Dear all:

Merry Christmas! It was a good week this week. On Tuesday we had our Christmas Zone Conference which was way fun, we had some delicious food and great training. Wednesday we decided to go visit some less actives, because President Yamashita has been stressing working with less actives more lately. So because we're still waiting for the ward to give us a list of less actives they want us to work with, we picked some random names on our ward list and went to visit. The first couple either shut us down or had just completely disappeared off the face of the map (like their houses just didn't exist anymore) but then we showed up to the third one's house and he was really happy to see us, invited us in and we just talked for about an hour. He told us he still does family history work like all day, reads the Book of Mormon daily, and has a very solid testimony. He told us he wants to come back to church, but his health is very bad (he has lung cancer, we think. It's very hard to understand him) and it's hard for him. He says no one really visits him and the missionaries came once three years ago but never came back. We left him with a prayer and went to our next appointment, but that night he called us just to say thank you for visiting him. He's a super solid man and we're really excited to work with him.

That same day we went caroling with a member family to some other members and less actives. It was super fun, and then they took us out to eat after. So all in all a good Wednesday. 

Thursday was Christmas. I got to talk to my family which was great (I only say that because they're reading this) and then we went to lunch with a member couple from Seattle. We had this Chinese food called Dim Sum (yes, we had Chinese food on Christmas. I just needed my Red Ryder). After that, we headed to the biggest area of our mission, Sakae, and caroled and streeted with our whole district for the rest of the night. It was way fun and then we went to McDonald's for dinner. 

From that it was kind of a boring week. I don't have a lot of time so that's about it for this week, but it was good. I felt really lucky I could just be out here serving the Lord to commemorate His birthday. I love this gospel and and happy to be here preaching it. Love everyone.

Elder Callahan

I got pictures to work, so here's everything from the past four weeks.

Left to right: Elder Anderson, Elder Hobdy, and some no name loser

We tried to talk to this guy on the street, turns out he was lost, we walked him to his house. He was kind of off, but it was fun.

We stumbled across this massive cemetery in the middle of a bunch of houses.

Hospital selfie

It snowed and we built a snowman.

Then we turned the snowman into a giant snow roll.

The hands down creepiest picture of Jesus I've every seen (sorry if any of you love this picture and this offends you, but it's true)

Sakae

We visited one of the sisters' investigators, and they lived in this giant prison style apartment. We called it Alcatraz.