Tuesday, November 8, 2011

(regarding Brittany's birthday): HappppppY Bday BrittleBirddd!!! :D :D
(regarding Linda making home made ice cream from scratch, using brown
rice, coconut milk, stevia, tic tacs, and unsweetened chocolate!
Healthy mint chocolate ice cream!) Good job on homemade Ice cream
Momma :D When I come home, I will show you how to make this Icecream
cake that is from Brazilllllll :D
(regarding Brittany's weight loss): WHeW!! Great job on the weight
loss Brittany! That's Crazy intense! What are you doing that's making
you lose all the weight??
(regarding our surprise at his being able to wear a costume for
Halloween): Really? Why were you surprised at being allowed to dress
up for Halloween? If we didn't show up in Costumes, No one would. That
was part of how we got people to come, we were like, hey! Come to the
Halloween Party! We Made our own Costumes, you should come! It'll Be
fun! Hahahah.

Anyways, It feels like I have always been on a Mission XD I can't
remember doing anything else now XD hahaha, Four months down... Who
knows how many more to go lol.
(regarding how comfortable his bed looks): Hahahah Yeah the Beds here
are interesting, they're comfortable... If you have a ton of the
Futons XD my bed has like six futons and a normal mattress under it XD
BUT The Blanket is super Comfy, it's a Huge Dawny pillow basically XD
it'S REALLY warm XD which stinks cuz it'S pretty hot out here still.
We haven't really gotten into winter just yet, we've been getting
plenty of rain, and lots of Sun, but no snow yet, Trust me, I will be
making a huge deal about it if I get snow here XD we don't do Daylight
savings here in Japan XD LAME!!!
(regarding what the most useful items he took with him have turned out
to be): Hmmmmmm most useful Items.... Paper... Shoes.... Pjs... Oh and
the first Aid kit has been coming in handy a lot recently, for spider
bites and such XD
The bugs here are ridiculous, like, When I went on a Koukan (Splits)
with Johnson Chourou (THe one from my District at the MTC And who is
still in my District out here) We were leaving the apartment, and two
doors down, I looked to my right, because I thought I saw something
run up the wall, there was a HUGE Spider, like, this thing was as big
as a Tarantula, and it looked angry XD so he and I were stuck next to
this thing cowering in fear for a good three minutes (we took a
picture)

Anyway, This week was intense, lots and lots of work, (more like lots
of really long train rides) and we were able to visit a family that we
are teaching, and they have accepted Baptism, now we need to set a
date, and they need to come to church at least three times in order to
be baptized, so I am super happy for them, Their names are Jeana
Cezar, and her Daughter Jennifer, and they are way nice, they speak a
mix of Spanish and Portuguese XD
 Plus we did two Koukans (missionary splits), With the same people
this week (So I went on a Koukan with One of the companions, then went
with the other the next day) which was wayyy expensive, the train to
their area is like $10 one way, so we spent $40 in two days >_> the
only good thing about that is that the Money gets refunded, so we're
good XD

One thing I have noticed is that it is ridiculously difficult to stay
on top of Journal Writing, try as hard as you can, and you still miss
days >_> But! I have made it a goal to stay up on it, and not miss
anymore days!!!!!!

Mom! "HAHA" is Mom in Japanese, 母 <== that's the Kanji for it.
(regarding a code cipher Linda set to him): Also mom! Thanks for the
Quist wheel, that thing is reallly helpful for deciphering! I was able
to decipher the Boyd K Paker quote in less than 2 minutes. (The
Greatest conflict any man will ever face is with self) Sweet Job,
also, a small tip for the Hiragana quist, The 'wo' sound is actually
pronounced 'o' so there are actually two ways to write o XD It's
pretty Confusing, but one of them is only a Particle, It's never used
to write a word. EVER. を <==== This one is never used to write words,
it's a topic marker.

Anywho, I'm glad you guys are all able to stick together! I'm sad I
miss all these family interactions, but ohhh well XD

By the way mom, thank you for the Hanky with all the stuff from the
family party! That was way awesome to see everyone's writing on it!!!
Ahhhh!!! Awesome. Also I have used a lot of those Kanji you wrote on
there already, like Chikara, and some others (I can't remember any
others at the moment, I left it at the apartment XD)

Oh! Today we found out that one of the Elders in our District is being
transferred to a different area, which is sad, because he is awesome,
and we are definitely going to miss him at our District meetings >_>
(Kusume Chourou, Johnson Chourou's companion/Trainer) so we are all
pretty sad about that. Nothing we can do to change that though Blahhh.

OH!!!!!! We went to a Japanese Temple with one of our potential
investigators, as well as Johnson Chourou and Kusume Chourou (So in
total there were six of us, me, Duarte, Johnson, Kusume, Monica, and
Fabi) and it was Hilarious, because Kusume Chourou, The Japanese
Elder, didn't know what some things were, and I was like, isn't that a
Sake barrel, and he was like O_O How'D you know that, and then when we
went to these well things I was like, hey, don't we have to wash here,
first the right hand then the left and he was like O_O How'd you
know?? And then when he pointed at this pile of sand outside of
buildings he was like, I don't know why that is there... and I was
like, isn't that there to ward of evil spirits? And he was like O_O OH
YEAHH!! How'D you know that??? HAhahahah it was awesome XD All the
anime I have watched has payed off here in Japan XD

Score 1 for the Anime nerd :P

Anywho, that's pretty much my week in a nutshell, I love you guys and
I hope you are having a blast together, Mom, I think I got your
letters on Thursday, (We are able to check the mail daily)

Love you!!!! Stay safe!
Hiru Chourou
Elder Hernandez

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