8 July 2018

8 July 2018

In response to me sending pictures of our garden from previous years since we didn't plant one this year:

Those look good! Thanks a bunch! I wish you guys could meet this guy. He’s so whack. Haha.

In response to me asking what he was up to today:

Nothing. Trying not to be killed by the giant ball of fire in the sky.

It was a long hot week. We talk to interesting people all the time but no one who is interested.

1 July 2018

1 July 2018

I was hoping when you get home if sometime you can send me some
pictures of the garden. I ran into this one crazy guy we do service
for every week while he was working in his garden so I told him I’d
show him some pictures of our garden.

24 June 2018

24 June 2018

Today we are going to Enoshima. Haha, today it’s just going to be way too hot.

In response to my comment that he has more fun than last time and takes more pictures:

That’s because the people I was with at the time. We just wasted a ton of time. But when I was in Fujisawa I went down there all the time.

Now we are on the 2 hour train to get there though.  Oops... I already forgot to get you guys a picture of Tōkyō from afar. The train line I was just on usually has a great view of Tokyo’s horizon.

So this week Elder Yamashita came and gave a fantastic boost to our
work. He was super genki. He talked a lot of about baptism including
telling the story of a Sister missionary in the Kobe area who set a
goal to get 752 baptisms on her mission. After three transfers she
still had no baptisms. So she and her companion set a new goal. 500
and odd baptisms. She did not reach her goal. By the end of her
mission, over 300 people she had taught, received baptism. There was
almost never a week that she didn’t have more than three investigators
being baptized. Her investigators continuously brought their friends
to be taught so she rarely had to go out and find. Many of her lessons
were group lessons. She was truly like the sons of Mosiah, baptizing
literally hundreds of converts. It was an inspiring conference and we
are all much more focused now. Needless to say, we learned a lot about
the power of faith. Hmm.. what else did I learn...

17 June 2018

17 June 2018

Things are... going. We meet only one guy once a week right now.

10 June 2018

10 June 2018

Literally the only picture I have from last week. 

We went to dendo with the new missionaries for their first time and his is Paquette Chōrō who went home early in

Kōfu but he is finally back.

 

My new companions name in Elder Nagaoka and he is from Sendai. It’s
been raining quite a bit since the transfer started unfortunately and
it may only get worse from here. It’s about rainy season time.
Yesterday one of our new friends Sister Okada came to church. She was
actually raised Christian and has a lot of history with multiple
Christian sects. She is like a way kind grandmother to us, who also
happens to want to come to church more because she hasn’t been in n so
long.
I ran into my favorite MTC teacher Brother Strauss yesterday as well!
What a guy... he is actually engaged to someone from this ward so they
were here for wedding plans. Man, I’ve never heard him speak so much
English.. haha. He is so awesome and it was way cool to see him again.
Hopefully the rain clears up soon because we are getting soaked.

3 June 2018

3 June 2018

So, today is transfer calls so I’ll send more when I know what is going on with that. I got your letters though.

Well, I’m staying in Kunitachi. And my new companion is Elder Nagaoka.
I’ve actually worked with him a little bit before and he is the
kindest little Japanese kid you’ve ever met. He is awesome.

20 May 2018

20 May 2018

In response to my asking about his meeting with Elder Renlund:

It was really good. No he does not speak Japanese. So the first conference was broadcast from Sapporo. It was about missionary work directed at members. They invited the ward mission leaders to put together a list of one hundred simple things members can do to do missionary work. On Saturday we had a Mission wide conference with him and Elder Choi as well. Then he did an entire area wide broadcast from Kichijōji that we didn’t get to go to but we watched it.