Well on Monday we went bowling! It was really fun! We went with takashi! He is really good he won all 4 games which only cost $30 for all three of us for 4 games! Pretty cheap! Then I told him I was transfering and it was really sad.
The next day I spent having last lessons with investigators and less actives, and recent converts. It was pretty sad. But it was good solid lessons. And I got to say good bye. Then we missed our train to tateyama so we ended up getting to Eikaiwa late. When we got there all the students had written all over the board little goodbye notes! It was so cool! They had also made some food for us and we ended up just having a little fair well party.
Well as you all know if you have been reading my emails lately, I have been transferred from Kisarazu to Maebashi, which is actually the biggest transfer in the mission without taking the bus to Niigata prefecture.
Packing is such a pain, haha geez I hate packing, I hope I stay in Maebashi for 12 months hahaha
Ukari and her kids came to the train station when I got transfered, they all cried when I left, I'm gonna miss them girls so much!!!! They are amazing!!!! I miss them already!!!
So I had to carry my bike in something they call a bike bag and a suitcase on the trains! Soooo I left Kisarazu station, rode the train for an hour to Chiba and was meant to meet up with my zone leader there who was transfering to an area in Tokyo so I was meant to go with him all the way from Chiba to there but it turns out he wasn't there when I got there so I waited there for a half hour then decided I better go call the zone leaders to figure out what was happening, turns out he ditched cause something else came up so I ended up waiting there for the elders in the area to come and give me some new transfer instructions, so half an hour they got there gave me the instructions but they were in japanese.... And I couldn't read them at all! The only kanji I knew was train station and minutes on the entire thing they gave me but I just said yup good got it,(it was a japanese elder who gave it to me). So I then spent the next 2 hours on my own and I had to transfer at 4 stations 2 of which are the biggest and second biggest in the world. So then I found the assistants and waited for my traveling companion to arrive. He got there just after I had dinner with the assistants then we jumped on the train again. It took another 2 hours on the train to eventually get there. When we got there it was10:00 pm!!! I started transfering at 2! It took 8 hours to get there. Not to mention I was on Tokyo rush hour trains with a bike and a suitcase! Hahahah but it was so much fun!
Then I met my companion elder Allred, he is from Texas, he has just less than 6 months left, he loves working out, he went to a navy college, he just got accepted back into the navy college for after his mission. He has a Texas flag hanging up in our bedroom so I hung my australian one right next to it. I made him try Vegemite, no one else in the apartment likes it other than him. He thinks it's okay, he can see why people like it. While he was eating a tiny bit on toast I sat there with the tube squeezing it into my mouth hahaha all of the elders freaked out hahaha it was so much fun.
We have lots of investigators in this area which is really nice, we taught 20 lessons last week and this week could teach at least 25 so I'm looking forward to that. Except only one of the lessons will be in English.... Haha fuuunnnnn :)
Geez I still don't understand people half the time!
We taught a recent convert who lives on the second floor of our building, he is really old and has old man japanese which is like a whole different language, he would talk for 5 minutes and we would understand like 3 sentences or so, it's so weird!!!! No one can understand old people hahaha.
We also went and played gridiron with one of our investigators which was fun then taught the law of chastity :0 that was the second time I had taught it and I have actually taught it 4 times this week now! Hahaha. For japanese people it is very common to have a relationship with out love, it is really sad! Them relationships never last and aren't fun at all! They look terrible from the outside I think it would be even worse ipfrom the inside of one of those relationships.
Well we have been getting up at 6:00 to exercise and getting a solid 1 hour exercise in cause we both want to get fitter, I am soooo tired hahaha. I can feel every muscle in my body!!!! And muscles I didn't know I had!!!! Haha but it's good :)
This area is so much more city like, well it's more city than perth city, it's massive. It's not Tokyo but it's massive!!!
Our area last transfer went from 6 people down to 3 one sister went home, so the other sister moved out, then one elder got emergency transfered. So this area went from 6 people to 1 trio.... It was so strange coming into this area all the investigators were thrown into one area book and then we had to split them back up. We now have only 4 elders and no sisters... Kinda sucks not having sisters. Cause now we need member presents for teaching sisters.
I'm not sure how my English is, it's slowly getting worse when I am speaking so hopefully you can still understand what I am saying when I am typing. Hahha. I don't really have much time to proof read :)
Talk next week :) love hearing from all of you :)
Elder King!!!
(*^_^*)
The next day I spent having last lessons with investigators and less actives, and recent converts. It was pretty sad. But it was good solid lessons. And I got to say good bye. Then we missed our train to tateyama so we ended up getting to Eikaiwa late. When we got there all the students had written all over the board little goodbye notes! It was so cool! They had also made some food for us and we ended up just having a little fair well party.
Well as you all know if you have been reading my emails lately, I have been transferred from Kisarazu to Maebashi, which is actually the biggest transfer in the mission without taking the bus to Niigata prefecture.
Packing is such a pain, haha geez I hate packing, I hope I stay in Maebashi for 12 months hahaha
Ukari and her kids came to the train station when I got transfered, they all cried when I left, I'm gonna miss them girls so much!!!! They are amazing!!!! I miss them already!!!
So I had to carry my bike in something they call a bike bag and a suitcase on the trains! Soooo I left Kisarazu station, rode the train for an hour to Chiba and was meant to meet up with my zone leader there who was transfering to an area in Tokyo so I was meant to go with him all the way from Chiba to there but it turns out he wasn't there when I got there so I waited there for a half hour then decided I better go call the zone leaders to figure out what was happening, turns out he ditched cause something else came up so I ended up waiting there for the elders in the area to come and give me some new transfer instructions, so half an hour they got there gave me the instructions but they were in japanese.... And I couldn't read them at all! The only kanji I knew was train station and minutes on the entire thing they gave me but I just said yup good got it,(it was a japanese elder who gave it to me). So I then spent the next 2 hours on my own and I had to transfer at 4 stations 2 of which are the biggest and second biggest in the world. So then I found the assistants and waited for my traveling companion to arrive. He got there just after I had dinner with the assistants then we jumped on the train again. It took another 2 hours on the train to eventually get there. When we got there it was10:00 pm!!! I started transfering at 2! It took 8 hours to get there. Not to mention I was on Tokyo rush hour trains with a bike and a suitcase! Hahahah but it was so much fun!
Then I met my companion elder Allred, he is from Texas, he has just less than 6 months left, he loves working out, he went to a navy college, he just got accepted back into the navy college for after his mission. He has a Texas flag hanging up in our bedroom so I hung my australian one right next to it. I made him try Vegemite, no one else in the apartment likes it other than him. He thinks it's okay, he can see why people like it. While he was eating a tiny bit on toast I sat there with the tube squeezing it into my mouth hahaha all of the elders freaked out hahaha it was so much fun.
We have lots of investigators in this area which is really nice, we taught 20 lessons last week and this week could teach at least 25 so I'm looking forward to that. Except only one of the lessons will be in English.... Haha fuuunnnnn :)
Geez I still don't understand people half the time!
We taught a recent convert who lives on the second floor of our building, he is really old and has old man japanese which is like a whole different language, he would talk for 5 minutes and we would understand like 3 sentences or so, it's so weird!!!! No one can understand old people hahaha.
We also went and played gridiron with one of our investigators which was fun then taught the law of chastity :0 that was the second time I had taught it and I have actually taught it 4 times this week now! Hahaha. For japanese people it is very common to have a relationship with out love, it is really sad! Them relationships never last and aren't fun at all! They look terrible from the outside I think it would be even worse ipfrom the inside of one of those relationships.
Well we have been getting up at 6:00 to exercise and getting a solid 1 hour exercise in cause we both want to get fitter, I am soooo tired hahaha. I can feel every muscle in my body!!!! And muscles I didn't know I had!!!! Haha but it's good :)
This area is so much more city like, well it's more city than perth city, it's massive. It's not Tokyo but it's massive!!!
Our area last transfer went from 6 people down to 3 one sister went home, so the other sister moved out, then one elder got emergency transfered. So this area went from 6 people to 1 trio.... It was so strange coming into this area all the investigators were thrown into one area book and then we had to split them back up. We now have only 4 elders and no sisters... Kinda sucks not having sisters. Cause now we need member presents for teaching sisters.
I'm not sure how my English is, it's slowly getting worse when I am speaking so hopefully you can still understand what I am saying when I am typing. Hahha. I don't really have much time to proof read :)
Talk next week :) love hearing from all of you :)
Elder King!!!
(*^_^*)