Opera

This week was a good one here in the land of volcanoes and short people. It's funny because I've been here a while and now I'll say "hey there's a foreigner" and it's a Japanese person. Before you come here you think they all look the same but the more you're here, the more different everyone is and you can even kind of tell where they are from. So I have a cool story along those lines. Me and my boy Elder Miyagi were out before we had the assistants come and the president and his wife come and do a training and interviews, and we literally had nobody to talk to. Nobody was on the streets but women and we aren't allowed to approach them in the streets. Anyways, it was almost time to go and get a taxi to ride up the mountain to the church because we sure weren't going to walk up at 2 in the afternoon. Well we both kind of decided to go through one more light and then go back. Well we see this Asian dude with sunglasses on and usually sunglasses is a sign of being a traveler so we talk to him and he doesn't know Japanese. He's from Hong Kong and his English is perfect, probably about 40-50 years old and he knew about our church and had actually gone to Salt Lake City and seen the temple and did a tour and stuff a year ago. Well as we're talking I had to translate for him to Elder Miyagi to figure out if he was able to park in the parking lot he was in and so here's a Chinese dude with a white dude translate into Japanese to a Japanese kid who then talked to the employees in the place. Well the bad news is he had to move his car, but the good news is they let him do it for free. Well his wife and 20 year old son come out and the son is like "hey you're Mormons" and we were like "yeah" and then he too started talking about going to Salt Lake City and it went way good. We weren't really able to teach too much because they were going to go to a ramen shop for lunch and needed to go but we gave them our chirashi, which I have no idea what that is in English, kind of like a flyer but they're different here in Japan, and told them there's the church in Hong Kong too and if they went to Mormon.org, they could find the missionaries and stuff. Way cool experience and definitely not a coincidence. 

Well besides that, our investigator Yamanouchi kun came to our first basketball activity and
had fun and we taught him about the Book of Mormon and we arranged right there for the member present to bring him to church. Well he came to church in a tie and everything (they usually don't here unless you've been baptized for reasons unknown. I really don't know why) and said in gospel principles class at he looks forward to coming to church every week from here on out. The only problem he has right now is time because he's trying to get into college. His mom isn't against him learning about Jesus, but is kind of concerned about whether or not he will get into school and such so the amount of times we can meet our limited but we are going to do what we can to help him learn.

This week we also went to an opera concert for free because two members, one a kind of less active but really rich and is only less active because she goes to Tokyo a few times a month, and a regular member performed in it and other members went. The tickets were 30$ and it was really cool. We were even able to talk about the gospel afterwards with some of the people that performed which just shows that no matter where you go, you can do missionary work. We even met people that knew the sister missionaries and they might come to our
English class again.

Look for missionary opportunities because they're everywhere! Always look to share the gospel to somebody!

餡土龍 K. 赦輝長老
日本福岡伝道部

愛してるわ～

Some members took us out to eat at a hotel buffet at the top of a mountain so this is what Kagoshima looks like. I also probably ate more than $30 of food which is how much about it is per person.

Me and elder Reed with the three coolest people from the opera. None are members but the lady plays piano like a boss and since she was four. Keep practicing piano. The dude on the left played guitar and the dude on the right did the percussion.

The district with the two assistants and Egan shimai. 

We went to the volcano this week on pday. 

Taught eikaiwa in a college room because the regular room was taken. These people are way cool. Elder Miyagi was annoying so I had to tell him to be quiet a couple of times haha