Hey everyone! How are you all doing? This week was actually really fun and we had some super awesome opportunities that brought us a lot of joy out here in Tsuruoka. As instructed by President we have been trying to build up ward relations so during weekly planning we reached out to literally everyone. There are 2 really cool members and their wives in the ward. Everyone else doesn't really mess with us except this one like 60 year old guy who pokes my companion's belly and stares at us every waking moment. Haha. Absolutely love the guy. We can rely on him more than the branch president haha! We were able to set 2 things up with the members I mentioned earlier which we will get to in a minute. Anyways on Friday it was the craziest thing. The sun didn't come out but it didn't snow or rain from like 2pm to about 8pm so we set out for this area we found on Google maps that had a park, a big gym and like an archery range or something. We rarely get to ride our bikes because of the snow and ice but me and my companion have just decided to send it on bike no matter what which has led to some super sweet bike rides where we both ate it but gave me some nice nostalgia from my glory days when I had a car in the snow. Anyways we get to this place and are looking for posters for events or service opportunities but didn't find anything. We did however find a track that was covered by snow and this 1 old dude was out there shoveling it by him self and still didn't want help. We also found an archer class for kids which is no help to us but epic. After that we find these kids playing soccer and go over and they have no idea how to talk to people in the slightest but we ended up talking them into playing with us which was a blast and we got their contacts to hopefully play again or play ping pong with them. Later we were drifting around the park and we see this 65 year old in the parking lot just swinging his tennis racket at the air like they do and we stopped him and were very adamant that we play with him. He said he didn't have another racket so we brought up the idea of ping pong and then out of no where he was like alright... actually you got plans tomorrow at 6? So he picks us up the next day from Rsuruoka and we go to this indoor place that was so awesome I was mind blown it existed out here. We watched some 70 year olds playing as if they where 20. It blows my mind that 60+ year olds here are no older than 30 in there body. Haha after that some of his friends show up and they were so awesome. I'm a beginner so they helped me a bunch and it was just a good group of people. We ended up meeting someone that was actually 19 and wanted to speak English with us and got his contact and they both said when they have time that we can play again so that was pretty sweet. Shout out to Coach Todd am I right. No haha I think the ping pong actually helped me a little bit though. Alright so then yesterday we went with this member who is sweet. He wore a definitely fake Supreme hat and fed us 2 lunches in Sakata while we visited some inactive members. It was fantastic. Member relations are definitely growing I'm just hoping it actually turns into something. The other night after 9 I read through my entire journal and it made me realize how much I love to teach and not having anyone to teach or any success has been pretty hard but good. I think that covers this week. Also I am in Moroni of The Book of Mormon so just about to finish it again and restart. Have you been reading lately? Think about your answer.
- Elder Parker
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