First week in Saijo (Week 55)

So I was transferred to a place called Saijo in Hiroshima.  The first week was exciting I guess.

I have met a few investigators now. A mother and her three children. They are very kind people and the mother is really looking for the truth. She is a very good person. I still don't know much about them and they speak a lot of Hiroshima language so I have a very hard time understanding them. I was just getting used to Kumamoto language. Why does Japan have such different ways of speaking across their country? That just makes my life harder. But maybe I'll learn it sometime. I've got Yamanashi 長老 to help me so it should be ok. He's great and fluent in english. So I have already learned a lot from him. So this mother and children. One thing I am worried about is she said her husband, who lives in Germany right now for work, said he would divorce her if she joined a church. So that's slightly worrying. I hope it all works out.

So just to help you understand Elder Yamanashi's personality a little I want to tell you a small experience I had with him. We housed  into a scary old man that just went off on us and how we are wrong and how he hates churches about Jesus Christ. And then Elder Yamanshi waited for him to finish and gave him a pamphlet about the Restoration and set up an appointment to come again and kept saying on the way home how much he loves that kind man. Another experience I had with him was when Elder Gandy and I were walking behind him side by side and he turned around and just smiled really big. I asked him why he was smiling and he said because there are two angels walking behind him. And he is absolutely sincere when he says things like this. Elder Yamanashi is a very different person. He is the most pure and wonderful person I have ever met. I am very privileged to get to work with him and Elder Gandy. They are wonderful.

And we ate at a members house last night and they were very kind wonderful people. I really enjoyed myself. And the husband is a kind of doctor and helped me out with my hurting knees and back. I don't know if I told you about my back but there was a day when I couldn't even walk this week because of it. But I'm doing better now. I feel better after last nights appointment but we didn't have much time so I couldn't get it all done. Maybe later. I still hurt a bit. But whatever. If I die I die. And then keep dendoing in the spirit world.

Well I don't have much time today. I did leave my pants in Tsuboi in the trash so I don't have them now. And I really like the tan ninja jammies. But don't worry too much. I won't die. And I do have one more pair of pants for my suit.

I love you. Have a good day.

Love Josh