I'm Going to Amami

So like the subject says, I got a call from the Mission President (that's rare to get transfer calls from him) saying I'm going to Amami! For those of you that don't know what that is, so everybody, it's one of the most beautiful islands in the world. Look it up. I'm going senior companion too. The missionary I'll be with is from Utah and is in the military and Kaicho said he's one of the hardest working missionaries that we've got here. I'm excited to say the least. Maybe I'll still be there in Typhoon weather. I hope!

Anyways this last week was pretty good. After a long day of finding and knocking on doors, we met a young college kid on a street coming home. We talked to him and found out that he was Christian. We made a return appointment and found out that he joined a Christian church in high school while his whole family is Buddhist. That's pretty bold but he knows that Christianity is true. We taught him the restoration which honestly was a terrible lesson. They happen to everybody though. He was willing to meet again though and he knows, before we even asked him, that if he reads the Book of Mormon and prays that he'll know it's true. We said yes, and now he's going to do it. The best part is is that we have no idea how to teach Christian people hahahah. We only know how to teach people that are Buddhist and stuff but it's exciting, but I won't be here for him. Hopefully he'll be able to keep going and progressing. Besides that. What happened. I've been studying the New Testament recently and I love it. The part that stood out is when Paul says in 1 Corinthians 13 that without charity you are nothing. It doesn't matter if you can speak the most fly Japanese or Spanish or whatever, or if you can recite any scripture, if you have no charity, it doesn't matter.

Also, speaking of not being able to teach Christian people, me and our beloved Yamaguchi Zone Leader Sama were out housing by another church (there was good houses and so we did it) and we met the guy that owns the church and he's white and he was way nice and didn't want to get contentious but ended up calling us Antichrists so that was interesting. It was more of an out of love idea though. I'll take being called Antichrist for the sake of preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. It's kind of ironic, but like we learn in the scriptures,
there is opposition in all things!

Anyways love you all!

Elder Tschirki

 At a ramen shop with our Zone Leader Samas

A cool Jinja.

The craziest kid I've ever met, Elder Fukuda. 

All of our YSA at a sweet activity that we did because they all wanted to go out an
d dendo, so we dendoed together. There are a couple more that couldn't come. Me and the kid in the blue, Genki, have the same birthday but he's a year older.