Cherry Blossom time

Hey everyone,

This week was a lot of fun. With the cherry blossoms in bloom we went and had a picnic with all our investigators and friends. Elder Huntsman and I went early to grab a spot and it was way nice and sun shinny, and about the time people started showing up it started to rain. We ended up walking from the park to the church (about 1km) and ate at the church and played some games. It ended up being a big success and a lot of fun. That same day we had a dinner appointment at someone's house. My first one since being in japan. It was with a young couple that we found housing. The husband is American and the wife Japanese. I think we've ended up being pretty good friends. We had ravioli. It was way good, tasted just like Italy. And for dessert I made brownies from a special box that the gushiken family sent me.

We also got to play basketball with shunsuke this week. It was a lot of fun and we met a lot of people at the court, we're going again this Friday to meet up with some of the people we met. But after the game we ended going out with shunsuke to a restaurant we haven't been to before. It was a yakitori place (chicken on a stick) and was way good. They had a lot of different types of yakitori and some other menu items. One thing that we tried was raw horse. Sounds weird but was way good. Probably in my top 5 things I've had in Japan.

Here's the 5 questions:

1. What do most Japanese people do on Sundays?

  I think they relax for the most part. Or go to work. If it's a day off they go out with family I think.

2. What's your Sunday meeting schedule?

  Well as missionaries we have a meeting in the morning at 830 then we have church at 930 until 1230. Our last meeting is sacrament so more people can make it.

3. What do you like most about Sundays?

  Seeing the ward. Everyone is really nice, and it's really good practice for my Japanese.

4. What do you like least about Sundays?

  Well church is 3 hours. And that's a big block of the day. Though it's a lot better now that we have the morning block.

5. What's different about LDS church services in Japan, compared to LDS services in the US?

    Um...it's in Japanese. Otherwise it's the same really. Same books, same topics, and same meetings.