Jared's Mission

  Hello everyone! I hope you're all having a great week!  Zone Conference! We had Zone Conference last week on Thursday! It was held in Shimonoseki, Ayumu Kyodai and Natsuki Shimai joined ZC too! Hiramatsu Shimai, Fukunaga shimai, and Muraoka shimai made curry for lunch for us! It was so good to see all the people from my old area again! Just a little background, I was only in Shimonoseki for 2 transfers since I opened the area (my beanchan stayed after those 2), and on my last Sunday I baptized Ayumu kyodai! He walked me to the station the morning i left, but this was really my first time seeing him since his baptism   He Is doing so Genki, and wants to leave on his mission in a year or two!  For the training we trained about how to invite your friends to become gospel friends, and then about dropping them when they say no. I consider myself an enthusiastic dropper...I mean if you wanna find 5 people a week you have to drop about 5 a week too. And when you drop...

Hello friends and family! Yet another week has come and gone, this time I wasn't even in my area for half the week! Breakdown! Tani Kyodai's baptism!  Our friend brother Tani got baptized on Saturday and confirmed on Sunday! He is such an awesome member! He was baptized by elder ware and confirmed by Brother Ishida! like 10-15 members came to the baptism and they all gave him little presents! Exchanges! It was my first time exchanging out of my area for the last 3 transfers! In yatsushiro I never exchanged in kumamoto because my first dl didn't want to exchange, and the 2nd one wanted to come to yatsushiro! I went to Ube with Elder Sequio! We had an amazing ping pong night where one of the sisters friends came and I got to chat with him for a little bit! He's awesome! Then the next morning I went to Hofu and exchanged with Elder Sasa! He just transferred from Ishigaki 3 weeks ago so it was fun to talk with him about everyone on our little island! My first nap in a minut...

Hello everyone! Welcome back to another weekly email! We had a nice week so buckle in. Companion exchange! I exchanged with a missionary named Elder Takamura! He just came to our mission a few weeks ago from his original assignment in New Zealand. He will finish his mission in November! It was a pretty busy exchange, we had 4 lessons right after we got back from Yamaguchi, and then the next morning before we switched back, we had 1 more lesson. We invited 2 of those 5 friends to baptism and they both didn't really go as planned, but were still really good lessons. We only had 30 minutes to go streeting/housing, but it was super yokatta (good)! After I finished talking to the first people we stopped elder Takamura said something like this "Wow...this is why you have so many progressing investigators"   All I did was invite them to come unto Christ. Also we didn't even get to exchange contacts with those 2 people. But yea, I think that the exchange was really good for E...

Konnichiwa minasan!  This week has been super busy, but we still ganbarimashita-ed!  Tuesday night we trained down to Fukuoka after dinner for Mission Leadership Council! Elder Ware cut his finger while cutting onions during dinner and couldn't get it to stop bleeding before we had to leave   So h e wrapped it in a bunch of toilet paper and some tape and we went to the station. It bled through the paper and was an awkward train ride because it was so visible. When we got to the mission home he asked Sister Boss (mission president's wife) if they had bandaids... he shower her his finger and she looked at it, took a step back, and said "Elder Ware. That is not a bandaid cut." In her nice little mildly frustrated but mostly worried mom/grandma voice. She called in Boss kaicho (president) -scout master of 14 years- for some advice, he said it was probably be fine and not free stitches but for a few minutes I thought we were about to go get stitches at 8:50pm. Boss kaicho...

Ok ok sorry for the clickbait. But yea! I'm got transferred to the Kitakyushu ward!  It's in the same district as my 2nd area, Shimonoseki. Shimonoseki has definitely been my favorite place yet, sorry yatsushiro and Ishigaki. If the shimadas were still on ishigaki then it might be a close fight, also yatsushiro was probably my most effective missionary work in terms of friends and baptism dates, but the small branch was chotto muzukashikatta. So I'm in the Yamaguchi zone again and me and my comp are the Zone Leaders, more about that later! But I will go back to Shimonoseki occasionally for meetings and maybe exchanges! I believe Ayumu kyodai will go to Zone Conference! He is the person I that got baptized while I was in Shimonoseki, he is literally the best! I'm excited to see some of the other members as well!  Bye bye Yatsushiro! So contrary to my predictions yatsushiro didn't get pink-washed (Elders replaced by Sisters), the new apartment is just the most bougie ...