Winter Wonderland 1653 hours
Sorry folks! I got to do some way fun activities today and I am out of time to write but I promise you it was worth it!
Fun Food Fact:
Vending machines. I have talked about vending machines before and how half of the drinks are hot and half are cold. But, on the hot side there are like 20 different coffees and teas and then there is sometimes (about half the time) a hot cocoa and about 80% of the time there is corn soup! Sometimes onion soup but the Japanese really like corn soup and it's easy to understand why because it is so good! It's like a creamy corn broth with corn kernels in it. You can buy it at the store and it looks like hot chocolate packets but it is corn!
Culture Fact:
Trains. They are the best in the world but I will talk about them another time. I want to talk about how you ride the train. Most of the time the trains are not smash-packed like you see on the news from Tokyo. There is normally enough room for everyone to sit except like 10 people (unless it is early morning or 4-6pm then most people are standing).When you ride the train you can have anywhere from a 10 minutes to 2 hour ride (for most people) and so you sit on the seat and just sit. It's not full of talkin;, young people have headphones and their phone and kind of sleep and old people have phones or a book and kind of sleep (really older people just kind of sleep). But it's really quite and everyone is just like nodding off or looking out the window. That is unless you are me; then you are talking to everyone, asking them lots of questions about Japan or seeing if they would have interest in a message about how they can find purpose in life. I always ask them how they know how to get off when it is their stop and to wake up. They always just say, ``I don't know... you just do``. So it's a Japanese secret.
Spiritual Thought:
My thoughts today are on the strength or the potentially great strength of the family. My thoughts are: I think God loves us and that the family is a burning example of him wanting to take care us. He gave us a system that when done correctly can be one of the biggest strengths and joys of our existence.
"But what is the right way?" I find myself asking. Then another testimony to me of God's love is that He gives us an answer to that too. He gives us the scriptures of ancient prophets who God talked to and told them the best way to raise their families. My testimony is that he didn't leave us hanging recently, He still talks to the world on how to raise our families through a prophet today! I am so thankful for the love of God and assurance of the right path I have because I know we have a living prophet today.
The link below is modern day revelation in regard to the family. If you have any questions please contact an LDS member or your local LDS missionaries.
Funny Story:
I was on a train on the way home from a zone training meeting up in Aomori and it was around 6:30 at night so the train was pretty empty. So I was rocking a seat and talking away like always and then the train slowly starts to empty and I am sitting by myself. My companion is talking away to the person next to him and it's kind of late for me to join the conversation. So I look out the window for a bit, study some vocab, and then subconsciously I decided to study some culture about Japan and I start to doze a little bit.... then I think I was bored of the dozing because I fell waaay asleep. My companion was sooo engaged in his conversation. If you all remember the secret trick of the Japanese where they just magically wake up at your stop... well either I am not Japanese or they are just pulling my leg. We got to ride the train an extra 2 hours because I did not wake up! Luckily it was free. They took pity on the silly little Americans that looked all bum hurt.. haha!
Have a wonderful week and love each other for me!
Law Choro
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