Week 81- 4/17/17 We're The Elders

Once again hello everybody! It's my special time of the week to tell

you about all the other special times. Transfers came and went and now

I'm here with Elder Peterson. He's worked in this area before and we

hit the ground running. We've had so many miracles it's crazy. Maybe

I'll share them when I get home.

So Monday and Tuesday were spent prepping Elder Watanabe for going

back to Koiwa. He was a fun companion for two weeks. We also went

around and visited a ton of people. On Tuesday, we had a going away

party at the Adachi's because they always throw one for departing

missionaries and it was awesome. So much good food and I bonded a ton

with a Brazilian recent convert. Theirs enough Portuguese speaking

people in this city that it would actually be worth my time to start

studying.

On Wednesday I got my new companion and we hit the ground running. We

visited a ton of members and they're all way excited to see him again

(he worked here about a year ago). The weather has been warming up

fairly nicely and we are officially in spring! We've had to start

sleeping with the ac on low. Thursday was the same as Wednesday except

we biked out pretty far.

Friday was pretty busy. We had some service to do in the afternoon

then biked down to the next station over to have dinner with the young

men's president and a less active youth. On the way home we met a man

who was fairly aggressive but after some testifying and talking he

softened up set an appointment to meet!

Saturday was spent promoting our mission school and working with

members. We also passed out a ton of fliers at the eki and had way

good success. A man with a Mormon friend on Utah met us and bought us

doughnuts and juice from a nearby 7-11 (very high quality in Japan,

almost gourmet) and was very nice to us. Now Sunday is when it gets

interesting.

On Sunday we went out with Fabio (the previously mentioned Brazilian) to

visit another Brazilian we found the other day. Our conversation was

going pretty good when a lady walks up and starts telling us to leave,

because we can't preach our Christianity here and said we were

annoying. Well at this point we were already done and she kept

interrupting us so we leave. On our way to the car she pulls up and

threatens us and says she's going to call the police. At this point

Fabio has had enough. He starts telling her to do it and how we'll be

right here waiting because we aren't doing anything wrong. She drives

off so we get in the car but she starts following us. We shook her off

but now we can't go back. Oh well. Most people are really nice here

but there is still the population that persecuted fairly strongly. On

the way home Fabio told us "she can't talk to you like that. You're

the ELDERS." He's a good man and I love him to death.

Well that's pretty much it for the week. Enjoy some pictures!

Eikaiwa!