Yo, Hello everyone! Welcome back to my weekly email. Things have been so good here and we are working really hard. A lot of stuff happened this week, so ill try and give you a glimpse of it!
Starting off in Tokyo at the first MLC with the new president. It was really good and equally intense, but we had some good discussion and inspired questions asked. I think President Deshler will bring some good things to this mission. After returning from Tokyo we were able to get some food with Ki and his non member friend named Hakusan whom we are going to start trying to work with and teach. He is pretty sweet and from China.
From Thursday we really jumped into it, setting goals linked with real people and plans to achieve them every morning, then reviewing them midway through the day and then again reviewing and seeing how we can do better before we go to bed. We have been working smart and diligently. Anyways we went to a library to study Thursday morning but it was closed so instead we decided to go to see will, who is the Canadian that owns a coffee shop here and we were able to teach him about the restoration and build a good relationship with him so that was good. Then we had some good finding. We went to a train station and I played the piano for 3 grandma's and they had interest in Christianity and we gave them church information and a Book of Mormon which was pretty rare and cool.
On Friday we had no plans and nothing scheduled so we decided to go to Ashikaga and visit members. It was terrible. It was at least a feel of 110 out with not a cloud in the sky which was good but the bad part was that every single member address there is dead. We learned the lesson to ask members about people we are gonna visit before visiting haha. We were able to meet a couple cool people though and especially on the train back when we met Shingo and 2 girls from Austria who were in Japan working for Cosplay that needed help with there train. I saw Shingo and said I gotta talk to him walking through the gate and my comp was like we gotta talk to those girls that look helpless so I went to Shingo and then they ended up coming and asking us for help but It was fun cause Shingo just chilled with us for like 20 minutes and is super sweet. Anyways on Saturday we planned a bunch for ZC and then went on a hike with Ki and Hakusan and then did a little BBQ thing at the church. We gave Hakusan a Book of Mormon in Chinese and it was sweet. He just accepts everything.
On Sunday Kazu came to church and we had a really good discussion with him about a lot of things and answered some of his questions. He understands it but still isn't sure if it is true or not. However later that night we ran into a pocket of foreigners and got 4 different poeples contacts so that was nice being that we only had about 30 minutes to find in this little store. But after that we went and met with some Buddhists that preached to us the stupidest things ever. "If you don't say this chant you will die from world War 3" type stuff and I think they believed in evolution. Anyways that was kinda a waste of time but after we had a good Book of Mormon study night and Bishop Matsunuma and his whole family can to support which was great.
Then yesterday we went out with the sickest Philippinos ever haha. I love the people of the Philippines. They are so humble, kind, and just good people. We gave them all Book of Mormons and had a really good time together and 2 of them we had never met before. Anyways it was a pretty good week and we also got 4 solid referrals of foreigners which is gonna be really good.
I've made it from 1Nephi to Mosiah since last time and it's so good, so don't forget to read and keep the faith!
-Elder Parker
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