2017 04 09 It's Rainy

Konichiwa! こにちわみ皆さん!!! (Konichiwa Minasan - Hellow everyone). As the title of this email said, it's Rainy and a lot more then back home.It's been a way fun week and we actually did a ton.

Monday (月 Getsu 曜日yobi):

Pretty normal P-day but something's that were different is we nerded out a bit or I did and went a head and bought some ポケモン (Pokemon) cards, there pretty cheap ¥290 ($2.68) per pack.

Here's those Pokemon cards I mentioned

Tuesday (火 Moku 曜日yobi):

I rode the 新幹線 (Shinkansen - bullet train) to Kumamoto for a Zone conference, which was way cool and after the conference I got to visit with some people I know and the hopped and Shinked (missionary vocabulary - used the bullet train) back.

pal Barlow 長老 (choro) is in Kumamoto. We met in the MTC, but his dad and my dad lived in the same apartment during their mission in the Northern Sendai Japan.

Wednesday (水 Sui 曜日yobi):

We found these way cool people during 伝道 (Dendo - tracking), and we talked to them for like a half an hour and gave them both a Book of Mormon.

Thursday (木 Moku 曜日yobi):

Weekly planning and Eikaiwa (English conversation class). Eikaiwa was cool because a ton of people showed up that haven’t been there the past couple weeks.

Friday (金 Kin 曜日yobi):

I did a Mogi (practice or role play) lesson with a member at their house but it took us forever to get there for 2 reasons;

1. they live WAY out there

2. we got lost

BUT, when we got there we had a cool lesson and afterwards did some calligraphy and that was way cool. In the evening we went with Aoki会長 (Choro - Elder) (did I mention that the branch president had the same name as my trainer?) to go do some Home Teaching.

our "lovely" first couple tries at calligraphy

Saturday (土 do 曜日yobi):

Basically just General Conference but we watched all 3 Saturday sessions straight with only a couple minutes of break, it was a bit rough.

Sunday (日 nichi 曜日yobi):

GC again but we also had a 食事 (Shokuji - meal) with the members, WAY good food. And we went out and 伝道 (Dendo - tracking) a new area for the 2 of us and it was a lot better than it thought.

My favorite talk from conference this year was my M Russell Ballard about setting goals, that is important to do if we wish to reach our highest potential, I would also recommend reading the goal setting part in PMG (Preach My Gospel), it's in chapter 8. For fact for Sendai right now, it's raining pretty hard right now and I have been informed that in rainy season you don't see the sun so, I'm looking forward to that.