Halliday shimai gets abducted by aliens and transfers to Kofu, Japan

alright family, that is enough. i will b careful what i ask for now cuz i have
about 20 emails i just had to skim. fun stuff. i think i got the bulk of it and
so yeah.

as for the OBGYN...well i am  fine aside from a small ovarian cyst what is
giving me slight pain. i am going back next week for a follow up but she says i
will be ok for now. they took blood and did exams and ultrasounds and all that.

i will explain now why it was so scary. it was like being abducted by aliens!
all speaking some funny language and poking me with stuff... then the room was
really tiny with tons of machines everywhere and this chair in the middle of the
room. picture an electric chair and that is what i was sitting in.

in america they have a normal exam table and the doctor wheels around on her
spiffy little wheely stool... in japan you sit in an electric chair which gets
raised up to the ceiling and tilts back like a dentists chair... i am telling
you...i was abducted by aliens. *shudder*

i did go to cold stone creamery after though cuz its right next to the OBGYN...
...mmmmmmmmm

so i am sure you all want to know about transfers...

the place i am going is very hot...and very pretty...and very big...and
very...inaka (translation: out in the country) hee hee

I AM GOING TO KOFU!!!

it has been completely insane since i got my transfer call on saturday...packing
and going to appointments. apparently i made a lot more friends here than i
thought cuz EVERYONE wanted to see me before i left. I was crying most of
sunday and some of monday.

Tuesday was sooooo busy. appointment after appointment after appointment...
my goodness!!! first we went to lunch with a recent convert and then to sunny
and heegeuns house to play with maps and then to mitaka to go to dinner with
api shimai and then to the church to meet naho chan, a girl we only just met
like a week ago...but she really wanted to see me before i left. it was crazy!

sunny was soooo sad i was leaving...there was a dark cloud of sadness over the
whole meeting. when she heard i was leaving she asked if i wanted some sweet
bread cuz she eats sweets when shes sad. as we were eating she said `today the
sweets arent making me happy` she is soooooooo cute! I told her it was ok, i
would come back someday. I will miss her though.　

no! i hit the stupid kana button. that was like 5 minutes wasted email time
trying to get back to english.

anyhow, i will miss her. she wanted us to go camping with her family! haha!

we taught her about the first half of the plan of salvation up to the atonement.
Something seemed to hit home with her about it (as well it should because the
Atonement is for everyone) anyhow, i hope she keeps taking lessons because she
is sooooo amazing. I love her!

I am very sad to leave kichijoji but I am very excited to be going to Kofu!

funny story though, i still havent shipped my bags to my new are so i wont have
anything except my hobo bag and what it in it. i am carrying my laundry bag with
stuff in it to my new area haha.

packing was funny but i managed to get everything into my suitcases including my
puzzles but i will be shipping stuff from kofu sometime in the near future. it
will just be stuff i never use so dont get excited. i did ship the stuff for
aubrey brianna natalee and brittan today though so it should be there soon... i
hope aubrey and brianna like it...aubrey should. the stuff is very aubreyish i
think. haha

by the way...i guess kiana was touring tokyo recently and went to the ghibli
musem! WHAAAAAAAAT!?!? all our tracting in inokashira park and i never once saw
her!?!?! that would have been TOO crazy. I might not have known what to do and
might have exploded from trying to laugh cry scream and jump up and down all at
the same time. The Lord is protecting me from such disaster.

about the olympics...its funny hearing abut them from another perspective. all
this talk about kitajima winning the 100 meter breast stroke and nothing about
america killing everyone at everything. uh...hello...you just lost...didnt
america just win? why are we talking about japan? oh yeah...we are in japan...

interesting indeed.

i cant believe no one has mr yanez!!! WHAT IS THIS!?!?!?! i am upset and i am
not going to be able to focus all day due to the injustice.

i can hear the olympics going on behind me... someone turned on the tv. america
is probably killing someone at something. haha.

anyhow, its a 3 hour train ride to kofu so i have to go. i love you all and hope
you are all doing well. and really i dont get that offended when you are late
writing...its not that huge a deal really. haha

love you!

love,
sister halliday