Missionary Moments

Only a short reply this week! Or shorter...

We spent most of our day with the members for a ward BBQ, which turned out pretty well. The AMWAY lady and her family came along too, even though it was a bit of a far drive (maybe 35mins). The ward members were great with them and hopefully provides further opportunities for our friendly relationship to become a bit more gospel orientated.

The Less active (no no longer I guess) old lady bought us two massive steaks last week, maybe $10-15 each, cheaper meat, but meat is expensive in Japan. I was manning the hibachi BBQ (coal and not gas) and the members were quite surprised when I just put the steak on there without dividing it up into chopstick sized portions, got a lot of attention. I cut it up afterwards to share of course but it seemed like it was the first time for some of them seeing that much meat in one place. We were all well fed.  The BBQ was fun.....

We also are using a new place for email. It is really unsettling. Bishop wasn't too happy when he found out we were paying to use internet cafes, so he took us to a place missionaries used to go. It is this small group of 3 computers in the middle of about 100 silent high school and uni students that we had to sign up using our Universities name from home and take off our name badges. Every time I hit a key I feel like they are getting mad at me... But we also have talked with a lot of them, so maybe more opportunity afterwards.

..... At the end of the week we were able to set up a few lessons though, so this week will be good. Tomorrow we have interviews too, this will prove to be interesting. I look forward to getting to know Welch kaicho a bit more.

I am not sure what else to add except that I will hopefully write more next week. And reply to everyone else. It was awesome to see pictures of Josh coming home, .....

And I am only an amazing son (at times) because I have amazing parents. Just for you to know, the way you brought me up was probably twice as good as any super good Utah parents. You got it right more or less. Keep up the good work! .....

Oh, our Eikaiwa was good this week. We are back up at about 20 or so, with more to come. I love to teach Eikaiwa. Trying to make it exciting and engaging can be a challenge, but I am slowly learning......