Hello family! Sorry I'm writing a day late, we had interviews yesterday which was quite the adventure. We had to go to Kumamoto for interviews with Kaicho (mission president) and training from the APs! I just came from Kumamoto so it was kinda like coming home. Except just a week ago I lived a 20 minute bike ride away from the church we had our interviews but yesterday we spent like all day traveling. We woke up at 4:30 to be at the train station at 5:40 to catch our train to Oita. Then we had to wait for like an hour for our bus from Oita to Kumamoto. Gosh. It was raining all day! After a 4 hour bus ride we had to walk 20 minutes in the pouring rain to the church. Good thing the elders in my district are all fun and positive people. We all laughed so much yesterday. Some of it was probably due to how exhausted we were too. Well after our interviews and stuff we made the journey back... and got soaked some more and we all just passed out on the bus home haha. It was really taihen (hard), but it was a great day!
Other than that excitement I've just been here trying to learn this new area! Beppu is a way cool place. There are so many people from all over the place here. It's so cool. Gosh and people are so nice! But geez. Beppu is a mountain, so many huge hills to bike up! It's crazy! But somehow we do it! God really is helping us! Anyways, we have some way awesome investigators. Yosen is from China, she's in her 20s. She's so cool and progressing so much! She wants to serve a mission! so she always asks us questions about our life as missionaries haha. it's awesome! She is doing so great! And she's gonna get baptized in April. It would be sooner but she's going back to China for about a month.
The ward here is so tiny. I think I told you about it last week. But this Sunday, 20 people were at church. 6 of them were missionaries haha. But we did have 4 investigators there so that's pretty good! Anyways. Fun fact. So we rent the 3rd floor of this building for our church. Well on the 6th floor of our building is a gay bar haha. so the elevator always smells like alcohol and cigarettes. haha. it's quite interesting. But the ward here really is like family. It's the best.
Its just so different than Shimizu. It's been hard to adjust, but I really have grown to love the people here. And I'm liking it here more and more everyday. I love you guys! Talk to you next week!
Other than that excitement I've just been here trying to learn this new area! Beppu is a way cool place. There are so many people from all over the place here. It's so cool. Gosh and people are so nice! But geez. Beppu is a mountain, so many huge hills to bike up! It's crazy! But somehow we do it! God really is helping us! Anyways, we have some way awesome investigators. Yosen is from China, she's in her 20s. She's so cool and progressing so much! She wants to serve a mission! so she always asks us questions about our life as missionaries haha. it's awesome! She is doing so great! And she's gonna get baptized in April. It would be sooner but she's going back to China for about a month.
The ward here is so tiny. I think I told you about it last week. But this Sunday, 20 people were at church. 6 of them were missionaries haha. But we did have 4 investigators there so that's pretty good! Anyways. Fun fact. So we rent the 3rd floor of this building for our church. Well on the 6th floor of our building is a gay bar haha. so the elevator always smells like alcohol and cigarettes. haha. it's quite interesting. But the ward here really is like family. It's the best.
Its just so different than Shimizu. It's been hard to adjust, but I really have grown to love the people here. And I'm liking it here more and more everyday. I love you guys! Talk to you next week!