Week 31 - 03/18/18 - Group Email

Hello Everyone!

This has been a super busy week and I finally transfered!! 
My new area is called Atsugi, it's neighboring my previous area and is still in the same zone. My comp is Elder Riggs and he's a way good dude from Texas. I'm pumped to work with him! Also I'm finally in a 4 man apartment. One of the Elders in my apartment is named Elder Kawasaki from Maryland and he's training a kid from Costa Rica. Another plus is that my new apartment is way nicer than my old one! 

We saw a miracle on Tuesday before I transfered! The whole entire transfer we had been trying to get into contact with this guy named Andy from China who came to church twice around Christmas and is an awesome guy. We had tried to visit him a ton but he never answered and we didn't have his contact info so we were about to drop him and move on. Well literally two days before the transfer ended we ran into him coming out of the train station! He happened to get off work early that specific day. The reason it was a miracle is because I was able to introduce him to my comp before I left and we exchanged contact info. Then yesterday my comp said he came to church and loved it! 
  
On pday one of our investigators took us to a place called Hakone and bought us dinner which was super nice of him. He said because Americans were nice to him when he traveled to America he wanted to return the favor. Hakone is a little town by a lake about a hour and a half drive away and up in the mountains! Not many missionaries go there becaise its on the very edge of the mission and expensive to get there so we got lucky.

I got into my new area on Thursday and we've been way busy since. We had four investigators at church today! The most we ever had in Shonan was two. The ward also seems super solid here and really supportive of the missionaries. After our main sacrament we had spanish sacrament and I was able to accompany on the piano for the first time in sacrament! During the meeting  they had me introduce myself and share a testimony. Well after the meeting one of the members let me know that I accidently said I studied Japanese in highschool for 20 years instead of 2 lol. 

One of the kids in my apartment Elder Solari Garcia likes running so I finally got to run this week! It was so nice to hope I'll get to run a lot this transfer! 

A really good chapter from the New testament that everyone should go read is Hebrews 11! It talks about all the things that have been accomplished by faith and is a really good chapter. 
Also the conference talk "Our Priesthood Legacy" from April 1995 by Elder Holland is a bomb talk. Has some awesome stories in it! 

Hope you are all doing well! 頑張って！

Elder Dean
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