Week #84

Sounds fun, I guess. Got to love it when everybody is mad at the world, as for my week, was filled with things I didn't expect to do, elder French in our apartment died ( went home) and so we were helping him get some what prepped fixed up a leftover missionary bike for a member we said we would give it too, he was way happy. And the new missionary came in to Yanai.

And guess who comes in, my comp of last transfer , elder reed, so now I have been comps or am comps with everyone in the apartment, elder reed is in the same boat, but spirits are good in the apartment, today we just came to the church to play ping pong early morning style.
 
We found a new investigator this week, after a bit of a wait it's finally happened. Names Fuji san father and his family just the type of person we have been looking for, don't know quite how it will go for the first lesson, but we hope for all things.

We also got from one of the members super oishii( delicious) chicken nanban (Japanese fried chicken with a super tasty sauce) and stuffed peppers, soooooo good.

That's most of what I did this week, sorry it's a bit short, ate away healthy this week and worked out a bunch, and have a goal to eat huge by the end of the transfer I'll show you my chart.

Anyway, love you so much

Stay strong stay faithful stay diligent JKS.

Connor

Week #83

Just toss two out there before I forget, in Okinawa, there's a way big aquarium in my first area but I never went, and then in Fukuoka there is hakata ramen which is supposed to be super good, but those are just two small things off the top of my head.

Anyway, on to my week, nothing super interesting, but we did get fed allot, had tons of service opportunities, I feel like my prayers were defiantly answers there, most people here are reluctant and unwilling to accept your help for anything, we ask everyone we meet if there's anything we can do for them but nothing up until this week. And we got fed well for one of them.
We also had a long awaited lesson, just yesterday, which was way good but we ended up dropping the investigator, too bad but it was a good experience for my about said experience he lives an hour bike ride away and it was pouring rain all the way there and back, thank goodness for rain gear. We also went this week to the outskirts of our area, to a member’s house for a meal SUPER good and the place they live is WAY pretty. I'll send pics.

Well another transfer gone, in a flash I'm what the mission calls old, that's weird, but I usually don't have too much time to think on it, I've defiantly been having restful sleep accepted when the mosquitoes buz in my ears at night and wake me up, WHY DO THEY WANT MY CHUBBY BLOOD? But really I don't know how they get in or where they hide during the day.

Not sure what will happen for transfers but I don't think I'll have another one and done like last transfer, but we’ll see. I'll let you know when I know.

Anyway, rub you so much,
Kemp chourou

Week #82

Another great week, nothing too special but it was a good time, none of our investigators so far have followed through on a lesson unfortunately, but what can ya do, we have been trying hard and I can tell in my heart when I'm working hard and good things will come so I'm not super worried about how things appear I feel comfort and strength from the lord that things are going well.

We had junkai (splits) with the DLs in our apartment mostly normal dendo but we went with a member to find less actives and at the end went up to a view point I'll show pics.

Other than that I took part in one of the lessons with a kids Eikaiwa or kids English class student one of the moms, she's from Korea, and was just curious about Mormons to start and wanted to read the Book of Mormon, she came to church yesterday as well.

As for next week’s Skype call probably at 6pm for you guys or 7 whenever is good, I'll send my new skype stuff today, I have to make a new one for my I pad.

I'm excited to talk to you guys, and it is weird that it's the last time, I realized that last night and it just weird me out, most of the people in the mission are way younger now, as we get closer to when I came in that's when the floods of us leave and come in, so the number of missionaries is going to drop with the death of my generation and tones more will start coming in but all young or new. It was like that when I came into the miss, lots of young leaders.

But anyway love yah so much

Stay strong stay faithful stay diligent, JKS 

Week #81

Had a good week as usual, we found 2 new investigators, one has an appointment tonight the other fell through unfortunately, but we’ll see if we can't get back in contact with her, both of them are young moms and the investigators left for us when we came in were also 2 young moms, also not in great contact with, I will say one pain here in Japan is that their work schedules  are the devil, in America if we just tell our boss we want to go to church on Sunday they respect you for it and let you go but here they don't understand the reason, but we’ll pray for the best.

My new comp is good, he and my last comp are the closest to my size in comps I've had, thankfully, he's willing to do anything diet wise or workout wise that I am so we're going to get yolked.

It's really true what you say about conversion, as much as the gospel is undeniable because of how much it makes sense just knowing that isn't enough, we really have to let ourselves be converted in our hearts before my mission all I felt really was that it was true but it did little to my heart it's just the way it was I thought, but on my mission I experienced the impact of letting your self be changed, I still like allot of the things I did, my personality didn't change but why I am here definitely did. After that when the gospel makes more and more sense to me it just adds to the testimony, but really the conversion is more like what are you willing to do for the Lord, and less whether or not you know or believe it's true, if you wouldn't do something hard or painful just because you love the Lord, then make it a goal, I know I still let my self be lazy sometimes that's why conversion is truly an ongoing process. The question isn't do I know it's true it's what will I do because I know it's true.

  The prospect of letting myself go into the Lords hands has been a scary thought to me, because I don't know exactly where I'll go, but the idea has slowly become more open to me as I go along.

Anyway, on less serious topics the weathers been great here and no more suits so I'm happy.

And if you would like a little better guide to Okinawa than me, there is a member who is American down there named brother Christensen way good friend of the missionaries, I'll forward you an email from him they just had another baby.

I also sent mom an email about the Mother's Day Skype call it's two weeks off but they want us to get it set up.

Any way love you all 

Stay strong stay faithful stay diligent JKS

Connor

Week #80

 Happy to hear you had a good time there in Cali, and does that mean you did good at golf that day know a little how the people here feel when a miss. Said a bunch of random gospel words. What's a sand bagel and is 1 under par good?
As for my week, or week and a half, we had allot of conferences, mostly pertaining to the iPads were now sporting. Lots of great training but man that much travels expensive especially from Yanai and was already just scraping by this month, one that note, thought when I looked at my account before I had more money in it, but I guess I was wrong or my cards being weird but I may need some cash to get my bike payed for, it's around 60bucks for that part unfortunately.
Sorry I'm a pain in the butt sometimes.

As for other things we found a few people that look they have good potential and we have allot more direction now for the area, which is allot better than were we started with no info at all.
It's getting warmer here and suit season is almost over, safe to say I'm excited for that prospect.

Anyway that's most of the interesting things that have gone down I'll have pics and stuff for sure next week cuz I have the iPad now, sorry for the wait, I'll send some that I have from last transfer of our P-day there.

Love you
Stay strong stay faithful stay diligent JKS
Elder chyourou kemp Connor