Well, I can't believe it's already week 8. Only a week and a half left before I actually start, pretty crazy. Still don't even have my flight plans yet haha. Everyone but us Lubbock Texas guys have theirs. This week was pretty normal if I remember right, but I'm thinking I'll make this a long one haha, so I guess I can talk about my district and senseitachi.
So we've got two teachers, Weir shimai(sister) and Blackley kyoudai(brother). Weir shimai went to Tokyo on her mission and is now finishing up college and getting married in May which is cool. She's super nice and jokes/plays games with us sometimes which is always a hoot. Blackley kyoudai went to Sapporo, and is now just doing college; he's already married I think. He is way funny and always jokes around and tells stories. He gets off topic a lot, but that's the best part haha. They've both taught us so much about being senyoushi and nihongo. I'm definitely gonna miss them, and hopefully will be able to keep in touch.
My district is way fun, I've talked a little about my companions Burton chourou and Helms chourou, from Ogden and Idaho respectively, and have both progressed in nihongo so much since the start, our district is full of pretty advanced people, but they didn't have that headstart that we did, but getting to help and watch them grow has been pretty fun.
Richards chourou and Hill chourou are another companionship, from Salt Lake and Memphis. Richards chourou is half Japanese and is crazy good at pronunciation, Hill chourou is a pretty funny guy, who does most of the chatting for us. He's the third one who didn't have much of a headstart of Japanese like most of us, but he's picked it up alright too
The last companionship is Tano chourou and Iwaasa chourou. From Hawaii and Washington. They're both half Japanese as well, and are both pretty good to say the least. Tano chourou is basically bilingual at this point, and Iwaasa chourou is a super good student, which has helped his teaching skills and nihongo skills. They're both super fun guys.
I'll definitely miss them, and I hate talking about next Saturday since that's our last class. I'm glad we only met our senpaitachi once, so I wasn't too attached to them. We also haven't met our kouhai, so that's good haha. Honestly just thinking about these next weeks isn't a great feeling. I want to serve, and I'm excited but it's also a lot of new stuff all at once, now if that new stuff was Japan I'm sure I'd be much more excited, but that's besides the point, I've waited my whole life to go there; what's (hopefully) a couple more months.
However this feeling of leaving home is definitely not new, it's one everyone who's lived has had, and eventually we'll get to go home. I invite you all to prepare yourselves now so that you can look forward to that day! Life will be chaotic, we may be stressed and worried, but so long as we follow Christ, we can simply do our part in preparing the way for the Lord to come.
またねみなさん！
