28 January 2018

28 January 2018

Well, here we are at the end of the longest and yet shortest transfer
in the history of ever...
Matsumoto Shimai will be going home so we know Smith Shimai will
likely stay. But we have NO IDEA who else is going to go or stay... we
are all 超 worried about it. None of us want to leave this, the
greatest ward in our mission.
This is actually Matsumoto Shimai's first area and now she came back
here to die. She is basically a member of this ward, haha.
Bradford Chōrō and I have had a lot of fun this transfer. It would be
awesome to go two together but that probably isn't going to happen...
We haven't seen a whole lot of success, but I've learned a lot from
him.
I'm so disappointed with how fast this transfer went by considering it
was nine weeks! *sigh*...

I'm staying in Fujisawa. New companion is Elder Gutierrez.

21 January 2018

21 January 2018

Mom: Question for you - what do you eat normally?  Do you end up cooking for yourself a lot, eating out or dinner appointments?  What do you eat when you cook for yourself?
Peter: Sorry, I meant to answer and forgot. We eat mostly stew, curry or
pasta because it's easiest and fastest to make. We don't eat out too
often but we usually eat out at least once every two weeks or
something. We do not eat at members houses that often at all.

I told everyone how I forgot your birthday... They got mad at me and
said happy birthday to you. Well, I hope you have a great second birthday tomorrow or something! I just can't remember anyones birthday..

8 January 2018

8 January 2018

We went to something called Seijin Shiki today. I did not take any
pictures but the other elders did. They got more pictures with girls
in kimonos than anyone has ever seen in their life. Super funny.
Seijin Shiki is for all the people who become adults this year. So
anyone that turns 20 goes. We also saw all the yakuza kids there. Some
of the most dangerous people in this whole area. Super awesome. It was
a pretty cool thing to see. Loooots of kimonos.

1 January 2018

1 January 2018

So I don't have any pictures from what we did this morning but it was
pretty sweet. New Years (or Shōgatsu) is not popular for the 12:00 but
just for the new day and stuff. But everyone goes to watch the sunrise
in the morning. We went down to Enoshima (Wooo Enoshima!) to watch the
sunrise right over the ocean. (Mostly) There were TONS of people.
Including a bunch of surfers and those surfboards with sails on em and
jet skis and stuff out on the water. It was pretty freaking sweet.
Really tired because of how early we got up for that though.
Technically we didn't go ON the island because we aren't supposed to. It's SUPER dumb. Our area includes the bridge TO Enoshima, but not Enoshima itself... 
We're gonna go hit up the Shōgatsu sales with the Shimai in a bit.