Mission Experiences in Fukui

 Hey Mom and Dad!

Here’s to both of you.

This is late for you, but thanks for all of the pictures! It’s good to see that everybody is happy. That’s cool to see Andrew in his football gear! Is this spring football for 8th graders? What position is he playing?

My companion and I just got back from an adventure totaling 52km. We went to a place called Tojinbo and saw some cool cliffs and the ocean and Shinto Temples. Pretty good adventure. We got home and ate a TON of gyudon. It is like beef on rice, but not just that, like the beef is cooked and the rice, too. And onions be on it. I’ll send pictures.

We met a cool lady last week who was a Christian when she was littlee, but she doesn’t know what church to go to and she started crying when we talked about Jesus and said “I’ve been saved! I’ve been saved!” We gave her a Book of Mormon and she said “I’m going to church. I’m going to church. Is that ok?” It was so perfect we both thought she was drunk afterwards, but she wasn’t.

We then had a crazy experience, where we went to visit our schizophrenic friends, Yu and Ko, and they are always super nice, and Ko is aspiring to live exactly like mother Teresa and Yu hasn’t real smiled since her little sister had a baby. Well, we get there and Ko keeps saying “I Knew you guys would come today. I knew it.” And so we said, “ok that’s cool”. But the creepy part was my companion saw his planner and it had written down. “The Mormon people are coming”. We don’t even have his phone number, and didn’t set anything up, so it was a little spooky. Well, they are reading the Book of Mormon, and asked if they should be baptized and I said, yes, but didn’t go any further because of their mental diseases and wasn’t sure if they could or needed to be baptized. Next time we will bring a member to the lesson.

We met a crazy guy last night as we were walking around late at night at the train station for the last 15 minutes of the day. My companion and I were split up, so we could talk to more people, and as the people thinned down and it was time to go, I saw my companion talking to a guy and I could only see the back of the guy but he was waving his finger in my comp’s face, so I went over and this guy was grumpy that “we hadn’t even lived 10,000 days” and were telling him what he should do. He said “I’m 30,000 some odd days old. I know stuff”. I said “I’m sorry sir. That’s sad that you’ve lived that long and haven’t learned about true God and Jesus. Let us teach about them to you”. Maybe I shouldn’t have said that, he got grumpy and wanted to know where God was and where heaven was and kept saying “This is Japan!” So, I told him to repent and walked away. It was cool.

I love you both!

Love Eli

Elder Frisch

Video: Old Man Gave Elder Eli Frisch and Elder Gentry a $100

Video of the Dinosaurs at the Fukui Train Station & Gruffy Voiced Grandma

Hey Mom!

Things are going great! It’s half way through this transfer and we’ve talked to 906 people so far and found lots of people willing to listen. We also found another guy named Takashima who wants to be baptized. His date is April 22nd. He came to church yesterday and had a lesson and asked a bunch of good questions about the Godhead and baptism and he is on target! We will meet him today, again. We met one of the craziest grandmas that I have ever met yesterday! We knocked on the door of this pretty sketchy apartment and heard a grumbling gruffly sound and expected a grandpa or some grumpy person. The door inches open slowly only to reveal a small glowing object contrasted to the pitch dark interior. This 4 foot grandma speaks with the voice of a chain smoker/pirate only tuned down an octave, who has been in a dungeon for a year. She started telling us how she was a member of Sokagakkai, until they started to ask too much of her and she stopped going. She then went on a crazy talk about how robbers keep coming and trying to break into her house, so she has tried a few security measures including lining up 2 liter bottles in front of the door and setting alarms that would let her know if someone came in. Honestly, she was the hardest person to understand that I’ve ever heard and maybe understood 25%. In the end, she said she couldn’t come to church because she didn’t have a car, but would go if someone gave her a ride. We exchanged numbers and took off. (She is 83). It was awesome.

I love you mom!

Love,

Eli

Elder Frisch & Elder Gentry "took some pictures this week. Many feature cool grandpas!"

I took some pictures this week. Many feature cool grandpas!