Week 84- 5/8/2017 The Week Of Barbecues

Hello everybody sorry I'm late. Due to some scheduling within the

mission we had meetings on Monday and Tuesday so now we're taking our

p day on Wednesday. I'm sure you're curious about the title of my

email, so I'll explain.

On Monday we were invited over to the Satos for a massive barbecue.

That took a while but we ate a good amount of food.

Tuesday we went hunting for a ton of Less actives but found a new

investigator instead. Then we took the long haul waaaaaay out into the

rice fields to go do a lesson with a less active. That really took the

rest of our day but it was a great time. We were pretty tired by the

end of that.

Wednesday we went to the Adachi's house. They're wonderful members who

are helping fellowship our investigator Ruka. We hung with him and

actually went out and did visits with him. Then we went to go visit a

Peruvian family in the ward and we saw smoke rising from the house. As

we pulled up closer we saw they had a massive grill set up and BUCKETS

of meat. Long story short they actually made all that meat for us and

were about to call so we got sucked into a surprise BBQ. Again we ate

a lot of good food.

On Thursday we did planning. Nothing big to report there. Friday we

helped clean the Ito's car. He recently got a new car so we wanted to

help him wash it. He's the 1st counselor in the bishopric. We also

went over to our friend Robs house to de service but it was way hot so

we ended sitting in the shade and talking about beliefs. His father in

law gave me a cool hat. It's from the Japan Agricultural society.

Anyways we had a fun conversation. He really just likes to talk about

beliefs. He has a lot of weird beliefs though. He believes that he is

the father of King David in the Bible. But he also believes that King

David isn't real. He created King David spiritually I guess?? Way

weird but nice guy.

Saturday was a ward BBQ. That was fun. Played a lot of games and

frisbee. We had a competition on who could squat the longest. I won.

#thunderthighs. On Sunday we had a beautiful time worshipping at

church. I have to translate for all the English speakers though so I

don't really remember what was said. Now the reason I'm late for

emails this week is because President Nagano has to go to a Mission

President Seminar in Sapporo this week, which made him busy. So we had

to do Zone Conference in Takasaki on Monday which is the farthest

place away in our zone, then our interview time was changed from

Monday to Tuesday so we had to take another looooong train ride to

Maebashi, which is only 15 minutes away from Takasaki. Lots of trains.

There is no need to worry about my safety. If something terrible were

to happen to me, the mission would contact you immediately.

That's pretty much what happened this week. I have pictures!

zone conference

zone conference

Squat contest. You can see one of my teammates on the ground.