May 21, 1999 – Fukui
Friday, May 21st, 1999Today was a day of firsts. But I can only remember two. My first split in Fukui, and my first bike wreck on my mission. It happens, but let me explain the day.
This morn we had District Mtng. Afterwards, we began our split. First, we all came back, I made curry, and everyone ate, then Elders Lister and Maki headed off to Takefu for two days. I received Elder Vasquez. He’s been out for five months. It was fun. We started out with some TABEHOUDAI. It was good. Lots of meat. It was fun, but the adventure happened on the way home.
It was dark, I hit a bump hard, it bent my rim to hell and back, which in turn ceased my rather fast forward momentum. In simple words – I wrecked. I hit my right leg HARD. Billy, on of the sons (19), saw it and thought I had broke my leg. I ripped a small hole in my pants, scratched up my Doc’s (POOP!), scraped my palm good, and have now bruised right by my knee quite nicely. Tonight it’s swollen HUGE. I don’t know how I’ll be in the morning. Before going home we went to the Fairbank place, and I cleaned up. Now I see the results.
