Countdown Time!

Dear Parent/s,

Please find attached the final itinerary for your missionary.  They will be bringing home an envelope addressed to you, which will include:

• A letter to you from the Mission President.
• A copy of the letter that was written to your Stake President. 
• The Tuberculosis Test information page.  Please encourage the returning missionary to follow through with getting tested.

If you have any questions, please let us know.

Thank you,

Sister Wilson

Japan Tokyo South Mission Office

Just Another Week: Week 96 in Japan

There's these giant bees in Japan that can kill you if they sting you twice. There's a nest right outside our apartment. Keeps our morning runs exciting!

Hey everyone. We had a pretty fun week this week.

- We had another round of Futsal with the Machida 2nd ward. As usual it was tons of fun, the members are some of the funnest people I’ve met. It rained a little bit that morning while we were playing. One of the young men slipped pretty hard and completely broke his ankle. He got a priesthood blessing while we waited for the ambulance and it was awesome to see the comfort come over his face afterwards. The Lord cares for his people.
- That same night we had dinner with one of the families in the ward. They brought their friend with and we got to teach her so that was really cool. She’s come to church for the past couple weeks so it’s cool to be apart of all of this. It’s honestly a huge miracle. We also had a TON of food. The bike ride home was really rough.

Sorry it’s not a lot this week, we’re in a bit of a hurry before we have another appointment. I’ll have a bit more next week!

愛しています、
Elder Cuff

Zone Conference: Week 95 in Japan

Elder Miyagawa has been teaching me Kansai, he got really excited about this whil housing.

We had a stellar week, serving as a three-man companionship with Elder Lindhardt and Elder Miyagawa has been an absolute blast. They’re really fun guys who like to work hard. Finding with these guys have been so much fun!

Had to introduce Elder Miyagawa to the king size at Sukiya!!

So we discovered something on our map. There’s another train station in our area besides Machida. It’s this small, quiet, wonderful place on the exact other side of our area, so of course we biked out to it! We passed out fliers and had a wonderful time. The people there were incredibly nice and it was fun to see somewhere new. 

We had Zone Conference where I gave a training. I was really nervous but I hope it went okay. It was really nice being able to get together with the missionaries in the Zone and President Warnick. The Warnick’s are awesome and have been a super positive influence in my life. So glad I’ve gotten to work with them. 

Zone Conference

We had a lesson with Masaya who’s preparing to be baptized at the end of the month. We pushed by the day a little bit because, although he’s excited, he’s working on overcoming a few things. One of the major things with him has been tobacco. He’s been using it for about 40 years now. This past lesson we had with him was an absolute miracle. He came and told us that he’s cut his tobacco completely in half, but he’s done with it entirely after this. He said he doesn’t know why, but for the past 40 years tobacco has been fine, but since a few weeks back he gets really nauseous whenever he smokes and says that now it just tastes disgusting. So things should be going well from here. Good thing The Holy Ghost helps us out cause it’s made this addiction recovery thing a whole lot easier. I love how much the Gospel changes lives. It’s so nice to be given the opportunity be part of this work and help people change. I love it. 

Have a stellar week. Give someone a hug and tell them something nice!

愛しています、

Elder Cuff

Luau: Week 94 in Japan

It’ll be really quick today with some pictures and a quick run down. 

• One of the Elders in the neighboring area got sick and is going home, Elder Reid got emergency transferred and will be taking his place so I will be in a three man companionship with the other elders in the apartment. Also makes us one of the most international companionship’s. American, Japanese, and Danish forces will now unite to spread this joyous message. Stay tuned. 

• We threw a Luau down in Fujisawa and I got to dance and do the haka again. Me and Elder Chab are the only guys left from Poly Night earlier this year so we got to teach and do a lot of the dancing and singing. Twas a good time. It was crazy going back and being able to see all the Fujisawa members again, they’re awesome and it was nice to have a chance to say goodbye real quick. 

Trust me! It was more organized than it looks!

• Did an awesome activity with the youth where we had them use their cell phones to do some missionary work. It was awesome to see their enthusiasm in using technology to uplift and help others. We then enjoyed a bunch of curry and Soba, joked around a bit (these kids are hilarious) and finished out the night. 

My boy, Elder Ormond, and I.

 

Love You all! Be nice to others. Don’t judge but uplift one another. Seek to be a blessing not a burden. And smile!

愛しています、

Elder Cuff

Transfers: Week 93 in Japan

Bishnu's

We had an ultra busy week this week with a lot of hills and a lot of up and downs. (No pun intended) 

Basically this week consisted of a lot of looking for people and honestly facing a lot of let downs and disappointments. Lots of appointments that we were excited for fell through. But despite the let downs I’ve had a great week this week. We had a lot of fun just being missionaries. It’s really simple, you just invite people and help them and go from there. Some things work, some things don’t, but it’s all good. So is life.

Our man Shun was able to come to Curry night and Elder Reid and I had a great time. He’s honestly one of the funniest guys I’ve met and has been an incredible companion. I’ve found that there’s such thing as bad moments, like rejection and stuff. But there’s no such thing as a bad day. 

Had to say goodbye to my good friend Elder Sadler this week. The man is on his way back to Bama, which is good because he lost his accent. Hopefully it’ll come back soon. As any good friend should, we celebrated with Indo curry at my friend Bishnu’s place. 

It’s been a lot of the usual this week. Find. Teach. Love a little more. Turn a little bit more outward. 

Alma 37:6

“...by small and simple things are great things brought to pass.”

愛しています、

Elder Cuff

Eikaiwa

Pic from Ooyama a while back

Hey, Friends & Family: Week 92 in Japan

This week had a lot of good things happen, but I'm not feeling too great right now so I'm going to keep this a bit shorter with a list of things that happened.

-Did family home evening with the Hayashi family, had a great time, their son is the cutest!

-Went on splits with Elder Otsuka. He's an awesome humble guy filled with lots of love. A great example I can look up to.

-Ate lunch with the Kousaka family. It was amazing and we were able to teach about prayer to Brother Kousaka who isn't a member. He's such a fun guy.

-Played futsal with a bunch of members. I'm really tired from that.

- Ate yakiniku.

That's pretty much been it. We got transfer calls and Elder Reid and I are staying together. It's going to be a blast! We are hoping to accomplish some good things that are growing along the way. Good things to come!

-Elder Cuff