MORMON STANDARD TIME IS NOT UNIVERSAL!!!!!!!!!

Yeah its true . . . well at least here in Japan it does not exist. But, we will have to wait and see next week. So this morning I found the building no problem and then I went to church. I met with a member of the Stake presidency, Brother Stevenson, who is in this ward and he told me about my options. I felt like he was a little encouraging to stay in this ward as the English ward is far away and there are some in this ward who speak English. Two brethren I met just got back from BYU where they complete an MBA. Also one of the area authorities is in our ward, not sure who. I guess this is the stake center and one of the first wards in Tokyo.

Anyways I had a hard time trying to follow along, as a lot of stuff was a whole new vocabulary of things you do not learn in a classroom setting. I got kind of confused but I tried my best. There is supposed to be another American here who is in the ward and not to great at Japanese either. I did not meet him today because there was a special YSA sacrament meeting that he went to later on today.

I guess what really kind of struck me was even though I could not understand what was being said I could understand the basic meaning and that it came from the heart.

The other awesome thing was that they asked me to help pass the sacrament, which was little confusing, but there was a little meeting while the opening hymn was sung and they had a prayer basically asking for them to help pass the sacrament in a reverent manner. It was very eye opening seeing how much respect they had for that aspect of the service and serious they felt their job was.

I think there are about 100 people or so in the ward but I will be able to tell you more next week when I think so of the YSA people will be in the ward.

I made a video today showing all the vending machines in the area but it was to big for youtube so I will try again tomorrow.