Week 17 - 12/10/17 - Group Email

Hello everybody! This week has been pretty slow, not too much has been going on. For last p-day we went to eat all you can eat yakuniku (Yakuniku is when you grill meat at your table). So there was tons of meat and it was literally amazing! I tried cow tongue for the first time which wasn't bad. Also liver but holy crap that stuff's nasty. After that we went and bought a little 2 foot christmas tree, some lights, and ornaments that we set up in our apartment! 

We had splits this week with the zone leaders which was really fun. My goal was to learn how to better use the Book of Mormon while talking to people on the street. While I was with Elder Pierce we gave out 4 Book of Mormons in an hour, so that was awesome! Splits are way nice because you get to work with different missionaries and it's nice for a change. In the evening we did an "english challenge" at one of the bigger train stations. For english challenge we write on a whiteboard that if you can answer an english question you can have a piece of candy. We all wore santa hats and made tons of people happy so it was a good time. On the way home from splits I saw a kid that looked like a student so I yelled out to him and barely stopped him. I told him that we teach english and he said he has been looking for an english class and we talked for about 20 minutes! I also gave him a Book of Mormon so we will see what happens with him!

Yesterday after church we went with a member to visit some less actives. Everytime we have been in cars with members it always turns into a road trip basically haha so we knew we were in for a long trip. We ended up driving around for like 2 1/2 hours all over Hirastuka and only visited 4 less actives lol. It's alot different than Utah because the members live way far from the church. It was fun to see some new parts of the city though! Other than that not too much has been going on. I hope everyone is enjoying the Christmas season!

Elder Dean