Dear Family,
Well this week was a good
week! I'm obviously writing from a new church building! It's probably the
smallest, but most famous building I've ever written an email in. Yamate is
great! There's only one problem, I haven't done crazy physical stuff in at
least a year aaaand Yamate has the steepest hills I've ever seen in my life.
Now I understand what they mean by Yokohama Thunder Thighs. We have to ride up
a huge hill at least one time a day and usually it's 3 or 4! So I'll be back in
shape by the end of the transfer I think!
Basically since last time
we dendo'd when we could, when we weren't fixing the apartment nothing too
crazy, but we did do a blitz in Hanno. Then on Thursday I made the 2 hour train
trip with my bike and everything all the way down to Kanagawa Prefecture and Yamate
City! It is a way cool place! I have loved it so far, and being a district leader
isn't as tough as I expected it to be. It's just a bunch of extra things to do, but
other than that it's not a whole lot different than being a normal missionary!
So basically we spent all Thursday doing weekly planning and getting me all set
up to be able to start being district leader. My companion Elder Carlini is
basically training me to be a district leader, so it's a pretty easy switch,
and also most of my companions have been district leader so I already had a
good idea of what to do. Also when I first got to Yamate the other elders here, Elder Terry (I knew from
the beginning of my mission) and Elder Lobaccaro all gave me a really nice
welcome and now we're all pretty good buddies!
Friday was my first
district meeting and it actually went well, the sisters were in a lesson so
they came in late so we started about 15 minutes late so my Camp Helaman
president powers activated and I was still able to cover everything well and
end on time! Then we went to a members house and... THEY WERE AMERICAN! Turns
out this Ward has a whole bunch of Americans, about half the ward is American
and half is Japanese so they have translation and everything for sacrament. Anyways
so we speak English a bunch over here, but still teach and everything in Japanese!
There are a bunch of like intelligence officers here so they are all studying
Japanese, but they are way jealous of our Japanese which is kind of funny
because we always worry about ours because we talk to Japanese people all day
and they worry because they have tests.
But it's lots of fun. So at church I was given an assignment to speak for 10
minutes... My first talk ever in Japan! So I went to Ward council, then
missionary correlation meeting, then met an investigator and spoke in church
all in a matter of 2 hours... It was an intense Sunday! Then after church we
had a sandwich party for investigators (sounds weird and well it was but the investigators
liked it!) and then we visited another Chinese family that only speaks English
so it was way crazy the amount of people like that there are here! I haven't
had any lessons with investigators yet but our biggest one, Nakamoto San is on
Wednesday, other than that we'll ride up and down hills and find!
Today's wasn't super
specific, but it's been a great week! I really like Yamate so far! Sounds like
there's been some great progress in the garage, please keep all the stuff of
mine, especially the game boy... I really want to play the original Pokemon...
Anyways hopefully life gets less busy at home and maybe Morgan can get to
school some other way! I'm glad everyone is doing well back at home, remember
that there are so many blessings to be great full for, we just need to count them!
Love,
Elder Gailey
Elder Gailey departing Tokorozawa
Elder Kaesler and Elder Gailey on their way
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