General Conference

Isn't general conference just great? I'm pretty sure Ive said it before but I have three favorite times of the year and they are Christmas and General Conference times. This conference was really good. Except for the Saturday morning session. Didn't really get into that one at all. But hey that's okay. I guess since I'm talking about conference, I will just talk about what I learned. My favorite session was Saturday afternoon. I really loved Elder Cordons talk about
Language Loss. It was really interesting how he compared loss in spiritually to a generational loss in language and how if we don't nurture the language, or the spirit, in our children, they will lose it and not be able to really grow themselves. Or in short how I see
it, they don't fill their potential. I always get frustrated when for example I see half Japanese people that cant speak Japanese. It's like there's no point to that. Just like there's no point to not giving what is necessary to help your kids get a testimony or knowledge of the gospel. Then that was followed by Elder Anderson's talk about overcoming the world and how we need to overcome the influences of the world and grow spiritually. The spirit was there in that talk and I feel like I learned a lot about everything I have been thinking of and pondering recently. Then that was followed by a powerhouse talk in the goals and plans by Elder Ballard. Pretty much those two talks were linked together by the spirit in showing you have to make plans and goals to overcome the world and help you prevent spiritual language
loss in your families. Those three talks pretty much spoke to everything I was thinking and it was super super great.

Anyways so enough of that, lets get to the crazy story of the week. We have another one. Saga doesn't disappoint. So I was with a young elder in my district named Elder Lyman and we were at this apartment building and sometimes in Japan they have businesses and such in residential places. Pretty much I don't think they have the same zoning laws or anything. Well I saw the sign on the door of the apartment and I knew it was a business of some sort so me still being somewhat of a punk I rang the doorbell and told young Elder Lyman good
luck (i have actually had good luck knocking on these random businesses and teaching the person that comes out) and this twenty something year old girl comes out. Well so she's not really interested and said she knows someone that likes English and she would give her our flyer. Well so we go to the next door and then the girl comes back out with another girl and she's young also and is the one that wants to learn English and supposedly quit junior high school. Well we told them about English class and whatever and they're like "but you're
missionaries so that's not you're real purpose. You want people to teach." And I was like yep. And they were like "we are only interested in English" and whatnot so they came. But they were super flirty and Elder Lyman doesn't get that much yet but like he knew too that they
were super flirty and it was just a feeling of "crap they're for sure coming tomorrow." And then guess what... they came! And the one that isn't as interested is actually pretty good at English. The second one isn't the brightest but what can you expect from someone who quit
middle school. So the whole time I had to teach her because her level wasn't even a beginner level. But the other students were laughing at how crazy she is. But anyways while I was teaching the second one took a bunch of pictures of me and put them on insta and so if you find me on random Japanese girls insta then that's it. But so the whole time i was like "this isn't good because she is totally more interested in me" and so anyways after class they left and I was talking to a member here that comes to English class, Imamura shimai, and she was like "I wasn't going to come today but I felt the spirit told me to come so i did and i know why" and so she's going to be a bro and tell these girls that missionaries cant date or do anything. So hopefully they either get baptized and join the church or stop coming. It's always awkward when people get attracted to missionaries, and so yeah.But the moral of the story is LISTEN TO THE SPIRIT WHEN IT TELLS YOU SOMETHING because you can and will help other people in need. Also, pray for them to not be crazy and flirty on Wednesday because I don't want to have to deal with that. Because guess what happens if that doesn't get resolved? Missionaries transfer. So yeah I kind of don't want to transfer.

Love you all!

Elder Tschirki

General Conference

Me and the fertility god after all you can eat okonomiyaki

  Okonomiyaki