Well another week gone. Its been interesting lately. The temperature has definately dropped especially at night which is challenging when you are out from 12 to 8 straight since it drops so much. Its has been raining alot and is supposed to snow soon, Im somewhat anticipating that. There are plenty of interesting people in Japan, and you meet alot of them when your job is to stop them and talk to them all day. The other day we were walking along and tried to stop a guy to talk to him, he was older maybe 60s and short and had diamond earrings and gold jewelry, which in Japan is quite rare. I give him the usual intro and he says "I dont care to talk about Jesus, Im Yakuza!" Yakuza is the Japanese mafia, which instantly explained his style. Ive heard crazy stories about these guys, so I said "its fine, can we talk about the mafia instead?" He gave me a laugh and said "you dont want to know. Good luck kid". Well, I tried.

We also met a lot of great people with interest, which is pretty rare too, so yeah! We have been seeing some great miracles. Last week we went to the zoo which was way fun, I havent been to the zoo in forever. Today another missionary and I who get up early and work out together every day decided to run up to the top of the mountain by our apartment. You go through all these trails winding up the hill and end up on this clearing where there is a big buddhist temple. It was very quiet and peaceful, and there was a monk up there pounding a drum and singing, we ended up talking to him.

The time is flying by, Ill be here again in a week before I know it.

Elder Andrew Kade Jones