1300 hours Nihonkai (Japanese sea)
The weather continues to get warmer and next week we are planning a
trip to see the cherry blossoms!
Culture point:
One of our friends has done a home stay in Southern California and
I was asking about what surprised her when she went to California and
she said just how huge everything was. I asked her for an example
and she said the laundry detergent came in a bucket!! Hahaha I never
really thought about it, but the detergent here is in pretty small little
boxes. It's just funny what we see as being very different.
Fun food fact:
You can eat horse here. They don't eat dog like Korea, but horse is
pretty normal if a little expensive. One of the most common ways to
eat it is called basashi which is eating it in thin raw strips with
soy sauce on it. It's a very lean meat and eaten most at like parties
or holidays.
Spiritual thought:
Every six months the Saviors living prophet speaks to us in a
meeting called general conference. I had a chance to listen to it
this weekend. I listened to 4 sessions in English and one session in
Japanese. (It was full of some hard Japanese) One of my favorite
talks was a talk called, the music of the gospel, I would recommend it
to anyone. I won't try and give a summary of It but one thing it made
me think about was the beauty of the hope, faith, action, fruits pattern.
We never are asked by God to do anything outside our ability to
understand. We can hope from God, a better world. Have enough faith
or hope that it might be true to test it with action. Then we can see
the consequences of that action as an answer to whether it is truth or
not. And then we need to keep following the good consequences. It's
just natural and very loving. This is what I thought this weekend...
Funny story:
So this is this totally awesome member in the branch here that is sooo
faithful and comes to every activity. He comes early to prepare the
sacrament, helps us in missionary work twice a week every week, super
nice super cute, we love him. One thing that always makes me worry
about him though is he always seems to be feeling like the world is
going to come crashing down tomorrow. He stresses a ton about money
and weather and temperature and it even gets me sweating sometimes. So
we thought we would try and lift his spirits pull him up and let him
take a breath from all the scary thoughts.. So after much foundation
laying and loving we asked him this week...
“What are you looking forward to?”
“When? This week? This year? Ever?”
“Uhh... Anytime but maybe this month if you can.”
“Hmm....”
A solid 5 minutes go by...
Koide Choro tried to help him out with, “anything you think is fun or
beautiful or relaxing or exciting or entertaining that is coming up in
the next month or so?”
“Hmm.. Cherry blossoms are beautiful.”
“Yes they are!! That is totally true and they are coming up!!”
Just as we look at each other with big smiles or joy for bringing
light to his day. Then he says in a soft forlorn voice....
“...but after they bloom they always fall and die....”
He reminds me or Eeyore from Whinny the Pooh.
Love each other for me!
Law choro
The weather continues to get warmer and next week we are planning a
trip to see the cherry blossoms!
Culture point:
One of our friends has done a home stay in Southern California and
I was asking about what surprised her when she went to California and
she said just how huge everything was. I asked her for an example
and she said the laundry detergent came in a bucket!! Hahaha I never
really thought about it, but the detergent here is in pretty small little
boxes. It's just funny what we see as being very different.
Fun food fact:
You can eat horse here. They don't eat dog like Korea, but horse is
pretty normal if a little expensive. One of the most common ways to
eat it is called basashi which is eating it in thin raw strips with
soy sauce on it. It's a very lean meat and eaten most at like parties
or holidays.
Spiritual thought:
Every six months the Saviors living prophet speaks to us in a
meeting called general conference. I had a chance to listen to it
this weekend. I listened to 4 sessions in English and one session in
Japanese. (It was full of some hard Japanese) One of my favorite
talks was a talk called, the music of the gospel, I would recommend it
to anyone. I won't try and give a summary of It but one thing it made
me think about was the beauty of the hope, faith, action, fruits pattern.
We never are asked by God to do anything outside our ability to
understand. We can hope from God, a better world. Have enough faith
or hope that it might be true to test it with action. Then we can see
the consequences of that action as an answer to whether it is truth or
not. And then we need to keep following the good consequences. It's
just natural and very loving. This is what I thought this weekend...
Funny story:
So this is this totally awesome member in the branch here that is sooo
faithful and comes to every activity. He comes early to prepare the
sacrament, helps us in missionary work twice a week every week, super
nice super cute, we love him. One thing that always makes me worry
about him though is he always seems to be feeling like the world is
going to come crashing down tomorrow. He stresses a ton about money
and weather and temperature and it even gets me sweating sometimes. So
we thought we would try and lift his spirits pull him up and let him
take a breath from all the scary thoughts.. So after much foundation
laying and loving we asked him this week...
“What are you looking forward to?”
“When? This week? This year? Ever?”
“Uhh... Anytime but maybe this month if you can.”
“Hmm....”
A solid 5 minutes go by...
Koide Choro tried to help him out with, “anything you think is fun or
beautiful or relaxing or exciting or entertaining that is coming up in
the next month or so?”
“Hmm.. Cherry blossoms are beautiful.”
“Yes they are!! That is totally true and they are coming up!!”
Just as we look at each other with big smiles or joy for bringing
light to his day. Then he says in a soft forlorn voice....
“...but after they bloom they always fall and die....”
He reminds me or Eeyore from Whinny the Pooh.
Love each other for me!
Law choro
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