Fun
Food Fact
Cabbage: I have grown to love cabbage since I came here. The funny thing
is a cabbage can run you anywhere from 3-5 bucks which is more than I would
have thought. But I buy it because it’s
still way cheap compared to most stuff and it is way good to put in anything
raw or cooked! My favorite thing to do with it is chop it up really tiny then
boil it for a few minutes then rinse it in cold water and put it in the
fridge. I eat it with a salty chicken
soy sauce based dish on rice. So oishii!
Culture
Point:
So, I think I have talked about this before, but the words in Japanese
for ``you`` are slightly rude. If you have heard someone’s name, then it is
pretty rude unless it’s like a really close friend. You can say “anata” if you
just met them and of course no one will even blink. But if they can, I’ve noticed
thy almost always avoid it. There are a lot of ways to avoid it, but my
favorite is they call you by a rank in a family. For example, when people don’t
know my name and they don’t know I am a missionary, they call me “onisan,”
which is the word for older brother. When I meet a man on the street and I ask
him if that is his bike, I say is that “father’s” bike? and so on! grandma, sister,
mom, you use anything! I think it’s pretty cool.
Spiritual
Thought
Something I thought was very insightful was a talk I read by Elder
Bednar (Pray
Always) about how every time we pray it
is a continuation of our last pray, or to say it better it is connected to our
prayers before. That just like when we
pick up the phone to call mom in the morning and then call her again that night,
she remembers what we talked about in the morning and so that is how we should
talk to her. I really liked that and I think it is true. We know God is listening and wants to answer
our prayers. Let us not forget that relationship. It’s been very helpful to me.
It makes me more responsible and is helping build my relationship with God.
Funny
Story
You can’t bake in the apartment we are in now. There is just a
stove top, a dinosaur of a microwave, and a small toaster oven that you can
make two pieces of toast in. (I eat two every morning). Fresh baked goods are
therefore a bit of a treasure. So when we found out there was a store making
and selling muffins every morning we all got way stoked!! (and paid way too
much money for one muffin a piece) We were just having a ball about this. But
when we got to the church, Zone Conference started and we got really busy. We
had a bunch of meetings after and then a little mishap occurred and it ended up
being late in the night by the time we got home. Our beloved Simonsen and Willey
choro had been kind enough to wait for us to eat their muffin. So we get in the apartment and first we need
to do some planning. Then it is muffin feasting time! So we are being all
spiritual and trying to do a really good planning session and I hear the other
Elders come out of their cave and start roaming around the kitchen. (this is
about 9:45 at night) and then all of the sudden I hear this howling. If you
mixed an baboon call and a small giggle you would have the sound I heard. So I
rush into the kitchen ready to fight for someone’s life and at first I was a
little confused because the lighting was all off.. like a little too bright for
that time of night and a little too orange... then I see these two black
silhouettes in the corner by the before mentioned toaster oven. (this is the
area the sound was coming from. What was happening is they were trying to blow
as hard as they could while having a giggle fit. They were laughing because I
think they saw that muffin video on You Tube after the newspaper muffin, and
they were blowing because of the old testament style pillar of fire that was coming
out of the top of elder Willey’s "strawberry milk muffin.`` All ended well
when I added my huff to the fire brigade. The lesson learned by Elder Willey
was not to put paper in the toaster oven. Love each other for me!
Law
Choro
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