Bravo Six Went Dark, Never Came Back......WE ROLLING

 What's up everyone!  2023.... isn't that crazy. 

This week was great. We were able to go to Niigata for District Council Wednesday morning and ride a pretty sweet train along the oceanside the whole way. DCM was great. We have a senior couple with us who are so funny and actually pretty young still. After DCM we went on exchanges in Niigata and me and Elder Robertson headed to a kind of day care place to play with a bunch of little kids. It was great There were about 7 other volunteers who were all college students and it was really fun talking to some young people again and seeing little people again haha. We also got all of their contacts. Later on I was able to street around town which I haven't really been able to do since getting to Tsuruoka so that was really refreshing. After exchanges we headed back up to Tsuruoka and the train heading out of Niigata was crazzzzzy packed full. Apparently there are a lot of people from Tsuruoka that came for New Years. In Japan, New Years is by far the biggest holiday and everyone gets at least 3 days off work. It kind of made me mad to be honest everyone going crazy over the fact of one more year closer to death celebrating that like its for the Saviour or something. But then no one cared about Christmas even members. But I guess that's just a difference in culture. Anyways it has been cool because there were more people in Tsuruoka so we were able to talk to some in the snow and rain and they were all so nice but all from Chiba and Tokyo so not ideal but it's alright. We were actually able to go with a random nonmember to see some lights and that was awesome. I know God gave us something on Christmas and New years which was great. Anyways, President wants us to work closely with the ward and so far no members want to help, however we still have more to reach out to and visit so I'm hoping to see some progress soon. Pray for us to have a day where we can ride bikes too. That would be convenient right about now haha. 

Thanks for reading! It was probably not the most interesting of emails but that is an update.

Sent from your thunder thighed -  Elder Parker

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