There Seto N of Fun Stuff Here (Translation: There’s a Ton of Fun Stuff Here)

 I'm living in Seto, so, I tried to make my title work. Anyways, Japan is pretty awesome, the people are amazing and the weather is weathery! My cool experience of the week was meeting a lady at her door, she turned out to be Christian! She even had a favorite scripture (Romans 5). We talked a bit and she figured out we were Mormons and she goes in and gets her son. She says she doesn't want anything to do with us, but her son doesn't believe in Christ, so she wanted us to teach him. Well, we testified to him and his mom and shared our beliefs and things. The mom started tearing up and we could feel the spirit. We then we were able to give the son a Book of Mormon and his mom told him to read the whole thing (she wouldn't even read a verse though). It was pretty cool. Even though they didn't say we could come back, it was nice to have someone listen. Life's good, and God just wants us to be happier. I hope everyone has the greatest week. God lives.

Elder Frisch

This is Elder Reis from Brazil & Hiro.

This is with Hiro.

He hiked with us so I pretty much told him everything from the creation of the earth until the first vision. It was cool.

I love you guys.

Love,

Eli

Hey mom!

I'm trying. I'm only speaking Japanese to Elder Reis to help both of us out so that should be good. I'll buy lots of veggies. I woke up at four on the dot this morning without an alarm which was weird. I studied at 5am. President Ishi is pushing public works stuff, so I have to be able to talk with managers of businesses well enough to not think I'm just some crazy American. Elder Reis is pretty young still, so I will talk to the business people, so I've got to get better at Japanese. We have two companionships in the ward and the other guys are both Japanese. It's kind of tough because we pretty much get ignored, and I guess I get it, but I'll just keep doing my job.

I love you, too!

Love

Eli

Thanks! We can buy everything we need and the butter did good, the vanilla bag just broke. Then I was sort of dumb and just put the bag straight in the microwave to soften it a bit but forgot about it and it exploded, it's ok though. The batch made 16 of that size. It was perfect. We can get cheese. It just 7 dollars for a bag of shredded stuff. I am set for my birthday but thanks for asking! If anything some Japanese study books, but I can probably just buy those here. I do love quotes and poems and using them for district trainings, so maybe an awesome book of them. I don't think they don't like me, they just assume because I don't speak Japanese I can't do anything. They have a weird sense of humor that I'm still trying to figure out (they don't get sarcasm at all, unless they are ballers). And they like when you say thanks infinity times. I read the pop-up book, and I think they liked it. I just had to keep them from ripping it.

Thanks for everything mom! I love you!

Love,

Eli

The cookies were yummy! I made them for a planning meeting with the sisters.

I also made taco rice