Week 33: I'll be stayin' (week 24 on the field)

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Hey,

    It's transfer week and I'll be stayin'.  This will be my 5th transfer so I guess you could say I'm a veteran here.  Or even say "I'm serving overseas in Okinawa".  February sure flew by fast!  It felt like this past transfer just started and It's already ended. 
   Yesterday, we, missionaries hosted a Family Home Evening with the Young Single Adults.  It was a Ping Pong and Pancake night, and the night went really well.  I sadly lost in the Elite 8 of the Tournament, but I tried to go easy on the other opponent (without throwing the match). 
We had a service project on Saturday and where we cleaned a grave that was hidden in a forest. It's weird that we just chopped down trees and chucked them off to the side for about 2 hours and the grandma that asked us to come along, the entire time, was like "Hey, it's hot outside and you'll get tired so drink while you're working."  She was a super nice grandma, and serving her just brought us all so much joy.  She took us out to steak afterwards so we were also happy about that. 
  We also went out to dinner with a prospective Elder named Ken.  He has plans to send his papers in July so We're trying to work hard along with him to gain that strength before going out.   We went out to sushi and had a great time.  One of our Eikaiwa (English class) students spotted us at the sushi place and the children came scrambling over to us. They were full of energy.  
  
 Good luck this week. I've been praying for everyone back home and hope blessing fall unto all of you like pouring rain in a summer storm. Stay Frosty!

Sincerely,

Elder Jacob Wilson

Standing in the pouring rain a couple weeks ago

A drawing on a white board I drew

Ping Pong & Pancake Night

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