This week was interesting. Not a lot of funny or amazing stories to report. It seems like since our baptism everything just kind of stopped and we have to rebuild again. So that's kind of what we worked on this last week. Did a lot of finding, got rejected a lot, kicked out of a few buildings, but also talked to some really good people. We picked up 3 new investigators who have some solid potential. We also had a really good talk with our current most progressing investigator, who we really haven't been able to get much out of before. He's reading the BoM and praying every day but always said he just doesn't really know if it's true. But we talked to him on Saturday and he told us his real concern is that he doesn't feel like he's been forgiven by God yet. We had a good talk with him about that. 

At church on Sunday we got slated to give talks, teach second hour Gospel Principles, and teach Priesthood, so that was a fun day. The Gospel Principles class was on the second coming and it turns out there's some pretty specific vocab for that that you probably should know if you're going to teach the class, which we of course did not. It went ok though. We just had our recent convert, Brother Moto, tell us what the words were. He kind of ended up teaching the lesson which was pretty cool. 

The beginning of this week we got a call from a former investigator from a couple months ago. From what we could tell off the records, he'd had a baptism date, had a strong testimony, wanted to get baptized, but then just dropped off the map about a month before I got here. Turns out he'd been living in China for the past 3 months, and the past missionaries put it on the records. He was only back for a week, and then he was heading back to Shanghai, but he wanted info about the church in China and wanted to know whether or not he could get baptized there. We got in touch with the church officials in China and got him all set up. It was a really cool phone call and experience though. He'll probably come back to Japan a member.

We did our orphan English class on Tuesday. We showed up, though, and they all just wanted to play basketball. So we just played basketball and yelled at them in English for an hour. That was really really fun. Then later in the week we saw one of the older ones with his friend and he wanted to introduce he friend to us. So basketball is working out well. 

That pretty much all I've got to report for this week. The Gospel's true.

Elder Callahan

One of the orphans thought my helmet was really cool. Then when we took a picture he wanted to make "scary faces." Mine ended up a lot scarier. 

We wandered past this. What a perfect name.

Went on an exchange with a zone leader down in Yokkaichi. The sisters' bikes broke, so we brought them into the apartment to fix them up.