First week in Meto....It's so cold! (Week 44)

Well, I'm safely in Meito, although I'm still sad to have been taken out of Shizuoka.  I still hate transfers.

I don't have much to report and I don't have a lot of time.....so here's just some basic information about what's been going on.

1.  I feel lost all the time--one of the reasons I hate transferring.  My companion has only been here for one transfer too, which is not enough time to get to know Meito ward (we have 160 members.....almost 2.5 times the size of my past two wards!), so I feel like we're both new.....

2.  We have 25 investigators.....but only 2 are progressing.  In Shizuoka we had 11 investigators with 2 progressing.....so, it just shows that the number of investigators doesn't really matter--it's just hard to find investigators here that are willing to keep commitments.

3.  It is so cold.  Especially coming from Shizuoka!  On Saturday it was especially cold, with some snow in the morning and then cold rain the whole day.  After 4 or so hours of being out in the rain, I was thoroughly convinced that my fingers were going to freeze off.  I need new gloves, I guess.

4.  I went to Mission Leadership Council (leadership meeting for Zone Leaders and Sister Training Leaders) on Thursday and I got to translate the whole time!  whohoo....  I'm convinced that my Japanese is getting worse every hour of my mission, because by the end of the meeting, I could hardly put together a sentence properly in Japanese.

5.  Dad--I taught seminary on Friday and we did a scripture dig! (:  The students did pretty well, and I think they liked having a change in the lesson style.

My goal for the week is to finish our apartment map (it's pretty bad....the names on there are so small....) so that I can feel more oriented in this area, and to focus on following the Spirit more.

Other than that.....there's not much to write!

Hopefully the pictures I send will make up for the words that I don't have time to write.....

Love you!