My World Turned Upside Down

This week is transfer calls which means P-day was switched to Tuesday again! This week was seriously CRAZY. First off, I had my first bike crash! It wasn't anything bad, but this is how it happened: We were biking to a members house, going down a super steep hill and I was behind Sister Heaton. I'm not exactly sure what happened, but Heaton Shimai lost balance and started tipping over, and I didn't have time to swerve around, so I just slammed on my breaks, at which point I felt my back tire begin to leave the ground and before I knew what was happening I was flying over the front of my handlebars completely upside down and then I crashed onto the ground. I untangled myself from my bike and saw my shoe and sock about 6 feet away from me (I still have no idea how that happened) and assessed the damage. My toe had a small bit of skin missing and my knees were a little scraped up but other than that I was completely fine! Definitely a miracle. And also one of the most hilarious things that happened this week haha. The next big event of the week came Thursday night when we got a call from APs for Heaton Shimai. They told her that she had to go to Fukuoka Monday for a training meeting because she's becoming a trainer! SHE'S ONLY ON HER SECOND TRANSFER! Basically we were all freaking out. And now I'm freaking out because that means that I could possibly be training someone next transfer. BAHHH!!! My Japanese is NOT good enough to survive in this city as senior companion haha! But we also know that God knows best and we will all do whatever is asked of us! Just a funny story of the week, this past Thursday, we biked to an investigators apartment for an appointment that was about 4 miles away. She had a headache and told us she didn't want to meet that day. Then we decided we wanted some american food for dinner and decided to try out the KFC with thoughts of mashes potatoes and warm biscuits in mind. We go in and discover that KFC in Japan is not very American at all and instead they have rice as a side dish and little chunks of seaweed on the chicken. Go figure. But we were already there, so we ate some weird tasting KFC. Then, it was time to go home and finish weekly planning so we biked the 4 miles back uphill to our apartment. We park our bikes and Lyels Shimai starts saying "oh no, oh shimata, oh no, don't hate me!" and it turns out she forgot our keys and cell phone at the KFC! Let's just say it was a long night :) But, she bought us black thunders (delicious candy bar things that the Japanese people pronounce "bu rah kooh sun dah" that I am going to miss dearly when I return to America) and we made milk shakes and it was all good. I think it's some sort of stereotype that missionaries in Japan lose weight because all the Japanese people are tiny. Let me just say, that is a lie. We bike between 10 and 20 miles each day and we eat like it too. Most Japanese missionaries get what we call "rice cheeks" which just means your face gets fat because the only part of our body that ever gets worked out is out legs. Which are all pretty rock solid by the way. But I just thought I would mention that as a disclaimer so you all don't expect me to come back Asian sized :) Final crazy thing that happened this week. Heaton Shimai went to Fukuoka yesterday to get trained to be a trainer and on her way back she called us and announced....drumroll please.......SHE'S GOING TO FININSH TRAINING ME! Ahhhh!!! This next transfer is definitely going to be one of the most interesting ones of my mission haha. We'll have a second transfer and third transfer missionary out rocking Nagasaki with our smiles and spirits because we certainly can't speak the language very well. It's going to be absolutely insane. I'm scared to death, but I also am super excited because I just know we're going to learn SO MUCH! We don't know what's happening to Lyles Shimai yet, but we'll get a phone call today! Ganbaranba! To answer questions people have asked, we haven't watched conference yet, in Japan they watch it the next week. We missionaries will get to watch it in English (Thank Heavens) and we are all SO PUMPED! Conference for missionaries is basically like Christmas. Random tidbit, school is canceled today and we were advised not to leave our apartments tonight because apparently there's a typhoon coming. Japan is so cool! Hope everyone is doing well! Love you all! Wells Shimai