Sister Mariah Waite: April 2, 2012

April 2, 2012

Hey Fam -

What's up? (Thanks for writing Hallie!) Our investigators are: Suzuki. She is still coming to church and everything, we are just praying for her to give up tea, and she will be baptized on May 13th.

Here's all the other stuff that's 'been kickin': A while ago I was riding a bike that wasn't mine (mine was still in pieces in our apartment) and the back brakes on it weren't the greatest. I was doing pretty well on it until one time Barbour Shimai stopped really fast right in front of me. I squeezed the breaks and only the front one worked I went flying over the handlebars and toppled. I forgot to tell you last week. I get in a good bike wreck at least once every 6 weeks though, so it wasn't a big deal.

Something else that was 'legit': our ward had an Udon-making party. Udon is thick noodles that you put in a kind of soup they have here. They started by kneading flour and water together in balls about the size of a softball. They wrapped it in plastic-wrap for a while and let it sit for a few minutes. Then we unwrapped it and put it between 2 layers of plastic, set it on the floor and stepped on it until the ball was flat. Then we opened the plastic, folded the dough over 2 times, and did the stepping thing again. We repeated that process 5 times and then rolled the dough back in a ball and put it in plastic again. After a few minutes we took it out of the plastic and rolled it out like pie crust and cut it into noodles and cooked it. Yum.