Another crazy week in Okinawa!
It's still gorgeous and showing no signs of moving into
fall! I love everything about Okinawa. All the tropical flowers, the constant
sea breeze, the friendly people. I never want to leave!
But... but, but, but... we are having a bit of a rough time
trying to keep investigators... There's something here that we like to call
"Okinawa time"... Meaning- whenever we have appointments,
either no one shows up, or they cancel 15 minutes after they are spposed to
show up. Also, no one ever calls us back unless it's to cancel an appointment
that they most likely are already late to... it's interesting =) But not
completely unworkable!
Right now we have an amazing investigator names Oshiro who
we committed to baptism a few days ago! She's really excited. The problem is
that she's so busy, we might not actually be able to get her in the water until
March... But we're still really excited!
All of our investigators are really awesome, but the real
struggle is just pinning them down for appointments. They're all a bit flakey.
But I love them! I still haven't het half of them yet, but they're all great
and have really good desires!
One of our investigators, Casey in an African American from
Florida. He's not all that promising, but he sure does love us!
The other night we met him on the street and he was SO
SO SO drunk! He wolf whistled at us and got out attention! Then we had a
little discussion about all his x-wives. He also started ranting and raving
about black people and the priesthood, garments, tithing, baptism, and all
sorts of other stuff... Man. He was really drunk. Then at the very end he
started telling us how cute he thinks we are. All the sudden he turned to me
and said, "Hey... are you Jewish or something?" And I said, "Nooo..."
So he was like "Well what are you?" So I told him I was Italian...
Then he started going off about how beautiful Italians are and about how his
very first girlfriend in 1st grade was Italian... Then we left. Yeah, well
that's Casey for you... When he's not drunk he's actually pretty great, but
when he is drunk, man... he is out of it!
So that's the up down of what's up in Urasoe!
Japanese is still a struggle, but it's getting better every
day! People down here actually speak a different dialect, so sometimes that can
be confusing, but when people just speak plain Japanese, everyithing is fine!
And that'S pretty much all I've got for this week!
Hope everything is well back home!
Love you all!
ロバーツ姉妹
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