Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Figuring the Niigata area out

Hello family! So how is everyone today? So here's the thing. Today we would have had time even with the 8 people on the computer but A sister invited us to lunch in 30 minutes and well.....yeah. So I will have to make this short but although you people think you are being cut super short on these letters I really am not cutting them that short. I really don:t have that much to say, I realize I should but yeah. Not really. So as for the area. This week went by way fast and it felt like we got nothing done. Seems like everyday there is not enough time to get things done. A lot of stuff is just getting consistently put on the the back burner and that back burner is getting pretty full at this point. Technically I am not the district leader because our district is 10 people and the district leader is in a different area but yeah. There are 8 missionaries just in this area so yeah it takes a lot of doing to keep everyone working effectively. And there are also almost 600 members in this area with every week 60-70 coming so you can see there is somewhat of a crazy balance there so I have also taken it upon myself to sort out the ones that don:t need to be dealt with right now and try to get some of these people to come back soon. Still no investigators. The guy that came to church we still haven't gotten in contact with. Last week we had two old investigator lessons planned but one out of my stupidity didn't work out and the other was a high school student who never showed. This week as of this moment no lessons are planned. We will try to pull something together though. Also probably the most embarrassing moment of my mission we went to visit an LA member and he wasn't home so we talked to his dad for a bit then left and the next day in missionary coordination meeting there seems to always be new random people that sit in. Then we explained what happened with this LA and the ward mission leader just chuckled. Looked over at one of the brothers sitting in who also had a funny look on his face and said, "So......why weren't you home? And why are you *LA* anyway?" Then he looked at us and said, "I realize I don:t come every week but come on." Yep. Hes active, very active but on our sheet in the apartment he is not marked as active. Super embarrassing. I kinda wanted to die. We had splits which was fine. Also I really wanted to ride the bullet train there but just didn't work out. Maybe I will ride it to district meeting in two weeks down there. It actually takes more time because you end up shooting past the city and then have to take another train back to the city that he lives in but it might be worth it for the experience. Lets see. Not much time left and not much to say. By the way does Sister O email you in English? You will probably be getting soon another email with pictures because we ate with them last night. And yes members bring us food every week. Good stuff. They are way nice. Well I guess we will end with that. Not that short is it! yay for me. Love you, until next week. email you in English? You will probably be getting soon another email with pictures because we ate with them last night. And yes members bring us food every week. Good stuff. They are way nice. Well I guess we will end with that. Not that short is it! yay for me. Love you, until next week.

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