Election Week in Japan

This week was a good one here on my beloved Amami Oshima. Well it was pretty regular. Lots of finding and knocking on doors and taking drink breaks because it's necessary. Speaking of drink breaks, I have a funny story that goes along with a good spiritual story too so I'll share them at the same time.

Okay so me and Elder Bomtempo from Brazil were on exchanges and recently I had felt like I needed to go to this spot that was like 45 minutes away by bike, and so I told him that in planning and we went. And it was hot and fun. But anyways, we were knocking on doors and we found this Japanese dude that said he was a Muslim, and that's not something you ever really see. But he wasn't interested at all so we kept going and we are walking out of this little street (the whole place has maybe 100 houses at most) and this man with a fat pug in his bike basket rides up and starts talking to us and I had never met him before, but it was Itou San! (Not the Mugicha Itou San) and he knew Elder Woolston and a lot of missionaries before that but I had just never had the opportunity to go. So he's an eternal investigator and
believes in God and believes that Christian denominations were created by men. Which is true, we can't argue that, but he's an eternal investigator, but we got his phone number again because we lost it because I dropped the phone in a bowl of ramen and the mission gave us
a new one, and we are going to go back! So that was a way cool miracle and it just shows that if you follow the spirit, or even what you think is the spirit, you will be blessed for it. Then we were getting a drink, and the vending machine took my sen yen, which is a 10 dollar
bill in the US, and didn't recognize it, so I couldn't buy anything. So we decided to call the vending machine company and give it a shot. You see, this was my last $10 for the month. And they said they would figure it out. So the next day we get a call from the vending machine people and they got my money and want to give it back to me, because Japanese customer service is legitimately the best in the world, and they asked if I was a missionary for the Mormon church and I said yeah and they said we'll meet at the church and then I got my money back! Like that was the coolest thing that had ever happened in my life. Customer service is a win for Japan and I would recommend the Suntory vending machine and drink company to everyone. 5/5 stars.

Besides that nothing spectacular happened. Love you all!

餡土龍 K. 赦輝長老
日本福岡伝道部

愛してるわ～

A beach

Me calling the vending machine company by the beach

 And massive Amamian Snails