Good evening everyone! Thanks a lot for clicking on my email. This week was, as always..... super good. The longer I am here the better it gets because I can understand and speak more and more haha. I'm in the best area ever here in Narita and hope I get to stay for a while. This week we figured out a lot of fun stuff in our area so please read!
Tuesday: in Tokyo for Zone Pday. We had a great time doing all sorts of stuff and playing games. After, all the elders in the zone (9 of us) all went to Chiba from the Annex and all spent the night in the elders apartment there in Chiba which was fun haha. I got to sleep in the closet. It was pretty great.
Wednesday: The next day at the Chiba church building we had ZCM which was interesting. Me and my comp gave a training but my Japanese just wasn't there so It was ruff but ended pretty good. Later that night we had a lesson with LEESAN. Who makes me so happy haha. She is a girl version of QUI FENG and every time we tell her more about the gospel she is just mind blown and loves it.
Thursday: The next day after interviews, some lessons, and streeting we had PING PONG NIGHT. Lee, Hiro, Michika, and some others came. We probably had like 15 people and I took top dog this time. Never losing to a Chinese girl again. That was the most embarrassing thing last time so this time I secured number one. After Ping pong our ZL`s came and spent the night and they are trio training an elder from Brazil who is the funniest guy ever.
Friday: The next day for exchanges Elder Nitahara came with me and Elder Sakamoto and Lui went with my comp and we had the best time. I took him to Keisei Narita station and we went down to Naritasan Shinshoji temple. Walking down that road to the temples there are always a bunch of people and we went into a lot of the shops and talked to the owners and stuff and it took us 4 hours to go like 500 km haha. It was just what I needed for my language practice though. He just acted like he didn't speak Japanese to push me and we actually found a guy that had been to our church before. Then inside all the side street shops I would start to talk to the owner or someone and then on purpose he would leave me and be nowhere in sight haha. It was just what I needed. Next month they are having a matsuri there and I am so hyped I get to go. Elder Nitahara said you have 1 month to get tight with all the shop owners so when you go to the festival they all say hi to you and then the whole community sees that and then wants to talk to you too. Genius.
Saturday: Me and my comp were on the same street and we ran in to a lady playing Pokemon Go, which is like totally common here. Every night we run into someone playing haha. Anyways she proceeded to drop everything and give us a 2 hour tour and show us everything haha. After it got dark we ate at a chain restaurant here that is super good. You can get a nice bowl of ramen, rice, and gyoza for like 9 bucks USD. Since we are rich here because the Japanese yen in going down in value we can pretty freely eat out.
Monday: We were back at Naritasan and we walked into one shop and the owner came over and tells us for missionary she gives a 10 percent discount. I was like yo. It turns out she used to love the missionaries from 3 years ago. This area was just opened again by my comp right before I came. Right after in another shop, the owner said that missionaries had talked to here at the train station in 2017 before Covid and that was actually really cool to see. Knowing that missionaries probably did the same thing we are doing well before Covid and some of them remember!
Well, that sums up a bit from this week.
Ladddddddder - Elder Parker
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