Michael's Good Experience: Another busy weeeeek

Dear Family,

It's been another fun filled week down here in Odawara. We had a little more time to do things because we didn't have any big meetings this week, but the time was still about the same. We were teaching a lot this week, mostly to one of our investigators, Kato San. He's really shy but he's slowly improving. It was a great week though! Great weather, good days, spirit, it was all pretty good.

So first thing from last week is on Monday I did the family home evening lesson! It was actually pretty good and fun, I taught about the Holy Ghost and used the blindfold game to teach it. Where you do it three times, and the people have to get from one side to the other, and there are lots of chairs and other obstacles but each person has a different experience. The first one has no help, the second has only a little help for example a whisper about what to do, and the third is led by the hand across the room. It went pretty well. I think everyone enjoyed it, especially one of our less actives. We also met up with a guy I met while doing a Kubari this week. I met him on Tuesday and we taught him on Thursday and he's way down to learn! I don't know if it's deep enough interest to want to join the church but he wants to be a better person. He says he's a gypsie. So you'll probably hear about him more as time goes on.

Other than that there's nothing super special to report from the week, we had some good meals in, out, and at members houses. So it's been good, a bit normal, too normal almost compared to everything, but still every single day is full of miracles and I'm loving it. Everyone is moving forward and we're doing the best we can. I feel like I'm missing a ton this week but we were just so busy it felt like I was it was yesterday that I emailed you. This transfer is going crazy fast. We're getting along great and having lots of fun.

One fun thing we did was for some free time (the only free time all week) we walked 2.5 hours talking to everyone along the way to a famous back country ice cream place and got some cool green clementine ice cream! It was surprisingly good! The walk was good, pretty natsukashii (nostalgic is the best translation I have). Anyways I'm glad everyone's working hard at home, I hope everything works out well and that we all do awesome things. Love you guys!

Love,

Elder Gailey

P.S. Mom, I just got my release date. It is August 26th so if I am going to need to peace out a little early for school I need to let them know. Also let me know your plans on coming! Thanks!

P.P.S I picked up the suit I bought with Christmas money today, originally 500+ and I go it for about 100. It's way nice and fits great so I'll send a picture next week!

This week's Eikawa