Konichiwa!
This week has been
tons better than last week! And last week was good! Haha So last P-Day after I
emailed I spent the whole day cleaning the apartment...It was pretty bad. I
threw out three trash bags of old expired food from the pantry. I just focused
on the kitchen and my closet the whole day. I finished the kitchen, get to do
the closet again today haha. But! I found lots of cool stuff while I was
cleaning! I now have a nice pair of ear warmer things that are nice to bike
with, and some nice shoes, and gloves, and some ties...etc.
So if you want to know
where I am, or what it loots like, just google Toyama snow. There`s some
pretty sick pictures out there. Luckily both the big snow storms are past this
year, so it won`t look like that anytime while I`m here.
Lots of prayers were
answered this week. We found 4 new investigators! And I got to teach some real
lessons! 17 to be exact :D It`s been great! I feel like we can get this area
alive and have some good dendo fire with a bit of faith and effort. Our mission
goal is one companionship, one month one baptism. And I feel like no one really
pays attention to it, or thinks it as a realistic goal (Most missionaries here
never see a baptism). Maybe it`s because I`m fresh out of the MTC and don`t
really know the "real world" yet but I think we can do it :D Just
gotta get my comp on board now, he`s getting kinda itchy for home and not super
motivated sometimes.
So other stuff about
this week, On Tueday a memeber drove us up the mountain, we rode the ski lift to
the top and read the book of Mormon together! That was pretty cool! You could
see all the way to the ocean from the top. We went sledding a bit too. I feel
like it should have been a P-Day activity probably, next time I`ll ask more
questions during planning haha.
I`ve started my long
awaited quest to learn to cook! SO now when I come how I won`t have to mooch
off girls all the time! (not saying I won`t...just it won`t be necessary for
survival). I committed my comp to teach me a new recipe every P-day haha last
week we made katsu Don, Pretty much just bedded fried pork. It was delicious
though. I started making a mini recipe book of things I should know how to make
too.
I went on splits two
times last week with the Brazilian Elder, that was fun. For the first three
hours of the first split, I thought he didn`t speak English so I just spoke
with him in Japanese haha Then I found out he spoke English I while later when
I didn`t understand a word he used haha so that was fun. He`s a cool guy, he`s
been out 6 months now, and he still hasn`t taught a lesson in Japanese haha. He
has taught in Portuguese, Spanish, French, English, and Italian though haha.
That`s what happens when you know Portuguese, other languages come easy, since
they`re all pretty similar.I learned the correct pronunciation from him, so
when I do start studying Portuguese I won`t say everything wrong.
One of the times I
went on splits I got to hang out with Elder Smith, he was in my district at the
MTC, he`s awesome. Although he`s not doing so awesome right now...he`s been
sick since he got here, and he got hit by a car haha so that`s fun...He`s fine
now though, so it`s all good. I got alot of language study tips from watching
the other Elders at their apartment, my comp doesn`t really do language study
much, he just reads the BOM in Japanese. Actually we`ve only done language
study 3 times in the past two weeks haha...which kinda stinks, we always set
time for it, but other things end up taking it`s place. I made a pretty awesome
Language Study Plan though, and I`m learning alot every day, so I`ll survive
even if I don`t get the hour we`re supposed to have.
I gave a talk in
church yesterday! It was really good! I`m really working hard to get the wards
trust, and support, and get them more dendo oriented (dendo means missionary by
the way...sometimes I forget it`s not english...sorry). And I think I made alot
of progress :D
So I`ve gotten to play
off my strengths alot more here than I expected. People like talking to tall
blong kids, which is cool. We have a soccer game next Saturday, which will be
awesome. Maybe I can do my dream of betting a Brazilian that if I can beat him
in soccer he has to take the lessons haha. I always wanted to go to Brazil or
any soccer playing country and do that for my mission haha. We also have a
talent show in 2 weeks that they asked me to do something at, so I think I`ll
beat box for that. And one of our investigators wants to do a song with me in
church!
Anyways hope you all
have a great week! I might send another couple emails with pictures if I have
time! Maybe I`ll make a drop box or something...since we`re only able to send
two per email....
Thank for for your
prayers! They help SOOO much!
Love Elder Coleman
picture one, all the
trash I threw out on Monday
two: Nato. Fermented
soy beans. Yum!
That is a buddist temple,
and a Japanese toilet! We went to the temple with a lady I met at Eikiwa while
I was on transfers with the brazilian elder. She wanted me to visit her, it was
cool. I gave her a plan of salvation pamphlet and she seemed excited to read
it. We went inside the temple and she told us all about the pictures and
ceremonies and stuff, it has alot of similarities to Judaism and to our own
religion, I might write about it later
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