Konnichiwa minasan!!
I trust everyone is well and supa genki?
:) I certainly hope so, and pray so. This week has been a blast, and it's like,
almost guaranteed my last transfer with Elder Harper. :( Transfers are
tomorrow, and boy is that a crazy feeling. This is like my first 'real'
transfer. For training you almost always stay with you trainer and same area
for two, so I wasn't so anxious about it then. But now that I'm 'done'
training, ;) ANYTHING can happen. I could move, stay, get a new comp, stay with
Elder Harper, who knows, I DON'T! So that's way exciting. And you won't know
what happens till next week! Haha!! ;) It's gonna be great, whatever happens.
I'm excited. I am WAY sad that this is likely my last couple days with Elder
Harper. We've grown so close together, and I can't believe how much we've BOTH grown
these last two transfers together. Our last weekly planning session got way
real. He was giving me some last second advice, things he wanted me to
remember, and it turned into quite the bromance session. It was great, we
really do love each other. I'm gonna be WAY sad when he goes home and I'm still
here! It's crazy how close you get to other missionaries out here. Even some of
the guys in my zone that I've only seen twice I'm way attached to, we're all
brothers in the faith and that really binds us together, it's really
special.
So you may have heard, but there was a typhoon coming
about the northern asian areas, and we got hit with some crazy weather this
week. It's been mad, rain, and slight flooding, and other crazies, and we've
been having to adapt to it. We had a whole day of work go because of the
intense weather, it's nuts!! It should be past us now though, so hopefully we
get back to normal weather. It's been getting much colder now too. It's way
surprising to me because it's only Ooctober!! Got me some epic blue/black
riding gloves for the bike to keep my hands warm and dry. My big winter gloves
are too big really to ride, so I scored big finding those gloves for like 2
bucks. :D
So this week we couldn't meet with our investigators,
everything was coming up so they couldn't see us, we were way bummed, but
after this week, with hindsight, I think that was planned from up high. We've
had some way cool non attending miracles this week that I don't think would've
happened if we were riding way out every day to reach our investigators. So the
first one was meeting a Brother Ogasawara. That's a CRAZY Japanese name by the
way. Most names are way short. His is like, 4 kanji long. O.O Most are 2. It's
crazy! He's an 80 year old man who was baptized in his teens, moved away from
home, and hasn't seen anyone from, or had any contact with the church until we
met him this week. For 60 years he lost contact with the church, and he long
since went inactive because of that, and just us finding him was a miracle. We
were looking for a different na (non-attending) in that area, and we just couldn't for the life
of us find them. So we decided to just start housing, and we found him. :O
CRAZY right? And his English is way good, and he loves missionaries, especially
gaijins, (me) ;), so we had a great visit with him. Turns out his health has
been declining a lot recently, and he's been very lonely, and our visiting him
was way timely. He has been thinking about the church again and wants to come
back, and then we show up on his door step to fellowship him!! :D Was way cool,
and he LOVES ME. Contrast that to my gaijin powers scaring poor innocent women.
;) Haha!!
Our other big na miracle this week was visiting
a Sister Shagotsu. We were having a rough day, we were late getting out the
door, Harper crashed, broke his light, had to run to a nearby store to buy a
new bike light, we were WAY behind schedule, and feeling way bad about it. But
it turns out, that as we were going to this sister's house, that she got home
at the EXACT time we showed up. So if we hadn't have had a crazy day, we
would've missed her, and she had been praying for the missionaries to come
visit her. She has had a crazy few years, her husband fell asleep while
driving, while she was in the car, and ended up crashing and killing the mother
of a young family, leaving the father and child alone, and she has been feeling
a lot of guilt about it. Her husband had to do a year in prison because of it.
And so she's been having some bouts of depression, and recently she was feeling
very bad about it, and our showing up was way timely, because the spirit we
felt together was way powerful, and she was a different person when we left. :)
She has an AMAZING testimony still, we have no idea why she isn't active. She's
in a part member family, that might be why.
Our halloween party was awesome as well. :) We
had a great turn out, great food, and a great time. Had quite a few non members
come, and the ward invited lots of their friends, and we had a blast. :) I
dressed up as Santa Claus, and one of my favorite members, Isago Kyodai,
dressed up as a member of kiss. Hence the epic Kiss picture together. ;) It was
a way fun time. I think it was way successful. Mie san, one of the shimai's
investigators came, and I think it was way good for her to associate with the
members. It's weird having shimai, but they're way good, and Muroran is so
ready for shimai again.
But yeah, thsoe are the more notable parts of this
week. It's been a great one. :)
Today for p day, the bishop invited us to go
to the onsen (hot springs) with him, his treat! So we called President Evans, and he said
normally since we went last transfer, he'd say no, wait a bit longer, but
because the bishop invited us, he said yes! So I get to go to the onsen again!!
:D:D:D STOKED!! So yeah, great way to end this transfer. ;) You can't fully
understand just the magicalness of the onsen until you experience. It's
wonderful, I highly recommend it. ;)
OK! Some business, I need socks. :P My old
socks that I took, I've destroyed. My toenails, EVEN SHORT, have cut through
them all. I only have like 6 pairs of black socks. :P So maybe could you get me
some black calf length athletic socks or something? Not dress socks? I just
need something more durable. I could go for another pair or two of those thorlo
socks as well momma! I have a list of things I've been thinking about asking
for, but I don't have it on me so I can give you those next week. Some of those
aren't super pressing too, so it's no big deal. OH! The music is EPIC!!"! I
LOVE IT! Elder Harper does too, it's way epic. Thank you so much! OH! I could
go for another pair of nylon garments, that'd be nice. And I'm WAY good on
hygiene stuff, I don't think I'll ever run out. ;) I'll let you know when I need
stuff! Thanks guys! I love you all so much, have a great week!1
Love, Mike
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