Hey everyone, what up? This weeks weather was crazy. The sun hurts like I'm in Arizona but its equally humid like in Florida/Georgia here in believe it or not the center of the hottest prefecture in Japan. Had some crazy thunder and lightning storms too which was awesome... brought me back to North Dakota for a second haha. This week was great. I experienced my first black out which knocked the trains dead for a bit which was interesting.
All right, starting of the week in the rural country side of Shirakawa me and Elder Fujimoto went knocking for 5 hours straight with absolutely no success but we had a good time and it was great. I feel exchanges have been really good for the missionaries in our zone. I remember in the states the impact some of my Zone Leaders had on me on what probably felt like an average or ineffective exchange to them so it's been fun serving fellow missionaries and trying to help them and their areas a bit. We have also been trying to knock more here in Kiryu too because there's just no one outside but it's tuff haha. We just get pile drived into the ground knocking here. It's definitely not like the states. It's also hard because the population here in northern Japan just feels like it's dwindling so fast. Just here in my area I feel like I see a new abandoned high school on the weekly and all the apartments are at most maybe 50 percent full. No kids either makes for a lonely abandoned vibe with some old people around which has been where I have spent most my time in Japan so I've gotten pretty used to it. On the bright side, it means that you can go and do anything and as long as it's not in Tokyo or a tourist spot there is usually no one there and you have the place to yourself whereas in America there would be people on dates and kids and highschoolers hanging out so it can be nice some times. Anyways on Friday I invited everyone I had in my phone to church and told them I was saving a seat for them. I think it turned into about 100 messages I sent and 5 people said they would come. One of them was actually Kisans friend and he took us to his college dorm to invite him in person which was so depressing. I can't believe people study there, but seeing him was pretty sweet. He really wanted to come but ended up not showing up the next morning but we did have 2 of the other 4 that did come! One person was Kajisan that said he likes the feel of Christian music so he came and had to leave early and hasn't responded to our message so I don't know what he thinks about it but secondly Kazusan came and he is a beast. He talked to some crazy members that were just like "listen to the mission!" Haha but we did teach him the plan of salvation after second hour and it went well. He was hesitant to accept our invitation to pray about it and the Book of Mormon but he took everything no problem and had some good questions. It was also a good lesson for me cause it has been a little since I have been able to teach a full good lesson and I felt completely fluent within the things we where talking about to teach and say whatever I wanted and to answer his questions which was pretty awesome.
Alright so I am just about to finish the Book of Mormon. 4th Nephi, words of Mormon, Ether, and Moroni are so sad and just like, well that's tuff, but some extraordinary things do happen in Ether which is pretty amazing to read about. I plan to start it again tomorrow. My goal is to read it cover to cover all within next transfer which I am excited about. It is true.
That's all for this week! Next week should be pretty crazy. We are also going to Round One today with Maebashi Elders which I am really excited for😁.
Until next time - Elder Parker
Algumas fotos dahora 🎥 -
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