Wow, did it get warm!

Tuesday: so, we had Zone meeting today, which, I just want to say, went over, but, we planned accordingly and were actually on time to our scheduled activities later. It was a good meeting and lots of good talk about becoming expert missionaries, which is the Zone theme. We talked about using PMG more and how to better help others know why we are in Japan. Then we went and ate taco rice, see the picture to know that no, it is not quite Mexican food, but the closest there is in Japan. We went to the Eki after studies when we got back, but then we had to bike to the other end of the area for a shokuji with the Fukuda's. Fukuda shimai is the grandma of Elder Konno, an elder who just finished his mission. She took us to a really fancy sushi place. New foods that I have eaten: squid head, barnacle, and one other really chewy sea animal.

Wednesday: district meeting, where I asked everyone what their biggest pet peeves were and I successfully made sure that companionship inventory was not opened early, studies, then we went to the Eki of course before dinner. More young people recently, but they are a bit shy. Then we set up for Eikaiwa. We gave the spiritual message on patience using the Tortoise and the Hare, which for our students was turned into the Turtle and the Rabbit.

Thursday: we had lunch with the Boos family, which is half Swiss, half Japanese. They are super nice. They made us enchiladas! We were all so happy! I don't have a picture because they were gone so fast. Boos Kyōdai helps us with Eikaiwa. Then we did weekly planning and had time to go housing before another shokuji, with the Asada's.  We LOVE the Asada's. We did their dishes for them and then went to call some people.

Friday: we went out to eat with Taichi, a 20 year old investigator. We had Tonkatsu and shared the Prince of Peace video with him. He will try to come to the Easter Sunday next week. Then we finished language study and 12 weeks and went to Hoya to visit Uenoyama Kyōdai. He is still super genki and was working on his yard again. We went in and read 1 Nephi 7. He is becoming more and more open with what he learns from the scriptures and he might read on his own this week. Then we went and streeted in Hoya. My goal is still to get an investigator from Hoya. We will do it! At night we went to house the danchis, but this time, there was a new sign. The Green Hills danchi are now off limits. Then we went to the bottom of the hill where there were more complexes and we checked all of the danchi in the immediate area, but they all had the same message. But we will find somewhere where the people are more willing to listen to others.


Saturday and Sunday: General Conference! We were at the church a lot! But Conference was so good! We taught TOEIC in Saturday after Priesthood session. Then after the Sunday sessions, which Kurenuma came to, we had extra time to dendō, so we went and met a guy from England. Maybe when he moves to Hibarigaoka we will talk with him again. He was really nice. We extended our afternoon dendō time a little long, so we ran out of time to house at night, so we did the 12 weeks that we didn't get Tomoda because of Conference.

Everyone, read elder costa's talk! Share it, it will help your friends!

Love you, マーフィー長老！