Everyone! Greetings! Happy afternoon, morning, evening, middle of the night, , , go to bed. I am freed from the death grips of Tsuruoka and the flow, as of this upcoming Thursday, is taking me back in the direction of Tokyo to Kiryu of Gunma-ken! Tsuruoka is closing. We tried our hardest and I really thought I would stay here with the success we were starting to see but God has other plans. Anyways, that is in the future so instead, I have 2 weeks of the greatness to talk about. Snow and then a little more snow and on top of the snow is well I'm not sure. Oh I found it haha more snow. Anyways we had a lesson with a man Esmeal who is honestly a great guy but you just can't take anything he says seriously because I'm pretty sure he just has no idea what he is talking about half the time. However we were able to eat with him and his brother and learn about Ethiopian culture. Just last week there was an event there where they take the "real cross Jesus died on" and walk for like 8 hours straight and while you walk and sing if your trying to find a wife you load up on lemons and then start chucking them at girls and if they give you the good look your in and if she waves you off you gotta find another girl to throw your lemon at. I think it would be way more effective then dating apps in my opinion. And then we had a lesson with our investigator who loves guitar so we always play with him and then teach him and it was awesome because he prayed for us! He forgot the first step and the last step of the prayer but other than that I felt the spirit. Then that night he came and picked us up and we had a guitar lesson with him and this guy in his house and it was super fun and built a good relationship with him and ended up doing it again the following week but got a member to come who is about to die and is tiny but started singing in a crazy opera voice. It was awesome! Then, last Tuesday I really wanted to do District P day but everyone told us the weather would be bad and we even had our branch president tell us it would be too bad and to not go outside. I don't think they understand how important this work is because we did not listen. Anyways we get down there and our train stops a couple times but we make it, have a good time, have District Council the next day and yeah we were stuck in Niigata. With no sight of a running train we just did exchanges and died. Me and Elder Sakamoto frolicked in the snow knocking houses and talking to people although the wind did make it a bit of a challenge. Luckily we ended the night at a beloved conveyor belt sushi place that was crazy expensive and I was ready to fork up 3sen but our beloved dictator Gunson Fufu payed for us. The next day we found a train that took us somehow to Tsuruoka. Even though it took nearly 6 hours with stopping and starting we made it. Then the past couple days have just been rejection at the door or on the street. Although on Sunday we went up to Sakata with our branch president who is the shyest quietest person I've ever met and it was good. Afterwards we visited some sleeping members and talked to some grandma's for way to long. I couldn't understand a thing about Japanese history they were saying and at some point I think I was asked if I liked Obama and if I swung left or right. Obviously, I said I look up for God. Anyways that sums things up a bit.
Somewhere over the rainbow - Elder Parker
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