0900 hours shyawa funiki
It's hot and humid! Summer is here!
This is at the zoo and the sign says "human animals" and then has a way funny description:
Fun food fact:
Meron pan. So meron is what we talked about before, honeydew, and pan is bread. The funny thing is that is doesn't taste like melon at all. Keshino choro and I think that is got its name because of the shape it is. It is a bun and varies in size, but the classic size is like slightly smaller then half of a small cantalope. It's like a sweet bread with crunchy outside and a soft inside. I talk about it because if I ever come with anyone here I will make them eat some it's so good! Many a missionary's belt size have gone up a few sizes because of this stuff... but if you ever come ask for some!
Culture point:
Hair cuts! So I am pulling my information from a hair stylist from the American base and a hair stylist from the Japanese ward I am in now. For boys' hair when we cut it in the states normally you use buzzers and scissors. When you use the scissors you slide in two fingers pull the hair straight and then cut and continue, staying the same length or slowly getting longer or shorter but always using you fingers as kind of a reference point. Well, they do that same haircut in Japan but most of the time for Japanese guys that might buzzer the side like we do; but they have that cool spiky hair so that just kind or like jab in the scissors to the top of your hair and cut cut and kind of look at it and feel then the jab cut jab cut... like it looks so random and dangerous! Then they thin you hair out so much so you can have cool spikes! haha! The hair stylists are waaay good though!
Spiritual thought:
Sometimes I think that hardest thing is finding the desire to change. The strength to want to overcome and move on. It is easy to hold on the vine that is Christ, but it takes much less energy to rot in the mud on the ground. So I have been thinking a lot about what gives us the desire. What I keep coming back to is desire to become good comes from love. Love from and for God and love from and for others. In order to apply this I think we have to pray. Pray for the strength to see how others need your help, to thank God, and to see your blessings. I think a huge help is if you get involved with kids. That sounds silly but in my personal experience you give me some young kids and I will have the strength to overcome my filthy habits.
Funny story.
So this was one of those planned things. Not so much a prank but more of a funny surprise. I have never in my life felt so much anxiety before hand. Like terror. If you have ever hid to scare your mother you know the feeling I am talking about. Our mission president will be going home in 5 weeks and the members of the church wanted to thank him so they threw a farewell thank you party this weekend. Each congregation did a little something on the stage for him. Some sang spiritual songs, some did traditional Japanese dances, others were funny skits... it was all stuff he liked. Our group did a rakuten fight song. It's the local baseball team that won the national championship last year. Our president is a huge fan of them. We all dressed up in the gear sang the fight song, showed a t.v. clip that president was shown in and then brought them on the stage and gave them a jersey! Then the big surprise.... we trapped him in a circle...
There is a Japanese tradition with sports: you throw people up in the air its call douage. Now this is all cute and fun with a tiny little Asian man. But our president is 6`4`` and not a pipsqueak (maybe like president Baker build). The group we are with are a bunch of Japanese guys... strong but not over 150 pounds. I was soo afraid it would all end in tears and flames with president going home 5 weeks early for surgery.
So we close in... and you see the realization come in his eyes and then... it actually worked pretty good.. he got at least 8 feet in the air I would say... Three times! so alls well that ends well!
Love each other for me!
Law Choro
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