New companion and visiting Fukuoka temple

Sunday, June 22, 2014

こんばんは！

How is everyone?! I am back in FUKUOKA for the weekend! It is so great to be back! So weird, let me tell you!! First of all, YES I got Sister Johnson as a companion! She is great!! She is 21, from South Jordan, and is on transfer 10. So she goes home in October!! She is amazing. It is weird to be with an American! hahah It was SO FUNNY when we were saying goodbye to Suzuki Shimai at the station on Thursday, a lot of ward members came to say goodbye to her and Oi Shimai who was also going home. We were running a little late, so Suzuki Shimai had to run to get her train. To get to the platform, you have to go down an escalator, we were all waving, yelling, saying bye and then she gets out of sight and we hear this crashing noise! Her suite case had fallen all the way down the escalator. We all kind of just go silent, look at the security guard who is watching the cameras, he runs over, looks over the edge and gives us a thumbs up and says "daijobu!" Which is like "OK!" hahah it was so funny! We all just looked at each other and started busting up laughing...that is so typical Suzuki Shimai! hahah perfect last impression!

But yes, I am in Fukuoka! We woke up, rode the train to Fukuoka, rode a bus to the temple and got to go through a session there. It was such a small temple, the baptismal font is on the same floor as everything else! There are four of us Americans now in Kurume, so it is an adventure! The temple workers had to give us the biggest sizes of shoes and dresses they had just to be long enough! Luckily, the biggest shoes they had were 9, so they fit fine. The dress was still a little short...but what are you going to do? hahah It was interesting, I had to have a headset, neat experience! 

After the temple we walked to my favorite Indian curry place, caught a train to the shopping place in Fukuoka and then went shopping in Forever 21, and H&M. It was pouring rain, but so fun! None of us even got anything though!! And who said Americans cant read kanji? We made it all around Fukuoka!! On the way to the station a miracle happened. We met MICHIKO SAN!! I had emailed her I was going to FUkuoka, but we never decided a time. She had been waiting all day in the shopping place for us, but when we never showed she left. We met her on the way home!! it was SO GOOD TO SEE HER!! She is the cutest! The missionaries don't meet with her anymore..:( but hopefully soon. 

Well I hope you have a good week! Next time I email I will be 20! CRAZY!! I dont want to be old!

Love you!!!

Have a great week! 

Ai shite imasu!

p.s. I was so excited to email pictures this week...but we dont have time! booo!!

Messer Shimai