Service Activity
The problem with raking leaves next to a shedding tree and a busy thoroughfare is that all the leaves you just raked are blown apart from your neat pile by any passing Semi, and then afterwards the tree decides to release more leaves just to spite you. Literally no progress.
Eikaiwa last week
Japanese bread is sliced specifically for toast. Not sandwiches. I learned this. Like, it’s an actual thing that the bread in Japan is not made for making sandwiches. People just want a thick slice of bread with butter and jam on it in the morning.
Casual Proselytizing
Japanese people honk at each other to show the other cars gratitude for graciously pausing and allowing them to enter the roadway. Too much politeness here.
Frederiksen mud baths
We're Helping a member who's moving into the area fix up his house before the big transition. Pictures below.
FHE for the Recent Converts
We were in charge of making pizzas. Not too hard, we're American, after all. Well, you'd think. It didn’t actually go like that.
The pizza dough was ...tough. It didn’t rise. Either the flat pizza's were the old baking soda's fault, or else Elder Shiraki's recipe, but in the end we basically had the equivalent of Broke College Boy Quesadilla Pizzas.
But the FHE went great, no problems on that end.
Exchanges with Elder Mossman from Hawaii
There was a lady we found in the Records last week whom I’ve been dying to meet for a good while now. I finally had the chance.
We went the mile to Check out the nonexistent pin.
It turns out that the apartment was completely evacuated. You could see why. Nobody in any right sense would want to live there! The whole thing was cankered with rust and I’m pretty sure I felt the stairwell shift when Elder Mossman started climbing it. The place was a ghost town probably filled with actual bogeymen.
Primary Program!!
Tsu Branch actually has enough children to hold things like a Primary Program. Ah! It’s been over a year. I was so touched by the small, high pitched, off-tune voices as they sang an over-welcomely extended program which almost took half of our second hour, as well. I forgot how funny kids can be. It was great.
Last Sunday
Up up up we climbed on our bikes towards an area of potential investigators. We started knocking on doors, and on the second one we accidentally housed LA Sister Uenaga. Haha she came out to give us a schpill about her life circumstances right now, and we were humbled and learned a lot, but left on good terms and with a tentative plan to come back.
At church one day
The church got a phone call. I’ve always wondered who, and why anybody would ever call the church directly, but I guess there's some mysterious force out there that brings good things to those who wait.
Some lady named Amy called the church and inquired about the Sunday services. She has recently moved to Japan, and isn’t a member or anything but is genuine interested in finding a church. We took her contact info, and will follow up with her later this week through a meeting at her house.
Lastly, both of the baptismal candidates had successful confirmation in the last Sacrament Service. What a wonderful spirit which filled that room!
Loving the work down here.
愛しています！
カードん長老より
Elder Cardon
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