May 31, 2015

Well hey everyone! How're you doing? I'm doing well, just roasting

like a pig all dressed up nice. It's super hot right now! It's like 82

degrees outside, and we're outside a lot... Don't worry though, I'm

drinking a lot of water! ;) But here's how the week went!

Monday: We went with our investigator to this Vegan restaurant(she's

vegan) but it was actually way good. I started to think about becoming

vegan, but then realized that I'm a missionary in Japan, and there's

no way it'd be possible, plus when I'm back, I'll be enjoying steak

and hamburgers and hotdogs and I realized I just couldn't do it. But

then we went with the investigator to the Nakatsuka's Family Home

Evening which was way fun! I got to see everybody and our investigator

had a really good time so it was great!

Tuesday: We went to the Toyohira District Meeting to help out H 長老 if he

needed any since he is a new DL this transfer, but he did great, so we

just got to sit, listen, and participate! It was great! Then we came

back, and had Eikaiwa tonight! Eikaiwa was fun and we taught everyone

about health. It was kinda a hard one, but it worked out ok!

Wednesday: Today we had our District Meeting where I taught a workshop on being

obedient. (Man I love Obedience, it's like my favorite topic...) And

it went really well, and then we went to Atsubetsu to split with the

Atsubetsu Elders so I could do a Baptismal Interview for one of their investigators. The investigator passed and was super happy. She's deaf, so I had an interpreter, but she's super nice and it was a great experience. I also got to see some members from Eniwa-Chitose as well as one from Ebetsu and talk to them, so it was really natsukashii (nostalgic)! Then

we headed home!

Thursday: Thursday we had companion planning and got a bunch of stuff planned out for

the next week since it's the week before transfers, and we're pretty sure one of us is transferring since we've been together for 2, but we're going to be super busy! It'll be nice to be busy, cause a busy missionary, is a happy missionary. Then we met with O san and taught him about the Signs of the Second Coming which he thought was really interesting.

Friday: Today was good! We met with N-san and had a good

lesson about Good and Evil and Baptism. He really felt the Spirit so

we're excited to see him progress! Other than that, not much happened

Friday...

Saturday: We met with an investigator named G. She is Phillipina

and is really nice. She has a nice family and we got to talk to them

for a while. They also were kind enough to do a bbq for us which was

way good! Also the Dad is a really good guitar player so he played some

songs for us. So that was pretty sweet. Then we visited the F

Family, and got to talk with them for a while. They are super nice,

and are super strong in the Gospel! They're great!

Sunday: Well as you know, today was the 5th Sunday, so we had a

combined lesson which the Bishop taught about applying the Love of

Christ more in our lives! Then my companion taught a lesson about the

Gift of the Holy Ghost for Sunday school, and then Sacrament Meeting

was great. After church we went home, visited a bunch of Non-Attending

Members, as well as the Ward Mission Leader, and the K family who

gave us a list of people we should go visit who haven't been coming to

Church lately. Then we headed back and crashed on our futon's and

died. Well not really died, but after planning and Hokoku and stuff,

we slept like babies! ;)

But that was the week! I hope yours went super well! Talk to you soon!

Elder Bickel