Wow. What a bookend to my first transfer.

火

We were going to make cookies on Sunday, but decided against it. Then
Monday night, N. kyoudai gives us a call and says, "White Day's
coming up..." (a holiday and "giving time")... So we spent a lot of today
making cookies. On the bright side, two of our members had AWESOME
missionary experiences with their family, and were just glowing. One of
them was thanks to my fantastic companion T. Shimai, and our heart points
with the ward went up by like, ten.

We finished talking with everyone at like, 8:58, so we booked it home.
First time I've run for more than ten seconds for a really long time.
And not to mention, I was in a skirt, shoulderbag, and shoes that I
occasionally throw off my feet by walking. But we made it! And it was
a lot of fun. Running with your companion and obedience on the line
isn't actually a bad activity. As we dashed to the apartment, we
looked at each other and burst out laughing. (We made it, by the way)
It was a really good bonding moment.

By the way, one or two things happened with the cookies, and... well,
they ended up tasting like salt and banana XDDD Surprisingly, it
wasn't bad, and I'm actually developing a liking for them.

水

So on Sunday, we received Mac and cheese from the Abeno sisters. I
made macaroni delight today for my companion, and she liked it! (On
that note, she didn't like hijiki until yesterday :DDDD) We went up to
a place where a bunch of members live. The missionaries call it
"Shinkou Yama", or Faith Mountain. I'll let you guess why.

I made it a good way up before I had to get off my bike. Wow. What a
bookend to my first transfer. One year and four months ago, I was so
angry at myself for not being able to climb up a hill on the way to a
member's. By the time I had to get off, it was far enough up that I
was actually proud of myself. When I got tired, I looked at a point in
the distance and went "Can you make it to that light?" "I can
absolutely make it to that light." And did so all the way up. I'm
still actually really happy, looking back on the experience, and I
hope to only do more from here on out.

Also met a LA's nonmember husband. He likes music, including and
especially Frank Sinatra. So now we're friends :D

And a cute highschooler across from them fixed the brakes on my bike
so that I don't have to fear for my life going down Shinko Yama.

For dinner, my beloved companion made udon. Now I actually know (kind
of) the tsurikata. :D

木

We helped prepare for the Easter party, and made paper flowers. Super
cool. I've never seen them in America, but I'll have to make some when
I get home, because it's simple, and really cool.

金

We received cake three times today :D First, we had a solid district mtg,
with a cameo from S and E chourou, then ate ramen with the Kobe
sisters. Then we took a train all the way out to a place called
Suzuranda, where we ate manju (Sakura and white anko), and ended up
getting taken up into a grocery store where we sat in weird heated
chairs and talked with them about health. And got another manju.

Times up. Love you