I am now down in Kumamoto!! In Shimizu. The area that just got hit by a huge earthquake.? That's the one. In my area, most of the damage is clear. But we'll be biking along and see a building with huge chunk missing or bike over huge cracks in the road. There's tons of construction of roads and buildings. Lots of shops and stores are closed. There's also still smaller earthquakes going on. Since I came in on Thursday, there's been about 15. But their small. Don't worry too much. But I'm back in the city!!
Tuesday: I got my transfer call. Then we went to the beach. It was so fun. We could wade in up to our knees and it was so tempting to just jump in. But I didn't. But we took lots of goofy pictures and chatted and threw seaweed at each other.
Wednesday: I mainly just packed. And said goodbye to lots of people. Which was way sad. Eikaiwa was a blast. Tons of new people showed up. We taught the big group of intermediates. We did have a return appointment with a Vietnamese college student AND SHE SHOWED UP. We had an awesome lesson with her and set up another appointment. We spoke with her in a strange mix of English and Japanese.
Thursday: transfer day!! I trained to the meeting train station
and then I got on a nice bus. It was me and another sister going to the same apartment. We were the only ones on the bus. It was a nice 2.5 hour ride. Then I met my new companion. Sister B. She's WAY nice. She's a transfer 11 (almost done). She was in Kumamoto when the earthquake happened and was evacuated. And now she's back in a different area. Her earthquake story is crazy. She's from Idaho went to BYU-I for a year and a half. (Did I answer all your questions dad?). I've had so much fun with her these past couple days. Like so much fun. I am so happy.
In my apartment there are Shimizu sisters and Tsuboi sisters. Our apartment is is in their area. Our apartment is on the 8th floor. We're in the city. The others sisters area is more big city. We have the smaller city and a college. Our ward is on the smaller side. Around 30 people. They're mainly all older but there's a couple of
young couples and really small children. There's not really anyone between the ages of 10-20. Well, besides me and my companion. But they're a nice little ward.
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| Yes, that is seaweed |
Friday: I went for real running. It's been 5 months. None of my recent comps liked to run. And now I have one who loves to run and is WAY fast. She did cross country.
Saturday: we had a lesson with an investigator named K who has a baptism date. I actually don't have my journal with me so I'm not sure if anything else notable happened.
On Saturday we went and did service. Well, we biked an hour and the place was full. But we went out to lunch. Next Saturday p, though, we have service again. Earthquake clean up. I'm excited to do moreservice. We dendoed and talked to a lot of college students.
Sunday: was an interesting day. We had morning church. Then we planned a bit. And then we went to the church for a return appointment. We waited for the return appointment to show and she was a no-show. We were sad but we went and cleaned up the room and were about to leave the church when a member runs out the door and says "this kid just walked into the church and asked for pamphlets." We were shocked. So
he came out and we said "we have 3 pamphlets. Which one do you want?" Then he said "well, can I have all 3?" We gave him all 3 and we were in a bit of a shock. People never come up to us demanding religious material. We asked him how he found out about our church and our church building. He said he was on the Internet and found our website. Then he had his phone give his directions to the church to find more material. Nuts. Just bananas. We're excited to contact him again. He works for the Japanese military.
Well, that was my week. Crazy. I'm so tired. My brain isn't on quite right. Packing and moving and unpacking in a 2 day span takes it out of you. So this week was so short. I'll do better next week. Maybe.
I love you all. Enjoy the pool for me. I'll eat a ton of ice cream for you.
Love love love
熊人姉妹from 熊本
(Bearman 姉妹 from Kumamoto)
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