Konnichiwa Minna!Hello, hello! It's sunny and bright here in the land of my new area. Yup! We sure enough got a call Friday morning and they told me I would be leaving. I was kinda hoping to go to a more inaka (countryside) area again but... I kinda got the opposite. You know the place you thought was the hombu before dad? With the temple and the gaijin wards? Well... I'm here now! It's called the Shibuya area and we cover two gaijin (foreigners) branches and the Japanese Shibuya ward. And my companion, get this, is Wells Shimai! My old MTC comp when we were a threesome! :) It's nice cuz we already know each other pretty well and just the last couple days together have been pretty fun!
So our area is waaay city, by the way. It's actually right next to my old Nakano area that has the mission home. It includes the Tokyo temple, the famous fish market on the pier, Tokyo tower, the Imperial palace, and one of the busiest intersections in Japan, possibly in the world which we can see out of our Eki (train station) window. We'll be making some fun P-days hopefully :) But for today we just came here to e-mail (which is at the church offices right next to the temple where I always e-mailed when we went to the temple before, and they let us use the computers), then we have some grocery shopping, a lesson in the afternoon and our 3 hours of P-day dendo time, and then we'll take it easy at the apartment tonight and unpack.
There are so many gaijins here!!! I swear I saw more yesterday as we kubari'd (handed out) chirashis (flyers) at the eki than I have seen my whole mission up to now... ! It's gonna be really really wierd working with the gaijin wards. It was a bit wierd talking to Wells shimai in English the first day, too. I kept responding in Japanese anyway since she understands it as much as I do. But I felt a little more peace about coming home as it only took really a day to get used to it (mostly) again. :) :) but I still have random words that are just easier to say in Japanese... sorry. Shrug. Shoganai.. maybe that's why I was sent here...
No, actually I think it might be because I can finally kind of talk in Japanese sign language, and apparently there's a few less active deaf families.. I want to really work with them!
Ok, other news for this week.. we had transfers actually Sunday night this time, because we had a totzuzen (last minute) whole mission taikai (conf.) in Kichijoji where JOHN BYTHEWAY came and talked to us! He was going to be here in Japan and one of the members arranged it through the hombu, and President Albrect loves him so he was happy to have it. Brother Bytheway talked about becoming even greater followers of righteousness like it said about the way Moses was in the Pearl of Great Price, and of course used a lot from the stories of Ammon teaching the Lamanites, who had also no idea of God. It was really great and of course entertaining. And his wife is really pretty! :) Then since that was transfer week we just did that and had everyone go home with their new companions right after. It was convenient :)
Oh, and the Shibuya apartment is so big! Or maybe I had just gotten too used to the Kanagawa apartment... but we have a whole room-size kitchen, a living room-ish area where we usually hang out clothes to dry and then a study room and a sleeping room. Oh!! And we have beds! How crazy is that!! sooooo hisashiburi. so wierd. I think they were given to us by one of the gaijin families. And those wards have a dinner calender like home instead of a food basket.. ... .. so different. But I think I like it so far. Our RS leader in the Shibuya Japanese ward seems really nice, too, she's being a joint for our lesson today.
As for school and whatnot dad, I am still waiting to hear back. The application should be just fine as it was, now it's just waiting. Once I hear, I want to start applying to Hale 1 for the juniors and seniors where they have kitchens in the apartment. I figure it'd just be simpler to live back on campus for my last year, and I'm fine with that as long as I don't have to eat at the cafeteria!! Then the class schedule comes out in May and I'll start looking at classes. So far it's just waiting. Thanks! :)
As for picking me up too, we can make it shorter if you need to! My trainer Perkins shimai said a week was even more than plenty. But I don't think they hiked Fuji-san.. :) I still want to do that. It's probably an overnight thing of one evening going up halfway one evening and spending the night (there was some cabins up there if we can find how to get into one of those) and then go up in the morning to watch the sunrise on the top. My last Japanese comp did that and said it was way cool! Then I just want to take you both around to the areas I've been in (I guess only Kofu, Nakano, Shibuya (now), Yokohama. We can skip Maebashi, it's too far out and I was only there one transfer. Nakano and Shibuya are close, so those are fine back to back, and one day in Yokohama is probably ok, and Kofu would include hiking Fuji. Anyway, I'm thinking (on p-days :) of good things to do here and places I want to take you, and so I can work with whatever time limit we have. It doesn't have to be a whole week if that's too hard.
Well, that was pretty long, and I think that's about all I have for this week. We'll be e-mailing for pretty sure every week from now on so no worries about that!
Everyone take care, Larisa (and Vik) good luck with potty-training! Hannah good luck with the goats! Brooke drive safe! And Austin ganbaru with the nature garden? :) (still doing that?) Will... have fun? ! :) Ganbatte kudasai! you have more school after spring break right?
Love,
LeFevre shimai
OH! ps. Vik--do you remember a Manabu Hisaka at BYU-H? We had a mogi lesson with his wife the other day (she was in my last area) and she said she knows you cuz they both worked at that computer help center and her husband was also studing IT. It was crazy to make that connection, sadly right before I transfered but... ! yeah. they say hi.. :)
ok love! Bye bye!
pps.. This is the Forsyth's old ward, so if there's anyone they want me to visit for them let me know! :)
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