Week 65- Happy Father's Day❤️

 Aloha 皆さん、


Happy Father's Day! 

Shout out my dad for real. I love him so much. He's been my constant role model and has literally done everything for me. Sometimes he may get on my nerves fr but I definitely know how to push his buttons😂 like father like son. 

Dear dad,
I may not say it a lot but I'm super grateful for everything. I truly look up to you and I'm so grateful that I have you to look up to as a role model. You are on of the reasons I've gone on a mission, why I want to be a teacher, and a great dad. 

I love you

From ya stupid son

Happy Father's day to all the other dad's out there fr. Yall are troopers. We all appreciate you so much❤️

Highlights:

-Exchanges
-Keiichi

Exchanges:

Kinda a highlight and a lowlight, got to Exchange with some awesome Elders but there were a couple of problems so wasn't all fun but overall still love exchanges. Exchanges with our DL Doboz 長老, he's kinda interesting not gonna lie. But we talked a lot about video games and highschool life (he was homeschooled) which was super interesting. Overall fire Exchange. Also had exchanges with Dasalla 長老 and Fahsbender 長老. Seriously both of them like a ton of stuff I do. Also for both times I got to drive so I drove to Hofu and Yamaguchi and the scenery was so beautiful. On the note of exchanges and driving, my intake of monsters has gotten a little higher. I went from 1 or 2 a month to 2 to 3 a week (again) so even though it's only 40mg of caffeine each (lidully a diet coke) im tryna watch that. But both of those exchanges were fun too. Talked a lot more about missionary work, how to help companions and stuff like that but still hopefully it helps. Downside was me and my companion Toya 長老 were only comps for two full days which is kinda sad but this week we only have 1 exchange so don't mind ig.

Keiichi:

Bro I love this guy. An old missionary texted us a while back and made a group chat with keiichi, he's 19 and a college student and AWESOME. When we first met with him a little while back I asked him between 1-10 how much does he believe in God and he said 5! We taught him about prayer and so on and now he's doing a project for his college and he can choose the topic and he said he wanted to do it on our church since he can meet with us and ask questions. So literally the past two weeks we've met he asks us all sorts of questions about God and the church (like actually normal questions none of that anti stuff) and it's been amazing! Please pray for him fr. God put a golden teenager in front of us ready to learn!

Kay Das all though, I am running out of things to talk about (I guess it's just that point of the mission again.) But I'll try to think about more stuff this week.

Love you guys

Shoots!

愛してるよ
エリス長老
TheRisingSon

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