So for those of you who don't know what Golden Week is (yes
they decided to try to say it in English but it became an engrish holiday - goruden weeku), it is about 5 consecutive days that are all
different holidays, but they decided to merge them into one big name which is
Golden week. So basically, no one has work or school. As you can
imagine this can be either really bad or really good for missionary service.
Luckily for me it was a pretty good thing.
Mon: We went as a district to the Hitsujigaoka place. Or
in a simpler, easier to understand way the BOYS BE AMBITIOUS place. So for those
of you who don't know, there was a Christian named William Clark who basically
helped Hokkaido go from 15th century to 20th century during the time he was
here. He basically modernized Hokkaido and helped educate the people. Anyway it
was a ton of fun and we saw sheep.
Tue: We had Zone Conference this week which was really
nice! We had a bunch of great workshops and I learned a lot about giving
oneself up to God as really being the way to become truly happy. We also had
Eikaiwa (English class) which was really fun! It was on our world and we sang "it's a
small world after all"
Wednesday: We went to a pretty far place in our area to
teach a bunch of investigators there. It was pretty nice and we actually had a
lot of weird things happen. We also had a role play with a member which was
awesome. He was a convert when he was young and had a lot of good insight for
us.
Thursday: Pretty much a lot of finding and DKK (planning) for the
week. But we did visit one Young Single Adult in our ward and it was awesome.
He is a pretty big nerd so we connected really fast! He is also really good at
English. He picked it up pretty well on his mission.
Fri: We were fed lunch this day by an awesome family in
the ward. It started out as us trying to get a Mogi (role playing lesson) but then ended up being us
the sisters and the husband's brother's family over for lunch. And somehow the
lesson ended up being the sisters' lesson too. So it started out from asking to
do a Mogi to us just eating lunch at a party.
Sat: We visited a bunch of members this day. Once again I
found a member who is a big nerd. Well actually 1 and 1/2. We went to the
bishop's house, first taught a lesson to his wife, then as she was leaving one
of their sons came home. So we started talking to him. Then the other son came home too. So as we were talking
we got onto the topic that I was an "otaku" nerd so they decided to
test me. I ended up winning that battle. >:) The 2nd son s a nerd too so he
wanted my recommendation of what to watch and pretty much as soon as I said the
names he ran off to watch them haha. We also visited some other members and taught
a lesson to an investigator.
Sun: SUUUPER LONG BUS RIDE! We had a 3 and 1/2 hour bus
ride up and back to our area for our stake conference. For some reason only Shinoro and Higashi are not in one of the Sapporo stakes. Nope, for some reason
we were in the Asahikawa stake. But on the plus side I got to see Elder Seki
and all the people from Iwamizawa which was really nice. Apparently they were
really sad to see me go and really want me to come back at some point during my
mission. I heard that only primary kids in Iwamizawa eichi and ten am kun kept
saying they wanted to meet me but they ended up going home before I had a
chance to see them ;(
Today I am going down into Sapporo so that should be a
ton of fun! Hopefully I will have some pictures to send y'all next
week of Sapporo!
Love,
Elder Harvey
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