October 22, 2013
Dorio, why do you only want to hang with the Shimai?
Well, a few days ago I got sick as a dog, I've had a really bad cold, but there's no such thing as a day of at the MTC, even on P-Day. So I have still been getting up at 6:30 and going to class and everything, I just haven't been as effective.
Nihongo (Japanese) has been coming along pretty good. We learned how to pray and say our testimonies in the first few days, I was having some trouble with the language even though we have mostly just gone over things I already new, but I understand it a lot better, we SYL every new word we learn, we also have some missionaries in our district that have been living in Japan for a few years and they speak really good Nihongo which is very helpful. I've been having lots of issues with my dorio (companion, the R is a cross between L and D). He is the only one in my district that I haven't really gotten along with, he hates socializing with the elders, he always just wants to go off and talk to the shimai (sisters), but we're working on it, we have companionship inventories every few days and those are really helpful.
Every few weeks we have native Nihonjin (Japanese people) come for a few weeks to learn about how to teach the gospel, and then they go back to Nihon. We play 4-square with them during Gym time, and its fun trying to talk with them with the little Nihongo we know. One of my friends in my district likes to learn random stuff and he tells them things like "I like to eat people some times" or "I am an elephant" , he was winning in 4-square and he tried to tell them that he was very skilled, but the word for skilled and the word for juice are very similar so he actually told them that he was very juiced, and they all started laughing. I was talking with one of the Nihonjin and I was asking her where she was from and what she liked to do (in Japanese obviously because they know almost no English) I was telling her I liked to play Yugioh and stuff and where I was from, and then my friend (the same friend I was just talking about) told me to tell her something, I shouldn't have listened but I did and When I told her she gave me a weird look, and he started laughing and he told me I told her she was very beautiful, if we were't in the MTC I probably would have punched him, but we mess around a lot when we can, it makes the time go by faster, anyway I'll email again next week!
-Canepari Choro
My first day of class
Me and my companion, Choro Jonathon Pierson
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