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Back to the Roots 🌊⛩ (Week 80)

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What’s up everybody!? Hope everyone had a great week! I keep telling myself I’m gonna write a way fire weekly email one of these weeks, but things keep coming up and it doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to see that Elder Sadler isn’t much of a writer. But, for the sake of all my fans, I’ll try to keep it interesting!

This past week was awesome! Last p-day was a lot of fun. Got some shopping done, helped the new Sister in the district buy her first bike in Japan, and had some sushi as a district. On Tuesday we had a couple district meeting to attend and then SPM (not really sure what it stands for but it’s basically a stake leadership/missionary coordination meeting). The fun part was that the Fujisawa stake center was my first area when I came to Japan almost a year and a half ago. I hadn’t had the opportunity to go back since then, so it was way cool to see the area and some of the members again (and I could actually speak Japanese to them this time, lol). Also had the opportunity to go with a good friend of mine, Elder McDonald, to visit my very first investigator, Homare, who has since dropped off the map. My trainer, Elder Dowdle, and I were the first missionaries to teach him and we developed a really close friendship. We were hoping that we could try to bring him back, but no one answered the door when we visited. It was way tough to hear about him falling away, but hopefully we will be able to help him find his way in the future. On Wednesday we had Zone Conference. We had ZC way early into this transfer, giving us very little time to prepare, so I was kinda worried about all our trainings and things, but it ended up going way well! We talked a lot about how we can become more effective teachers and how we can better strive to talk to everyone we possibly can. Good conference. Other than that, our week was filled with various other meetings, planning, meeting with investigators, and finding in between. The Lord’s work is great and I love it every day.

And that was a recap of our week! If it wasn’t that interesting, I guess it’s just one of those things that you’d have to be there to understand, lol. I’ll try to write an actual fire email next week. But until then, just know that I love you all, you are the best, and if I had to give you one bit of advice, it would be to go out and live in such a way that you will have no regrets looking back. One thing I have learned on my mission is that I never really regretted the things I did; I have only regretted the things I didn’t do. A wise man once said, “Whether you hit or miss doesn’t matter. Just swing.”

Elder Sadler
Gearing up for the Tour de France
 
Way pretty park in the south part of our area
 
Hole in the wall Ramen shop Elder Wood and I found on splits
 
80 cent banana milk!
 
Stamina-Taro
 

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