Good Morning!

Good morning!

Thanks for the pictures! Those are awesome! It looks like Andrew is doing a great job!

I hope he is staying healthy and injury free!

Our grandpa investigator ended up not being baptized this week because our Bishop thinks that he might have dementia and we need President Ishii to interview him. That’s ok. Yamauchi is still one of the coolest old guys ever. 

We have also been teaching an 18 year old kid who is super prepared. He took a 1 hour bus ride to come and talk to us and he read 9 chapters of the Book of Mormon all by himself! He believes it is true and wants to keep learning. 

We also met a Mom named Junko who is 45 and her brother died a few years back and she is the artist. We just learned that she is going through a divorce and she has three kids at the house and her job is teaching art classes so I hope we can help her. After we visited the first time she posted on Facebook about us and how we were polite and nice and said all of her friends should talk to us if we happened on their doorstep. 

We had dinner at a lady named Charlene’s house and she is from Chicago and she made us Tacos! They were delicious.

Here’s a random panorama of the apartment!

Love you Mom and Dad!

Eli

May 2018

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 Hey dad! Thanks for all of the cool updates.

It will especially be good for Japan to combine because the quorums are tiny anyways. It’s nothing too special. What’s funny is that my kids won’t know about home teaching like I didn’t know about primary not on Sundays or the not 3 hour block. I’m excited to talk to you all on Mother’s Day! That’s not too far away is it. The work is going well. Always talking to everyone. Some people listen more than others. I’m really excited for the guy Yamauchi because he will be the first

one I have been able to find and teach and see the baptism of if he gets baptized in the next little bit. He always gets us things to drink like hot chocolate when we go over and he always has to put his powder stuff in his drinks because of his throat problem but that doesn’t stop him from getting us snacks and things. I wonder what I’ll end up doing for work. Being a missionary really makes me want to be in the CIA fbi or be a farmer. Who knows. Thanks again!

Have a great week. Love you! Eli

Katsuyama Dinosaur Museum

Katsuyama

We went, as a district, to the biggest dinosaur museum in all of Japan! It is in Katsuyama which is just a 1 hour train ride outside of Fukui. It was pretty awesome. We just got back and I’ll send you some videos. Thanks for sending all of the pictures and things!

Love you mom!

Oh ya.

We got transfer calls and Elder Gentry will be going to Nagano and I will be staying in Fukui and becoming a trainer! I will go to pick up my new companion from the mission home tomorrow morning. I’m excited!

Love,

Eli

Mission Experiences in Fukui

 Hey Mom and Dad!

Here’s to both of you.

This is late for you, but thanks for all of the pictures! It’s good to see that everybody is happy. That’s cool to see Andrew in his football gear! Is this spring football for 8th graders? What position is he playing?

My companion and I just got back from an adventure totaling 52km. We went to a place called Tojinbo and saw some cool cliffs and the ocean and Shinto Temples. Pretty good adventure. We got home and ate a TON of gyudon. It is like beef on rice, but not just that, like the beef is cooked and the rice, too. And onions be on it. I’ll send pictures.

We met a cool lady last week who was a Christian when she was littlee, but she doesn’t know what church to go to and she started crying when we talked about Jesus and said “I’ve been saved! I’ve been saved!” We gave her a Book of Mormon and she said “I’m going to church. I’m going to church. Is that ok?” It was so perfect we both thought she was drunk afterwards, but she wasn’t.

We then had a crazy experience, where we went to visit our schizophrenic friends, Yu and Ko, and they are always super nice, and Ko is aspiring to live exactly like mother Teresa and Yu hasn’t real smiled since her little sister had a baby. Well, we get there and Ko keeps saying “I Knew you guys would come today. I knew it.” And so we said, “ok that’s cool”. But the creepy part was my companion saw his planner and it had written down. “The Mormon people are coming”. We don’t even have his phone number, and didn’t set anything up, so it was a little spooky. Well, they are reading the Book of Mormon, and asked if they should be baptized and I said, yes, but didn’t go any further because of their mental diseases and wasn’t sure if they could or needed to be baptized. Next time we will bring a member to the lesson.

We met a crazy guy last night as we were walking around late at night at the train station for the last 15 minutes of the day. My companion and I were split up, so we could talk to more people, and as the people thinned down and it was time to go, I saw my companion talking to a guy and I could only see the back of the guy but he was waving his finger in my comp’s face, so I went over and this guy was grumpy that “we hadn’t even lived 10,000 days” and were telling him what he should do. He said “I’m 30,000 some odd days old. I know stuff”. I said “I’m sorry sir. That’s sad that you’ve lived that long and haven’t learned about true God and Jesus. Let us teach about them to you”. Maybe I shouldn’t have said that, he got grumpy and wanted to know where God was and where heaven was and kept saying “This is Japan!” So, I told him to repent and walked away. It was cool.

I love you both!

Love Eli

Elder Frisch