Jan. 29, 2017 - Surprise

Konichiwa! Fun Fact of the week, my email time has changed as has the entire daily schedule, I'll get to that later. But it's been a busy week and I don't think I actually took many pictures, oops. But let's get started...

Monday (月 Getsu - Japanese symbol for the moon or month. The first day of the week is moon day - Getsu Yobi):

Today we got a surprise visit from a member, she brought us all lunch because she heard that Mizukawa長老 (Choro - Elder) was sick, it was way nice of her and really good. After that we just kind of ung out until evening でんどう (Dendo - tracking) then me and Aoki長老 (Choro - Elder) went to go teach a potential investigator. Lucky she was there and we taught the restoration at her げんかん (Genkan - Japanese entry way to remove shoes). We got back to find the the 2 Elder, who didn't go out because Mizukawa was still sick, had a horrible idea, to start a 1,000 piece puzzle.

This is a Genkan.

Tuesday (火 Ka - Japanese symbol for fire. The second day of the week is fire day - Ka Yobi):

I taught a small bit of DTM today, it was supposed to be 10 minutes but.... I took about 20, oh well, they lied my training. After that an unproductive feeling afternoon but, in the Evening we were able to get a ton of RA's which was way exciting.

Wednesday (水 Sui - Japanese symbol for water. The third day of the week is water day - Sui Yobi):

Nice slow day and to top it off a lesson with our えいえんきゅどうしゃ (Eien Kyodoshya - eternal investigator) Shinohara, it actually went pretty good and we now have an idea on what to focus on.

	Mizukawa got a hold of my IPad / us being goofballs!

Thursday (木 Moku - Japanese symbol for wood. The fourth day of the week is wood day - Moku Yobi):

Missionary Broadcast!!! Bednar, Oaks, Anderson and some other on. The missionary committee gave a training to all the missionaries, in which they emphasized teaching the Doctrine of Christ in context and in order, faith in Christ, repentance, Baptism, Receiving the Holy Ghost and Enduring to the End, and that was way cool. They also announced 2 new changes to daily life, new schedule, it's a lot more free rein and I'm now going to start でんどう (Dendo - tracking) at 10 then come back for lunch whenever we planned and we now only have 4 Key indicators, as opposed to 9, WAY exciting, this is going to be the first week with new schedule.

Friday (金 Kin - Japanese symbol for money. The fifth day of the week is Money day - Kin Yobi):

じゅんかい (Junkai - lesson?) with Mizukawa was way fun. We had a fantastic idea to bike about least 10 minutes with to a random little village and でんどう (Dendo - tracking) there. It felt so nice down there, almost like how it feels up at the Hakes’ “Shabin” up in Payson. After that we helped a former investigator get packed up for his stay at the hospital: I don't really know why but we helped anyways and that took a couple hours longer than expected but when we got back we ate dinner, still felt hungry so we had some white cheddar Mac and cheese and that was way good.

Saturday (土 Do - Japanese symbol for Soil. The sixth day of the week is dirt day - Do Yobi):

The Sakura festival was today but, we can't participate because it not Pday, drat. Pretty regular day of でんどう (Dendo - tracking) and sadly a RA (Return Appointment) appointment didn't happen, that's a real sad one. I also had 5 mugs of root beer at A&W, each mug is about 500mL. Yep, I wasn't feeling good but Houseknecht basically had a hangover from it.

He’s showing the FIVE mugs that I had and I’m just posing like they do in Japan by flashing the “Peace” sign.

Sunday (日 Nichi - Japanese symbol for sun. The sixth day of the week is sun day - Nichi Yobi):

Stakeたいかい (Taikai - conference) was way cool, but I only got the basic ideas of what was happening but it was still way cool. A member took us down and a different member brought us back home, which was way nice of them. After that we mapped out all the LA (Less Actives) and it took forever but we finally finished it which was way nice.

All tired on the way back to Nago

Question for everyone that has us missionaries stumped. How specifically has the gospel blessed your family? I would love to hear full stories but if you could condense to 1 or 2 sentences at the end so I can use it during でんどう that would be really helpful.

we found a seesaw