Good morning folks,
It's already P-Day again. Can you believe it? I just talked with my
lovely family for the last time for the duration of my mission which
is crazy. This past week has been pretty exciting. As Assistant the
unusual and abnormality of the schedule has become normal for us here.
It's been a fast and furious ride.
To kick off things last Saturday and Sunday was the 名古屋東 (Nagoya East)
Stake conference. I came to realize that in my almost two years in
Japan I have never missed a 名古屋東 Stake Conference. That just kind of
tells you how long I've lived in 愛知県 (Aichi-Ken) which will be 1 1/2 years
by the end of next month. The huge highlight of last Sunday was our
new investigator we found last week, 椿 (Tsubaki) came to church and
she liked it! She was also fellowshipped by the ward really well and
it was a great first experience for her and we have a lesson with her
today. Jones and I found her two Sunday's ago while housing an
apartment complex. She's a young, single mother and is super sweet.
I'm so happy that we have someone to teach this wonderful gospel to!
Monday and Tuesday were just office days where we got our weekly
routine stuff done and had another transfer meeting. We are having a
lot of new missionaries come in and a lot of young missionaries are
about to become trainers. It's really crazy to look at the transfer
board and see almost everyone I know taken off and gone. Next transfer
I'll be taking my own card off and will be planning a transfer I will
never see.
Wednesday was an adventure. The plan was to head out in the morning to
岡崎 (Okazaki) for an exchange, but that morning 石井会長 (President Ishii)
calls us and informs us that the next day we need to conduct an
emergency transfer to pull the sisters out of 福徳 (Fukutoku) due to a
less active member harassing members of the ward and the
missionaries. 石井会長 was about to head to 東京 (Tokyo) that morning for a
Mission President's Seminar and essentially told us that we were in
charge and said to make it happen. So before we left for 岡崎 we
coordinated the whole thing with the ZLs and the sisters and then
rolled out. 岡崎 was a really good exchange. I got to work with Elders
Tsuru and Yamada in a threesome for the day and it was my first time
doing threesome dendo. It worked out ok and we had fun and I met some
members that I know here in 岡崎.
The next day we had to roll out and head to 藤枝 (Fujieda) again for the
second time in two weeks to move out an apartment that we shut down.
The 本部 senior couple missionaries had some issues with renting the
moving truck so Jones and I had about two hours to kill so he showed
me around the small city of 藤枝. It was a big walk down memory lane for
Jones since this is his bean-chan area and he hasn't been back in over
18 months. I swear we ate at the best Indo Curry place in the whole
mission and then headed back to the apartment, met up with the elders
there, and then started moving when the truck came. Once we got
everything loaded up we rolled back to the 本部 and unloaded everything
and then put it all in storage and then headed out to 福徳 to move the
sisters to 一宮 (Ichinomiya) to live with the other two sisters there
for the time being. That took all night and we finally walked in the
本部 at 2230 that night.
Yesterday I drove with 阿部 (Abe) out to the beautiful city of 富山
(Toyama) so 阿部 could close an apartment contract. That didn't take
very long. We drove three hours out there to have a thirty minute
meeting with the owner. At least I got to see another beautiful city!
We then took the elders who are serving in 高山 (Takayama) home because
if they rode the train it would time them almost four hours to get
home. So by giving them a lift I got to see another beautiful city
that's actually really famous here in Japan. We finally got back at
around 1930 at night and I was tired. In the last 48 hours I had been
driving in a van for close to 18 hours.
One of the senior missionaries made a joking remark to me and Jones
saying that he was surprised that we weren't dendoing as assistants.
That remark kind of frustrated me because without us APs the mission
couldn't function. I'm not saying that to be prideful or anything, but
if we weren't around then who would translate, who would drive close
to 20 hours a week, who would carry fridges down flights of stairs and
load it into trucks and then unload it? The members in those areas are
too busy and two 60 year old guys who don't speak Japanese aren't
going to be able to do it all, so we're the only ones left. Of course
I'd love to be teaching investigators, but my role right now is a
little different and I'm tired of being depreciated for it. Jones and
I are doing the best we can and we are still seeing miracles in our
work whether it be in the office, in the van, or out knocking on
doors. I've never been busier and that's the way I like it.
Summer is definitely here and I hope that everyone's got their grills
cleaned up. My folks sure do. It's looking like it'll be a fast, fun
summer so hold on tight! I'll see you all in a few!
スピードと天使
堅城長老
Pictures
Pic 1- Sick pic from last week
Pic 2- Found this on the street
Pic 3- 寿司 (Sushi) in 岡崎
It's already P-Day again. Can you believe it? I just talked with my
lovely family for the last time for the duration of my mission which
is crazy. This past week has been pretty exciting. As Assistant the
unusual and abnormality of the schedule has become normal for us here.
It's been a fast and furious ride.
To kick off things last Saturday and Sunday was the 名古屋東 (Nagoya East)
Stake conference. I came to realize that in my almost two years in
Japan I have never missed a 名古屋東 Stake Conference. That just kind of
tells you how long I've lived in 愛知県 (Aichi-Ken) which will be 1 1/2 years
by the end of next month. The huge highlight of last Sunday was our
new investigator we found last week, 椿 (Tsubaki) came to church and
she liked it! She was also fellowshipped by the ward really well and
it was a great first experience for her and we have a lesson with her
today. Jones and I found her two Sunday's ago while housing an
apartment complex. She's a young, single mother and is super sweet.
I'm so happy that we have someone to teach this wonderful gospel to!
Monday and Tuesday were just office days where we got our weekly
routine stuff done and had another transfer meeting. We are having a
lot of new missionaries come in and a lot of young missionaries are
about to become trainers. It's really crazy to look at the transfer
board and see almost everyone I know taken off and gone. Next transfer
I'll be taking my own card off and will be planning a transfer I will
never see.
Wednesday was an adventure. The plan was to head out in the morning to
岡崎 (Okazaki) for an exchange, but that morning 石井会長 (President Ishii)
calls us and informs us that the next day we need to conduct an
emergency transfer to pull the sisters out of 福徳 (Fukutoku) due to a
less active member harassing members of the ward and the
missionaries. 石井会長 was about to head to 東京 (Tokyo) that morning for a
Mission President's Seminar and essentially told us that we were in
charge and said to make it happen. So before we left for 岡崎 we
coordinated the whole thing with the ZLs and the sisters and then
rolled out. 岡崎 was a really good exchange. I got to work with Elders
Tsuru and Yamada in a threesome for the day and it was my first time
doing threesome dendo. It worked out ok and we had fun and I met some
members that I know here in 岡崎.
The next day we had to roll out and head to 藤枝 (Fujieda) again for the
second time in two weeks to move out an apartment that we shut down.
The 本部 senior couple missionaries had some issues with renting the
moving truck so Jones and I had about two hours to kill so he showed
me around the small city of 藤枝. It was a big walk down memory lane for
Jones since this is his bean-chan area and he hasn't been back in over
18 months. I swear we ate at the best Indo Curry place in the whole
mission and then headed back to the apartment, met up with the elders
there, and then started moving when the truck came. Once we got
everything loaded up we rolled back to the 本部 and unloaded everything
and then put it all in storage and then headed out to 福徳 to move the
sisters to 一宮 (Ichinomiya) to live with the other two sisters there
for the time being. That took all night and we finally walked in the
本部 at 2230 that night.
Yesterday I drove with 阿部 (Abe) out to the beautiful city of 富山
(Toyama) so 阿部 could close an apartment contract. That didn't take
very long. We drove three hours out there to have a thirty minute
meeting with the owner. At least I got to see another beautiful city!
We then took the elders who are serving in 高山 (Takayama) home because
if they rode the train it would time them almost four hours to get
home. So by giving them a lift I got to see another beautiful city
that's actually really famous here in Japan. We finally got back at
around 1930 at night and I was tired. In the last 48 hours I had been
driving in a van for close to 18 hours.
One of the senior missionaries made a joking remark to me and Jones
saying that he was surprised that we weren't dendoing as assistants.
That remark kind of frustrated me because without us APs the mission
couldn't function. I'm not saying that to be prideful or anything, but
if we weren't around then who would translate, who would drive close
to 20 hours a week, who would carry fridges down flights of stairs and
load it into trucks and then unload it? The members in those areas are
too busy and two 60 year old guys who don't speak Japanese aren't
going to be able to do it all, so we're the only ones left. Of course
I'd love to be teaching investigators, but my role right now is a
little different and I'm tired of being depreciated for it. Jones and
I are doing the best we can and we are still seeing miracles in our
work whether it be in the office, in the van, or out knocking on
doors. I've never been busier and that's the way I like it.
Summer is definitely here and I hope that everyone's got their grills
cleaned up. My folks sure do. It's looking like it'll be a fast, fun
summer so hold on tight! I'll see you all in a few!
スピードと天使
堅城長老
Pictures
Pic 1- Sick pic from last week
Pic 2- Found this on the street
Pic 3- 寿司 (Sushi) in 岡崎
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