This week was great! The highlight for sure was Apollo kun's baptism! He is 9, part of a less active family and the sisters had been teaching him. He asked me to baptize him a few weeks ago so I got to interview him on Friday then baptize him Saturday! It was an awesome and spiritual experience. I got to bear my testimony about it during testimony meeting the next day as well. Speaking of testimony meeting, one kinda crazy guy got up to share his testimony and after about 10 minutes bishop handed him a paper saying it was time to end. Well he just kept going so bishop got up about 6-7 different times and told him to finish up. The guy didn't like that too much and started saying some negative crap about the church so bishop got up and moved the mic away from his face then had to essentially pull him away from the podium. The member I was sitting next to was laughing so hard haha. I was glad we didn't have any first timers at church in that case, it was definitely one of those interesting moments.
On Saturday night we went to a huge 祭(festival) right by our church! There were tons of people and basically everyone was wearing kimonos so my comp and I stuck out a bit in our white shirts and ties lol. I ate some delicious okonomiyaki and chicken steak at a couple of the food stands and was pumped about that. Food stands always have bomb food here. At the end they had a firework show that literally went on for 1hr 30min so that for sure made up for missing the 4th of July in America!
I almost died this week... TWICE!! So the first time we were biking along and I stopped at a red light waiting to cross. Well when the light changed I went but soon found out it was the wrong light and I was just in the middle of traffic lookin like a fool. Luckily both the cars saw me and surprisingly neither honked! Gotta love the Japanese people. The second time we were walking along and I was zoned out just looking at the ground. We were in the middle of a neighborhood and I saw a cross walk up ahead and figured since this street is tiny I can probs just go. well I walked out on the street and a car literally slammed on it's brakes right in front of me. I looked at him and made eye contact and was kinda like bro you almost just killed me! But once I got to the other side I looked back and realized I walked right through a red light... oops! So yeah I learned I need to be more aware haha.
I also learned this week that light grey suits are not the greatest for hot humid weather. Yesterday I was sweating like crazy and everyone could see clearly exactly where I was sweating! I'll stick to my blue suit for now on during the summer. While we were on the train on our way to a meeting some high school kid came and sat by me and tried to speak english to me then all his friends sitting down in the distance all starting dying laughing and were filming him haha. Eventually they all came over and we talked with them. It was pretty funny though. Have a great week!
Love you all!
ディーン長老
Elder Dean
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