Harvey Choro: TRANSFERS!

This week has been so slow! Only because of transfers and gouches (aka member meals). So the news is.......I'm not transferring and Elder Larson is still my comp!! What's even better though is we got 2 new Elders in our apartment Elder Satou and Elder Murdock. Anyway I'll go through the week

Tue: We had DTM (District Training Meeting) and District lunch where we ate sushi. Sushi is SOO good in Japan. I'm lucky to be in Sapporo which is known for having the best sushi in the world. Then we wrote letters for an investigator who was at the hospital, had a lesson with a new investigator and had Eikawa (English class). We played the sign game but with Halloween things like witch and ghost.

Wednesday: Slow. We picked up a new elder down at the subway in the main part of the city Odori (downtown Sapporo where all the outdoor festivals and winter carnival are held). Then we had an amazing gouch. We went to this buffet at a hotel. Way high class. I ate about 5-6 trays of food. Then we went back to the apartment and pretty much spent the day moving stuff around to accommodate 4 ppl. Then we did some housing as a San(3)nin doryo(companion(ship)).

Thursday: Back to Odori, We had some extra time so we went windows shopping because we were out of our area (Can't proselyte outside your area unless on splits). Then back to the apartment and continued to move some stuff around. Then we met Simon who took us all over the place. We also went to a koi fish pond which is owned by one of his old yakuza (Japanese mafia) buddies. Then we went back to his parents house and he showed us his ties. He has pretty much everything packed up because he can't wait to go to college. He still has a lot of questions about the Book of Mormon but he seems like he really doesn't want to find an answer right now.

Fri: Another Gouch. This time by a bunch of member Obaa-chan (older people) who meet at the church about once a month to do lunch with the missionaries. Then we biked like mad to get to a bunch of different places but nobody was home all day! And all the houses we knocked on to introduce ourselves got kekko desued ("no thank you").

Sat: A fun yet slow day. This was our Halloween party day! The day pretty much consisted of studies, planning, and the party. The Halloween Party was great! We had 13 non members come to it. 2 were our investigators and 7 who aren't investigators who came because of friends or family. It was a lot of fun, we had mini games for the kids, and themed food. They had little hotdogs that had spaghetti through them, black spaghetti (It was squid ink, surprisingly delicious), pumpkin soup, and other things. Then we played Basketball after with some members and non members. I'm sorry I don't have a pic of my costume. I'll try to get one. We all got the same wig which had really long hair and cut them to our desire. Everyone thought mine was hilarious, I looked like John Lennon because I had a ponytail in the back.

Sun: We had an Investigator come to Sacrament Meeting for his first time! We asked a member to invite him and he came! He left right after Sacrament meeting though. Then we did some car dendo with our dendo shuni (mission leader) and a member Nishino Kyoudai. We went to 4 houses in an hour but no one was home :(. Though we did stop by a seico mart where an investigator works and gave him candy :). Then Larson and Murdock Choro practiced for their performance tonight at FHE (Family Home Evening). Then things got fun. We biked around for a while but nothing. We stopped by an investigator's house whom I haven't met until last night. We helped them move some wood and offered to come back and help chop for them later. Then we went to Takahashi sans house. Oh my goodness these people are so nice. We dropped by unexpected but Takahashi sans wife made us a fruit plate, cookies, salmon onigiri (see Wikipedia), squid, some garlic thing, and some frozen udon packages. We felt kinda bad but she insisted we take all this food. While we were there we shared the video mountains to climb and talked about it for a bit with Takahashi San. He totally felt the spirit and said so but refuses to acknowledge that it is actually the spirit. Oh and they gave us clementines, made me a bit nostalgic for Thanksgiving time. Then we went housing but no luck, we even got kicked out of a neighborhood but I was really nice about it so that was good.

Mon: We climbed up a Marayama Mountain in the rain! I'll let some pics do the talking for me.

All the other pics of us as a district are on my comps camera So I'll get those later and send those to you all.

Love you,

Harvey Choro.

District lunch with Obaa-chan