Tuesday: Zone Conference in Yamate, Yokohama. It was with all of the Machida Stake Missionaries and the Stake President and Patriarch. We left at 7:00 and arrived a little late because we got lost on the way to the church. It was really good, we talked about the history of Dendō in Japan because Yamate is where Missionary Work started in 1901. It was really inspiring to see how much everything has grown and how much we are improving. There used to be less than 200 members for 20 years. Now there are thousands of members. We caught a train back, but it was a lot latter than we had thought when we planned, so we ended up trying to call people and doing 12 weeks and language study.
Wednesday: We streeted in the morning and tried to visit a PI in the afternoon before Eikaiwa preparations. We had a good turn out to our class this time, with 4 people coming.
Thursday: Weekly Planning and we taught a Family! We taught using the Free Family English Program (FFEP) which is 30 minutes of English and 30 of the Gospel. It was super fun and this family of 6 is super prepared. They own a couple of apartments that are full of college students, so they have invited us to eat with the students starting next week. They are all so happy to hear about the gospel, and know how important our message of Eternal Families is, but the adults are so busy with the apartments. Hopefully our new plans can help them progress and learn as a family.
Friday: District Meeting, Studies, Streeting, and Splits with Abe Chōrō. It was great, after Sports Night, we went and contacted as many people as we could, so hopefully someone calls back. We have a really big district, with Me, Bird Chōrō, Salamanopoulos Chōrō, Abe Chōrō, Mizuguchi Chōrō, Elsmore Chōrō, The Lowe Couple, Ni Shimai, Baker Shimai, and James Shimai. It is pretty packed and really fun at district meeting.
Saturday: On splits, we tried to visit a PI and an investigator. The investigator was home and he was super nice, hopefully he will have time to meet this week, he hasn't been met in 2 1/2 transfers, so now is his time. Then we studied and the rain started. We got a message from the honbu that a typhoon was coming, so we decided to take the train to where we had planned to go instead of biking. Everyone in Japan hides from the rain, but we got to see a new Eki, Nagatsuda, in Kanagawa, Yokohama. It was a great eki to go to, just not a lot of people because of the rain. Then we ate dinner and went to do splits reviews and visit another PI, he wasn't home, but en route to his place, my pedal fell apart! Yeah, 3 of the screws were just gone and it was barely hanging on, so we made a crawl towards Machida Eki and found a place that was still open to replace my pedal. So i have new pedals now, and it was raining the entire time we were doing this, but it was a nice cool rain. Abe Chōrō is really funny.
Sunday: DCS, Sacrament meeting, Gospel Doctrine class, and Young Men's. We talked about how the words that we use effect those around us. The Young men are 最高！Then we had Ward Council, which was good, we got to talk about some events coming up and our goals and plans for the area. Then we biked home in the rain for some contacting time, dinner, and Studies. We didn't get to dendō a lot this weekend, but it was all good work that we did, so i am satisfied.
Monday: Today is the Fall festival with the ward, then we have a lesson, shopping, and dendō at night. I can't wait to see what happens this week, I love you all, see you later!
Elder Murphy
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