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| Takoyaki party with the Chiba's Takoyaki is ebelskievers with octopus. Murphy's - you know what to do! |
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| This is a bird I saw. Yup |
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| Hey, look what I can read! |
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| Wow, we have a lot of hot chocolate! |
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| Might go to this concert, but probably not. It is 12$ away. |
Ok, now the other stuff.
Today is p-day and we are just going to stick around Shonandai. I will be finding a scarf soon, because it is cold! And the sun rises at 6, sets at 5ish, and is behind clouds a lot. I cannot wait for snow! Or a storm. Either would be fun.
So, since last week, I have been a senior companion, duped by an old man, eating strange things, and biking.
Tuesday: went to Tsujido to meet O! He has had so much improvement over the last two transfers. We also got in contact with a PI from Nepal. He was so excited and invited us to a Nepalese party in Hodogaya, but that is way out of our area, we had to reassign him to other elders, so that was too bad, but he will be better taken care of there.
Wednesday: Kinjin?!( Golden investigator?!) we met with a man named Hayashi and he has been trying to meet with us for a long time. He was awesome. Really excepting of the Restoration and all of that. But, there were some fishy things about him. He knew words he shouldn't have known. We were confused. I met a crazy British person at the Eki today. It was not the first meeting with our district. Not fun. Very rude and anti everything.
On Thursday was the new missionaries Facebook training, but Porter and Dowdle Chōrōtachi were sick with a cold. I got to take McDonald Chōrō all of the way to Kichijoji and be trainersama for a while. I was the only one of my doki (transfer age), there. I saw Battaglia Chōrō! While I was telling him how things were going, Hayashi came up. He then proceeded to tell me exactly what he looked like and his life story. That's right. We have a senkyōshi troll. This guy floats around the two Tokyo missions and wastes missionary time by taking the lessons and then disappearing when he progresses. I was so disappointed. We called the president to see what we should do. He was down for us snapping a picture at our next lesson, but then he tuned into the spirit and said that we should just stop meeting with him. So if you ever hear about any missionary in tokyo with an investigator who looks like Willy wonka, it is probably Hayashi, or kobayashi.
Friday: sports night and Book of Mormon class. We had an investigator and an old investigator come to Book of Mormon class. It was great. Really helped set up for the next lesson. By the way, I teach the advanced Eikaiwa class and most of the students used to be investigators. It is sometimes awkward because we try and mention the church in conversations, but they were all not interested before. They are super nice though.
Saturday: we cleaned the church today. We weeded and pruned the outside bed. It took an hour for 8-9 people working on everything. That was a mess. But afterwards, we had curry with the high priest group. They are super funny old people. It isn't like at home where there are younger people in the group. Afterwards, we checked out the city festival, or Machimasturi. It reminded me of the Preston Pioneer Day celebration. Tiny with a lot of people everywhere. That evening, we went in early because Dowdle Chōrō had a cold. He is getting better now and I haven't caught it yet.
Sunday. Sunday is a special day. A day for members to strengthen each other. Because there is only one ward in the building, the members don't get pushed out by other people, so they are able to comfortably talk to each other. Yesterday after church the festival had a parade, so some people weren't able to leave on the roads. We had a dendō meeting with the bishop. He is super cool. We figured out that our teaching capacity per week is about 200 lessons, but only if the ward brings us people to teach. The ward is really active in wanting to help the work move on, but they just need to open their mouths. They will get there though. The Lord has promised that Japan will be a great place for the Saints if the members will make the change and talk to people. We had a takoyaki party with the Chiba couple. They were married last month, takoyaki is basically an ebbelskiever with octopus. It is actually pretty good. We had to bike there, it was 45 minutes both ways, which was fun not fun. We looked like a biker gang or the sandlot crew going to the field. It was funny.
I love you all. Miss you!
Any day is good to send me emails, and I don't care how long they are. 愛しています！
マーフィー長老
I forgot to tell you about the ice cream! Today was a 31% off at Baskin Robbins. It was good. Then we walked around. And sat. That was pretty much our p-day. Here is us last night on bikes.
The ice cream is Love Potion and Vampire Kiss. They are full of Raspberry! I miss raspberry flavors. We decided to stop on the side of the road for this picture.
Bonus part of letter to William:
Japan is treating me with a cold shoulder, mostly because it is cold right now. My favorite food is skemen, which is a upgrade of ramen.
Love you too, don't be too dorky, but don't not be too dorky.
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