Week 14 in Japan: Fast Times at Tsujido High

Well, time as a missionary still doesn't make sense. Time has been cruising. This past Sunday we were lucky to hear from Elder Holland instead of having our regular Sunday meetings. He was speaking in a church out in Chiba but they broadcasted it. Our investigator attended and absolutely loved it; he even scheduled our next lesson afterwards, which really caught us off guard. Usually missionaries have to take the initiative on that one. We're so excited for this guy; he's such a kind, down to earth dude and is excited to learn. We've got 2 other people we've started to break ground with, and tomorrow we're meeting up for a church tour with a guy from China, except he's not very good at Japanese... Good thing he's fluent in English though!

Fujisawa is an incredibly beautiful place, part of our area is a place called Tsujido, which is kind of your classic beach town. A lot of the people we meet there love to talk, and it's such a pretty place. We’ve been doing a lot of work down through there and we've been finding a lot of success. It's only a 30-minute bike ride from Shonandai and the route goes along the river and through a bunch of farms. It's a fun transition to go through all these fields and suddenly there's city, then the city ends and there's a giant park, and then the beach. No complaints. 

Elder Poff and I have just been going to work and having so much fun doing it. Nothing too crazy has really happened this week, but we’ve just been super productive. I'm exhausted and I absolutely love it.  Anyways, were about to go to a driving range and Elder Magaña is betting money that he can send a ball farther than me, so... Love you all!  

 愛しています、  Elder Cuff   

Words of the Week: 

オペレーション (operēshon) Operation 

狼 (Ookami) Wolf 

戦隊 (Sentai) Squadron 

ダイナマイト (Dainamaito) Dynamite 

愛 (Ai)  Love   

The Beach and Enoshima Island

Side note from the mom: I asked Elder Cuff why there were no people on the beach. I was concerned that it was fenced off for a reason and a perfectly good beach was going to waste!

He replied, "The particular day we went was very cold and windy. This was a painful picture to take because sand was going everywhere and, well, got everywhere. I still find some in my ears every once in a while. I couldn't blame them."