Elder Chase Wilcox in Tokyo: Week #13: Tako Pancake Obsession

[Parental observation: Elder Wilcox started to share a few highlights of each day...it appears he must be fitting in and has an obsession with Japanese food or just food in general. Maybe those bike rides are giving him a healthy appetite.]

Zone bowling

So today was zone pday, we got on some crowded trains and went to Chiba to bow. We played two games was a blast uploaded pictures from last week of what i had. It was a blast and afterwards we went to an all you can eat place, where we ordered tako (octopus) pancakes that were really good and some noodles and stuff and grilled it up. Octopus pancakes don't sound good but trust me they are, then we Skyped with some investigators, and talked and taught lessons via video which is cool. Then we met one at KFC who bought a ton of food for us, like he is too crazy nice, and awesome. We then raced home in the rain before curfew. One person we set a goal for a baptismal date which is awesome and we will see where she goes. Excited and having fun time for bed, excited to see what miracles tomorrow brings .

Today was pretty cool we took a train for about an hour to Tateyama, then did comp study on the beach. After that some more study at the mall, then biked up some insanely steep hills to get to a Sisters house, who fed us so that's always nice. We talked to some friends on the way, and enjoyed running around all day. Tomorrow we are going to zone splits. So sleeping over at their apartment tonight.

So we slept at their house, its a little more in the city so its nicer, but I still like our house better, we have better beds, but it was awesome to teach with someone else just to get a fresh perspective. It was definitely awesome, just dendoing ( doing missionary work). We talked to some awesome people, then we went to a school, and in the middle of their school there was a fountain, with a bunch of huge Koi fish like literally the size of my leg, and they even had mustaches. Anyways at the school we volunteer and teach English for a class for students that want to attend. It was fun, we played "Do you Love your Neighbor". After we taught a recent convert and went to dinner with him. I had some spicy ramen stuff with egg, it was pretty good. We taught him about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and he shared a scripture he liked that he said was really powerful to him.

2 Nephi 25: 29 And now behold, I say unto you that the right way is to believe in Christ, and deny him not; and Christ is the Holy One of Israel; wherefore ye must bow down before him, and worship him with all your might, mind, and strength, and your whole soul; and if ye do this ye shall in nowise be cast out.

It was so cool as we read it together and he told us of how to him it was so powerfully written that he felt like he could not deny it. He was awesome definitely a little shy but I loved him.

Then we got to teach an Eikaiwa class, by the way splits is all going on in Chiba where they have a big ward of a hundred or 200 people, and at Eikaiwa there was like 30 people compared to ours that has like 6, we did some pronunciation practice, its hard for nihonjin to pronounce the English sounds they have never had to use before, so their mouths don't understand and its so much fun to hear them and their ideas. I imagine it is just as fun for them to hear me try and pronounce Japanese.

The zone leader I went on splits with was really nice and awesome, he has been out 18 months and has a nihonjin companion that looks like buddha (they have youtube/facebook videos) (find able) but anyways super cool experience loved the experience, but lots of traveling, we have like hardly any money because we had to spend it on trains for travel but we will get reimbursements, and I'm sure we will survive. At the end of the day, bought some Oreo mouchi ice cream and some yogurt. It was da bomb. I slept next to buddha he's very gassy and snores loudly.

Today was pretty sick, pretty fly, we headed back to Kisarazu, got aboard a train, I would have to say one thing that is not cool about traveling is bikes. If we want to transport bikes in Japan we have to take them apart and put them in a bike bag for the trip, then put them back together, not too bad, but still don't understand why we cant just take them on the train just how they are. But anyways- missionary problems - am I right?

Today was Zone conference, which means more travel, we have literally been traveling everyday and wow its expensive, but all good. We we to some restaurant where we got some really good chicken curry, I loved it absolutely awesome, then we got back had Eikaiwa class, talked with our artist friend, then a super old lady came and she is funny she just wanders around and she is impossible to understand. Then we visited our Member friend he is so funny like he is the biggest jokester ever. He and his wife came and saw us, they said hello, we talked for a little they gave us some food, because they are so nice, and just visited so nice to spend time with them. Things are going great cant wait for general conference tomorrow (we watch it a week after) we invited all our friends and investigators and they said they plan on coming so should be cool.

Today was was cool we had kodomo eikaiwa, taught some manners, please and thank you, played some hide and go seek, then right after we had general conference, we bought a bunch of food to watch it, it was really good, have it again tomorrow - excited for more, after general conference we went finding for a few hours, tons of biking, after it was over the bed never felt so good...😄

So today was Sunday the day of conference part 2. It was awesome to be able to relax and hear talks and during break the branch president's wife gave us food, this huge taco salad with rice of course and it was good and a ton of food, we finished the day by visiting some school to see if we could volunteer and then skyped with an investigator for a lesson who may be baptized soon, hope and pray he continues to feel the truth of this gospel.