Week 93- 7/10/2017 Still Busy And We Don't Know Why

Hello everybody! It's that time of the week again! I'm back!

This week was a busy one and we don't even know why. All our

investigators are too busy to meet us. Monday was a good p day. We ate

okonomiyaki, which is just like and unsweetened cabbage filled

pancake, except better than it sounds. It's good and easy to make. We

went out with some members.

Tuesday was a day of helping at the disability center and then eating

some of the best meat I've ever eaten in my life. It was raining

pretty hard but we don't care. We went out with a member named

Sugimoto and he took us to a yakiniku place, but one of the expensive

ones. I've never had that quality of meat before, and especially in

the last two years. I was amazed.

Wednesday was transfer days. Even though nothing happened to my

companionship we still were busy. We had to babysit the other elder

until his companion came. We had a good time and then went tot the

mission headquarters for a violin concert. We brought our friend Keita

and I was able to meet a lot of old investigators from past areas. One

gave me chocolate!

Thursday was also busy. We had to go up to Koiwa for District Leader

training and that jazz. I have a lot of stuff to focus on now. Got to

see Elder McIlrath if any of you remember him. We then came back,

planned, visited members and the like.

Friday was District Meeting and Chinese class. Wuu is such a nice guy.

We were able to eat out with him this week and we talked a lot about

faith. He said he wants to believe in Jesus but growing up in China,

and pretty much having a background of no God makes it hard for him

but he has desire.

Saturday was exercise, and mission school. We threw a takoyaki party,

which is octopus rolled and grilled inside little balls of dough. You

eat it with sauce and mayonnaise. Easily one of my favorite foods.

Then Sunday was church and we had a member of the 70 and the stake

president there without any notice. One of my trainees trained and

elder who trained the 70's son, so I have a special connection I

guess. Anyways that's my week. Hope everybody has a good one!

This is from last week at shabu shabu

Wuu and I

Week 92- 7/03/2017 The Beginning Of The End

Beloved Mina-sama once again, hello.

This was the last week of the transfer. That's right, we received

transfer calls. As per custom I'll fill you in on what happens in the

end of this email.

We spent P-day the usual way. Played some basketball and just chilled.

We did go out to shabu shabu with the Yamashitas. Shabu shabu is a

dish where they fill a pot with boiling water or sauce and you take

meat and vegetables of your choice, dip it in for a few seconds, and

then eat it. It's really good.

Tuesday was a pretty good day. We were busy so that's cool. We did a

Mogi with Brother Tomita and helped out at the disability center. I

made a new best friend there. A little boy that's about 4 or 5 and I

played with a train set and from there he wouldn't leave my side. He

was the cutest little guy. Wish I took a picture.

Wednesday was a normal Eikaiwa day. Nothing really special to report.

I had a huge class at Eikaiwa which was pretty good.

Thursday was also just a normal planning day. We also went and visited

some members but some of them weren't home. It's been getting way humid

though. It feels like a wall of water every time we go outside.

On Friday we did interesting stuff. We had District Meeting and taught

Wuu. We also had Chinese class. We then went out to sushi with Bishop,

Wuu, and two Mongolian members. We all had a good time and I got some

good tuna. We then had to get home very fast but we live in the city

so everything is close.

Saturday was very busy. We started our day by exercising with Illya

and then we helped a member move his house. From there I went on a

split and Elder Morris and I had dinner with a friend of his from a

past area since he's going home this week. We then bumped into Elder

Morris's cousin which was weird. We also had mission school and that

was great.

Sunday was even busier. We had church, a baptismal service, a YSA

activity, and bye-bye party for a soon to be missionary and and old

friend from my EFY days, church AGAIN, and reports. That's just what

happens when you are a super star I guess.

Now moving on to transfer calls. We received an email with all the not

transferring areas which we weren't on so we assumed someone was

transferring. However when we got the call nobody had a transfer for

us so we're both staying. I will be the District Leader for this

transfer though.

I'm looking forward to this transfer. We'll see how it goes moving

into the hottest time of the year. Elder Otani nearly died today

playing basketball due to heatstroke/dehydration so that was

interesting. Anyways here's pictures of my week!

All of us at sushi. Wuu is wearing the green shirt

Shehans baptism. He's from Sri Lanka