This week has been pretty fun! Lots of bike riding and craziness. After pday ended last week we went to a sports night thing put on by the Honda Family to try and find some potential investigators and to get there we had to go up and down some crazy hills. It was like the one down to the church and probably about that long up and down, needless to say my legs were a little bit like jello when I fell asleep. But now the hills that used to be hard aren't bad so that is a very good thing. We were able to meet with both of our main investigators Uki San and Kuramochi San. Kuramochi San is a very hard investigator because he says he has never felt happiness and he is a very depressed very introverted person and I can't understand his Japanese but his friend (a member) helps in the lessons a lot and brings a very powerful testimony too! Uki San is so close to being a member it's insane. He has an English class at the same time as church so he hasn't come because he likes English more than the gospel but in the gospel the only things holding him back are his worries about the word of wisdom and going to church. We will keep working, I would love to see him become a member so we will keep on going with him. Kai San (the guy we met the first day hasn't been able to meet since the last one I told you about, which is a bummer. But we will keep trying. And Mongen Kyoudai, the less active who I talk about cars with, is so close to coming to church to watch us sing next week. We have dinner with him tonight so we will press church again. We had lots of cool Dendo activities this week like putting as many Book of Mormons in my bag and trying to hand out all of them. We didn't get them all but it was fun!
It's nice to see that Heavenly Father understands how hard it is for me to understand nihonjins. Yesterday I was getting pretty frustrated but was still trying to talk to them even though I didn't know what was going on and as the last contact of the night he put a man that spoke textbook simple nice understandable good speed Japanese to us and I understood 100% of what he said and was able to actively participate in his conversation. So that was a tender mercy for sure. I ate my first indo curry this week! It was delicious and this bread called nan that they serve to dip in your curry is some of the best food ever. I'm a little addicted...
A crazy thing that happened this week was we had 3 or 4 earthquakes and one was big enough it was hard to stand and all the dishes in the sink were throwing water everywhere and crashing around and it was nuts but lots of fun! One funny thing this week (well now it's funny) but I had my first bike crash! My wheels hit the curb as I was trying to go from road to sidewalk and I did a sideways flip off my bike slid on my messenger bag and hit my knee on the ground! Only a touch of blood later and I was just fine! My knee feels a little loose or like it needs to pop when I walk up stairs but that is slowly going away so I'm not worried and I'm not hurt at all so don't worry mom! The messenger bag didn't get a single scratch either which was crazy! Oh and another thing is that we went to visit an old member that was in our area book and we knocked and no one answered so we knocked on the neighbor’s house and asked if he lived there and she said he died... It was super awkward. Very unfortunate and sad but awkward and a little bit funny because we were just thinking... "OH he died!? Dang!"
The man from Nepal we met while streeting and he just wanted to come to church (and he did) so we are going to try and start teaching him! The weather sounds nice there! I'm glad you can drive through puddles for me dad! I did get a haircut and it was a really nice one he did exactly what I asked him to do so that was good! I should be getting that first package soon so woohoo! Thanks for all the support and the prayers, they really help! Sounds like sports and things are going alright and thanks for the updates! Be safe with those trees and dad put the trees up on Wednesday please! Your missionary from a bajillion miles away requests that!
Well this week I hope to see a lot of miracles and a lot of good things, next pday is transfer call day so I will let you know if I stay in Takao or go somewhere else and how the companion situation will work out because Elder Crain is set to go home partway through this next transfer and usually you are with your trainer for 2 transfers so I dunno! It will be interesting for sure! I will try and be extra safe as it gets colder and life goes on so that I don't get in any more crashes but sometimes it just happens. I love all of you and can't wait to hear from you throughout the week! Thanks for all the support and help!
Love,
Elder Gailey
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