Wow..... wow..... what is that? Oh snap its Elder Parker. Oh hey guys how is everyone? Oh good good my week was great! let me tell you about it～
A member was in need of desperate help. With gratitude for a service opportunity, we headed out on the 3 hour trip to Sakata, eventually found her house and proceeded to move a 7lb table 10 feet, it was great! Then she made us food that messed me and my companion up but tasted good. We were able to talk to some people on the way and try and visit some inactive members so that was good. The following day, because my companion still needed to register his bike, we headed for a bike shop and after not knowing legal term vocabulary they ended up not being able to help which worked out for the best because we went to another shop who wouldn't help but found this place that me and my comp had never been too. It was awesome. It didn't feel like Tsuruoka at all and had a little street with some side shops. It had the abandoned vibe I feel like everywhere outside of the cities in Japan have but we did find a high schooler returning from school and we are hoping to get him to play ping pong with us for a start haha. The next day we went into the city center and were trying to find events happening near town and someone directed us to a service building so we went in and found this building and everyone just looked like they were working cubical style so I told someone we were volunteers looking for service and someone said to come here. They looked at the tags and were like Mormons! We know you! We proceeded to go in and talk to him and a lady at this big business table and it was all really unexpected and pretty sweet, at least for us haha. We snagged a gig knitting hand and neck warmers on Wednesdays with a bunch of grandma's and grandpa's! Isn't that sweet! They even had a picture of missionaries doing the same thing from like 10 years ago. So that was awesome for us and then after we found this huge building that was all concrete and has a huge theatre for music performances. We ended up talking to this guy with super long green hair covered in tattoos that seemed to like us and he told us about some sweet music stuff happening so we are gonna try and get people off the streets to go with us. Then Sunday was awesome! It's really the small things that make us happy out here and that Sunday was the first Sunday I felt like the members were starting to friend us and everyone was just talking and it was really good. One member even came up to me and tapped my head and said in English "cut" and then "cold" 😲. We taught 2 older women afterwards as well for practice teaching and it was so funny. They were giving us a ruff time. Yesterday while we were walking to the post office to use an ATM we ran into this middle schooler with the voice and actions of a 30 year old, haha. It was great. He wanted a picture with us as they do so we walked to his house so he could grab his phone and used that to swap contacts so maybe we can start teaching a middle schooler cause it seems the only people we can get to talk to is middle school and high school guys. It was funny, there was this 12 year old totally into the restoration. I was teaching him while walking but it felt so weird cause he was 12 but aye we take what we can get. To finish off the week we got a member to play ping pong with us and my comp got whipped so you check the video for that haha. Anyways language is... well I'm not gonna glamorize anything. It's there haha but still a long long way to go. Still praying over the gift of tongues and for a testimony if its real. Thanks for reading. Stay safe out there! You're never alone even if you feel like you are so keep your head up!
-Elder Parker
先週の写真だー
楽しんでね！
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