October 6, 2013 Letter

It's going to be short and I am sorry.

 

Culture Point

 

Shogi. It's like chess at first hearing of the rules but its way more complicated and feels really different when you play. I have won once when he took off four of his pieces at the beginning. He was in a club (my companion) and so he kills everyone, especially me. I am getting better every time and will win the real way one of these days. We pretty much play it anytime we eat. It's kind of an addiction but I think it all good. If it gets out of hand I will stop. We didn't have all the pieces (we found it in the apartment) so I found a piece of scrap wood and a box knife and made three. They all thought I was a mountain man American boss.... no big deal.

 

Fun Food Fact

Bento. It's a sack lunch gone Japanese! They are so cute and super good! Lots of balls of rice with paste of tuna in the middle and vegetables prepared in certain way. You can put anything you want in it but a pb and j is a rice ball with tuna in the middle! Super good and fast to make!

 

Spiritual Thought

Matthew 18:19-20

I have had this on my mind for a while. Find something righteous that you need. Come together and ask God for it with faith and I know I know I know that if it is best for everyone God will give it. I had a sisters here whose husband dropped one day at home and when she took him to the hospital they told her he would die that night. She called all the family in the Philippines and they prayed and he was out of the hospital in a week. Come together and pray. And don't smoke...

 

Funny Story

So we have a person who is looking into the church that has been taught by the missionaries in Kamisugi but he lives literally 10 minutes away walking form us. So they want to have us teach him. So we wanted to get to know him so we could teach what he wants to learn so we went to this volleyball activity. He is from Taiwan, a little chubby, super smart, and kinda nerdy. The activity was at an elementary school on a Tuesday night. My image is a bunch of little Japanese 13 year old girls hitting some volleyballs around and I would have stayed mature and not get too competitive. 

Prepare people. The Japanese are already preparing for the Olympics and they are doing it on Tuesday nights in an elementary school and they have a secret weapon in the form of a Taiwanese chubby little genius. They spiked the ball, it hit two feet from the net and bounced to the ceiling!!! I was the pup. But I will give a shout out to Sadie hear for teaching the three step zombie arm thing because I at least saved my pride with that one. So be prepared people: I am going to be pro at volleyball, shogi, and Ping-Pong.

 

Love each other for me!

Elder Law