This last weekend all the dai-senpai and the Nihonjin left again. It's always so sad saying goodbye to old friends, but it's also so exciting as you have the opportunity to make more and cheer on your friends who get to go to work!
A little bit of language humor: This last Sunday my companion asked one of the Nihonjin sisters what she ate for dinner. She said salad. In Japanese, salad is pronounced, "sarada". But my companion thought she said "karada", which means "body". You can imagine the surprise and the confusion that ensued afterwards.
My companions and I also have a favorite "curse word" we like to say. "Satsubatsu", or "blood-thirsty savage", can be applied in any situation, I promise. Also Chidester Shimai is a beast and made 57 free throws in a row, smashing all the boy's free throw records into the ground. She's pretty bomb.
Apparently no one can decide my ethnicity. This week I got asked if I was from Brazil, Spain, or if I was half Japanese. None of which I'm pretty sure I look like. I'll just keep them guessing I suppose.
As for goals this week, I successfully got to 320lbs on the leg press, got my freaking Japanese name tag!!!!, played volleyball and didn't suck, I ate the infamous MTC Graham Canyon ice cream for the first time, and taught the law of chastity for the first time with minimal to no awkwardness. Whoohoo!
So I already mentioned that Elder Ballard came to talk to us a couple of weeks ago, and discussed the importance of making goals. I may have gotten a little overly ambitious, and made like eleven ridiculous goals. A little word of advice: you will never complete them. Especially if you're trying to do eleven+ all the time. It's still important to have goals, but I was run so completely ragged by trying to do all my daily goal stuff all the time that I ended up throwing most of them out the window. So I think it's best not to do that.
Some exciting news: my companions and I are now the new Sister Training Leaders (or STL's)! That's basically like a female zone leader. So now our last couple of weeks are going to be super busy. So we're getting 20 kouhai (underclassmen) altogether, half of them are Nihonjin. Last night most of the Nihonjin got here, so that was fun being able to herd these poor missionaries who had had an eleven+ hour flight, didn't really speak English, starting to experience jet lag, and didn't have a clue what was really going on. They're all so sweet! It was actually pretty fun getting to speak with all of them. One of the Nihonjin elders was the younger brother of one of our most recent Nihonjin sisters who left on Monday.
While being a STL can be fun, it also has it's drawbacks. I'm starting to get sick again, and so we all went to bed pretty early last night. One of the sisters arrived at 10:30, so we had to get up, put our church clothes back on, and then go get the sister and her luggage. It will be all worth it in the end!
I'm super excited for all the amazing things to come. This gospel is so true. God lives. Jesus Christ died for us and all we need to do is come unto Him to receive His help and guidance. The Book of Mormon is the true word of God, and the more I read it, the more I know that it was no accident that everything has happened the way it has. Thanks so much for all your support and for your words of encouragement!
愛してます！
Dimmitt Shimai
1. Me being a spaz because of my Japanese name tag
2. Companions and Nihonjin sister's!
3. Hearts with the Nihonjins!
4. One more heart with Nagata Shimai!
5. And a jidori(selfie) practicing Japanese poses just cause with Nagata Shimai
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