皆、調子はどう？？？ 今後日本語しか書きたくないと思います。頭がよくない人って ごめんね！分かるように翻訳してください！笑 冗談ですわ
Hey everyone. How are you all doing? This week was pretty awesome! One day while streeting there was way more people then normal so we asked some people なぜいつもより人が多いんですか？そういう質問 and apparently there was a huge 花火(firework) event in little 田舎 Narita. We started following people and wow people from Tokyo and Chiba and everywhere came. It was so sweet! We even saw some Chiba members and youth with their non member girl friends hahaha. You should have seen this one guy's face when he saw us haha. He was probably worried if you throw the word Christian too high she will leave him haha. One time we were talking to a Chinese guy and his Japanese girlfriend and he was all like oh yeah I am Christian. She broke her neck so hard at him with ahh😂. We ended up talking to this high schooler and just watching the fireworks with him. There ended up being probably 10,000 people. It was so much fun. It made me pretty happy to see so many people and to see them being social and laughing with their friends. It was the best. The firework show was pretty legit as well!
Later on in the week we put LEEsan on date for baptism! She wants to be baptized so bad but of course everyone in Japan works insane hours at work and school with zero efficiency so she has work on Sundays. We told her she needs to start coming and she almost started crying but she is going to try and come. Sadly I don't think she has the heart or just doesn't know how to talk to her boss about it so just pray for her because God knows how to help. Also, at Eikaiwa, a lot of people came. There is a picture down below and only one person in the room is a member so we had a really good turnout and are going to start teaching a couple of them. Also this week we met up with this one guy who is super sweet and also 19. We went to Mister Donut with him and after we needed to get a new bike tire because mine popped. It was like a 30 min walk so he just gave us a ride. While driving in the car he turns on the `Making my way downtown` song and he said it was his and his girlfriends favorite song hahaha. I told him it was a joke song in America but he said he still likes it ha. It was really funny and the next day my comps tire popped right after changing mine which was also pretty funny. Anyways this week was good. There were some discouraging times with the language but that's just me being frail, weak and needing to have Satan stare down the barrel of a 45 lol. Also transfers are coming up this week. I am staying in Narita again and getting a new comp who I actually played a lot of volleyball with while serving in Fargo. He has been in Japan the same amount of time as me and I can't imagine his Japanese is much better then mine so it will be tough but we will get things done!
Lately something that everyone knows but no one acts on I feel God has been trying to get me to realize, which is that man... everyone wants what they don't have and can't practically achieved. I meet a lot of people from all over the world and it is the same things over and over again with desires of instant gratification with unrealistic expectations. I run into so many people that think Americans just have the hugest hearts and are always so happy and can convey their emotions and they want to go to America and speak English. Then you go to America and everyone's like, uhh people are jerks and this country is going to crap, or what not. And visa versa. I think God is trying to teach me how to appreciate and love the things I have because if you want something super bad and whine over it, you are just gonna want something else or more of it after you finally achieve it. You could've just figured out how to enjoy the process of achieving it to whatever imperfect state that is. As we fulfill our purpose we have on earth to experience all things and choose to do it with a completely different mind set our stay here on earth can be so much better. Anyways long story I be learning these things to benefit me for the rest of my life through thick and thin so If you're on the fence about a mission, serve and never look back.
Elder Parker
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