Sunday, June 26, 2011
Boat on land 2
Boat on land??
If I can see this right...I think this is one of the boats thats on land...crazy! (Hopefully this is the right picture.)
Kamisugi! Yeah!
So this week was pretty good. Pretty crazy week, but yeah. We transfered to Kamisugi! actually I'm pretty sure I emailed like on Wednesday...but whatever. So thursday morning we had a little earthquake in Tsuruoka and Page choro was freaking out because he said he has never felt an earthquake so we felt a little tiny one and I think he was satisfied...maybe...we told him that he didn't want to feel an earthquake but he still insisted, so maybe that small one was good enough. So then we transfered to Kamisugi!! Woo! The promise land! We had a little Eikaiwa session (english class) and then we taught a lesson to one of the investigators that has been here for a while. Then Friday we didn't really have a chance to go dendo the promise land because we were planning and doing denwa dendo and had a bunch of meetings. At the end of the day we went and got talking with this guy that knew quite a lot about Jesus and we talked and talked and ended up being late for our meeting with the bishop, only to find out that he was a Jehovah's Witness...probably the coolest Jehovah's Witness I've ever met, but it was kind of a bummer to be late to the meeting with the bishop. Then yesterday I got to do a lesson with one of the old missionaries that worked here in Sendai...his name it Yatsunami choro, but we did a lesson with him and learned a ton about how to improve our teaching and such, so that was way good. Ohh...and as we were dendoing we found this one black guy named King...he was crazy. Legitly crazy....and it's probably the most swearing I've heard in a long time...haha. He claimed Ellis choro as his new son...super funny...but super weird. Then on Sunday we had a really spiritual time at Stake conference. Two of the seventies were there...Aoyagi choro and I don't remember the other one, but it was way good and we got to learn a ton. We also got to see all of the wards that were in the Sendai stake. It filled the stake center and the stage and it was jam packed. But it was awesome. It's good to see all the members gather together like that. But yeah, and then we taught this one crazy chinese guy...he got his doctorite thesis paper denyed by the Japanese education system and he is trying to take them to court. He also saw Jesus in a dream and he aparently knows how to get linked in with God. But the lesson was in English and I couldn't teach in English at all and Ellis choro definatly can't teach in English...haha, the last little bit of the lesson he was testifying of something and I think he talked about EVERY gospel principle in 1 long huge sentance...I guess that means he's learning Japanese...but the good note was that Page choro totally did a good job, so he saved us. It was all in all a really good day! So yeah, and then we'll see how this week treats us...there is another transfer call coming next week or so, so we might transfer again, or we might not...plus the Mission President is changing AGAIN! I'll be on #3 Mission President! and it's going to be great! So we'll see what happens next week. All right, well all I have to say is that if you keep doing the simple stuff like reading the Book of Mormon and Praying and going to church, obviously keeping the commandments...everything will be alright, testimonies grow and thoughts and actions change. Keep up the good work whereever you are! Thanks for everything, everyone!
Shokujikai!
Destruction
Service!
Train ride to somewhere
Me and Ellis choro planning for like a District meeting or something important while Page choro sleeps in the background.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
The Yamagata District!
joint district leaders...because we are the zone leaders too...haha...
Waiting...waiting...
minute before it started....
Japan jacket!
wanted a picture of it, there you go.
Yamagata
minutes before District meeting was suppose to start...the shimais
were late!!
Going to the promised land!
give up catching up on the last 3 weeks. But as for now...I am one of
the Sendai Zone Leaders, and we've been teaching Page choro, a 2nd
transfer Elder, how to dendo in Japanese and such. So It's pretty much
like we are training him. But have still been in Tsuruoka. Which is
way awesome! Tsuruoka is so pretty in the Spring and Summer. But I
have just been here way too long and it is time to move. Me and Ellis
choro and Page choro are going right in the heart of Sendai! Yes! We
are going to transfer down to Kamisugi, Sendai, everyone is stoked!
Umm...so yeah this week not knowing that it was our last week in
Tsuruoka, we did as much as we could to make the next Elders welcome.
Ohh yeah, Ellis choro and I are also the district leaders for
Yamagata-ken, so we have been doing all of the district meetings and
teaching as many people as we possibly can this past week. We have had
tons of good stuff happen. Also last week we got to go down to a place
called Tagajo and do service again! That was way good. We fixed up a
whole entire house. Then afterwards we got to go to a place called
Ishinomaki and look at all the destruction that was there. It was
pretty crazy...There was literally nothing! Maybe if this computer
will work, I can put up some pictures, but service was awesome! Loved
it! There is also 2 members in the branch that are recent converts,
but they are both having problems keeping commandments, So we have
been teaching them a ton lately...but then on Sunday we did this
really really awesome thing with the branch. So since there is a 3some
here in Tsuruoka, we took the 2 recent converts and then one of the
other members and we did a 3 way split! So there was 6 missionaries
out at one time. It was awesome! It really helped bond the members and
the missionaries and it also strengthened the recent converts a ton.
So then Monday came along and we met with someone that I thought I
never would meet again. Sugawara-san. We taught him an amazing lesson
on the Plan of Salvation, and then he FINALLY commited to read the
Book of Mormon. It was great. On Tuesday, we went down to Yamagata and
had a district meeting. It was pretty great. Then afterwards we
dendo'd around a little bit and then we found this one kid that was
super good at the violin. He even went to Utah to play the violin, so
when we said that we were from Utah, he was stoked, and we told him
about the Salt Lake Temple and that we were missionaries teaching
people about whats in that temple and he was super stoked to hear our
message. It's crazy how small this world is. I already knew it from
before, but I could just say it over and over again. So yeah, I'm
sorry that it's not that much, but I'm getting to the point now where
I'm getting a little lazy with my journal, and I can't even remember
what happened in the last week. Obviously, everything is good.
Probably as good as it will ever get, and my companions are great! I
thought at first being in a 3some was going to be a little hard, but
not when you have Page and Ellis choro for companions. They are
awesome! And Sendai is going to be so much fun! I can't wait! Well
that's all I guess. I will try to put some pictures on here if I can.
Love ya, bye.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Welcome home! Sendai...the sweet sweet smell of Sendai!
(sigh)...Wow it's been a long time since I've emailed. We have just been so unluckily unluck as to not have a computer for a while. So since 2 weeks ago Ive again switched missions and next transfer we will have a new mission president. I am going to have to say that I have had a crazy awesome mission experience. 3 mission presidents and 2 different missions all mixed in with the worlds biggest Earthquake and a devastating Tsunami, plus a Nuclear Meltdown...I wonder what this next year will bring!
So I don't know how I'm going to fit 2 weeks in here, because I have a ton to say about it all, but last monday...on the 23rd of May, me and one of my old buddies from the MTC went and dendo'd and we found this guy that was 100% Japanese, but we pretty much contacted him in Engish and I totally thought he was the type of guy that would just put us off, but he told me at the end, that he would go to church, even though I was going to go back to Sendai. Pretty cool.
24th...So since my companion went home a little early, I got sent back to the Sapporo Honbu, and pretty much just chilled with the Assistants and the Office Workers, but we went out to lunch on this day with Daniels Kaicho, and I got to ask him what his mission theme, if he had one would be, and he told me the same thing that my Trainer told me. Love. Seems like Love is a pretty good answer. The whole world revolves around it. You can really get into a deep thinking about love. A bunch of other stuff happened too, but Sapporo was getting some new missionaries, so we got the honbu all cleaned up and stuff for them.
25th...We got transferred today...got on a 8 hour train from Sapporo to Sendai...yes we had to go underwater in order to cross islands. I pretty much talked to Ellisworth choro for the whole 8 hours about human behavior. It was crazy weird. He told me a bunch of stuff about body language and stuff...it was pretty interesting. It was way cool that he used all this stuff in his dendo. So I'm going to go back to the same area that I was at...Tsuruoka. I was kinda burned out of this place, but with different companions it might be fun. Besides, it's been 3 months, a lot can change in 3 months.
26th...We had a mission conference today and it was pretty crazy! The new area president came to talk to us...we also got to hear all about what Tateoka kaicho was doing for the 3 months we went to Hokkaido. He is a beast. Worked his tail off. We then stayed in the Izumi apartment which is kind of close to the area.
27th...we got up to go do service in Sendai. We all got our helping hands shirts and everything! It was awesome! We got to help people clean up their floorboards...there was like a foot of mud and gunk under the floor of just about everybody's houses, but the streets and stuff looked pretty cleaned up, for the most part. The other group of missionaries got to unload manure for like 5 hours...and they stank pretty bad on the bus. I got to talk to my MTC comp for the whole time on the bus, which was pretty good.
28th...Woke up and I was in Tsuruoka...we just did weekly planning and got things together. Went to a bunch of different people's houses and got back in touch.
29th...Had church and the members were all crazy excited to see us back...they gave us a huge fruit basket! Tons of food. Just tried getting in the groove.
30th...one of the old investigators mom's was in the hospital so we made her a water colour card and then we had to go back to Sendai for a Zone Leader council.
31st...did Zone Leader council and it was great. Tateoka kaichos trainings are always so spiritual and they are the best! Rode back to Tsuruoka and then did some stuff...sorry I'm running out of time....
This last week...tons of miracles...on Friday we went back to Sendai again, so we haven't really had tons of time to dendo in Tsuruoka. We've been just going crazy with dendo. We've also been teaching Page choro the ropes, and stuff. 3 people in a companionship is way different. It was way good though. Yesterday we found like 6 people that had a good amount of interest and we are probably going to follow up on them soon. We also went to Yamagata today to give the sisters there a training, and we got to dendo in Yamagata a little bit, so that was pretty fun. Yeah, Dendo is great, we haven't really had a good sit down lesson yet, because we are pretty much just trying to build our teaching pool back up. But it'll come soon. Btw...Tsuruoka is beautiful in the spring. Anyways...Hope everyone is doing great, we are just crazy busy all the time, but Good luck with stuff! Bye-bye!
ps...any letters that got sent to Sapporo were forwarded to me...Thanks Aja!
Also...Josh...that is so tight, man! Good luck in Africa! I had an investigator from Accra...I think..we also found someone the other day from Kenya...it's crazy awesome! Good luck!
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