Hey everybody, my week was good this week! I hope yours
was too! Here's how it went:
Monday: Well today started off like the normal P-day
(cleaning, study, shopping) but then we went to email at the Atsubetsu ward
cause D Choro needed to practice the piano for the music night. After
emailing we ran back home so we could meet up with this lady we know to help
her find an English textbook cause she wants to learn how to speak English
pretty fluently. Then we relaxed for a bit, and then took a train to a station
near the Stake President's house cause they invited us over for dinner again
and it was amazing again!
Tuesday: Today we had a really really good DTM, and had
soup curry for lunch which is way good. Then we did dendo, then for Eikaiwa,
one of the students brought their little son who enjoys being lifted up high,
and fake fighting so I ended up doing that a lot. It was pretty fun to fake die
though... ;) I also found that I had two packages at the post office!
Wednesday: Today was really fun. I went on splits with
B Choro again, and we had a blast. I also got both of my packages today!
One was from Mom and the family and the other was from the ward! It turns out
that both were Christmas packages, but since there's the customs declarations I
basically knew what I was getting anyway, plus we've got transfers this week
and I want to know how I'm going to pack it all, so I opened them. For all of
you who sent something in the ward package, thank you so so much! It really was
so cool to see how many ward friends I've got supporting me back home! Family,
thank you so much or all of the thoughtful great gifts! Grandma, especially
thank you for the socks! I was wishing I had some wool socks and almost went to
buy some, so I'm glad I opened them, and that you were so thoughtful of how
cold it is! Mom the CD is awesome, and the peanut brittle was heavenly!
Everyone enjoyed both a lot! :) I haven't opened my stocking yet, but all of
the stuff that I did open I am super grateful for, so thank you all so much!
Thursday: Today was kinda a crazy day, but we were very
blessed! This morning we saw a house get torn down across the street from us.
Then we had an appointment and on the way a car almost hit us when we were just
walking on the sidewalk, and it stopped like a foot away from us so that was a
miracle! Also on the way back from the appointment we almost got hit again, so
we were very blessed to make it back to the apartment without any injuries!
Thanks for your prayers!
Friday: Today was pretty average, but while finding
today, we played a game where you say a Japanese word, and the last character
of the word has to be the first of the next one. Also no repeating words, and
no ending in an "n" cause no words start with just an N. So I got a
bunch of vocab to learn from it.
Saturday: Today we tried some new ways to dendo. One was
survey dendo. We basically made a survey to hand out that would gage people's
interest in religion. So we went to the Eki next to our apartment and after
handing out about 10 a guy told us that we couldn't do it there. So one of the
managers came and explained that it was against the law to hand out religious
surveys in an eki, and in order to do it anywhere else, you had to get
permission from the city hall. So we accidentally broke a law while dendoing
today... Whoops! We also tried giving tours of the church but it wasn't very
effective either. But we had dinner with this family in the ward which was really
fun.
Sunday: So the member we had dinner with last night
tries to write letters to the missionaries' parents when she gets to know them,
so she asked for Mom and Dad's information. Usually she tries to translate it
into English but it's really hard for her. So to try to make it easier on her I
told her that Mom and Dad went to Japan on their missions so they might
understand a LITTLE bit. But she took that as only write in Hiragana and
Katakana. I then tried to explain that they had forgotten most of it, but she
didn't quite seem to understand... So sorry mom and dad, but you may have some
homework to do soon! ;) Then we had Ward Choir, which went well, and then lunch
and getting ready to walk to Atsubetsu for the Messiah Rehearsal. I have the
address by the way for the videos. It is on www.usream.tv/channel/sapporo-messiah/
Also there is a facebook page Sapporo Messiah but ya, fun week!
I hope everyone's doing well, and I love you all! Have a
great week!
Elder Bickel
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