Konichiwa! It's a beautiful day everyone because I am an uncle again!!! Woot Woooot! She is so cute!!! Her name is Adalee Marie Bare. She was born June 13, 2014 at 5:30pm in West Des Moines Iowa weighing 6 pounds 10 ounces and was 19.75 inches long.
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| My sister Christine, brother-in-law Nick, and little nieces Mikilah and Adalee |
Uni! I finally ate it a couple weeks ago! It is sea urchin. It's bright orange and comes on a very strong smelling leaf. It is super slimy and slightly chewy, it's weird... kinda like a raw egg and peach's texture mixed together and got a bit stronger. Haha! Everyone says it tastes bad but I thought it didn't have much taste at all; the leaf was much stronger. But in the end I am way glad I ate it for the story but will not be eating it again not because of the taste but because it was way expensive!
Culture Point
Mega rock paper scissors! It has no name in Japanese so I gave it that name, but I play this with all the 7 year olds in the ward and its so funny! So first off they use saishogu jyanken pon! then you through out gu pa or choki (which is the same are rock paper scissors). Then to play the mega way whoever wins says 5 of these different lines then points at the persons face and then points either down, right, left, or up at the same time as the person who lost turns their head one of the four ways. If they match up then the person who pointed gets to do whatever they said. The punishments range from a karate chop to the top of the head, to an indian burn, to a weak two finger slap to the wrist, to the special of the punisher... mostly it doesnt hurt at all... especially when you are 5 times bigger then the person you face. But it's fun!
Spiritual Thought
I have a sincere testimony that talking bad about people regardless of if it is true or how innocent it seems will lead to no good. And I have a testimony that when you say lots of good true things about someone it will help you be more grateful, more humble, more able to see the beauty in the world, and therefore more able to build a relationship with God and become happier. It's all about the true and happier perspective.
Funny Story
God loves me. This morning we were down to one egg and so the breakfast I have eaten almost everyday for the past year was not an option. I remembered the Iida choro special with the peanut butter and honey egg sandwhich and I wanted to freak out Elder Simonsen who is not a fan of weird Japan foods (i love him). So I scrape out the little peanut butter jar. A couple weeks ago when I cleaned out the shelves I found some honey somone's mom had sent them years ago and it was like solid crystal. I through the bottle in the microwave and started getting the rest together. But I had two pieces of toast and only one egg so I went to the fridge to grab the jam and the lid was like jammed shut! One pop turn lid was threaded wrong and I couldnt get it off! First time in my life I couldn't get a lid off! ;-) So I grabbed a rag and got it off which took an extra 5 seconds. Then I go to the microwave that beeped 3 seconds prior and when my hand is like a foot from the door this bomb goes off inside it! I jumped so high! When I opened it up it looked like whiney the pooh had had a plastic melting party in the microwave. The good news was at the bottom was enough honey to get me egg. My face was saved (the microwave is right at face level on top of the fridge) from being uglier then it is now.
Love each other for me!
Law Choro
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