皆さん！おはようございます！
Yes it's that time of the week again.
I'm happy to grace your inboxes
with my presence. This last week was
quite the special week. The
reason for that is it was the last week
of the transfer! I'm
officially not a trainee anymore! I also
have some news regarding my
transfer.
I am
officially......................................................staying
in Okegawa!
My new companion will be Elder Sato, the
current commissarian. He
helped us move last week and we all had
a blast.
So about this week. It started kind of
slow. We had dinner at
Kazuhisa's house as usual. He fed us
hamburger. An interest thing
about Japan, is that they just eat hamburger.
They don't necessarily
have to put it on buns.
The day after that we went down to Urawa
for splits with the Zone
Leaders. I worked with Elder Broberg. We
walked around 20 km in a few
hours and found a ton of people. Urawa
area is about 1/3 the size of
Okegawa, so we walked pretty far. We
also stayed at their apartment
that night.
The next few days consisted of us trying
to make appointments and
lessons happen. Thankfully, we were fed pretty
often this week. On
Thursday we went to the Kokai family's
house and had yakiniku. I also
tried cow tongue for the first time and
I must say it was very good.
Nice and firm with a good flavor. It was
a little weird tasting
something that normally does the tasting
though. The next day we had a
zone meeting down in Urawa, where we
received training on lots of
stuff. We also had a lesson set with a
college student named
Kozutsumi. He's pretty much the miracle
of the week. We met him on the
train at the beginning of this transfer.
He said he was interested but
very busy because he was studying for
the college entrance exam, which
is a HUGE deal here. Instead, he gave us
his number and said to call
him in February. Literally on the first
of the month we called him up
asking to meet for lunch. We met near
our old apartment for tsukemen,
which is ramen but the noodles sit
outside of the soup so you dip them
in. After talking and getting to know
home we asked if he was reading
the Book of Mormon we gave him. He said
yes and wanted to meet more to
talk about it. Every week on Friday we
will meet him and hold lessons
but that's not all. We invited him to
church. Despite it being far, he
had interest and decided to come. He
stayed for the whole 3 hours. He
said that it want what he expected, and
that he liked it and will
continue to come every week! He's pretty
much golden. Big thanks to
our members who did a lot of the fellow
shipping themselves.
Oh so yesterday was Valentine's Day. I
actually got stuff. I think
it's sad that as a missionary I got more
valentines than before I left
on my mission but oh well. Japanese
valentines is a little backward.
Because men are shy, the girl buys
chocolate and gives to her
prospective Valentine. If the guys
accepts, he buys her chocolate
back. If not, he eats the chocolate and
the girl never gets any. Super
easy in my opinion.
Thanks for tuning in this week. I'm glad
to be spending another
transfer (hopefully) in Okegawa. I'll
update you all with my progress!
Here are some pictures.
Picture 1: Saitama zone- not really
current anymore because transfers
but oh well
Picture 2: dinner with the Kokai family
Picture 3: picture with Elder Yoshinos
"bouquet"- Hiroki is wearing
the blue in the middle. He's Kodas son
Picture 4: Eikaiwa!
Picture 5: dinner last night at the
sugawara's- we had Japanese
kimchi, which was very good
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