So ill tell you about my first couple days. On wednesday we dendo for a bit passed out flyers for eikaiwa (english class) and that was crazy we did that infukuoka which is a huge city. then we had interviews with president hes a cool guy and then we did more missionary work we placed a BOM which was cool, but i dont really understand anything at all. its to fast and mumbly. So im always confused.
Well, for dinner we went to a restaurant and had some chicken katsu which was way good. Eating with chopsticks isnt too bad. But anyway super good food. then we taught english which was alot of fun. theres so many cool people. Well that night we got our class, and i got my call to Oita its north east on the coast ish. My area is in beppu but we have a sweet appt in oita. we travel by train everyday to beppu .
So on thursday morning i was dropped off at the eki and traveled alone to my area. fukuoka is huge but i saw tons of mountains and forrests and stuff for a couple of hours before my area. It was beautiful. Its an amazing country.
Well i was picked up in oita by Elder Davidson my trainer and comp. hes from Australia. hes a cool guy. hes pretty chill guy. its been fun. we also live with 2 others and between us 4 we're the only 4 elders for a long time for a couple hours. So we have sooo many people.
well thursday night we had english class again. we have a pretty cool investigator i met there but shes in israel for the next 3 weeks so we have a lot of finding and housing to do. Um Friday night we ate a members house. we sat on the ground which is incredibly uncomfortable, the members were really nice. I ate a bunch of things that i had no idea what they were nothing is familar but everything is way good. well japanese kids are so crazy they're funny, they love missionaries. so after dinner all the little kids played with fireworks just sparklers it was pretty funny. japanese kids are so cool.
oh i also bought my bike they had to order it. i got a black Giant. its a rock 1 its way nice. but i have to wait to get it.
So on saturday we had this concert this japanese lady came and sang and we the missionaries sang one song with her. it was pretty good, alot of our eikaiwa students came which was cool.
um sunday was good too. i bore my testimony which wasnt that bad. I probably messed up a lot but i think i did alright. But yea i dont understand a thing, haha. we went housing last night the old people here are crazy and very proper we met a lot of them, but no one was home, and it was sunday night. weird. nobodys ever home.
well today is pday and were doing emails in this little place. and we might go to monkey mountain, theres tons of monkeys that live in the mountains, so many so it will be cool, they have like 3 clans of monkeys, 2 of the clans had a war they lined off and face each other and the loosing clan left into the mountains and hasnt been seen again. so thats the story behind it and now the other 2 clans just hang out, so that should be fun.
well oita is pretty cool. we live in the big part of the city and are surrounded by mountains, kind of volcanoes maybe i dont know, inactive of course but i think they steam haha. its sweet. its so humid there, im constrantly sticky and we ride our bikes everywhere for long a time so we get pretty sweaty but its good.
Um sleeping arangements are interesting we sleep in futons real ones. Its just a bed and a cover really. pretty comfortable, so we sleep on the floor . its cool. ill take a pic this week, i havnt taken many, been pretty busy, well the bathroom is normal but in the hombu (missin home under the temple) they had the toilets that squirt you in the bum haha its well...interesting, Ive only seen squater in the airport but didnt use it.
umm what else, everything is backwards roads and junk it confuses me, the people are cool, little wierd . well i dont know what else i was supposed to write about, its been way cool so far but this week is the start of the real work. finding and stuff so that should be fun. Japan is legit. everyone rides bikes and is healthy and stuff, pretty weird right? teeth are way bad though, mom you would be terrified. so yea i got a long way to go with the language and all, but it will come, i got an electric jisho (dictionary) so thats helped alot so far well, thats about it for me.
Im here this is real now, im fulfilling prohecy sharing the gospel to the island s of the sea. and its sweet. untill next time 愛しています。魔ってね。Martinez 長老
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