Bikes and Baptisms!

My card came!!!  Yatta!!! I now have money!  And...a fancy new bike!  Abura Inazuma (oil lightning...I didn't know the word for grease! :) ) is no longer mine.  I love my new bike!  It shifts gears, it isn't greasy, I have a good basket...It's wonderful!

I saw my first butsudan (family shrine).  I'm a little surprised I didn't see one earlier actually.  I also have tried a bunch of different flavors of curry here.  Where has that stuff been all my life?  It's delicious!!  I have also tried all kinds of foods!  I had sashimi...I don't know how to spell that... sorry.  Raw fish!  It was actually not so bad.  The texture is a little weird.  I can't even tell you what I've eaten though.  Either I can't pronounce it or I really just don't know what it was that I ate.  Sometimes I think it's better that way.  But my chopstick skills are definitely improving!

Zone P-day was super fun!  We went bowling!  And guess what?  My lifelong goal of bowling over 100 happened!  I bowled like 112!  It only took coming to Japan I guess.  At the bowling alley they have shoe vending machines.  It's pretty neat.





















Mako and Akiho are keeping the Word of Wisdom!!  Yay!! We taught them about it, and they drink coffee, tea, and some alcohol.  So I told them I loved ice cream, and I would stop eating ice cream until they were totally done drinking all their stuff.  They seemed to like that, and ever since then, they haven't had any of it!  They only have water and juice.  And mugicha (it's like a wheat or barley drink that's ok...and actually pretty darn good). They both have a baptismal date for the 28th so hopefully they'll make it!  They also LOVE the temple.  We showed them a picture of the Salt Lake Temple and they were both so excited.  They kept saying that's where they wanted to get married.  Perfect!  Get baptized!  We'll help you get there! :)

We are having a baptism this Saturday!  Runa is getting baptized!  She's 16, and super cute.  She's way quiet, but I really like her.  Her grandma is an active member in our Naha Higashi (East) ward.  We also visited Higa Shimai again.  She got baptized not too long ago, but went inactive.  I LOVE her!  I want her to come back so badly!  She's cute, and I feel like she still knows it's true.

I have been doing something new this week.  Every single person we talk to, I imagine them in the temple.  It really is the coolest thing.  I imagine seeing them in the Celestial Room in the temple, and seeing how they are just so happy.  I thought I loved these people before, but when I do that, I really feel like it gives me just a tiny glimpse of how Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ feel about every one of us.  I love doing it!

Things are good I think.  Hopefully my Japanese will come!
Love everyone lots!

Shout out to KARLI!  Happy birthday!  I thought about you all day Sunday!