Hello hello it's me. Before you drop
this into your delete box I have
some news for all of you.
This week was probably one of the
fastest weeks on my mission. We had
transfer calls today, but you'll have to
wait until the end of my
email to find out. Lately there's been a
lot of buzz around Urayasu
because they've been gearing up for a
massive festival that only
happens once every four years. They've
been setting up lanterns and
decorations for months. Finally they had
the matsuri (festival) this
weekend.
To start off the email, we didn't really
do much last p day. On
Tuesday we visited a ton of less active
members, because our stake has
given each ward a challenge to visit all
the less actives. We were
assigned the most to visit, in the
farthest part of the area
(naturally). On Wednesday, we did the
same thing. Except a member
volunteered to drive us around in a car.
You don't really appreciate
having a car until you walk or bike
everywhere, especially in tokyo's
90% humidity. All you car missionaries
have a good life, no matter how
junky your car is.
We drove around with the member, Brother
Sugimoto for a bit and after
he turns around to us with a devious
smile on his face and asks
"アイスを食べましょうか"
which just translates as "Shall we go eat ice cream?" He
drove us down to the local mall and
bought us overpriced Japanese
baskin robbins. We had a blast and he
was able to share his mission
stories with us.
Thursday was a normal Thursday of weekly
planning. And Friday we
busied ourselves by checking out the
festival, and going out to eat
near Disney land with one of the members
named Nate. He's from America
and plays Aladdin, Prince Charming, and
Prince Eric. He's a pretty
cool guy. Then on Saturday we walked
around the festival during lunch.
We can't do missionary work since it's a
really big religious
festival. They were carrying tiny
Buddhist shrines around the town to
bigger ones. It was like playing pac-man
as we were trying to avoid
the massive amounts of people and
shrines moving around. Then we
traveled down to our investigators high
school and spent a day at his
school festival, where each class hosted
a game or activity. It was
pretty fun.
Sunday was interesting as well as we had
a stake conference
broadcasted from Salt Lake. Elder Bednar
was able to speak to us and
he gave an amazing talk. Everyone we
encounter as problems with
members he talked about. He was really
in tune with what this country
need and how to get the members to help
us. His main topic was "The
lord will hasten His work, but are we
prepared for the hastening?" We
need to make sure we are ready for the
Lord to start making changes,
because they'll happen whether we want
it or not.
Finally, the moment you've all been
waiting for. I am officially
staying in Urayasu Area for another
transfer, and my new companion is
Elder Kenley, an Elder was in the
MTC with me. I'm so excited to
work another transfer in Urayasu. Thank
you for reading! I'll be
sending pictures and videos.
Picture 1- Elder Wilkes' last Eikaiwa. I
really look up to him
Picture 2- cleaning he apartment
Picture 3- Hitoshi and I
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