Week 18 - 12/17/17 - Group Email

Hello everyone! This week has been both way slow and fast at the same time haha. It's been fast because we had a Christmas open house at the mission home, interviews, our ward Christmas party, and a couple lessons but also slow because my comp has gotten pretty sick which has caused us to be stuck inside the past 3 days. For the open house, my zone performed some songs then some of us got assigned to carol outside. The next day we had our ward Christmas party and lots of people came which was good! Different families in the ward performed some Christmas songs then we ate a bunch of food. Because my comp has been sick, alot of our time has been spent inside contacting and studying and it's been very boring. Also since he's been sick I have cooked every meal the past few days which has been interesting! Elder de Andrade has been teaching me all his good recipes. I checked my weight last night and it looks like I have gained 10 pounds since I've been in Japan!? If this keeps up I will be absolutely massive when I get home! lol

On Monday night we went to visit a PI named Yokota who is a college student. We taught him how to pray then came back 3 days later and he said he had been praying everyday and that it was great. Not sure how great because he is extrememly quiet haha. But then we taught him about the Book of Mormon and shared some scriptures about our concept of God that he really liked! So we will see how things progress with him. Our main man Tazaki has been working like crazy everyday so we haven't been able to meet him for the past 3 weeks. He literally only can reply to our messages once or twice a week because he is so busy... Japan is crazy when it comes to work. 

On P-day I bought some fabric and ended up making a tie with it! I heard some Elders do that so I figured I would try. It was easily one of the craftiest things I have ever done and it turned out way better than I thought it would lol. On monday night we were riding down by the eki and I ran over a tac on my bike so I got my first flat. Luckily we have a patch kit in the apartment so I was able to fix it. We had to walk home though which was taihen. 

Love you all!

ディーン長老 

Elder Dean