weekly letter

Tsu is such a good area. Honestly, I don't think that an area can be
as good as Tsu. It has everything!

This week we were all super charged after a fire Zone Conference about
Goals and then channeled all that spiritual energy into a bomb
exchange. It really was the best exchange ever.

We were just out to talk to everyone on the street on the way to a
housing area that I wanted to check out, but actually we never arrived
to the housing area because we talked to so many people on the street!
There was this Vietnamese guy who waved us over, who doesn't speak a
lick of Japanese or English, but was pretty good at giving high fives,
whom I happened to have a leftover Vietnamese pamphlet for. He lives
close, maybe I can give the sequel pamphlet if I ever see him again.
And a cool young guy who we stopped and he rejected us three second
flat, but just talking to him and being energetic he ended up giving
us his number and asking that we go out to eat sometime.
Unexpected Indo Curry and super spiritual lesson/instant investigator.
This chill guy from Osaka, who has a lot of addictions, is wondering
what he's doing with his life and then he met us. It was all fun and
games until we asked him if we could go out to eat together sometime,
and he asked in return if tonight wasn't alright. And so we got dinner
and a lesson! But really, the dude opened up to us and his attitude
turned from a skeptical, kinda draw away from the whole Christian
prayer and reading deal into something more like, "Alright, maybe I'll
try it." It was definitely a memorable experience for both of us. It
was cool relating to him through my own experiences and then bearing
testimony through that. Pray that this guy was touched and reads the
BOM.

We wrapped up that night by talking with a green haired Babylon. Just
a dude with his friend chauffeuring people into a night club. They
were chill.

And then lots of other cool things. We had two birthdays in the
District last week. Elder Higashi didn't think he would get anything
on a mission bday, but he ended up receiving some of the best food a
missionary in Japan can find: premium Indo Curry, fondue Oreo balls,
and Matsusaka Beef! A5 stuff that's ¥1000/100 grams. Soft, juicy, no
contaminants (we didn't buy this; the Ise Branch President did).

Loving it out here.

愛しています！

カードん長老より
Elder Cardon