Week 8 in Chikushino

Hello!

Why are the weeks going by so fast! I swear I was just emailing you.

We had zone conference this week which was so very fun. I got to see s

lot of my way good friends. And I got to see the ocean for the first

time since I've been in Japan. It was way pretty, but also raining

like crazy so I didn't take a picture.

On Friday, we were riding our bike back from weekly planning when we

went over a bump and my bike basket flew off of my bike. It was so

funny and so random. I didn't notice at first until my companion

yelled at me. Also, another highlight of this week is that a convini

here started selling onigiri for a dollar. So, basically the best

thing ever, I'm addicted.

The highlight of the week is that my companion is slowly dying. Her

back has been hurting her for a while but recently it's gotten so bad

so can't bike or walk for a very long time, so she went to the

emergency room yesterday (she was going to go to a regular doctor, but

this week is a huge holiday in Japan called golden week. It's

basically when everything shuts down and everyone goes on vacation) so

only the emergency room was open. She went with another sister in our

apartment who is Japanese to help translate all the medical terms so I

went on splits with Jespersen Shimai!! Crazy fun. She came to Japan

with me and we were in the MTC together so we had a blast together. I

love having her in my apartment. It took the other Shimai 5 hours at

the ER and finally they came back with some icy hot pads for her back.

We were going to go to the temple this morning, but Egan Kaicho didn't

think it would be good for her back, so we decided to play card games

and order pizza at the apartment (which is good because it is raining

like nuts outside!!) it'll be a fun Pday :) enjoy some pictures!

 Splits with Jespersen Shimai

 We found this random cabin in the middle of this huge city. It was literally the most random thing I've ever seen. It had a whole bunch of fake animals in it. Haha can you find the sheep?

 I love my apartment

 🏽this is what taking the train in Japan looks like. On a very unbusy afternoon

And finally a zone picture :) 

This is someone's nameplate. I laughed so hard. Bye!!