2018 Feb 19 - The Transfer is Over

So, the transfer is over and I’m leaving Nagamine. I’m headed to a place in Kagoshima Zone called Taniyama!! It was the same district when I was in Sendai, oh and I’m the district leader now, that will be different. The week was fun, we had cleaning checks and that ate up a couple days, and we almost got a 100 percent but, there were some small things we forgot but, we quickly cleaned it up pretty quick. We had a fun Sports Activity, a lot of people came and we shared a small message at the end. So, I got the call to be District leader last night after FHE and I was a bit surprised and when I found out I was going back to Kagoshima Zone, I was even more surprised but, I’m way happy.

Kishi, (?), Me, Sis Johnson, Sis Rosen, Sis Bills, Nakata, Furusho

2018 Feb 12 - The Email That Almost Didn't Come

Hello Everyone!! Sorry for the ridiculously late email. What ended up happening today is we went with a Kumamoto investigator, a black guy named Cooper(sorry, no pictures) over by the city hall and spent most of the day there, it was fun but, he likes beer so, he was very drunk. Anyways, it was an interesting week mainly do to the fact that our Zone Leaders wanted the Zone, as a whole, to be able to talk to 7,000 people. I didn’t like it a ton because we did some things that took time out of our 伝道 time, like lesson or FHE and to the ZLs it made it look like I wasn’t really working which made me kind of mad but it was a good week. Most of the stuff we had been doing was housing but, on 巡回 Elder Kishi found an area we could do streeting and that is what we have been doing. We also found an old investigator that we 1. called during phone伝道 2. met while streeting and then 3. called and then went to go get Yakiniku. Our Sports Activity was fun, not a ton of people came and there is a couple who got called to be senior missionaries in the Sapporo temple so, we had a goodbye party for the after the Sports Activity.

1. It snowed

2. Good picture of me and Kishi

4. Kishi was tired

5. I got pretzels, it’s been so long

2018 Feb 4 - A Week Ago It Was Week 1 And Now It’s Week 4, What?

So, no freaking joke, it felt like the transfer was going on forever and now it feels like it went bu super fast. 

Monday, me and Elder Kishi went bowling and I lost horribly but, it was fun. FHE, we had the lesson but, it was supposed to be the Kumamoto Elders but, they had to pick people up for Mensetsus tomorrow. 

Tuesday, it was way fun talking with the Egans today and afterwards we slammed hard. 

Wednesday, we had an absolutely dreadful lesson with an Eikaiwa student, I would ask a question, he would respond then go on a tangent, it was all not fun. But, Eikaiwa was pretty fun, I tried out an idea I got from Egan会長 and started to read the Book of Mormon with them. 

Thursday, we tried pulling out money but, Elder Kishi had some trouble so, we spent a lot of time running around and then after that went to the doctor to have my hand checked out because it has had a weird amount of dry skin but, I’m fine. After weekly planning when 伝道 and found 2 way cool moms, they weren’t interested right now but, we’re hoping they will be. 

Friday, 巡回, me and Elder Nakata. While we were 伝道 we found a way nice grandma and when I asked about a folding fan she had, she gave it to me and then a bunch of other stuff, I felt a little but bad for asking. 

Saturday, so, most of today was sports activities, morning was a an activity done by Kumamoto ward and they brought a bunch of friends and it was way fun. Afternoon was our activity and no one came. 

Sunday, church was good, it was really cold, it snowed a bit. In the evening we met a way cool dad that excepted a BOM from us and then visited a referral that the 姉妹 gave us.

Something that I have noticed as the weeks have gone by, is that I am getting more and more tired.

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- Brinkerhoff 長老