multi zone conference and it was good. We have to ride the trains which I love. Well anyways we needed to get back home afterwards for our activity night so we ended up getting on the limited express train which I'll just explain there are the regular trains and then there's express and then there is the 特急 which is a limited express train I guess. Well it goes pretty fast and only had like three stops between Fukuoka and Saga. But it costs extra and so somewhere in the process of paying the train attendant extra money and chilling on the train I lost our phone and didn't realize it until we were out of the station and going to the church. Well as a missionary without a phone you can't really do anything, including call the office to figure things out haha you're pretty much left on your own it's terrible. So luckily I was mailing the office elder, Elder Ishikawa, who I talked to for a lot of the day anyways (he's a genius and so funny and going to Tokyo University and we're way tight now and he's going to send me down some Chinese stuff haha like today) and we ended up skyping to figure all this out and he said he called the station and they didn't have a phone like that so they were going to have to send me a new phone, at least for the time being. That would get there on Sunday. And then I had the genius idea of calling the train stations myself so I used a foreign members phone at our activity night to call Hakata Eki in Fukuoka and they said that they called Nagasaki Eki and they have my phone probably and so I had to call them to verify and so I did that and described the phone and the phone number and everything and the man asked me what the name in the phone was and I was like "um... probably Saga missionaries" and he's like "oh yep that's probably definitely you guys. Well send it tomorrow and it will get there Sunday, but you have to pay for it" and I was like "okay" because that's cheaper then taking a three hour train ride to Nagasaki and then three hours back. Well so Sunday comes and you know, we have church and all, so we put a sign on our door that says if you come during church, we are at church and won't be home until dinner at 5 and then at night at 9 but I also wrote that we put money in the mailbox and my stamp with my name on it in case he just wanted to take the money and so we didn't think he was going to do that but figured it was worth a shot. Well we get home from church and jokingly check the mail box (I put 30 dollars ish in there) and sure enough the box with our phone was in there with the change (it was like seven dollars ish) so my remaining 23 dollars or so was just chilling there and we got our phone back so long story short, if you're in Japan and have to pay for postage and you're not home, just put money in the mailbox and they will do it for you. The best part is that people were outside talking to us as I put money in the mailbox haha I love this country so much. My money was still there and I got my phone back. Life was good yesterday. I mean pretty much every appointment fell through yesterday so like it's whatever but we got our phone back.
That's pretty much the week haha it's going good I realize this area is actually pretty huge and we've been able to see success and find people that are interested and prepared to hear the gospel but we just need to go back and meet with them because they weren't quite ready to make appointments. But there's so much potential in this city. Plus it's pretty cold haha I can't get away from the cold and then it's the summer and then I go home lol but then I come back in September so not really getting away from the summer.
Love you all!
Elder Tschirki
We were going to go eat cheap yakiniku but decided to yolo and go to really nice Yakiniku Kingu and
spent 30 dollars a person but it's the first of the month so it's like whatever, and it was definitely no regrets.
Kagoshima boys reunited. But we didn't get Elder Tofa to sign it haha we did it on the train.
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