Elder Tschirki in Japan: Leg Rash

I'll give y'all a rundown. The bike brakes haven't come in yet. The missionaries in Kagoshima couldn't get them because the bike shops people are crazy, and then our friend Miwa is getting them and I'm paying her back and life will be good but until then we still have to walk everywhere which is really not fun at all because it's super hot but we're working hard and though the spirit which leads me to the highlight of the week: we found a new investigator named Nakagawa! He is like 25 and has a kid on the way and we taught him twice this last week and have an appointment for Tuesday. He hasn't read from the Book of Mormon yet though and his wife is kind of not liking the fact he's talking with us he said.

This week, Peterson Kaicho from the mission presidency came to Amami and taught Nakagawa with us and he's actually a very nice man. He has lived in Japan for thirty years and is fluent, and you can literally just feel love radiating from his presence. It's the coolest thing ever and that's because he loves the way Christ would have us live: with faith, hope and charity, but the greatest is charity. You can tell who the happiest people are and they're always the ones that have charity. It may not necessarily be someone that is a member of the church. For example my boy Gandhi. But he had charity and love, and that's why everybody loves him. In the Book of Mormon we read that charity is the pure love of Christ. If we have charity, we do the things Christ would do himself. We think the way he would. We say the things he would. It's really a simple thing. If Christ wouldn't do it, don't do it. Love the way he would. That's charity.

This week I got a rash on my leg and we went to the doctor and it's okay now but I want to show a picture. It's probably because I wore shorts walking through bushes in a service project, or a bug bite reaction.

Oh also we dropped our phone in a bowl of ramen at some dirty little ramen shop that wasn't even that good and it was too expensive for half decent ramen but the gyoza was good and it doesn't work anymore so that's nice but the mission office has tons of phones for things like this so everything's okay so don't try to call me this week okay.

Anyways, love you all!

餡土瀧 K. 赦輝長老
日本福岡伝道部

愛してるわ〜

a super pretty beach that was way sunny