Snow snow snow!

Konnichiwa! Hey everyone! Well I hope everybody is doing good! I'm doing fantastic! It's a wonderful Christmas season here in Japan! Christmas is great isn't it! I'm not exactly sure where I left off, but we are still teaching Koei and she is doing way good! She has her interview scheduled for next week, so we should be having another baptism here soon...which is exciting! Shes not Japanese and hardly speaks it, but she is totally prepared! The one thing I'm worried about is the Sabbath Day. That seems to be the hardest thing for her to keep but we haven't had a Sunday since we last taught her so she still hasn't broken it yet! We'll see how Sunday goes! Umm...all the others are doing really good. It's getting a little bit cold so they seem not to want to meet as much, but so far so good. This week was pretty crazy it was transfer week...I think. We didn't get moved at all, but my comp is now the District Leader so we got to go back to the Honbu (Home office) and I got to dendo there with the AP's. When we were there I got to see Inoue Kyodai, my 1st baptism! He's doing way good! He hasn't been able to get to church much because of work but he still meets with the missionaries there! So that was refreshing! For the most part, we have just been finding really really cool people that won't give us any contact information!!! haha...yeah, but they are way cool people! Some of the people that did give us contact info were pretty cool to.

For example...there is one guy that we knocked on his door and the second he saw us, he let us in to the house...I was kinda weirded out by it, but he told us to come in and he brought us some apples and tangerines. He told us that some old missionaries from before learned how to play the Japanese flute from his dad. He said he wouldn't convert or get baptised, but he would listen to our message. He is a pretty "hard-core"...I dunno if thats ok to say...Buddhist. He ACTUALLY knows what he's talking about when he says he is Buddhist! It's amazing! So I asked him a bunch of questions about Buddhism...haha, and of course told him our message and how he could add on to the truths that he already had from Buddhism and find the fullness! I think it ended up pretty good. Like I said...he said he wouldn't convert but we'll see!

We also found this one lady that has been studying Jehovah's Witness for 1 year now and she says she believes in the Bible and Jesus Christ. But hasn't been baptised in that church...who knows why! She's been studying it for a whole year! But anyways...we told her about the Book of Mormon and she said she'd read it...who knows what will happen. Ohhh, but one Question I have, is that I was wondering, in the US can the Jehovah's Witness females shake hands with males??? Cause here in Japan I it's against their religion...but I wasn't sure if that was true in the US?? But it's funny...she was hesitant to shake our hands...but she did anyways and it was way awkward probably for all of us...haha.

Last night we found this kid who was 19 works at McDonalds and his cousin is a Half...he was way cool! We gave him a tour of the church and talked about different stuff...he said he had interest but wouldn't give us his number! Aghhh! The cool people always don't give of their contact info!!! But it's all good. He'll come around eventually!

So yeah...December 15th was the first fall of snow! Everyone in Tsuruoka says that the snow is way bad! I'm kinda not excited...but hopefully it'll be alright...I hear the snow gets above your head here....crazy! But sorry this email was not very spiritually uplifting. We were pretty much in Sendai this week...next week maybe we'll have some "awesome" news! As aposed to good, cause everyday is good news! The gospel is good news!