今夜の月がきれいな🥴

 What is up guys! Here in 成田 things are just dripping all over the place, isn't that awesome! Because of that I wrote a lot this week and frankly I hope you have interesting things going on in your lives that you don't have time to read everything haha so don't feel bad if you don't. Although I did add some spice this week as I went back and wrote out this week pretty good because of the experiences I had and never want to forget. Awesome okay now we will get started yes!

Tuesday - Tuesday was a pretty chill Pday. After destroying in badminton, later that night we went to a Yakiniku all you can eat with Qiao Feng and it was so much fun. We got so much food it was insane. We are so close to getting this man baptized. We taught him about the temple and eternal marriages and he said now he thinks he wants a girlfriend so we are making progress.

Wednesday - Alright so Wednesday was crazzyy. Starting off the day on a train at 8:00AM to Tokyo for Zone Conference. For some reason I just  get nothing out of any type of meetings. Even walking out of mission conference I was thinking like yeah that was that but I don't feel like I gained a thing from it. Still trying figure out why that's the case but anyways, after we did exchanges with Elder Campbell and his greenie. Elder Campbell was In the ND mission for around 16 Months first. Anyways my Comp Elder Bingham and Him went to Yachio and I took the Greenie back to Narita. His Name is Elder Gammet and he had been in Japan for a whole 5 days.😂 We walked out of the Annex and he asked how long I've been in Japan and when I said 7 weeks his reply was Just, "ohhhh hmm are we okay" I told him not to worry and that I was raised in Thailand and I think that helped haha. Made it back from Tokyo and immediately had a lesson with Ippei at a restaurant called Saizaria! At first I was thinking "Oh man I got stuck with the greenie that has no clue what he is doing" and he says he studied Japanese in high school as If that makes a difference😑. So my attitude wasn't the best but after dinner I realized that he was actually a pretty cool guy and I totally misjudged and learned a good lesson from it. The lesson with Ippei also went so well and was a good time chatting with him about the gospel! We then ended up getting a text as my comp realized he had the house and church key with him. So after dinner we end up riding the train with Ippei because he lives in Sakura and going to Yachio and just blitzing their area. It was already late by the time we got there so we just headed straight to their apt.

Thursday - Thursday was crazy. We had some awesome lessons in the morning which was fun trying to do lead everything! Later we went streeting which was really fun to get out without another person who could speak. We talked to lots of people and on repeat pretty much just got shut down but it was raining so we went into this shop and no one was in there except the 2 women working who greeted us at the door. Somehow managed to have a good 10 minute conversation with them about life. The shop was apparently a place where they stamp KANjI on stuff but the owners where really nice, the type of people that everything you say they go, ohhhh eeeee jouzuuuuu neee, Ohhhh, atama go iii da neeeee. 😂. We then hitched it back to the apartment and swapped back. Then for ping pong night back in Narita. It Was sweet! We had a Chinese guy we talked to on the street come as well as Lee which was really funny because it was Americans, Chinese, and Korens all in Japan playing ping pong speaking Japanese. 😂 Anyways we finally figured out the words おっし、and やった for those that may know so that is nice. Overall this day was great except even with success, man I just feel so helpless with the language haha. Satan is a lot better than I thought he would be at discouragement. 

Friday - Alright so we were just about to head out streeting when boom my comp gets insane revelation that we should go to Sakura to do it. So that's what we did. It actually dropped down enough to wear a jacket this day which was fun with our umbrellas and jackets walking through the eki. I felt like it needed to blow up behind us, if your riding my Kevin Hart wave, you know. Anyways we got dumped on for the next 3 hours while we attempted to talk to people but ended up talking to some cool shop owners. One of them was selling antiques and one antique was an American Naturalization Certificate. We asked if she knew what it was and she had no clue what it was. We left her in wonder and continue because you all know I have no idea what that is😂. Anyways later that night we had 英会話クラス at the church and this ended up being so much fun. For 15 minutes of it I was with a member and Leesan the investigator and we were practicing talking about goals and plans and the member said that his goal was to be more like Jesus and then Lee said, "Same" bwwaawawaあえええええ. Ended up teaching her all about the Bible and stuff and as always she loved it. Good old すぎりきCuh slipping in the gospel in the most broken Enlgish ever😂. Afterwards we had a nonmember who brought his guitar 🎸 and whipped out sheets of paper with lyrics and hands them out and we sing it and he's like okay now we will practice. So we sing each line as he corrects us and then his daughter hops on the piano and wow we created magic everyone. The best part is that the song was "Can't Help Falling in Love" by Elvis Presley haha. All the guitar players in the ward like to play American music and always ask us what the band and song names mean but when the bands names are things like Grateful Dead its kinda hard to make sense of it haha. I got a video of us singing at the end of the vlog so don't forget to watch.

Saturday - Alright so on Saturday we met with this guy named だいき who is a sick. We ate McDonald's with him because for some reason every young Japanese person I have met thinks McDonald's is the best place ever haha. He was sweet. We didn't get a picture with him sadly but he had the cleanest outfit I've ever seen.  He is studying psychology right now so the things we brought up to him about God was very interesting to him. Afterwards he showed us his motorcycle and it was megga sick. Anyways we walked home from Naritasan afterwards and had a call to teach a lady why Christmas is a thing.

Sunday - Sunday was great. Conference was awesome here. The ward all came to the church and watched the first session then all hung out and ate lunch together which with the cool breeze through the open windows gave me huge Thanksgiving vibes. It was awesome. Then they watched the second half and then we all left. Some members also gave us grapes a couple days ago and here in Japan grapes are covered with this fuzz stuff. I didn't know what it was but man does it sure taste good. I don't know why America doesn't do it the same. Than a  couple hours later we went to Narita san and met with Reina who was super sweet. It was kind of awkward because she wanted to eat but it was Sunday so we finally told her why and she was like ohhh really I didn't know that was a Christian belief that and then we went to the second floor of McDonald's and chatted haha. She taught me 流れに身を任せる and in return we taught her some slang which I teach to everyone and its the funniest thing because they think it is so cool. Its really funny when it's like a 70 year women that says "oh this food is... fire"😂

Monday - Monday we had some good streeting I can understand a lot more now and speak a bit more as well. I remember thinking to myself oh man my Japanese was terrible at zone conference and then I realized ZC was only like 6 days ago haha. Very challenging but with patience it will be done! We had a Mogi lesson with this crazy member named Ushijima Shimai at 8 that night and she was drilling us haha. The more I can speak the harder it gets because I try and explain more stuff and go into more depth and anything we said wrong she was errors it's this Naninanika which is what we need so it was great.

Elder Parker