Week 99
Mission Log
I apologize for
taking so long to respond to attempts to contact me. I feel that too
much contact with the outside world would blow my cover and jeopardize
the entire mission. Due to my isolation, I was not even aware that
today is Labor Day, until I received an update of confidential
information from someone who will for safety purposes remain unnamed.
I`ve gathered a few others that I believe can be
trusted and the six of us together are called a district. I travel
around and work with each one of them to accomplish various objectives.
This week, I spent a day or to in a place called Joyo, working with
someone who, for the time being we`ll refer to as Elder Hale.
Afterward, we gathered together in a meeting building up on a hill in
Otsu, and discussed sensitive mission related information. It was
probably one of the best district meetings that I`ve taught on my whole
mission.
In church one week, the organ player wasn`t there on
time. So, the person conducting the music just sang the first line so
everyone would know the pitch and we sang acapella. In the US people
are embarrassed to sing in front of others, but no one is in Japan.
Everyone is just fine with singing anywhere, in front of anyone. It
doesn`t even matter if they`re a good singer or not.
They`re attempting to drive us out of hiding by means
of starvation. Somehow, our money has "run out" and we weren`t able to
go shopping for food last week or this week either. Without money for
groceries, they believe we will have to come into the open to get food.
What they are unaware of is the fact that we have a large supply of
spaghetti noodle in the apartment and we can survive for weeks on eating
simply noodles with sesame seed dressing poured on it. We cannot let
them win. Endure to the end.
If you are still debating on whether or not to by those
train passes, I think we could probably get around fine without them.
We could ride all of the cheaper train lines and stuff. Do you know
where the hotel in Kyoto is? If you give me an address or something,
then I`ll know where it is.
Congratulations on completing Mt. Si.
Sometimes I dream in Japanese, but usually in English. Sometimes I
think in Japanese even when I`m not speaking Japanese though. When I`m
planning out what I`m going to say for something, it always comes up in
Japanese in my mind. Like when I was planning out district meeting, I
kept on thinking about what I was going to say in Japanese even though
the meeting was in English. I`m excited to go
back and look at Seattle again.
I must flee before it`s too late. Farewell.
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