Elder Spencer D. Brinkerhoff: Jan 9, 2017

Hello, Friends Family and who ever happens to be getting these emails. Hope all is going well, I'm always busy here and that is a fantastic blessing because there is nothing to do even if i wasn't a missionary with a ton of rules. And now to the week

Monday was spent a great deal in Okinawa city but we did go to the Motobu Aquarium, apparently it's world famous and I will admit it was pretty cool but we were only there for a couple hours and its more of a whole day trip.

Tuesday we had dTM this morning, most of it was in Japanese but I did understand the main ideas of it and we ended by playing Egyptian rat Screw, I'm still bad at it but it was a ton of fun. I was a bit scared how でんどう was going to go because I hadn't done any for 3 days because of New Years but it went super well. We even meet Patrick, who has been living in Nago for 25 years, seen the Missionaries around, oh he is Black, super buff and probable military but who knows it was a ton of fun to talk to a random 外人。(Foreigner)

Wednesday lots of でんどう and it was fun. The last lady we talked to actual wanted to hear what we had to say but that caught me off guard because I didn't know what to say because I haven't had much chance to practice it.

Thursday weekly planning!!! Mizukawa and Houseknecht got a little bored during our planning, so they put up a bunch of stuff in front of our door so we couldn't get out. Then we played a couple rounds of Idiot, yes I taught the apartment how to play and everyone loves it. Then Mizukawa and Houseknecht got picked up to go down to Okinawa for splits with the Zone Leaders, that meant I taught Eikaiwa by myself, not fun but it went alright.

Friday nothing big, gave a blessing to a member and that was pretty cool. We also attended Bishopric meeting to discuss missionary work. Didn't get all the details but understood the main points.

Saturday my goodness I have sweated more today then I have in my life and it was all because of how humid it was, it was pretty bad. Basketball でんどう still was a ton of fun but still not super good.

Sunday before church, one of the members, the same one who asked for a blessing asked for the sacrament. So, we came down to the church early and we gave her the sacrament. Regularly day but we decided to try and map out where all the less-Actives are and that took forever. Had dinner, first meal because of sat Sunday then Aoki couldn't continue. He had been getting sick throughout the week but today he need to rest. So, we did an emergency split and I went to でんどう with Houseknecht. We talked to about 4 people and as usual the last person we talked with might be interested in the Gospel but regretfully, she would be the other companionship's investigator.

We made the members cookies and cinnamon rolls(thanks grandma for the cookbook)

Houseknecht is taking the picture, I'm standing next to McFarlen, Tachioka is the red head, Suki is next to him(brand new), Roncal is in the back with the Nihonjin Sakamoto