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