Wow, this transfer is blowing by! To start things off, this week was Zone Conference week. Last Wednesday, we took a 6 hour bus ride to Iwamizawa, where I had the privilege of serving in my bean area (a missionary's first area) for about a day's time! We actually managed to find an old english-class member who stopped coming because of scheduling conflicts, and were able to introduce her to our Free Family English Program (or FFEP for short), through which the Iwamizawa Elders will be able to teach her family English alongside some gospel lessons! I also got to hand out a Book of Mormon that same day, which I haven't gotten to do in a while!
After our stay in Iwamizawa, we went down a bit further to Sapporo for the actual conference. While I don't remember most of what we talked about, I did get a decent amount of inspiration for how to serve better up here. We also discussed some safety points, primarily our emergency backpacks and the Corona virus that everyone's been talking about lately. Missionaries actually have very strict rules for interaction now because of the virus, such that we can't shake hands and are asked to just touch elbows if that sort of greeting seems requisite. But hey, I'm healthy and will likely continue to be, so all is well. Hope everyone back home is healthy too!
Anyways, after Zone Conference, we took our bus back to Wakkanai. Unfortunately, timing meant we were unable to hold English class, but we should be able this week. After that, not much of note happened, except Nakagawa Chourou and I accidentally missed our stop on a local bus, meaning we had to take a half-hour trip around the western shore of Wakkanai before getting back to our stop, and still had to pay the extra 5 dollars for it! That really killed my mood, but now I've begun making a point of paying better attention to the bus stops, so there's that.
That's all for this week! I remembered to take a couple photos this week, including one of the Iwamizawa church and an amusing typo at a bus rest stop. Hope you all are doing well, and have a good week! Matta ne!
Pics:
- A display for the Japanese Doll Festival
- Hehe, smorking :)
- Iwamizawa church building (ah, nostalgia)
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