Elder Callahan in Japan

This week's highlights:

-Our less active family came to church! We've been working on them for two transfers and the finally got here. They didn't stay the whole time but they got to be here for sacrament meeting and take the sacrament and that's what's really important. We also went to visit last night and their house was super clean and their absolutely insane children were calm...so everything is going good with them right now. That's the best thing that happened this week.

-The sisters are teaching two Peruvian families (well technically they're one family because the dads are brothers) and we accidentally found another branch of the family on Tuesday, so we're teaching them now. Basically it's this giant Peruvian family of like 30 people who are all investigators now. That was really cool.

Lowlights:

-We went to find a former investigator Thursday night. On the way there Elder Schmeil told me a story about a period of 3 weeks when he would get a collect call every hour from someone who would just say "Henrique Schmeil" over and over until he hung up. We got to the FI's house and it was this apartment building in the middle of a bunch of other abandoned apartment buildings. It was pitch black and we got up to the door which was surrounded by old chairs and trash and rotting onions. By this point we were way freaked out. We knocked once, no one answered and booked it out. Japan is haunted.

-We showed the "Finding Faith in Christ" video to one of our investigators. She laughed at all the crippled people that Jesus healed and then started freaking out during the Atonement/Crucifixion part. So that's the state we're in with her.

-I don't know if this is a lowlight or highlight. But Thursday we went to teach an english class for the company that the Ward Mission Leader works for. The last time missionaries did that, it was two missionaries that are no longer here, so I didn't know what they taught last time, and I went with a Japanese missionary who doesn't really speak English, so it was all me. I went in planning to talk about families, and turns out that's what they talked about last time! So it was way awkward and I kinda just winged my way through it. It turned out ok.

Also Japanese companies are terrifying. There's so much protocol and customs that you have to follow that my Japanese companion did not prep me for. Luckily he knew what to do and I could just kind of follow him but I was way worried about offending someone.

But it was a good week. I hope everyone's doing well. Love you all

Elder Callahan