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The Empire Strikes Back🚀⛩ (Week 50)

Hello everyone! It has been another great week here in Yokosuka. In all honesty, I can't even remember a whole lot of what happened, but that's because we were working hard and having a blast! I'll do my best to cover the highlights though.

To begin with, last Monday we had plans to do a district p-day and go bowling, but it ended up being a little more expensive than we anticipated, so we went shopping as a district. Which turned out good
because I had some birthday shopping to do anyways haha. I ended up buying a new pair of shoes, getting my bike fixed up, and bought matching pajamas as a district. It was a blast. I'll attach pics of
the pajamas below. During the week, Elder Taniguchi and I went out in the heat and went to work. We talked to lots of cool people so hopefully something good will come of it. We were also finally able to meet with Andrew (our referral from Bro Peacock) this week as well! He is a way cool guy and I am excited to work with him. On Saturday, we had a big "American Cookies" making event with a bunch of Japanese people. It was way fun! Got to meet some way cool people and ate way
too many cookies. No regrets haha. After the cookie event, we had a great dinner appointment with the Franklin Family! I don't want to pick favorites, but they're pretty much the best. It will be sad to
see them go later this year. On Sunday, we finally had our Special Sacrament meeting! Elder Taniguchi and I had two investigators lined up to attend but unfortunately both of them fell through. A lot of the friends that were invited by members fell through as well, so it was just like a normal sized meeting. I'm not going to lie, I was pretty disappointed. It turned out to be a great service in the end though. There were lots of fantastic talks and beautiful musical numbers. The spirit was way strong. Today, we are going to Kamakura and I am pretty excited. There is lots of sweet Japanese history and I'm probably going to spend too much money so I'll send pictures next week.

It was good to hear from everyone this week and it sounds like things are going good. Hope everyone has another great week and sends me lots of emails! I look forward to hearing from you all. Until next week,
愛しています!



Matching Star Wars Pajamas!  The Empires Strikes Back






Our Homie Andrew

American Cookies

Picture from Sweet Home Alabama

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