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November 27, 2017 – Elder Jackson Kenneth Burton
Snow!
Hey
Everyone!
Things are going great here! It's
definitely winter now. There's quite a bit of snow and ice on the roads and
sidewalks now, and it's pretty cold. I'm staying warm enough though. This has
been a pretty good week, although we have one investigator named Shouma-kun who
told us he won't be able to meet until after Christmas because he's studying
for a big test to get into high school and he's super stressed. He's a great
kid and he could benefit from the gospel so much, so we're going to try and
still pay him short visits once in a while.
I did splits this week with another elder
in my district, Elder Harvey. He's definitely got a different style than my
trainer, so it was good to learn kind of a different approach. I'm slowly
improving with the language, one thing I've noticed is that I can usually
understand a decent amount of what other missionaries are saying, but when
natives speak it's so much harder to understand! They'll say a simple sentence
to me using all words that I know, and I don't recognize any of it. But I'm
working on it, I've just got to get used to the way they speak. Earlier this
week, a Japanese missionary in my district who's a black belt in karate did a
class for some of the kids in the ward. It was way fun. Until then I thought I
was fairly flexible, but now I know I'm not at all :) Those kids are like
rubber!
