Elder Tripp's Mission Blog

Hello famiries and firendiries, If you tell someone who is learning a language “wooow, your like, sooo fluent” just keep in mind its only nice after the first like, 3 times. after that I just know that they know that youve been lying this whole time. No One comments on how well you speak thelanguage without noticing you dont sound native or good. I suppose you’re saying you understand them, however for most I feel like it is no longer a good form of flattery.

Good Morning, sorry to be late. I’m not dead. From Mom: So is this the last week of this transfer? Yeah, transfers are in exactly a week, transfer calls are on Saturday. I’d say there is an 70% chance I stay in Kushiro because of the way Toma Kaichou has moved stuff around. The branch president has probably also been asking for me to stay for my bread and the senior couple(the Miuras are soooo nice, if anyone saw the painting in the Google photos that’s for them, I took it while in their car) wants me to stay so I can help out with Zone Conference cooking and food prep.

ハロー、 マイ。ナム。イズ。タイゲ。ワツ。ヨウ。ナム? (Mai. Namu. Izu. Taige. Watsu. You. Namu?) Reading japanese is hard(no katakana is not Japanese). But you know what is harder? Loving. And you have the ability to use all that time spent not reading Japanese on loving others and you still might feel like its not enough or it isn’t for you. You are enough. Well, as long as you’re making your best effort. If you feel like you could be doing more, is it that or would you be sacrificing other things in order to “do more”.

Howsie Doosie, –Bob Judd asked about you today. He asked what’s your favorite thing to eat there? My favorite thing to eat here is usually whatever is cheap. Buuut, I found these jelly things from 7/11 for 150en(1$) that are so nice to just snack on. Real food wise probably the pizza or pie I made. Unfortunately, nothing is quite as American as American recipe food. My favorite Japanese food was this homemade zangie(fried chicken) from the branch presidents wife.

Suh, People yelled about getting tired of sending emails and I feel like those same people are the ones with communication problems. Not saying I don’t have them because I keep sending these emails later and later but yeah… Low-key forgot my special what did I do on what day calendar I started recently because rn I’m going to zone conference. I guess one cool thing was we went to an activity that was given to us by a protector of the marimo(Japanese moss balls) because he co-host a meet up activity for college students to hang out with elementary students and all the like in-between.