Michael's Good Experience: First week of cold December!

Dear Family,

This week was pretty good! We had all kinds of things happen. Lots of miracles came this week, so I'm happy about that. We did a lot of good work, and it was kind of crazy. So first thing to tell you about is the miraculous night we had after going to the temple on Tuesday. So it's been really effective to house big apartments here in Yamate recently. So Tuesday night we headed out to go find a new one, and we found a massive apartment. It's got 5 floors with like 35 - 50 ish rooms on each floor. So there's a lot of people in one place. So we started on the top floor, left side and over that side we spoke to 6 people total. 4 of them became potential investigators, and 2 became new investigators. So I would say that we were pretty guided to find those great people. One of them even had a way tight beard!

So one of those people we met was Nakamura San and the next day he came to eikaiwa and then met us again on Friday, and is going to be meeting us every Tuesday and Friday from now on learning some English for 30 minutes and gospel lesson for 30 minutes. It's going really well though. Our plan is to invite him to be baptized this next Friday or the transfer week Tuesday. Because yes this Saturday is transfer call day so, we'll see if I'm still here for Christmas or if I go somewhere else! It will be cool. So this email is probably going to be super unorganized but I talked about eikaiwa earlier so it's not super random. At eikaiwa I got to play the piano for our song practice. We had all 25 eikaiwa students sing silent night, and they will be performing at our Christmas party. So me and my little band of 25 English speakers will waltz on into the Christmas party and put on quite the show! Woo!

Then later this week we went back to that same apartment and housed again and bam, more miracles. We were housing and suddenly ran into a less active. We were going through our regular intro style things and she stopped us and said that she was a member a long time ago. So we've stopped by a couple times now. She told us she doesn't do things because she's lazy, and she really doesn't have any desire to do more so it's kind of tough, but we'll have the sisters come back and see where they can get with her. It seems like in the past they had some success with her so, we'll see!

Other than that this week we had a dinner with a member named Jenny Shimai. What we thought was just dinner ended up being a big party though with like 40 people total including us, mostly non-members too. So it was pretty intense. We didn't get much chance to dendo there because the people weren't really wanting to listen to it when we tried but we were able to build some good relationships and it was fun! Oh I also got to teach an AB lesson (after baptism) on splits with Elder Terry to Kambayashi Kyoudai. So it was lot of fun!

So yeah sorry this email was really all over the place, but it was a crazy good week. I hope everyone at home has had a good week! Dad, it sounds like your gun is way cool! Also there's a lot of good off-roading in green water I've heard. So let's go off-roading and shooting sometime! Also no worries on the lights mom, I'll be back there to help next year! I really miss Christmas lights, so I want to help! I'm glad everyone has been doing well, Ollie included! Sorry he's growing like a weed but I can't wait to see him! Anyways be safe, do something crazy, and make some new memories this week and Christmas season! And don't forget, this is an amazing opportunity to share the joy we receive from the gospel with others. If you get a chance share some of the new Christmas videos with your friends, I'm sure they will like them. Good luck everyone! I love you!

Love,

Elder Gailey

P.S. I bought a new warmer coat today mom, so no worries on me being cold! It wasn't even expensive, but it's super warm and with my sweaters I should be good in any weather!

Elder Gailey had to decipher ridiculous bad Japanese handwriting. :-)