So I will attach a video later that I got about a bunch of white people that are fluent in Japanese at a restaurant and how the waitress doesn't understand what they're saying. It's funny because it's true and happens everyday. Not at restaurants necessarily but we might be speaking perfect Japanese to them, typically old people, and they'll just laugh awkwardly and say they don't know English. It's really weird but its actually something I looked up a little bit on my mission and pretty much if you have the predispositions of what someone is going to say and its different, your brain cant comprehend it really. So literally her brain in this case hears English. It's funny ha. But the title of the email is from the last part and he says something like "today in this age we should realize that appearance and identity are totally different!"..."So, please, listen to our Japanese!" Maybe Ill use this out working. Maybe I just like it because its totally true and I'm more Japanese than anything else lol.
Anyways this week was a good one. We said goodbye to Elder Jo and he went to Naze, my fave area, and now elder Barlow is here in Saga. We actually went to high school together. I was a TA in his Japanese class my senior year and I usually didn't have anything to do so I
would sleep hahahaha but still like it was cool getting that transfer call. Needless to say, things have been fun.
I have a cool story to tell. So we found this new investigator who is a young mom. She's way cool. Well so we were out playing with some kids and they were way fun and Japanese kids are the best just straight up, like they think that the Japanese speaking gaijin are the coolest things in the world. They love us and when they found out we speak Japanese they do everything to you like talk, ask random questions about America, ask what words are in English, ask you riddles, hit you in certain places and sometimes stick their fingers in your butt (I've actually never had it happen to me, I'm way lucky) and they pretty much assume you understand everything. Well then we left and went to this apartment and this mom opens the door and the kids are there and it was way cool and we are way tight with her 8 and 6 year old boys and she loves it and pretty much became an investigator because of that haha. Way cool story and wouldn't have happened if it weren't for taking the time to be with the children.
We couldn't meet our Nepalese friends this week which was too bad. We also couldn't meet the lady that made me open a jar but we will go back and follow up. Life is good right now. Got a little bit of a headache and a cold but that's okay. Thank goodness Japanese people
are sanitary and we wear masks when we are sick so we don't spread disease. Everything here just makes sense. Gotta love it.
That's pretty much it for the week! Not too much to say during transfer weeks so maybe there's more next week.
Psych I just remembered the main story I was going to share. So we were doing some studies at the park and I accidentally left the phone on the bench and didn't notice until we got all the way to the church to teach English. It's like an hour walk haha we didn't have bikes
yet. So it was sitting there for like 6 hours. Well so Imamura shimai somehow finds out our phone is there, hops in her car and goes searching for it. We have to get home at 9 and it was like 850 at night so we couldn't go. Well she didn't find it but gave us the police's number and told us to call it tomorrow if our phone wasn't there. Well we go and the phone is just sitting there and then we tell her that it wasn't and she's like "how are you texting then" and it was funny but here's the cool thing. She wasn't sure what to teach in primary and the lesson was on prayer and she felt like she should go to the English class and then she found out about the phone and then realized that she's going to use this story for class and she made a little paper book about the phone and its called "The two missionaries that lost their phone" and its pretty much exactly what happened and it was about how we prayed and then went the next day and it was still there. So like the kids loved it and got way into it and colored it too and we got gold and silver suits apparently but the point is that God answers prayers, and in order for us to fulfill our responsibilities He will give us promptings and it is just our job to listen, just like she did.
Elder Tschirki
A cute Nepalese couple riding their charis (bikes)
Throw back to high school
Meeting at the station
The phone was still there. Only in Japan
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