Hello everyone!
I am not super confident in my writing skills right now
(can't focus here at the mission home at all. The Elders are way too
entertaining), so I'll jump right into the pictures and use that as a frame!
We started out by going to.. Willy Wonka's chocolate factory
on last p-day!! Ok, maybe it wasn't Willy Wonka, but it is the cutest chocolate
factory ever -- everyone always says it is like Disneyland. It is the company
for the Shirokoibito cookies that are way delicious (when I was in Asahikawa
Ludstrom Shimai and I both got a big box of them with like thirty packages and
ate them ridiculously fast). It is all made up like a European village or
something with cute little houses and such out front, and then you can go
inside and see where the cookies are made and stuff too. The four Odori Sisters
all went together and it was the best!
There were all sorts of
famous people there too, like Mona Lisa. You know, she was just chillin' there.
Our meal on the way to Hakodate! Hakodate is a three hour or
so train ride from Sapporo... and it is down in the Penninsula of Hokkaido.
Since it is a penninsula it has the ocean on both sides, and is just a super
cute seaside city! I've wanted to go there forever but was never transferred to
there, so going there for this exchange was a real treat! We went down on
Tuesday night, did the exchange on Wednesday and then left first thing Thursday
. But I wanted to stay way longer! It was just way too cute. I'll have to plan
a vacation back to there ASAP...
First glances of the ocean!
At the top of a mountain overlooking the bay! We did
housing up it and found a park. It was so gorgeous that these pics don't do it
justice at all. There are also a ton of really cool old churches from when European
settlers (maybe they were Dutch or something?) came.
It was kind of funny though because Hakodate is known for
being like the warmest area in Hokkaido... but the day we were there was the
first day it rained all transfer! Peterson Shimai (who is way awesome and from
Canada. Working together was a blast!) and I may have gotten really wet. But it
was still fun!
The rain may have destroyed our map...
But it didn't keep us from waking up a little early the next
day to do morning exercise (which missionaries have for 30 minutes first thing
every morning) on the beach! We borrowed a bike from the elders so we could all
make it out there. It was like a monsoon (that cleared up as soon as we were on
the way back to the apartment, haha), but that just made it even better.
Left to right! Kise Shimai, Peterson Shimai, Smith Shimai
(who is also super entertaining, as I am sure you can tell) and me!
Ah and only like three seconds left to mail! Um, maybe I
will do Atsubetsu next week? I have to work on my time management skills. But
Atsubetsu was so awesome! It was my first area, and I got to work with Parker
Shimai and see a lot of my favorite people, including my favorite family! Ok, I
will see if I can send a picture or too...
But first, Hokkaido shaped bread from the Sapporo Eki!
We had dinner with my favorite family at night...
and then
went to their school's undokai (it is like a sports competition that all of the
elementary school kids do every year, and it was so much fun to see! A cool
cultural experience too) the next day! We got to have a bento lunch too.
Aren't they the cutest kids in the world?? I love this
family so much. Masuda Shimai and I met them when we were going door to door last
year.
And then on Saturday night we had a dinner at the Moiwa
Bishop's house... with an impressive amount of missionaries! There were 8 elder
and 4 sisters, and then some ward members! Good times.
And I am way over and everyone is waiting for me, so until
next week!!
Wishing you all the best of luck!!!
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