Saturday, January 30, 2016

He's attractive in American culture as well, but he is BEAUTIFUL in Japan


Thursday of last week, we met the new transfer, E. chourou (elder). He's...
genki [This is Syd's mom, I had to look up this word for the translation.As far
as I can tell, it means 'healthy, energetic, in good spirits, fine, in a good mood'].
And a man who is eager to share his many talents. And he and S. chourou [the
other elder here] look EXACTLY the same from afar. [Scandanavian] Same
coloring, same bike brand... It's scary. S. chourou loves his new companion, E.
chourou. Though of course we were all attached to ***o chourou, the previous
companion who E. chourou replaced, and miss him. S. chourou actually forgot
***o chourou had transferred, and was answering a question and said, "I don't
know, but,***o chourou, does anyone--" He looked back expecting to see his
old companion, stopped, and his shoulders sank a little as it dawned on him that
his old companion was gone. It was really cute and really sad. ***o chourou,
you are in a better place, but we'll still miss your passing (To Marugame).)

On Friday, we were on our way back from an appointment when we passed
by a couple gaijin (foreigner). Now, I love helping gaijin. There's  always
something to do. It's incredible how many people come to Japan without
knowing Japanese (which, is understandable, I guess. I came to Japan without
knowing Japanese). But anyways, they were looking for a coin laundry, and
we were happy to walk with them. It was really fun. He was from Germany,
and wanted to move to Japan because he loved it here. I don't blame him too
much. There's a lot to love in Japan.

On the way home, we ran into a woman and began teaching her a lesson
because... well, we will teach to anything that lets us. It was interesting
though.

Her: I'm Buddhist. (I love that they say that all the time. Little do
they know, it's fruitless as a deterrent. Everyone in Japan is
Buddhist.)

So we taught her a lesson. She didn't commit to praying,but she did agree
to go to Mormon.org and she committed herself to read the Plan of Salvation
pamphlet. So that was super. She was so cool and super suteki.


This past Monday we went to the Pokemon Center in Umeda, and taught two
lessons,so that's why I didn't have time to write y'all in my free/off time.
Gomen, ne. But we had to email the mission president, so we stopped into
the church for just a minute to use the wifi. As we were typing out our report
in the chapel, alone (we thought) , suddenly this head peeks up and over the
pews in the very front.

Us: ;OAHWAF AFVDHKS;A;WAEIHL;EFILSLIHAVXVSAFIS;EH;!!!!!!
        Startled the mess out of us.
Him: Um, I lost my SD card.
Us: *wiping the foam from our mouths* ...? Um... Okay.
Him: I think it's somewhere around here.
Us: ...
Him: Somewhere around here. *motions*
Us: ...Oh! *go to help him*

So, turns out he's a LA, K-k, and asked us if he could take the
lessons. Still not entirely sure what he was doing in the chapel.

Then, on Tues, we came downstairs and out the door to find that my dearest
douryou's brakes were grating and grinding. So, we took a look at it,
she dug a gigantic piece of metal out of one of the brake feet, and we
called the chouroutachi (elders). They, wonderful people, came down to our
apartment and spent the next two hours trying to get my douryou's bike
back on its feet.

Then we were late to our lunch appointment with I. shimai. We
called about an hour ahead of time to warn them that we were largely
without transportation and would likely be unable to get there on
time.

And we didn't. We were an hour late. I have no doubt that I now have
the worst reputation among the Abeno ward members. But they said that
they had just finished cooking, and so it all worked out well. The
food was delicious, and E. chourou and S. chourou were a hit.
Mostly E. chourou. He's attractive in American culture as well,
but he is BEAUTIFUL in Japan. It's Very funny. Anyway, the cute,
middle-aged ladies cannot stop talking to him, and he is a people
pleaser, so he's very responsive to that.

We also taught [pew/SD card] K-k. We'll pass him to the chouroutachi
(elders) tomorrow.


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