Elder Tripp's Mission Blog

Suh, Since Kamachi Chourou is training and still in Kushiro, I got to meet my little brother. His name is Williams Chourou and his favorite color is blue. His favorite Pokemon is piplup. *He wanted me to take the color part off but since when did I listen to my little brother. I told Toma Kaichou that I made bread and either he has a really good memory or the branch president talked about it.

Ohakonbannichiwa, I started saying that and although maybe only people from Hokkaido find it funny it has been getting laughs. I suppose its the equivalent of Good Mornevenday. From Mom: How is the new year treating you? Treating me with a plentiful amount of breaks and chill time. Unfortunately, this is true whether or not you are with a friend, at the apartment, or with members. Its new years and that means naps apparently.

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.