Week 21- 2/22/16 I'm So Tired

Hey it's that time of the week again, and you know what that means?

You have to suffer through another of my emails. This last week was

quite the adventure. I'll fill you all in.

So the first two days of the week were pretty much getting Elder

Yoshino and Elder Jensen packed up to go home/other areas. The

apartment was so messy and we barely got any time for missionary work

in. On Wednesday I met Elder Sato at the eki (station) and we went to

the apartment. He's transfer 11, and goes home in November of this

year. A lot of things changed here in Okegawa because we are now five

people in the apartment instead of 4, all crammed together in a living

space for probably three. It's all actually pretty fun until night

time. We all sleep in the same room because the living room is the

only room big enough and one of the Elders in the other companionship

snores. Loud. Like it sounds like someone is moving a heavy table

across sandpaper. I have gotten very little sleep in the past few

nights.

All in all though, I'm enjoying Elder Sato. He doesn't speak as much

English as Elder Yoshino did but I'm okay with that. Having your first

two companions be native speakers is a huge blessing. I've learned a

lot of slang. Speaking of slang, I taught a 60 year old Japanese man

what the slang term "clutch" meant. Now he says it at every

opportunity at Eikaiwa and I absolutely die laughing. Just imaging an

old man with a horrible Japanese accent say "How clutch is that?" Or

"Dude that's so clutch." His name is Tiger Woods (seriously) and he's

a riot.

We've walked a ton this week. Our investigators have been busy this

week so we haven't taught. Because of this we have to do streeting. I

think in the first 2 days Elder Sato was my companion we walked 40km.

Our phone tracks our progress. We walked over 100,000 steps in the

space of like 7 hours. It also rained HARD on Saturday, so that was an

adventure. But things are going good with us. We're going to try and

set a baptismal goal with Koda this Saturday and meet with another

solid sounding investigator named Sugino this Thursday. I'll attach

pictures below. Thank you for tuning in everybody! Talk to y'all next

week!

Picture 1: Elder Yoshinos last dinner with Kazuhisa. We had kimchi

flavored Natto, which was not good. For this of you who don't know,

natto is fermented soybean with the smell and taste of sweaty gym

shorts, which mucusy strings like boogers holding it all together.

Picture 2: language study. I'm translating Preach my Gospel

Picture 3: I forgot to put the hood back on my raincoat. This was five

minutes of walking in the rain. I felt like I just got out of the

shower

Video: Elder Sato eating Sour Patch Kids sour dust