Hey everybody it's Elder Moore coming at
you straight from the streets
of Abiko. This has been one long week
what with transfers and all but
let's get started.
Monday and Tuesday were spent visiting
members. All of them were
surprised I was out of here. As was I.
I'd say it was sad but I didn't
really get to know anybody. I'm back in
the city kind of. Abiko is
like half city and half rural. It's
great though because I'm close
enough to Tokyo to have the Tokyo
influence but far enough away as to
have some space. I love my new area. My companion also
reminds me of Bryce Erbe so we get along great. Today we decided to
start growing food so we can
spend less on groceries. We're growing
beans and peppers. We bond
through gardening. Our apartment here is
really small though.
Wednesday was transfer day. This crazy
guy followed me for like two
hours while transferring. He kept trying
to get me to take different
trains and go to other places with him.
He was getting kind of creepy
but eventually he left so I got to Abiko
safely. I realize the sun
never shines here. That's not a bad
thing though because the one hour
it did it was hot.
Thursday we met with our investigator
who will be baptized in a month
named Hiroki. We played some basketball
and he invited a friend. The
friend had no interest but while we were
playing some random kid
showed and started to watch us play. We
invited him in and at first he
was super awkward. We could drive and
blow right through him. However,
he learned fast. I've never seen anybody
so good. Nobody could Garuda
him. He could sink a three from anywhere
on the court. He could even
jump and hang off the rim. He was about
as tall as me! He went from
not good at all to "why isn't he in
the NBA? " status.
Thursday and Friday we had a bunch of
meetings and visited members. We
went to the biggest LDS church in Japan
for zone meeting. It has 5
stories and looks like a castle straight
from a fantasy book. It was
beautiful. To be honest I don't remember
what we did on Saturday. I
know we had a meeting and talked with a
recent convert. It was good
though. We tag team teach and play with
his cat.
Sunday was church. Today (Monday) we
went to Costco. It's been so long
since good pizza. We also walked around
a bit. It was so crowded.
Literally just hundreds of Japanese
people looking at American things
and freaking out by how they come in
bulk. Like cmon this is Costco
that's how we do.
We have Elder Bednar coming to speak to us on October 14th so we're pretty
excited for that. This will be my second apostle as a missionary. And as far as the language, I just need to
learn words. I know enough grammar structure to be fluent, and
everybody in my area thinks I'm fluent. They even mistook me for half
Japanese at first.
Unfortunately I don't
have ,many pictures so I hope y'all have a good week!
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