Christmas in Japan
Sister Teagan Clark
Monday, November 11, 2013
Transfer 1.5:
Hello everyone!
Another good week out here in the mission field, but honestly not too much to report on.
One big occurance was the large amount of guacamole that flled my diet. One of our members is really kind and went to Costco and I asked him to look for Guac and he found it!! Thank heavens for Costco. Most American you can get in Japan, I swear.
But if you tell the members that your favorite food is guacamole and tell them that it is avacados, onions, and tomatoes mixed together... They will make it! We went to a member shouse for lunch and we ate a lot and she was amazing an made me guacamole! It was delicious!! Also, when you in at a home in Japan... They never stop bringing you food. And you just have to keep eating. And usually we feel like we are going to explode.
Another big occurance from this week, is one of our wonderful investigators is trying to give up coffee... And in order to help her do this, Hathaway Shimai promised to give up sweets...
I dunno if you really understand, but Hathaway Shimai is ADDICTED to sweets. She always has them. This has been a big step for both of them. It gets a little crazy sometimes, haha, but I really hope that we will be able to see her baptism next transfer.
Sister Teagan Clark
Japan Tokyo South Mission
1-7-7 Kichijoji Higashi-Cho
Musashino-Shi, Tokyo
180-0002
JAPAN
Transfer 1.5 Pictures
Lunch with the Aoki's
Sister Teagan Clark
Japan Tokyo South Mission
1-7-7 Kichijoji Higashi-Cho
Musashino-Shi, Tokyo
180-0002
JAPAN
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Transfer 1.4 Pictures
Elder Suzuki on Halloween
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Kouhoku Elders preparing for their BAPTISM
Sister Teagan Clark
Monday, November 4, 2013
Transfer 1.4 Pictures
Sorry that there are probably a bunch of really random posts with nothing on them.
More Halloween!!
Sister Teagan Clark
Transfer 1.4 Pictures
A couple of pictures of our district, which includes Kanagawa and Kouhoku
Sister Teagan Clark
Transfer 1.4: Yeah... It Wasn't Chicken
Hello, my adoring fans. I know that you have been awaiting my email. Thinking `where could she be?!?!' No fear, I am here!
This week was temple day, so we have our P-Day on Tuesday instead of Monday. Today was the first time I got to go to the Tokyo Temple! Absolutely beautiful! Nothing like a temple trip to get your spirits going!
Lots to talk about this week! This past week was Halloween, which honestly feels so far away from right now. First of all, I think you should know that I have the squeakiest bike in the history of squeaky bikes. My bikes basically screams as we go down hills, and it is a little bit of a problem. I think it is starting to get a little bit better... And by that, I mean that I usually just use my right brake now to avoid the squeak.
For Halloween, we had an amazing Halloween party! We had 88 people come, which is way amazing for an English class! I have some pictures that I will upload. We had the kids trick-or-treat and our stake president came around which a pumpkin of candy, making people say trick-or-treat to get candy. It was rather hilarious in my Advanced Class, considering that most of them are older gentleman. I love English Class! It is a lot of fun talking about Japanese culture with them! We talked about superstitions last week. Really interesting stuff.
This week, we also had the opportunity to go to a tabehodai, which is a Japanese buffet. The difference between American and Japanese buffets, is that is you take it, you HAVE to eat it. You do not ever waste food. So Hathaway Shimai and I took something that we thought was shrimp and chicken, which some cashews and sweet potatoes.
Yeah, it wasn't chicken.
It was oyster. I popped one in my mouth and began to chew. And chew. And chew. And slowly come to the realization that it was kind of fishy and was not being able to be swallowed. I looked at Hathaway Shimai and she said 'Yeah, I am having the same problem.' and I said 'Uhm, what if I can't swallow it?' I tried and kind of gaged and she was like 'Uhhhh.... spit it into the napkin' which I did, ever so casually.
She cut her other oyster and made into into pieces and put into onto our other plates. Casually, as always. It was... fairly disgusting, haha. Everything else was CRAZY DELICIOUS though! Especially the cake.... Mmmmm.
Also this week, I opened the Liahona to see my friend Camery Bagley looking dramatically from the page. I may have bragged a lot, haha. If Camery reads this (which I don't know if she does) KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, GIRL!
One little boy was running around, stopped, looked at me and said. 'Obasan' and then ran away. Why yes, he just called me a Grandma. In other news, earthquakes are totally normal here and another one happened and it was a bit scary and Hathaway Shimai thought it was nuthin'!
We got two new investigators this week and things are going really well with our other two investigators!! I am so glad to see people coming closer to Christ.
Love you all,
Sister Teagan Clark
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