Elder French Money? January 28th to February 2nd

Jan 26

Tracting

Well there hasn't really been much new this week. Although we did go trackting at these homes by the ocean and we found this mansion, and my companion wanted to go ring the bell, which is on the outside of this big gate with cameras watching us, but he rang the bell and a woman answered and we told her that we were missionaries and she said we could talk to here for a bit, so she came outside and we were taking with her, and then she invited us in, and her house was huge and I had no idea what to say. But we left here our contact information so maybe she will call us at some point.

French Money or French Light sword?

Also, I keep forgetting to mention this but canepari actually means something in Japanese, I found out like the first day I got here because some people will laugh when they hear my name, because cane means money and pari means paris, so sometimes people tell me my names means french money. But I found some cool kanji that mean light sword and they are pronounced cane, so maybe I will see if I can get a name-tag with kanji on it. Apparently some of the American missionaries have done it before.

I was trying to send some pictures but everything on this computer is in Japanese so Im not sure how to and I don't have much time so I will try next week!

あいしていますよ！
カネパリチョロ


February 2nd

Hey, hope everything has been going well. The time is really starting to go by fast here, I cant believe that its already February.

Look me up on Youtube!

Me and my companion were doing some trackting by the train station here this last week and we saw these to high school kids practicing a dance, we decided to go and talk to them, and I had this great idea since my companion is Japanese that I would only talk in English and he would just translate what I said to Japanese, even though I could have said most of it in Japanese, so apparently they have a youtube channel and I invited them to come to our English class, and and she asked if we could have an English conversation right there, so she recorded me talking to her friend and then I was super excited to see that she actually came to our English class this last week! Although I don't know if she will be here next week, but she pulled out her phone and showed me the video from the day before so I guess she actually did put it on youtube, I cant watch it because Im on a mission lol, but the youtube channel is hebeimetatoron , its probably going to come up in Japanese, but see if you can find the video on there.

The weather is starting to warm up, I think today is the first day that it actually hasn't been cold outside.

Teaching

Tacamotosan the investigator we met at McDonalds is like our only investigator right now, we had a few drop us, and then the others we might half to drop because we are having trouble getting ahold of them, but things are going good with him at least. Last week we watched the Joseph Smith Prophet of the Restoration movie with him, he was having trouble with Joseph Smith so we thought it would be good to watch, he said it helped clear things up a lot better, and I think he felt the spirit watching it, its a great movie, sadly though I only have it in English, there is a Japanese version but I guess its only for missionaries in the MTC, so no one in Japan has watched it before which is really sad because its such a great movie about the history of our church, I actually wanted to write the first presidency about it because I think it should be commercially released here in Japan, but Im not supposed to do that so maybe one day it will happen.

Effects of the Tsunami

It is nice being able to see the ocean a lot, although its also a little depressing because there isn't anything left because of the tsunami, just a picture of what the coast used to look like, and a big graveyard.

We were visiting an inactive last week, she stopped coming to church about the time of the tsunami (a lot of people went inactive because of that) She told us that she wasn't in Ishinomaki when the tsunami hit, but it killed her husband, father and mother. I had no idea what to say, especially since this was a conversation in Japanese, but on the other hand a lot of people after the tsunami that didn't believe in god now do. I think it was definitely a wake up call for the people of Japan, and there is supposed to be a huge earthquake in Tokyo soon, I think god is trying to send these people a message. Most people here have no interest in learning about god whatsoever, so usually our trackting is inviting people to come to our English class.

Warming up?

Its crazy how dry it is over there, its hard to imagine with all the rain and snow that we get here, but its really starting to warm up, and I heard the summers are really hot here, but I am from California so we will see how it compares. Anyways thats all the email time I have for today, hope all is going well!

love,
Elder Canepari