are still all there.
Love you all!
餡土龍 K. 赦輝長老 日本福岡伝道部 愛してるわ～
A couple of weeks ago but we found some giant rocks on a beach and tried to climb to the very top but couldn't. Meaning I tried to but couldn't.
Curry before...
Curry after...
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