It was an exciting week this week. I moved to the middle of Nagoya city, to the Gokiso ward, and am now in a three man companionship. It's pretty fun, and we get along really well. Gokiso is a cool place. It's super metropolitan, the biggest area in the mission in that regard (although one of the smallest boundaries wise) and there's so many people here. It's easy to find people to talk to. Apparently, though, it's not easy to find people to teach because when I got here we only had one solid investigator. Not good. So that's what we're working really hard on now. 

Some cool happenings:

-Second day here we met some members at the church to help them do a Secret Santa type thing. Turns out they're American, and the wife is the sister of a member we knew in Pennsylvania. Who knew? It was way fun, until the end when Elder Anderson, one of my new companions, tripped on a giant rock and ripped his pants. Even then it was still pretty funny. 

-They do an English class at the local orphanage here, so we went and played cards and taught English there, which was way way fun. The kids were super funny and it was fun to just hang out with them. 

-There's also a soup kitchen type event where we hand out food to homeless people that some members come to and we help out at, which is also really fun. I got to meet some of the members and help out some homeless people, so it was a fun 2 in one type of deal.

-This Saturday we didn't have any plans so we were planning on heading out to just talk to people, but right as we were heading out we got a call from a man who we'd been trying to get in contact with all week. He told us he had set an appointment with us that night and was at the church. None of us knew anything about that (two of us are new here) but we ran over to the church and had a really good lesson. It was way cool.

Other than that a pretty uneventful week. We're working on building our investigator pool right now because it's pretty sad right now. If we're going to get this area hopping again we're going to really have to rely on the Lord and His help to get the work moving here. It's going to take a lot of hard work and faith but the Lord will help us as we put in all we have. So that's my plan for this transfer.
Sorry for the short email but I don't have a lot of time.

Love 

Elder Callahan

No pictures this week because I can't figure out these computers. They'll come next week.