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Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 8:26 pm

Wednesday, January 15, 1992--Day 743

Today was "Seijinshiki," the coming-of-age ceremony, again. We went for Pollard Choro and also to see who we could meet. We were lucky, for even though my dode and I are both 22, the guy still let us go in.

The thing was way longer than Inuyama's was last year. [It was] totally boring, too. Afterwards it was hard getting into any sort of conversation at all. The kimonos were cool, but the chicks were (99% of them) butt ugly. Owariasahi really leaves something to be desired.

[We] played games again, then at home we opened the gifts we all got from Seijinshiki. The best one was an electric alarm clock. It's great, for for over two long years I've been using the same wind-up thing and have had to wind it every night. Finally, [I have] something different.

Took a long nap, then went with Cook to make copies. On the way home I called Yoshie and we arranged a time to meet. [And thus began my descent into fukedom during the last month of my mission. Meeting a member of the opposite sex from outside the district boundaries was verboten, of course. Yet my mindset was this: Having gone two full years before finally seeing some real, true-to-life success, there was no way in Hell I was going to see a repeat within a single solitary month. This is because I had no other investigators and one month simply isn't enough time to go from finding a person to seeing him or her baptized--at least, in Japan it isn't. So since I wasn't going to see any real success anyway before my mission ended, why not "cut loose" and have a little fun before my mission ended?] [It was] the first time I heard her voice since the day I transferred [away] from Okazaki. What a sweetie she is. I need her something fearsome.

Oh yeah, during/after Seijinshiki one girl asked if I was a Mormon missionary. I asked how she knew, and she said that I just had that "aura." Now is that just the coolest, or what? I have that "aura!" ([It's] rather surprising that I still have it, though.)

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