Week #89

Has he been using the jeep than? Well that's super unfortunate. I didn't know he had plans to come with you, that would have been cool, I hope everything comes through ok though.

As for this last week it was lots of fun which didn't hardly get out for tracking at all though so were shifting some things around in this week’s schedule so we can get out more. On transfer calls on Tuesday no transfer so it looks like I'm dieting here in taniyama unless I go through another random e-transfer again, but that's unlikely. Wednesday was Eikaiwa ( English conversation class) Thursday weekly planning Friday activity planning for an open house and natsumatsuri ( summer party) and a member dinner that evening, Saturday was pack full, literally we had some morning study, kids Eikaiwa, a lesson, ping pong party with the he young men's our weekly basketball activity, then our weekly ping pin activity, I beat one of our investigators in a jujitsu match cuz I'm twice his size, overall it was lots of fun but loses of stuff. On Sunday we got some dendo time but, cuz it was far away about an hour walk and I have to walk for now because of the bike transfers, I ran or jogged back while my comp rode his bike like and got back in half the time it took to walk there, I love how much more active my mission has helped me to be, it's truly a huge blessing. If have been dead from these last few days normally. But all my stuff was fun I can imagine straight patients for 16 hours then a call night, that's tough. I'll hug you to make up for all the needed ones when we meet. Soon enough.

I did get the new backpack and I'm very happy with it it's totally water proof and should hold me through college as well. Thanks sooo much I'll send some pics.

I take it most everyone in the ward who left before me is home now, anything ingesting happening in the neighborhood?

Love you and see you soon enough I'll give it my best sprint here for the final stretch and pray there will be merciless to fallow.
Love you
Stay strong stay diligent stay faithful JKS

Week #88

Things sounds like true back there, I'm glad things are good, I'm sure with the summer started now there's a lot of opportunities for it. I will agree with those at home it's gone by way fast I can't believe it, but I have an extra-long last transfer for a final push, 7 weeker.

We have transfer calls today so we will see how that goes the way it would appear is that I'm dieting here and Ratslaff is killing me but I thought that about Yanai so we never really know ya know. We will see today. We have like 4 recent converts of the last 6 months to work with so we get to periodically meet with them there way good guys all in temple prep class, one of them named Ogata got made kind of homeless recently I can't really explain all of it but if you could please pray that he is able to find a place to stay and a situation that will allow him to continue to progress in the gospel.

So our area Taniyama is just south of main Kagoshima city, some city but mostly schools housing district and apartments and then eventually farm land, allot like Takasu really. Because of the volcano there is ash all over it just kind of makes things dirty is all you don't notice it till you do, most of the dirt hear is ash.

The branch is great, way friendly people I still barley know them but I hope to get to know them well here soon I really need to start to figure out the area here quick.

We had a shokuji, meal. After church with the whole branch and I got to do some translating for a visiting American couple the wife served here 40 years back and the husband servers in Tahiti so no Japanese, good food lots of fun and had a FHE yesterday with a less active family. The Tabatas, dad and a son, dads a good guy but kind of immature, so it's hard to get him to commit to much of anything, we'll try our best with him though.

Anyway that's mostly what it's like here I'll see if I can send some pics for you.

Love you guys sooooo much

Stay strong stay faithful stay diligent, JKS

Connor

Week #87

Sounds like you guys had a good time, happy to hear things have been good there. I don't know who that Cath- tech is but do you still work with that one guy who works out all the time and is like way jacked, If  so see if he can give me some good work out methods using body weight exercises, I'm always looking for the next good way to get yoked.

Any way big news for my week pertaining to said three men, I e-transferred, not just a little ways ether I went the furthest south I could without leaving Kyushu, in Kagoshima zone, taniyama
Next to a very active volcano across the bay that often rains down ash. It's still rainy season here too and we have had almost constant rain since I got here on Wednesday morning. One of my recent pairs of shoes died on me and I'm using my old pair from the beginning of my mission that I intended just to keep for a souvenir good thing I kept it.

My new comp is elder Ratslaff, transfer two I get to finish up his training, although I have yet to be trained on how to do that right, it's the second time I've done so. A bit withered chourou too.
He's a way hard worker only a little bigger than my trainer.

We just had a pancake party on Saturday way big success, like 30 people came, like 10 non-members. And then I got a call on Saturday to give a talk in church the next morning. So I prepared that and gave what simple talk I could with half a p- study to prep. And then we have had allot of recent convert lessons. Needless to say it's been busy since I stepped in to this place but no better way to finish things off than at a sprint.

One thing I wanted to look into was getting a water proof backpack all my stuff is getting wet lately and by back pack I started off with is gone now, I'll check out a sports center here and tell you what I find.

Well that's mostly what's been up here I'm trying to use some contacts again a little so that's
Why I am not wearing my glasses.

The only pic with me in it from the party.

Any way love you soooooo much I can't express how grateful I am to have family and friends like you guys.
Stay strong stay faithful stay diligent JKS
Connor

Week #86

Waaaa? No more big TV in the kids lounge that thing was great, well whatever I’d like to think I’d use it allot but probably not. That was nice of them to help out, or else it would be nice if they weren't getting over payed for it, now your just being generous. as for the train tickets we mostly pay as you go tickets at the stations and for trams you just toss the money in at your stop, they do have cards that you can put money on but there not everywhere use things, and Okinawa doesn’t really have trains besides the monorail from Naha to Shuri, for Okinawa you might want a car or a taxi, in Fukuoka we can get any were by train and tram.

As for my week we had the week as a three man since my comp. e-transfer out, these next 3 weeks will be interesting,
We had a few lessons and visited allot of people, since the aria combined we have a good amount of people to work with.
As far as extra ordinary, one of the members brought us like a plate of 50 sushi rolls, same one who brought the fried chicken stuff last time; she is way nice to the missionaries.

 nothing outside the ordinary other than that, me and one of my comps are doing a good diet and working out hard so we can become beef cakes, and i do ab exercises every morning so get a really strong core which will be way good for my back. i got to get way big if I'm to scare Emily's boyfriend in to submission,

That’s mostly all for now sorry hopefully this week will be more interesting.
Stay strong stay faithful stay diligent, JKS
Love you sooooo much, talk to you soon.

Week #85

Glad to hear things are going well, I asked the mission prez. About what I'll be looking at as far as rules and stuff during the ten days, he said I should try and be as missionary as I can at least look it and don't swim and stuff but I don't have to wake up a 630 or anything, sad that there's no hotel swimming pools but it won't be a big change or anything.

Things  have been normal up until yesterday, my comps getting e- transferred and I'm becoming a 3 man with the other two here for the rest of the transfer. Someone went home for medical reasons.

So the coming weeks will be a bit different but we will see how it goes, I’ve been comps with both of them before as well.

We had interviews yesterday which are why I'm emailing today. And that was the whole day since the place we do it is a 3 hour train away. Ate lunch/ dinner with the district, and headed home.
Playing more basketball today and we saw my comp off this morning. Fun fun.
On investigators we have right now Fuji san reminds me so much of Sam aunt Margo’s Sam.
Similar personality two four yea round twin boys, hope to see things start going well with him.
Anyway that's mostly it for now, love you tell me if you have any questions.
Stay strong stay faithful stay diligent, JKS

Kemp chourou