What's up everyone. Hope you're doing well! This week was jammed with a lot of cool experiences and right now I am on a train to the Tokyo area, specifically the Asakusa and Akihabara area for P-day. Still blows my mind how spoiled I am to be here😂 and to be doing the most important work in the world while we are at it. An hour away from the biggest city full of Asians! Doesn't get much better then that haha.
I Kept things much shorter for everyone this week!
Update on ping pong night- The other night we decided to send a text to the ward to make sure it was okay for us to use the church on Thursday night to invite some of our friends to play ping pong with us. Well the whole ward drops everything they are doing and within 5 minutes we have like 40 messages from the ward blowing up saying things like oh we will get refreshments and this and that and oh I have 2 friends I can invite and maybe another member's friends that they can invite can come and what other random friends will they get along with and this and that. I was just like man I just was thinking a little night where people could invite interested people but we got a full on ward event with like 20 non members coming 😂, which is great! Members here are the best. They put the work of the Lord over a lot which is sad to see America just not care. Not trying to knock most members in the US but am at the same time haha.
Tuesday: We played badminton with a bunch of Filipino ladies and some members. It was funny cause they take it pretty seriously. If you mess up they get mad at you and will say in English, "What are you doing"😂. Right across from us in the gym there where like 10 ping pong tables lined up and a bunch of grandma's were going ham. It was insane. I have never seen 80 year olds move like that before haha. Later we went to our boy Ned's and made hamburgers with him.
Wednesday: We had a fireside with President Wada in Tokyo directed straight to our investigators to teach them about the concept of faith. Kakun came with us and we got a member to drive us 3 to Tokyo for it. This night was one of the coolest nights ever. Driving through Tokyo at night was insane and then to see Kakun so close to the temple was awesome. During the fireside Kakun talked in part of it and after I went around and introduced him to everyone but he was just making his own friends. It was so sweet. At the end he told us it was his favorite day since coming to Japan! After, we drove home from Tokyo and walked with him home.
Thursday: Thursday night after some streeting and mogi lessons we took the train to Chiba and stayed the night in a Danchi with 6 other elders.
Friday: We all left early in the morning and went to Tokyo for mission conference which was sweet because the entire mission was there. It's really fun because the whole mission has been out over a year at least and everyone is dying in the next 5 months so it's just a bunch of good missionaries that know what they are doing haha. Anyway, on the way there we stopped at Tokyo station which was sick. There were so many people down there. This lasted pretty much all day and then on our way back we totally took the wrong train for 45 minutes and ended up way into the Tokyo South Mission and by the time we got back it was already 9.
Saturday: We were out talking to people and my comp thought we had time before realizing we needed to get on a train in 10 minutes to go to a members house who fed us and it was straight out of a movie You should have seen us barely make it after booking it and running. My comp jumps on the train and looks back and the doors start to close and I'm like just coming down the stairs and he sticks his arm out and the door reopens for like 2 seconds and I bolt in the train as the door nearly takes my bag haha. It was sick. Then at dinner I was like oh yeah don't even worry I got the message to share. You see my confidence is way too high for my ability of speaking😂. At the end I think they understood what I was trying to say but it was pretty brutal haha speaking is so hard. Even when you know what to say and how to say it when you try to open your mouth and say it it's like my brain just shuts down. Its alright though.
Sunday: We went back to Chiba for a YSA event! It was funny, on the way to Chiba there were 2 sets of 2 people both talking and my comp turned to me and says wow this is the most lively I've ever seen this train. And we both sat there in realization on how amazing it felt to see people socializing. It was the weirdest thing and probably makes no sense to ya'll but it gave us both a good feeling we haven't felt in a while. Anyways, that YSA event was so much fun. We had our boy Seiya and his sister come and in his own words we were his support to find a girlfriend😂. We played GaGa ball too and none of the Japanese people had played it before so it was so funny as the American missionaries just showed absolutely no mercy on them😂. After during dinner I sat down with someone I had just met and am now friends with and then told Seiya and the 2 people with him to sit next to us. I thought it was a good idea until I realized I was the only white person at the table😂. To my surprise I held my own way better then I thought I could and got the whole table talking to each other and it ended up being really fun. I have found that the Japanese people, at least in their 20s love to learn American slang. So I taught them gas, fire, cracked, and narley haha. After, a bunch of them came to the conclusion that I look like an anime character from My Hero Academia. Then on the 2 trains on the way home we had members with us so I had to try and talk to people. So both people I sat next to I talked to which was a lot easier then I thought. Granted when they where talking about fishing in Tokyo I could barely understand them but ay 😏.
Monday: Today was sweet! We had a mock lesson in the morning with a member and I was able to speak a lot more even if she didn't catch my drift half of the time😂. Later we met up with 樵溪 and taught him the gospel of Jesus Christ. We realized that his English is actually way worse then we thought because any time we ask him a question from a previous lesson he had no clue what we were talking about. So we are now teaching him in Japanese. We asked him about baptism and he was like what's that🤦♂️. We realized that when we put him on date he probably didn't fully understand what we were talking about, but after our 2 hour lesson today he is all good to go and up to speed haha. We reasked him if he wanted to be baptized now that he could understand us and what everything was and I was so nervous he was gonna say oh its okay but he was so ready! My heart dropped haha. We showed him the font and how you get the gift of the Holy Ghost and everything and he was so happy. He is also loving 1 Nephi. Then, after, we walked to 7/11 for dinner which sounds weird but its way good here.
炭酸になてみてください🥖 - Elder Parker
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