So we are just chilling in sacrament meeting yesterday and you know because its fast Sunday, anyone can get up and testify and everything. Well this one super funny member who is kind of a little bit mentally socially awkwardish and maybe a little handicapped? I'm not sure but he's way funny and like 30 and so he gets up and he LOVES public transportation and he is always the first one up. And the branch loves him so much because he's so pure and funny and just way funny and he makes everyone just die laughing. Well he gets up and he goes off about how the other day he went to Miyazaki by bus, and that's a
pretty long bus ride. And then he stops during his testimony if you can call it that, and he's like "I think I have a bus addiction. Nah, I definitely have a bus addiction" and just keeps going and everyone was just dying. I'm sure he said some spiritual stuff too but maybe
not I'm not sure ha. He's way funny and then when he finishes he sees who is next, which is always the same four foot tall grandma, and he lowers the mic all the way and then pulls out the stool for her to stand on and makes sure everything is okay and gets off the stand and
it is just way funny but he's the sweetest. I love that guy.
Anyways this week was a long one full of going out and working all day every day for most of the days. We rode out to this place called Okawa shi, and it is the biggest furniture making city in Japan and they advertised it and google maps said it too. Way cool place. Well we
were out working and we met a Nepalese lady and she said to come back in an hour when her husband came back and so we did and he knew more Japanese and we are going back this week to give him a Book of Mormon in a language he will understand, like Hindi or something. There's way cool people out here that are just randomly out here that we meet and teach, even just for a second. It's way cool.
Then there was this cool drunk guy yesterday who didn't care at all what we were talking about but he was way funny and found out my comp knows a little Korean and so he was like " I know a little bit because one of my bosses is Korean" and so he started speaking drunk Korean and my comp told me he said that he just asks his Korean coworker "Can I smoke here?" "Hey, get me a beer." He might come to our English class. He loves us ha he said his favourite words were "good luck" and shook our hands 100 times. Way cool drunk guy.
We got called last week by a member and she was like "we are going to drive you around and put of English class posters that we made today to get more students." And I was like okay! And then the husband is like "give me the phone" and she gives him the phone and then he's
like "Hey we will do that too but don't eat anything because first we're going to go to lunch we will be there at 12" and I'm just like uhh okay and so we went to a Chinese restaurant and Chinese is 3000 times better in Japan. It was way good food. Then we went around and
he just drove us to random businesses and we would walk in and we got a ton of people to put up or posters, including a dude at a karaoke place, which are HUGE by the way, and he was like "are you guys Mormons?" And we said yeah, and he was like "no way when I did a home stay a long time ago in the states i stayed with a Mormon family. I'll take two posters and we will put them up." Way cool guy. Obviously it wasn't a moment that we could teach him because he was working but it was a great moment for everyone.
That's pretty much it. Also its hot now and we are getting sunburned so I'm going to just do what Japanese women do and buy sleeves and just wear those and not get burned because its cheaper and more convenient than sunscreen.
My comp is watching the worldwide devotional right now and its about Joseph Smith, and Ill say a few words about that to end off. Joseph Smith saw God and Jesus Christ. He was used to restore the gospel of Jesus Christ. He translated the Book of Mormon through the power of God to be used for the convincing of men that Jesus is the Christ. I
know this.
Love you all!
Elder Tschirki
Monday, May 8, 2017
Nature
Well we got transfer calls just barely and me and Elder Jo are both staying and will be together for another transfer. The other elders in my district aren't changing at all and actually we are picking up the Omuta Elders from Kumamoto zone and so I now have a six person district which is way dope, I'm pumped because when there's only two other people its kind of like a joke (not really but kind of haha) and yeah that's been the day. So we will see what happens this next transfer.
Anyways the reason why this is called the nature email is because we saw tons of nature happen this week. Starting off with a crane at a river catching a fish and viciously tearing it apart and eating it. There are tons of rivers here; meaning there's tons of animals, fish, carp, bugs, frogs, and snakes, which leads me to the next nature scene. We have out of nowhere started seeing TONS of snakes. Like everywhere we go. Like we were riding and I almost ran over a twenty foot long snake. It was way huge. Probs the longest snake I've ever seen in my life. So the last one has to do with a frog and there was this frog waiting at a red light in the street and it waited til the light turned green and then crossed and almost got run over haha it was funny and so we watched him cross the street. Also there are flies everywhere and we are just riding our bikes and then boom there's like 900 flies on our faces and we are like spitting flies out of our mouths and its gross and sometimes we will just be talking and then
choke on flies and it is terrible haha so much fun. Oh and sometimes we find mud pits and throw rocks into it to see who can make the bigger whole.
Anyways this week was WAY TOO LONG it was straight up one of the longest weeks of my life. Not necessarily negative but it was just so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so long. Probably because we had a lot of go out and knock on doors all day kind of days. The days just wear on and then there's still like 8 more hours. It's funny. It's just life ha.
But despite the long ness of the week, we had some good things happen and got answers to prayers that give much needed light. God is so cool, answering silly little me's prayers that don't even really matter that much but he answers them. Literally you can pray about anything and He will answer you if you have the faith and believe that he will. So life is good.
Anyways we had our way solid golden investigator Hiromatsu San drop us this week. She is getting a job this week and said she would never have time anymore. I don't know if the husband is in the picture or not but she has to work to support the family and so there is really no way that we could meet her anymore. But she promised us that she would continue to read the Book of Mormon until she finished it. She said she loves it so much and wants to know if its true and so I am confident that as she does what she needs to do to learn, she will
learn, and then the missionaries will meet her again at some later point in time and he will be prepared for them. She is just too good of an investigator and person.
Well besides that not too much happened out here. We went out to this far place and there was this ghetto Indo Curry restaurant we decided to eat at and it was pretty good and you could tell just by the location that it wasn't really the busiest place ever and so we ordered TONS OF FOOD. We didn't do it necessarily because it was good but because it was just this Indian couple working there and they cant really speak Japanese at all and odds are is they are sending money back to India for some reason, they usually do, and so we decided that
we would make their day and by tons of stuff. However just know when you get like 5 pieces of free nan they kind of get irritated a little bit because it's not normal to eat that much nan. But that's okay because the nan was way fly. I hope we made there day better and helped out there situation a little bit because even though our stomachs were more than full and this morning I had fiery diarrhea, it just felt right. (Japan doesn't do tips or anything so the only way for them to make money is to sell). So the moral of the story is always try to go out and serve somebody. It will make their day. You don't know what impact it has. Even if its something like ordering a lot of food, or helping a old lady weed her yard, whatever it is, just
do it and it will be worth it.
Love you all!
Anyways the reason why this is called the nature email is because we saw tons of nature happen this week. Starting off with a crane at a river catching a fish and viciously tearing it apart and eating it. There are tons of rivers here; meaning there's tons of animals, fish, carp, bugs, frogs, and snakes, which leads me to the next nature scene. We have out of nowhere started seeing TONS of snakes. Like everywhere we go. Like we were riding and I almost ran over a twenty foot long snake. It was way huge. Probs the longest snake I've ever seen in my life. So the last one has to do with a frog and there was this frog waiting at a red light in the street and it waited til the light turned green and then crossed and almost got run over haha it was funny and so we watched him cross the street. Also there are flies everywhere and we are just riding our bikes and then boom there's like 900 flies on our faces and we are like spitting flies out of our mouths and its gross and sometimes we will just be talking and then
choke on flies and it is terrible haha so much fun. Oh and sometimes we find mud pits and throw rocks into it to see who can make the bigger whole.
Anyways this week was WAY TOO LONG it was straight up one of the longest weeks of my life. Not necessarily negative but it was just so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so long. Probably because we had a lot of go out and knock on doors all day kind of days. The days just wear on and then there's still like 8 more hours. It's funny. It's just life ha.
But despite the long ness of the week, we had some good things happen and got answers to prayers that give much needed light. God is so cool, answering silly little me's prayers that don't even really matter that much but he answers them. Literally you can pray about anything and He will answer you if you have the faith and believe that he will. So life is good.
Anyways we had our way solid golden investigator Hiromatsu San drop us this week. She is getting a job this week and said she would never have time anymore. I don't know if the husband is in the picture or not but she has to work to support the family and so there is really no way that we could meet her anymore. But she promised us that she would continue to read the Book of Mormon until she finished it. She said she loves it so much and wants to know if its true and so I am confident that as she does what she needs to do to learn, she will
learn, and then the missionaries will meet her again at some later point in time and he will be prepared for them. She is just too good of an investigator and person.
Well besides that not too much happened out here. We went out to this far place and there was this ghetto Indo Curry restaurant we decided to eat at and it was pretty good and you could tell just by the location that it wasn't really the busiest place ever and so we ordered TONS OF FOOD. We didn't do it necessarily because it was good but because it was just this Indian couple working there and they cant really speak Japanese at all and odds are is they are sending money back to India for some reason, they usually do, and so we decided that
we would make their day and by tons of stuff. However just know when you get like 5 pieces of free nan they kind of get irritated a little bit because it's not normal to eat that much nan. But that's okay because the nan was way fly. I hope we made there day better and helped out there situation a little bit because even though our stomachs were more than full and this morning I had fiery diarrhea, it just felt right. (Japan doesn't do tips or anything so the only way for them to make money is to sell). So the moral of the story is always try to go out and serve somebody. It will make their day. You don't know what impact it has. Even if its something like ordering a lot of food, or helping a old lady weed her yard, whatever it is, just
do it and it will be worth it.
Love you all!
Got some Philippino crackers from our Filipina member lol there's so much palm oil in it
its terrible so I gave them all to my companion. When we get unhealthy food I give it to him haha
Thought it might have been my last time seeing Elder Ishizu. It turns out it wasn't.
Indo Curry
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