Elder Tripp's Mission Blog

皆さん、 (Ladies and gentlemen) Well, I officially cannot for the life of me recognize the passage of time. Not that I would claim that I could pre-mission. But it sure is humbling looking back at the past week and thinking: “wow, did anything happen?” and then remembering CHRISTMAS happened. the literal holiday that represents the birth of our lord and savior. I thought that was last week. But alas the christmas trees and decorations have already been removed and my christmas cheer has already left.

Welp, このクリスマスの時期がここにありますよ！ (This Christmas time is here!) Ummmm. Most of the past week has been making cookies, brownies, blondies, and then packaging and gifting it all. The branch president was surprised when I told him I didn’t need money for making the sacrament bread by hand because after thinking about it, one loaf is only 150円(1$) which is cheap. But he wouldn’t take no for an answer so apparently he’s gonna buy me flour until I leave Kushiro.

❄️ Yay. It was too cold and a lot of our friends canceled on us. We had zone conference and I really tried not to fall apart but an 8 hr meeting even with an hour long lunch break is hard on anyone. I baked some brownies and cookies but Its hard to find complicated ingredients or do anything too complicated because everything is by hand. Im not a stand mixer, really, I promise.

Welp just had another earthquake. Hope we don’t all drown. I guess. Kamachi chourou is gremlin for earthquakes. Bro is in the corner saying “my precious” and is so ready to be evacuated. Fortunately our unfortunately nothing will happen. Except an annoying alarm on all of our phones. From dad: Where do you keep your futons during the day when you are trying to use your space for other things? You can fold it and put it in a closet but if you dont have a closet you can just fold it and stack if you have multiple or set it in a corner.

おはよう、こんばんは。(Good morning, good evening) Qs from Dad: How was your Thanksgiving? Good, we had a thanksgiving party with the ward and one with all the missionaries. On my google photos we also made a thankfulness tree and if you had trouble guessing which one mine is its the one in marker. Did you eat lots of Thanksgiving pizza? Actually yeah. I made 4 pizzas and we didnt even have time to eat all 4 before eikaiwa.