Speaking Only Japanese, Week 9

One of Eli's goals is to speak only Japanese from 9am-9pm.  Thus, gone are the days of English videos from our elder...I'm sure he'll progress even faster with all this practice.  I just wish I knew what was so funny, and I hope he knows we love  him.

Week Nine in Japan

Hey everybody,
How's everyone doing? Japan's doing great. This week was super nice
and it's cooling off. We had zone conference which was pretty good and
afterwards, since my companion is a zone leader, we went on splits
with the AP's. We were able to give out 6 Book of Mormons this week,
that was awesome. We also got a new investigator. He's from the
Philippines and is pretty good at English. He just got here a week ago,
so he doesn't speak Japanese, yet. Overall a good week and the Japanese people are amazing. The
Church is true.
Elder Frisch

Pushed a Guy Out of the Mud!

(You may have to be patient, the videos take a few minutes to load)

This past Wednesday we were starting off our day heading out of the apartment and found a guy stuck in the only 30 by 30 plot of mud in the whole town. We were able to get his truck out of the mud after some good old American ingenuity. He was
super grateful and this nice lady who was watching us helped us clean up. 

Week Six Video Link from Elder Frisch

Week Six in Japan

Hey everyone,

This will be extra short because I only have an hour. Japan is super cool and the people are awesome. I am already a transfer old. Japan is super wet and humid. I got given a anko bean Popsicle by this cool old guy which was cool. Here are some picture to sum up my week. Everyone be awesome.

Elder Frisch

P.S. I couldn't eat that whole pile of chicken.

We did go on a hike for district activity and it was super cool. Here are some pictures. Thanks for the emails!

I love you!

Love, Eli

 Here's a picture with an investigator, one of the funniest Japanese guys ever. 

He's moving to Kobe, so I took a picture with him.

He said that the only things that never change are the Gospel of Jesus Christ and this one stake leader guys hair. He's super cool and bought us lunch. 

Mom,

I'm doing awesome. It's been raining a bunch. I'm excited to watch conference.  My understanding is better but it's harder to speak because the verbs are always conjugated and the Japanese sentence structure is flipped from English. It's alright though. When I do splits with older missionaries they say I have good Japanese for a Bean. I almost got an investigator the other day all by myself and the lady took a Book of Mormon and everything but then her son got home and ruined it all. Hmmm. Maybe next time.

I love you,

Love,

Eli

Dad,

I'm doing awesome. Thanks for the email. I haven't seen conference but we'll watch it next week. I think I'll watch it in both Japanese and English. My Japanese is getting better. My understanding is improving a ton. I can understand more of what the kids say. They are super fun. I read them stories and no matter the story I open with the line, in Japanese, "a long time ago there lived an old man". And it's funny because I'm reading “The Hungry Caterpillar”. Teaching is fun. My companion threw me under the bus the other day, in the middle of the lesson told me to teach the law of chastity, but I don't know the vocab for that, so, I accidentally told the guy to not have spiritual relationships outside of marriage. (spiritual is reiteki and sexual is seiteki) it was pretty funny. We have two really strong progressing investigators and about 7 in all. We do a lot of housing (tracting, walking from house to house) and one night we knocked 60 straight doors without anybody opening the door. It's all good though.  Both my trainer and I didn't get transferred, but it's crazy that I already did one. It been raining a bunch lately which is cool. Have an awesome week. I love you.

Love,

Eli