Japan 9 months-48 weeks

Yesterday we tried to find a less actives house. We looked everywhere and hiked a mountain to find this. It destroyed. His house was 19-19 and this house was 19-18 

my companion likes the snow. 

half a house. I thought it was so artsy and it was at the top of a mountain, I tried to take a cool picture of it, but it just came out creepy and blurry.

Oh there is a picture of where we housed last night! It was sooo much fun.
This week was extremely busy. We only did about 3 hours of finding everyday this week. First I have to tell about the craziest thing that has happened so far. Okay maybe that was a little dramatic, but it was way freaky. 

This Monday right after emails we had planned to go out to eat with a recent convert. He has depression so we were really happy to be able to meet with him. He invited us and two other sisters to go out to eat with him at the sapporo train station. First he comes in and looks way happy and excited to go, then he ordered the taxi's and it started to get weird... He started to get a little off and agitated. We got in the taxi's and the recent convert ordered us into our specific seats. I had the front next to the driver. I was so scared to try and talk to the driver, but I got over that and we talked about how cars use chains on their tires to drive in the snow. It was super lame and I got way to excited about a boring conversation topic. So I quickly changed it to the gospel and he told us he was catholic. Then the recent convert kinda got weird and wouldn't let us talk to the driver anymore. We got to the train station and the RC (recent convert) says, 'First smoothies, then eel.' What??? Okay... so we went to the basement of the eki (trainstation) it is huge by the way. He made us walk around with him for about 45 minutes and eat anything he gave us. This was not even dinner. (keep in mind he doesn't work either, so we have no idea where this money is coming from.) At about 7:00 we made it up to the 8th floor of the eki to eat eel. He stopped at a soba( noodle) store and said, 'This is very yummy, you should eat it sometime.' Then he ordered us into the most expensive eel restaurant in the eki. We sat down right where he made us and already ordered for us as well. We ate over 500$ of food. I was sooo full. Eel is way good by the way. So we tried to share a spiritual message, but he was just ignoring us and not talking to us about the whole hour we were eating. It was 8:20 and we said we had to be back before 9:00. Well he then in english said, " I know elders always eat. GO TO THE SOBA PLACE!" oh no... we then had to eat as fast as we could. It was sooo scary. He was forcing us to eat and we had to because he has no money and spent sooo much money on us. Well we eventually made it out of there at 9:07 right after he tried to hug one of the sisters. We made it home at 9:28. I was freaking out the whole time. I didn't do a good job explaining it, but basically imagine eating dinner with voldemort. I was crying. 

Other than that this week was really sadly average. We weren't able to meet with Hasegawa san because she was sick and doesn't want us to catch her sickness. So we went over on Thursday to see how she was and she comes to the door and says, "NO! I am sick! I want you to come in sooo bad, but you can't get sick either! LEAVE! GO HOME! God will forgive you. But call me because I want you to come back really bad." It was way funny. She is my favorite. 

Other than that this was a really painful week in terms of finding people. We didn't find anyone this week and I felt really really down on myself. I thought it was my fault and got scared that maybe I was being disobedient or something, but I found out it was just Satan and now I am fine! It was a hard week, but that's it and now I am over it. 

This week we also were able to go see the snow festival! It was amazing, but to be honest, I got over it pretty quickly. The best part was there was this typical Asian girl group singing and dancing on a snow castle stage thing and this thing came running past me in a red hoodie. I couldn't see it's face so I didn't know what gender it was. It had stuffed animals in it's hands and it was freaking out and screaming like a girl because it was so excited to see the girls dancing. I wanted to go party with it sooo bad. We eventually got closer to it and found out it was a old man! So naturally we took pictures with him. Want to know something horrible? I forgot my camera for the snow festival... It is okay though! I had some of the best photographers on the planet follow me around and take pictures of me, but I forgot to copy them so hopefully next week I will have those! I love you all so much. Be excellent to each other! 

-Mecham Choro.