Miracles!

Hello!

Miracles! Life is full of Miracles!

God blessed us this week with a bunch of people interested in the church and Jesus Christ. We even had a guy tell us straight up that he liked religion! Then, we were meeting with a member for lunch on our preparation day and he brought a Chinese kid with him who was a Christian! The guy had a super good dad who taught him about Christ
and a ton of other good things. We will for sure be teaching him soon about the Restored church of Jesus Christ.

We have been giving lots of Zone training lately (talking to lots of missionaries about missionary work) and we've been talking a lot about bearing testimony and how it can make a difference, even one minute. I invite you all to share a one minute testimony with someone everyday whether it be your friend, sibling, wife, someone you don't know, whoever. It'll grow stronger and you'll help to strengthen others' faith.

Thanks!

Elder Frisch

Hello!

Life is great. 
I got to go on a companionship exchange twice this last week, which means I got to do normal missionary stuff for two whole days! It was so good. The first was was over in Shizuoka and it was raining cats and dogs and was crazy. We were talking to people on the streets, but nobody was really talking.  (You can't really blame them, it
was raining like crazy.)  We had a goal to talk to 100 people and it wasn't going, so, we changed plans. We found a cool spot to knock on doors and started knocking and running from house to house. We found some awesome people! One family was a mom with three little boys, and she came to the door with all of her boys, and listened to our short message about families. She then said we could come back again and teach them more (it was funny cause the kids were also saying we could come back.) There was also another family of 6 kids who had some
potential. It was a good thing we ran because we talked to our 100th person at 8:55pm and had to get home at 9pm. 
We were speeding back to the apartment, and I heard a crash, and turned and my companion had
wiped out. I went back, and he was just laying on the side of the road with his bike 15 feet from him and I yelled at him, but he didn't respond, so I shook him, and then he was like, "wooh". I think maybe he was out for 3 seconds, but then I realized he probably had the wind knocked out of him. A good day. 
Then yesterday, I went with my old companion, Elder Henriksen, and we went hard core at the nearby train station and knocking doors and talked to 134 people in a day. We got around 15 peoples' contact information and met a ton of cool people.
Today we have some stuff going on like a Family Home Evening music thing and so on. It should be good.

I love you both!

Love,
Eli

Japanese

I've been keeping up my talk Japanese goal so it's been good for 13 days. I just do English to the old missionary couple who doesn't speak English and trainings. How is the back to school routine? Is Zach going to cut his hair soon? We had a pretty cool experience. This last fast Sunday we fasted so that by the end of the transfer two people could get baptized. One of our investigators or so we thought came to church and the same morning we learned that he was actually a baptized member and everyone just forgot about him. We were guided to him and now he will keep coming to church. I think for five years he was going to the Jehovah's Witness church because he was confused about which was which. He's a super kind 70 old guy.

I love you mom!

Love,

Eli

Poem

Good morning!

I hope you all did something awesome this past week to start off the new year!

Here's a poem I like:

New year, new life, new mountains to scale,

Goals made meant to be kept but to no avail.

How can I do it, achieve my dreams you see,

What does it take to become a better me?

Back to the drawing board, lots of planning and scheming,

But alas, time passes and I've just been day dreaming

Of what could be, of what could have been had,

How to I change when still just a lad?

I've got it! It came to me out of the blue!

What I need my friends is to go out and do!

Go out and get it. Take on troubles with a smile.

Do what you gotta do and go the extra mile.

The dreams are there, memories waiting to be.

Don't let them fly away as leaves of a tree.

Snatch it, take it, make it your best.

Give your heart, all you've got

 God will make up the rest.

Thanks for reading!

Good luck this week on accomplishing your goals and making memories.

God lives and He wants you to know He loves you. Just ask Him.

Elder Frisch

Eli Speaking Japanese Video

Here's a video!

I'm going to try to speak Japanese till the end of my mission.

This Week's Summary

Ok,

I am going to try to summarize everything I did past week!:)

First off, last Saturday after Preparation day ended, we went out to knock doors and found some pretty cool people. One family was a Filipino mom who was catholic and her boy who spoke Japanese because he grew up here and he wanted to learn English. We then met a funny drunk guy outside of a convenience store who was a prosecutor attorney and said we could

come to his house some time.

Sunday was the 31st, so we had our normal church meeting with a lot of visitors of families and then we went home and did our scripture reading assignment from president Ishii about the atonement. My

favorite was probably Mosiah 3-4.

Monday was the 1st! 2018! I made a goal to speak only Japanese as much as I can until June and so far it's going good. It feels a little awkward to speak English. We went and visited a nice little family

called the Yamadas and they made us some awesome food and I did my napkin trick to the kids for the message.

Tuesday some paperwork and emails in the office and then we got out to visit a member whose less-active son had come home for the New Years. (We got fed almost everyday his last week!)

It was fun little visit. We shared a message about making goals and improving ourselves. I also made some goals for myself this transfer and I'll send you a picture of them.

Wednesday was interesting. A young missionary in our area caught the flu so I took him to the doctor while my companion went and studied with the sick Elders companion. I realized I've been in the Japanese hospitals a bunch and as a result know random doctor words. As I was in the waiting room, a dad came in with his young daughter and sat right in front of me. The girl had some crazy face rash and after a few moments realized why. Every two seconds she would spit into her hand and rub it all over her face. She would make a face like she was super uncomfortable and then do it again. The dad was super patient and would wipe her face with a rag. When they finally got into the waiting room I could hear her screening like crazy and I felt super bad for her cause it felt like she had some weird disease or something in her making do those strange things. I prayed for her and we left. 

We then went to a nice old couple called the Yuaasas for lunch and had some old people talk and played some tradition games like using toothpicks as chopsticks and picking up beans (we did a race and my companion and I were a team and won.) nighttime was English class and at the end we taught Ryou our investigator the word of wisdom and told him that if he keeps it we wouldn't eat chocolate for a week.

On Thursday we had a review meeting for all current trainers and trainees. We talked a lot about how they need to have good communication. Afterwards we had the last transfer meeting and finalized

where everyone will go next transfer. We then had some good time to knock on doors and not many super interested people but we had a funny old guy yell at us and call us a funny word "Boke" but otherwise that was about it. Except the last kid of the day who we told about the Book of Mormon and he said he'd try to read it.

Friday, we drove to another districts training meeting because our DL has the flu. We learned about faith and it was fun because it was elder Henriksen my old companion. They made a cool obstacle course and I went for blind folded with the "spirit" to guide me and "Satan" to be annoying. It was the most legit one I've ever seen/done. We came back and talked to a referral with Jewels a cool Filipino member. Night time was the Imoto family and then quick back to the Honbu to send out transfer calls.

I love you all!

Sorry, a lot of that was vague but it's what happened. Please ask any questions if you have.

Love,

Eli

  

I cut my own hair.