Que pasa? Week 85 in Japan

Hello. This is Elder Cuff. 

So here’s the happenings of the week. 

• We met with a man named Reuben. He is from Peru. I’m really wondering if I was sent to the right Mission, because I am consistently having to teach someone from Peru in every area I go to. Reuben is fluent in Japanese though, so that makes things easier. But he’s awesome. Has had a rough life. Wants to regain his faith from when he was young. He’s in his 40’s or so. He’s not a member, but he remembers the missionaries back when they taught his family in Peru way back in the day. Like even their names. So he really likes us. 
• Our homie that works for Heineken came to Curry Home Evening and had a blast. He’s a really fun dude. We’re going to be meeting this week so we’re pretty excited. 
• There’s a family that moved into the ward a few months ago that doesn’t speak Japanese so we’ve been translating for them at church every week. This week in testimony meeting there was about 5 min. left in the meeting and there were 4 people who were waiting to talk. The only thing is instead of bearing a shorter testimony than they originally planned, they all just said their testimony as fast as they could. I got lightheaded. 
• Ate dinner with the Honda family. It was glorious. It was like when I was first here. 
• Also ate dinner with Lt. Shimamura. ‘Twas a mighty good time. 

Other than that the week has been pretty solid. I was able to get back in contact with a couple of old buddies from previous areas and started working with them again so that’s been great. We’re gonna make plans to hang out with Eldon since he lives in Tokyo now and he said that Machida is close to him. Also Yamaguchi (guy who’s garage collapsed and then suddenly went off the radar) is back! He just suddenly responded to me after like 6+ months and just said, “sorry. I was taking a nap.” Hahaha but we’ve been talking back and forth. We might have some fun plans going on in the future. 

Other than that it’s just been a splendid week. We’re gonna get some yakiniku today so we’re pretty excited about that. Then next Monday we’re taking a small trip and climbing Mt. Ooyama. Elder Schow only has 3 P-days left so he wants to party. Love you all, have an awesome week!

愛しています、

Elder Cuff

Curry Home Evening

We celebrated Elder Schow's birthday with really yummy Yakiniku. Don't worry, there was more food!

Japan solving back problems, one park bench at a time.