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.