Changing Companions and Earthquakes January 19th

Teaching

So far I haven't seen much more than McDonalds and KFC, but being out in the country you don't see as much of that stuff, in the mall here there is a Tom and Jerries though. We taught Tacamotoさん once so far and we covered the first lesson which is the Restoration, since we taught in English I was the one that said the first vision, I still don't have it memorized in Japanese, but its like twice as long. We gave him a Book of Mormon and asked him to read and pray about it, we are teaching him in about an hour so hopefully it will go well.

New Companion 

Oh, I also have some new news, I found out who my new companion is; his name is Akiamaチョロ he is another Japanese companion, and like with Elder Ohori this is his last transfer, so next transfer I'll already be on my 3rd companion, I guess he is like 26 and he speaks less English then Ohoriチョロ so that will be interesting although my Japanese is a bit better. But now I am the area 先輩 which basically means that I have been here longer, because he probably won't be familiar with the area or anything, but Im just glad Im not transferring to a new area already. On Wednesday me and Elder Ohori will go up to Sendai where I will meet my new companion and have a transfer meeting and then come back and Elder Ohori will be on a bus back to 子米.

Site Seeing

Ishinomori Shotaro Manga Museum, which had been closed after the Great East Japan Earthquake, will open the door again tomorrow, Saturday, November 17.

On the day, six- to eight- meter-high tsunami attacked the building and the almost all part of its first floor was flooded, and the upstairs was used as a shelter for about 40 people hit by the tsunami in the areas for a few days.

The building of Manga-kan survived against the tsunami. As a symbol of recovery, it will be a venue with many smiling faces.　We are all happy for that.

Well, last P-Day we went to the Ishinomaki Mangakan Museum, which was pretty cool, its on its own little island, and after the tsunami it was the only building left standing.  I wanted to take some pictures inside but we weren't aloud to. But I did get some pictures outside.  I'll have to try and find time to send them, hopefully next P-Day. We have 3 lessons today and Elder Ohori has to finish packing. Usually on P-Day we just explore stores and stuff around here, sometimes when we have lunch with a member or something they take us somewhere. 

 A few weeks ago one of the brothers in the branch took us to the top of this mountain that overlooked Ishinomaki, and I was really sad because I forgot my camera. 

Eating with Members

 In Japan the missionaries don't get to eat with the members very often, but whenever a big thing is going on like New Years we always get invited to like 3 or 4 peoples houses in a row, and its really rude to decline dinner so we just go to each persons house.  Usually by the end I feel like Im going to throw up but you have to eat everything they give you. Some members are really nice though and take us to cool places to eat, we actually ate at a Chinese place last week, and today we went as a district to this Indian place because its Elder Ohoris last time.

Earthquakes

Also incase anyone was wondering, there are a lot of earthquakes here, I probably feel one every other day, but only a few times have they been big enough to shake the whole building.

Well, I think thats about it for this week!

いしています。
カネパリチョロ