Week 47- 8/23/16 Never Been "Wetter"

Nakkara yabenbe! It's Elder Moore coming straight from the waterlogged

streets of Kiryu. There wasn't a day where it didn't rain. The

typhoons have come in full force around here and we happened to take

the brunt of them. Let's get started shall we?

This week started off with a bang. Right after I emailed ya'll we ran

home and packed then bikes to the station, packed up our bikes, and

hopped on a two hour train ride to go on splits. Tuesday was split

day. I was with the district leader Elder Broadbear. Guess what,

that's when the first typhoon hit. Luckily, the rain got more intense

when we were inside, and in the two seconds it took us to walk to a

new building to knock on it lessened, then hit hard again. The lord

watches out for us. We found 3 new investigators and then when the

rain stopped, a house down the road caught fire. Got a good picture.

Wednesday was spent going home from splits, and teaching Eikaiwa.

Thursday, we took another train down to Maebashi for zone meeting,

this time without our bikes. After we went to Indo curry as a district

and I ate a very large amount of naan. Friday, we spent a long time at

the old folks home. We ate tofu with them and I helped an old guy with

three fingers build a tinker bell puzzle. It was really sparkly,

making it hard to see and build. We did it though. Then we taught

commander Fujinuma. Saturday was a very rainy day. We helped an older

member move one of his 3 refrigerators, then went to a referrals house

and made soba. He likes guns but since it's illegal to own guns in

Japan all the the ones he owns are fake model ones. We bonded over a

general knowledge.

On Sunday we watched the Sapporo temple dedication broadcasted.

Temples have been a center on our teaching strategy lately and I just

want to say how lucky we are to have temples. Inside, man can

literally prepare to become more than what he really is, and take the

blessings of the priesthood to eternity for not just him, but his

family. Then we had a lesson  and got two new investigators. Pretty

good week I'd say. This week were pretty busy. On Thursday and Friday

we won't be in our own area. We get to go to Yokosuka navy base in the

Tokyo South Mission because elder Lewis is training to get into the

Naval Academy. I'm very excited to eat American food. Also it turns

out that Kiryu has its own hougen. A hougen is like an accent. They

change up a few words, hence the name of the email. For example, sugoi

turns into sugenbe and yabai turns into yabenbe. My new catchphrase in

"Nakkara Yabenbe" which means essentially, freaking sick.

going to splits

house fire

representing Centennial High School!

me in a typhoon

me in today's typhoon without rain gear. We were at the

temple and came home to this