FROM: ELDER CONNER CARLINI
DATE: SEPT. 14, 2015
SUBJECT: AN ACTUAL EMAIL THIS TIME!!

Hello wonderful family and friends! Sorry it's been a couple weeks of not so much emailing, hah. I'll make sure to fill you in on this last week and give you just a quick peek into the missionary life of Elder Carlini. Welcome

(Last) Monday - On this fine day, me and the man Elder Nakamoto went out and hit up some parks and talked with people! We found some great people, but some from not around here, and the others not interested. So unfortunately, things are still a bit dry here in terms of people wanting to learn more. But we are doing our best and trying to find someone new!! Good stuff.
We also went out and did some visits to less active members, inviting them to the special Ward conference we had this Sunday. Wooooh

Tuesday - This is when I sent my "email" last week, but i didn't really give you any information besides that we went to the temple. Yeah! Temple P-day. It was good. We went to TGI Fridays with some fellow missionaries and then at night, me and Elder Nakamoto did some more less active visits and Housing in the area.

Wednesday - On Wednesday we were supposed to have a Zone Blitz with all the missionaries in the Yokohama South zone. BUT we had some straight up Typhoon action coming in and it was cancelled. However, we were still able to go outside and try finding people to talk to, which we did for a bit! We talked with some people for a while, but as you'd expect, people didn't want tostay outside too long, haha. I got some crazy rain videos. Well it's not too crazy...just a lot of big rain, haha. We then had a lesson with Nakamotoさん, the king of Cool. It went well and we finished off the night with English Class. Less people came than usual because of the Typhoon, but it was still a lot of fun!

Thursday - On this fine day, we had only a slight chance to go out and talk with new people, but we found them! It was only a couple down at the bottom of the hill near our apartment, but they were really cool! One was from Cuba and the other was Japanese. We started the conversation in English but then when the Japanese girl asked if we spoke Japanese, we switched right over to that, haha. She was quite surprised. It was a fun conversation. And then we had the long haul of doing Weekly Planning over at the church. Made it through almost all of it, then had a dinner appointment with the new family in our Ward, the Larsens!! The father is American and he's married to a woman from Taiwan. They both speak/can speak Chinese and they're really nice people. It was great to get to know them and we had a delicious meal!

Friday - On Friday, we went to the ever-so-classic, Negishi Park again and had some great weather this time! It's nearing the end of the heat and beginning the slight descent into the Winter season. It's great weather right now. Still Humid, but not so dang hot anymore. Anyways, we started our regular route around Negishi Park and talked with whomever would stop to talk with us. There weren't too many people in the park this day, but then we found this young mate sitting on a bench and reading a book. So we said "hello!" and asked if he came to this park often. That started a nice conversation and we ended up sitting down with him and talking for a good while. He's a really nice kid and he laughed at my jokes. So I like him, haha! Anyways, he said he had some free time that same day, so we scheduled to meet up with him again at the church later in the day. We then proceeded on and did some more housing until District Meeting! We had a nice little District Meeting, and then our boy from the Park (his name is Muuto by the way) showed up at the church! He was able to meet all the missionaries of Yamate and our Zone Leaders from down in Kamiooka. And after we finished up the meeting, we were able to show him around the church and got the chance to teach him the restoration! We weren't really planning on teaching, but after we showed him around and mentioned the Book of Mormon, he said he wouldn't mind if we taught him more about the book. So we taught and testified, and I felt good about it. We then went out and had a little dinner with him nearby. It was a good time. Kind of like the miracle for the week.

Saturday - Unfortunately, on this night, when calling lots of people to invite to the Ward conference and also checking up on some other potentially interested friends, we called up Muuto and it wasn't as I had hoped. I forgot to mention that we gave Muuto a Book of Mormon and also left him with the commitment to try praying, both of which he agreed to and seemed excited about. However, after a nice conversation and asking about what he did today and whatnot, I mentioned/asked about the Book of Mormon and prayer. I wasn't expecting a resounding yes or anything, heck it was only a day later, haha. But, he told me that he hadn't tried and that he doesn't want to learn any more about the church or Jesus Christ...Noooo! The Famine continues... Hah, it made me way sad because I feel like I'm pretty good at at least being friends with the people I meet and through that, help them want to learn more. But he just said that he's alright and that he is "declining" learning more about the church. But he's down to meet again. Hah, dang. We'll see what we can do.
Anyways, that was at the end of the day, but what the most part of the day was me and Elder Lobaccaro being together for splits! It was fun. I had some forms I had to put together and fill out to send to the ward as District Leader, and then we went to do yet another Less Active visit. It was a way creepy place and there were tons of old people drinking beer and smoking, just walking around staring at us as we walked into an almost institution like outdoor building to find the apartment. Haha, it was interesting. We found the apartment, but no one home. Then we had an unexpected but solid visit with our man Kurata at Yamashita Park that ended up with a lesson at the church with the bishop too. As for now...he's back! And hopefully we can teach him till he can help himself out of the hard situation he's in right now. He's having a hard time... Let's get the Gospel to help him!

Sunday - Alright, so this was the Ward Conference, special Sunday I've been mentioning in this letter, and it went great! There were a lot more people at church than usual and the food/meal we had after church was great! We had lots of opportunities to talk with various members and non members, and it went swell. I'm really growing to love a lot more people in this ward. Fantastic. The Missionaries also sang with several ward members during sacrament and that was a cool little musical number. Besides being at the church most of the day and talking with lots of people, that was pretty much it. It was good!

And that's the week!
I have several pictures to send as well so be on the lookout for that too.
Love you all! Byeeee
愛してます！
じゃねー

Elder Carlini
カーリ二長老