Stressfulish Day

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The morning was good. I got ready in time, left on time, got to church early. There are now sisters in the area (a tri-some). They were ... our first meeting didn't go very well. :/ Hopefully things get better. Church was pretty good. We had a district conference. Elder Norawong (who usually translates the first meeting for me) lost his voice so Elder Saunders was my translator. The first meeting went well, then the second meeting neither of us could understand the speaker (he was too technical). Then we had a big lunch and Shinoki-shimai ran over all stormy faced because one of my knees was showing. :/ Sorry. I feel fairly humiliated. My skirt is long enough that it covers my knees, so the way I had shifted or sat down or something made it so one of my knees was showing. In any case, lunch was good other than that.

After lunch I got to skype with my family. I talked to my Papa and Maman and JT! JT is super tall now and has a deeper voice! It was weirding me out! The ironic thing is the only hard thing about leaving on a mission was thinking how much of my siblings' growth I would miss. And here I was thinking, well they're all pretty grown up so at least I won't miss anything. Oh no. My sister had a baby, and now my baby brother has a different voice AND height! Wow. I got some great pics!

After finishing up with them, I pedaled home. It was hot out, but I did well. When I got home I did a bunch of cooking (my lunches for the week). Then I read a little, played some games on my phone (I
got the best word games!), and messaged my best friend. I got pretty down. There's something about weekends and too much time in my own brain. Dang it. I'm still working on it. All of a sudden there was a knock on my door. I had to get dressed (it's hot and I was in my pjs!), and there was Bruce! He invited me over for the pizza night he's been talking about forever. It was a pretty flattering invitation too. "We had a friend coming but he dropped out so wanna take his place?" LOL In any case, I went. I was the only one there who didn't speak Japanese (3 Americans, 2 Japanese people) and most of the time they talked and joked in Japanese. It's fine - just felt left out. :/ I did my best to participate or understand what was going on.. I didn't do very well. That's ok. I just hope I continue to learn Japanese.

Now I'm home and it's late! I had some older stories I wanted to tell (that I thought of today), but I need to get to bed. So, tomorrow! Have a great whenever! XOXO, A

Elder Norawong (from WA) and Elder Iida (my home teachers)