Suit Season

So as the title says, suit season has begun. Some days it is still way hot in the 80s and other days it is in the 60s so it's kind of a hit and miss. It started yesterday. It'll get really cool in probably a month or so no problems there. Let's see. Elder Harrell and Tofa went to Fukuoka for MLC and so I worked with Elder Jo, a brand new missionary, for a couple of days. It was fun because I could do whatever I want and be the only one that could talk and understand. He's a way smart kid and pretty negative and condescending and so it was fun to go out and walk the streets for seven hours straight and show what real missionary work is like and not that MTC stuff. After that he just came home and was quiet and slept. Haha it was way funny. He's gotten a lot better since then.

Our investigator, Akira kun, is following the word of wisdom! We taught him on Tuesday and he was like "that's too strict" and we said "well it's from God and this is what He promises. Won't you at least try?" And so he did and so we met again on Saturday and followed up on it and he said "it's not even hard. At first I thought it was kind of strict but it's okay now, I get it." But while he hasn't noticed the blessings from living it yet, he will. We especially emphasized the "finding treasures of knowledge" part of the blessings because he's in school and we said if he follows it, God will bless him more in his tests and school. We also taught fasting and stuff and he said something like "I don't actually buy my own food but when I do I'll pay my fast offerings." He's pretty solid. A kinjin. (Golden person
(investigator)). The hardest thing is coming to church because he has practice tests every Sunday.

So anyone that doesn't know what the word of wisdom is, it is a commandment of God that we don't take harmful substances into our body such as coffee, tea, alcohol, drugs, etc. We also are told to be careful with what we eat and be healthy and mindful in what we eat. I
think everyone knows that we don't drink. Well let's think about it. God created us and our bodies and we know that those things are bad for them, so why would we justify ruining a present that comes from God? Why would we give ourselves negative health issues on purpose? Why would we treat our life like that? Is it Christ like? Would Christ smoke and drink? The thing is no, he wouldn't, so why should we? Christ says in the New Testament that we need to hear the commandments and then do them, and if we don't do them, we have no place in the kingdom. He says that we should either be hot or cold, and that the
lukewarm will just be spit out. We should either be righteous or unrighteous. That it is better for the unrighteous than those that profess Christ be don't live up to the standard. Let us all keep the commandments of God.

Love you all!

Elder Tschirki
君を愛してるよ

This dude, Saigo Takemori, is the real Last Samurai, 

and he's from Kagoshima. This is like three minutes from the apartment, 

but I just finally got a picture of it. 

Zone training. I got to do the Japanese translation. Pretty fun. 

Actually not too hard. My comp is the brown Hawaiian kid behind me. 

Me and elder parry to the right were just talking about NWA. 

We went bowling last week on pday, it was way fun.

Elder Jo

 Another Sakurajima pic 

 A massive spider in our apartment. I was shaving but it was huge.