Shuwa

This week has been the hottest I've ever been in my life! It's crazy! It's 33 degrees with 100% humidity everyday so really it feels like it's about 40 degrees plus. I'm too lazy to do the math into Fahrenheit but that's mid to high 90s and then with humidity like over 100 or so. It's hot and this next week we are supposed to hit 35. Wow. Anyways I've learned this week that no matter how hot and humid and sweaty and stuffy and dripping wet and thirsty and even though you drink water it just sweats out in 0.1 seconds, you can have a good attitude about it! It's so hot but winter is right around the corner! Okay not really but I can't change how hot it is so like I just have to pray for the patience to endure it and survive, and then I do! It's actually a really interesting thing. If you pray for help, do your best, you get help! I feel like the curry cooking carpet cleaning Mike Turvey "I'm a Mormon" video (it's my favourite one actually) and he says concerning cleaning carpets "I say, 'God, if I can't get out of this then I've got to find some way to enjoy it', and then I do!" (He's a really kind of a simple dude but I really like that sentence because it's so true!) God will help you! If you want to change your attitude, he will help. If you want to change your surroundings, well,
sorry but you probably won't get helped out. That's not what we are here for. We are here to learn and grow, and we can't grow if we try to change everything around us, but rather we grow because we change ourselves. So if you ever are looking to change your circumstances,
look inside and see what you can change in you, and then pray, and then act!

This week was a lot of walking still because my brakes still haven't come. I wonder if I'll get them this transfer even. Our investigator, Nakagawa dropped because his wife is really nervous and against him meeting with Christian people. It's a sad thing, but here it's really
common. So we went on our way and did lots of finding. We couldn't contact our investigators or friends really because our new phone hasn't come in the mail yet, so that stinks but we tried to make the best of it and work as hard as we could, which included going to walk and visit some investigators that live a two hour walk away, and an hour respectively. But on a bike it's like 30 minutes and 12 minutes so it's really not that far. The one I'll talk about is Miko. Her parents are deaf and she's a nurse that is interested in the gospel but is extremely busy and hard to meet, but we went on Friday night and we were trying to find the address so we could put it into area book, and as we were walking around, we ran into her mom, and she recognized me and came up and she can actually speak very well for being deaf, and would write out kanji and teach us how to sign a little bit in shuwa (Japanese sign language, literally meaning hand conversation) and we talked to her for what seemed like ten minutes but was more like about 40, and then Miko drove up! So we talked to her for a while too, and it was just a really good bonding experience, and Miko said she's always so happy when we can come over and talk and she loves us and so does her parents and it's just all over a good experience. It's hard because we can't really seem to meet and teach a whole lot at a time, but whenever we can we do. She's like 40s probably, and has her own kid but the kid loves in Osaka or something. Anyways, if we weren't trying to be good missionaries and find the address to put into area book, we wouldn't have met the mom (can't hear the doorbell or door knocks) and wouldn't have contacted them and had a really good conversation that night. Talk about being where we are supposed to be.

Anyways that's probably it for this week! Thanks y'all!

餡土龍 K. 赦輝長老
日本福岡伝道部

愛してるわ～

A crazy windstorm broke my umbrella

We found a way sketchy staircase and I almost broke it I feel like but nobody lives up there. 

We tried to dendo it. But we found ohaka machi (means graveyard town, 

but there's just a lot. I call it ohaka machi now and I made that up so yeah it's not a real thing probably)

Ohakas as far as you can see.  

video of said windstorm