Subject: It's October
From Elder Conner Carlini
Actual date and time: Oct 6 at 3:25 AM

Hellooo. This is Elder Carlini reporting in once again from
Japan's little prefecture of Hibarigaoka. I have now been here for
almost 3 full transfers and could be in danger of leaving soon! But
don't worry, we have about 3 more weeks left in this transfer so I'm
good for now. Anyways, we had a couple cool things go on this week I'd
say. First was going on splits with the Tokorozawa Elders. Since
they're placing Zone Leaders in different areas now, we get to head
over to Tokorozawa a decent amount on splits and all sorts of
missionary business. I was with Elder Suzuki, who is Japanese and half
Filipino. He has lived in Japan his whole life and didn't speak any
English before his mission, but now he's pretty good. Funny
missionary. Very different from regular Japanese folk, haha. Anyways,
we got to do some Sports Missionary work where we just go to a park
looking for people to play like basketball or soccer with, then play
and tell them about our purpose in Japan. It's always pretty
interesting to see what happens. Sometimes they are kind of weirded
out because religion (especially Christian) is kind of looked at
differently here. And then sometimes they think you're way cool and
wanna do whatever you do, haha! So we ended up finding some really
cool people to play basketball with and created a good relationship.
They were really nice and wanted to come to some activities we invited
them to. Unfortunately they are in Tokorozawa and I'm in Hibarigaoka
so although I might not see them again, I hope they continue to see
and meet the Elders in Tokorozawa!
From there, us and one of the other Elder companionships (Elder
Miyazawa and Elder Hunsaker) got to go with a member to a Kaitenzushi
(basically a revolving wheel with sushi on it that you can take from
whenever) and it was awesome! His name is Brother Fukuda and he's a
really great guy. We were able to chat with him and talk about good
old missionary work while eating sushi. And then at the end he said he
was paying for us all. Haha, we denied it and said we had no problem
paying but he insisted that he planned on it and wasn't gonna let us
pay, hah. The Kindness of a Japanese man can be quite Great.
And lastly this week, we had a lesson with my man Nakai Yuuta. He
is a deep thinker for his age, and he really wants to improve his life
and be happy. He sees that we are normally pretty happy and wants to
do what we do. So, we taught him about the Spirit and told him how it
reaches us and makes us feel. Then explained that a step to having
that feeling with us all the time is through Baptism. We had a really
good member present too so that helped us throw down some testimonies.
He now says that he wants to get baptized, but we don't have a
specific date yet. He is super busy with his job and can normally only
meet once in a week. And he also has to work every Sunday, so can't
come to church as of now. He's a way cool guy though. And I don't
think I've mentioned this, but he loves Tennis. I know my Dad will
like this so yeah, he went to a big tennis tournament last week with
Wawrinka and Nishikori (Japan's favorite player basically, haha) in
it. Sounded way cool. He looked like he had a lot of fun there.
Anyways, me and Elder Aoki are gonna keep working and give some people
opportunities to change their lives. That sounds way cool right? See
ya

Elder Carlini
カーリニ長老
神様の力によって何でも出来るね。

PICTURE 1: Me and Elder Aoki looking way cool


PICTURES 2 & 3: P-day and Elder Scott's Birthday