2nd Week in Japan

So on Sunday we prepared to go to church, figured out exactly where the easier to find church building was, left 2 hours early just in case, rode the subway 3 lines down, saw a church on our way there, found that there was no church where it was supposed to be, went back to the church we had seen earlier, found it was the right one, met the sister missionaries, realized we were an hour and a half early, took pictures of the river that has no water, went back to the church, accidentally sat in the priesthood, met all the relief society ladies, had an awesome time in young adult's class, had sacrament last and finally returned home.

The people there were really friendly, and if I went into detail, it would take forever to tell exactly what happened.

We also went shopping that day cause we needed leggings for the tea ceremony (apparently we have to take off all our clothes in the same room as everyone else so that we can put on our kimono).

We had a huge lunch/dinner of cold noodles (I can't remember what they're called) and tempura donburi. It was really good, but the noodles were really slippery, plus the dude in the next booth over watched our pathetic attempts at eating slippery noodles with chopsticks.

On Monday we went to school and got out at 2:30 cause it was early day! Yay! But we had to buy a bento cause we didn't cook on Sunday. Then we went shopping (again). I got some more leggings (everyone has them here, there are whole stores devoted to only socks/leggings) and we ate sakura mochi that had cream in it and some other stuff that wasn't very good. For dinner we had dumplings and gyoza. Which isn't really good for you, but tastes really good.

Then we met Atsuko (one of our friends from church) at Starbucks (after getting confused by the 24 hour clocks) who guided us to FHE. At FHE we had to introduce ourselves and listen to a lesson that Atsuko translated for us, laughed at the missionaries (they're from Pennsylvania and Australia), played jenga and ate awesome food. In America we have brownies and drinking fountain water for refreshments (unless we're at something nice). Here we had chips of all kinds, mini doughnuts, assorted chocolates, sweet potato sticks, rolls, icecream, icecream in the rolls (one of the funny leader guys said "aisu hambaga!" to us), chips in our icecream, egg salad in the rolls, sausage and egg salad in the rolls, and tons of other stuff. And there were no paper plates. Everything was either china or plastic. The spoons, of course, were metal.

Plus, Shelly totally has the hots for Miyamoto-san. I can't remember his first name and I only know his last name cause Atsuko was nice enough to tell us. And on Wednesday, Atsuko invited us to join them for English class. I asked whether or not it was okay that we already knew English and she assured us that they would love to have us. Plus, we are going to the cooking class that they are having on Friday, we will be making Okonomiyaki. Little do they know that we are learning to make that on Wednesday at school and will therefore be pros.