Week 21 - 01/07/18 - Group Email

This week we ate with members nearly everyday because of new years! Literally all the food was amazing, it was a good week for sure. For new years day my comp and I went to check out a big shrine in our area because we heard lots of people would be there. Well we got there and I felt like I was in Disneyland on a Saturday it was insane how many people were there! We had to wait in a line as wide as the street for 20 minutes just to enter. It was a fun experience though and they had tents set up with any Japanese food you can imagine!

Yesterday we were sitting in sacrament and one of our English students showed up out of nowhere. He had never been to church before so that awesome! His name's shohei and he's way cool. After church we had a lesson with our man Pablo which went well and then our second lesson with a new investigator Oscar from Peru, he speaks Japanese thankfully. 

On Wednesday we had a lunch appointment with the Kaneko family which is almost 40 minutes away on bike. Anyway that was fun but on the way back we were riding down a pretty long windy hill and I was right behind Elder de Andrade. Out of nowhere he hit some gravel goin like 20 mph and totally slid out and ate it pretty bad! Luckily he was all good, it was wild for sure. 

Then on Saturday the weirdest/saddest thing happened. We were streeting by the train station and saw an old man (80 y/o about) walking the same direction as us. So we caught up to him said hi, told him we're missionaries, and asked him where he's headed. He said lunch then for some reason started to speed up, almost running for a few steps but his feet couldn't keep up and he totally face planted, literally straight to his face. He wasn't able to catch his body with his hands and it was the saddest thing I've ever seen! He got a bloody nose and seemed pretty disoriented for a sec but was okay. Luckily a woman nearby knew what to do....run in 7-11 and get the cashier lol. Eventually we helped him up and the guy fom 7-11 waited with him till his bus came. We still don't know why he started running, it was either because he really didn't wanna hear what we had to say or he was trying to catch his bus. We'll assume it was the latter haha. 

Elder Dean