Tuesday: We studied in the morning and went to this place called Kanazawa Hakkei and Kanazawa Bunko. They are 2 ekis in the very south of our area that are supposed to have a lot of college students, but they did not have very many people on a Tuesday. We tried to go to an island park, Nojima Park, but there was no one there. It was really nice though. Everything down there on the coast reminded me of Corpus Christi and Galveston. It had the same 雰囲気 too. Sorry, this is one of the words that I will have to relearn in English. In order to get there, we biked for an hour, so then we biked back. One of the best things to happen to me there was tortellini. I found some tortellini for 3 dollars, so of course I biked it back with me. Now I need to get a Seiyu to get Classico. At night, we went to Kamiooka Eki to street and house. We met some nice people housing who were more than happy to tell us that everyone around here is old and not interested, even though they were maybe 40-50. They were really nice though.
Wednesday: Eikaiwa! After sitting for most of the day in Zone Conference, which was really good, we had Eikaiwa and had a good Gospel discussion with 4 people staying and a really good game of Mango, Mango, Mango. At zone Conference we learned about the new Christmas initiative, which will be light the World again. We are all really excited to do it this year, especially because we got to do it last year too. One goal that we have is to help church members realize that it is more than just a Christmas Day, it is a Christmas season of service and love. If you have any ideas on how to do that, those are very welcome.
Thursday: Monthly Planning. We have Line! We have been waiting to get Line, so everyone is happy to be able to contact new people on the streets and members and investigators. We will be able to get a lot more contact information now from people that are interested, but never check their email.
At night, we visited a family to pray to help the dendō in their area, and to hear the advice that they had to give us about Kamiooka. We got lost on the way there, so by the time we had gotten there, talked with them, and left, it was time to go home.
Friday: We thought that we were going to have an apartment check as of yesterday, but it got canceled in the morning. Instead, we just got some chairs, a cutting board and a new pan from the Yokosuka Military Couple, the Nelsons. Then immediately after they left, we had to get to district meeting, which was really good. I gave a training on how to teach who Jesus Christ is. Then we went home, studied, had some rest, and went to Gumyoji to the police station to check if we could kubari. As I had expected, it is a no with out paperwork, so we are filling that out right now. Then we streeted in Kamiooka and got some fabric for a tie making event on Saturday. After dinner, we went back to Kamiooka for a lesson with our College Student and the American Intern as a doseki. It was a really good lesson and he will be reading the Book of Mormon and praying about it hopefully. We will follow up at the Halloween party next week.
Saturday: Studies, and then a tie making event. No one came. We decided to write our reports and leave to go and street in Gumyoji. Gumyoji reminded me of the Professor Layton game: The Diabolical Box. I like that game. It started to storm at night and Elder Casper needed to rest, so we returned and contacted.
Sunday: Today was really good. It was a 5th Sunday and the lesson was on Family History, which they are focusing on because the temple is closed. The members in Japan are being challenged to store up family members to take to the temple when they are able to in Sapporo or Fukuoka, or for some people, in 2020. We were also able to introduce the mission goal for the wards to everyone. It is code named “White Christmas” because we want to see every ward baptize one person by Christmas with one addition baptismal date and to repeat that by February 1st. The dates don’t really matter, the planning and coordination between wards and missionaries is what is needed for the mission to grow. Then we had a shokujikai, or potluck lunch. It was really good, I met some really cool members, like one who is going into video game design and another who is so good at English. He served in Hawaii and if I hadn’t met his wife and kids, I would have said that he was maybe 21ish. Then we did stats, went home because Elder Casper was super wiped out from church, and did our studies. The Typhoon kind of started, but we still went out to visit a Peruvian man with the Atsugi Elders on the phone for better Spanish. My Spanish is so bad... we need Gavin here in Japan. But, new investigator! We met the PI’s wife and she will be going to church on Sunday! We walked to that house through, the typhoon, so as Elder Poff, the zone leader would say, #Obedienceistheprice. That is the new zone theme. When we are obedient, no matter the cost, we will receive blessings.
Monday: P-day. We will not be doing much this week. We have to stay home, so we went to Gyomu’s and I made a cake in the microwave. I might make a sculpture or make a tie too. It is beautiful weather again, just like last week, so maybe if we have a storm every Sunday, I will be okay with that. Tonight we will street and house up north in Yoshinocho and then switch to Gumyoji to catch the late commuters.
I hope that you all have a good week at home, we will be trying to have one this week. Things that I am looking forward to is the Ward Halloween party on Saturday, which the ward is depending on the missionaries a lot because they don’t quite know what it is. I have found out that a Japanese Halloween tradition is a Piñata, which I associate with a Fiesta or Birthday party. I look forward to seeing what all of little kids dress up as.
I love you all, またね！皆さんが素晴らしい方々ですね、ジーキー頑張れ、私は帰る時に日本語を話すように友人が必要ですね！
マーフィー長老
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