Hello again!

Hello everyone! Merry Christmas!

Tuesday: We had district meeting. That was fun. There was chocolate. That night we had a dinner with the family of Mark, the street preacher guy from Minnesota. His wife made French-dip sandwiches. It was amazing! We had the opportunity to share our testimony with them. But the sandwiches were great and the spiritual promptings were real.

Wednesday: Today was the Christmas conference for half the mission. We were with Fujisawa stake, so I saw the old district. We sang most of the Christmas hymns. There was a white elephant exchange and I gave these things with hands on the end and an eternal pass along gift from the apartment. I got a kendama, a Japanese toy. Really fun. Then we had a great Eikaiwa. Some of the students are really prepared, just super busy.

Thursday: Today was weekly planning, always takes forever, but is worth it in the end. Then we visited Sal, from Turkey. He was tipsy from whiskey, but he made us some really spicy habanero soup. Then we went to ping pong night thinking that Kurenuma was coming, but he didn't. He missed 2 appointments this week. We were worried about him.

Friday: today we did less active visiting and the ward Christmas party. We had a lot of cake, pizza and we sang "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing". That was a busy day. We passed 1000 flyers in about a week for that. Opened the package and found the advent calendar late. It was fun though.

Saturday: we cleaned the church, which was just us after the party. Then we went to Tokorozawa to do caroling. That was amazing. We made so many people smile! Lots of gaijin, kids, and old people stopped for a while. We sang for 2 hours. We then streeted around and taught a really cool kid who asked for a Book of Mormon. Then we had a lesson with Kurenuma, who has reset his baptismal date for January 14th. He really wanted Spackman Chōrō to baptize him, but we cleared it up that he is not coming back anytime for a long time. But he wants to be baptized and he is doing great.

Sunday: Christmas! We had lots of random people show up to church. It was a big loud after Sacrament mingle where members gave each other presents. We had a great shokuji (meal) in Kiyose and in Shakujikoen. The Kiyose one was a nice short one with a young family, the Ishimines. The night one was with the Toma clan. It was huge! I was so full! Great day, just like back home.

Monday: called family, I think they will tell you about it. We had a nap. Went shopping, sat. That was about it.

I love you all!
マーフィー長老

Hello and Merry Chistmas

Hello everybody. I'm a little short on time today, but I will do my best.

So last Monday we had a dinner with the Asada's. there sister Asada I had her old book of Mormon. When she was and investigator, she didn't know if it was true or not. But there was a fire and that book of Mormon was saved. And everything else burned. All of the other religious books. And then she read it cover to cover even though didn't have covers. And she knew that it was true after reading it. I know that it is true too.

Nothing really happened on Tuesday. But on Wednesday, Spackman Chōrō and I went to Kichijoji to help Mission Office out. We were test dummies for a new pamphlet. That was hard. We talked about "who is God?". That was pretty much his last dendo opportunity. Then we had Eikaiwa, which is always fun. We had more than one student in class this week.

Thursday was transfers. Millard Chōrō successfully moved rooms. He is transfer 8 and from Tennessee. We went hard. We met all of our goals, talked to about a hundred people in 4 days, and got some new people to teach. This next week is already mostly booked. I don't know how they do it in other places, but there is a lot of time spent in Japan just finding. We had a guy tell us he would love to meet and we set up an appointment and then he said that he didn't want to meet because he is Buddhist.

"Elder Murphy is the snack machine. I've never seen a man eat so many snacks in one day it's quite amazing I count it as a miracle in my prayers at night" (Elder Millard)

I have actually lost a lot of weight here. I don't know how. But yeah, Friday and Saturday and Thursday were all very finding filled days.  It was also very windy and cold. But we are doing our best to make it fun. Going to a different station to talk to people it's really fun. It's only four minutes away but it's a really different atmosphere.that is about it for the week. Today we talked to people, ate food and wrote emails. We went shopping for white elephant, but you will have to hear about that next week.

Love you, keep asking me questions so that I can give better emails for you.

Love you, マーフィー長老

Hello from me!

Hello everyone! Great final week of the transfer. I am staying in Hibarigaoka and my companion is Elder Millard. He is the district leader right now and we went on splits for at least half of the transfer. This transfer is 8 weeks, so we will get a lot of work done.

Tuesday. I was on splits for today so that Elder Spackman could give training to the Kichijoji district leader. We visited a really nice less active named Uenoyama Kyōdai. He went on a mission to Hawaii about 50 years ago. His English is still perfect. Then that night Kurenuma had his interview. I had to wait out in the hallway, so I read Jesus the Christ and ate marshmallows and drank Blood Orangina, which might be my new favorite drink.

Wednesday: District meeting, fun, lots of snacks. Baptism prep, great, lots of phone calls in Japanese for a couple of hours. Eikaiwa, fun, we only had one student in advanced class, so we talked about what the missionary schedule is like. My kanji is 摩府医, which basically narrows down to mafi, but means magic metropolitan doctor.

Thursday: Zone meeting in Kichijoji. Lots of talk about finding and improving Eikaiwa professionally. We also did weekly planning, which is "always" fun. We played ping-pong with a less active named Nakamura Kyōdai and Kurenuma. That was intense. Real Japanese takkyu. Then we taught about enduring to the end.

Friday: Another splits day because of Tokorozawa and Kichijoji district meetings. We had a full plate of lessons. Too many to remember, especially with the baptism the next day.

Saturday: Transfer Calls. The zone leaders are going back together and the new Elder coming in is Elder Hawkins from England. Fun! We had all of our appointments fall through today, that was bad. Then we went and started filling the font with 60 degree water (Celsius). We start that about 2 hours before the service and 20 minutes before it starts, we have the Kurenuma experience (see first paragraph), and find out there is something wrong with the water spout. We and a couple of members start to fill the font with 2 buckets and a tea pot from the other sinks on the first floor. That was great. Other than the two setbacks from the day, it ended well with Hiro shimai being baptized! We also went out to eat with the Aoki family. I love squid and octopus. Just a heads up, when I get back, we are eating real Japanese food as soon as I find a good place in Spring.

Sunday: I am exhausted. It was all kind of a blur, but we did get to talk with Kurenuma. He called us and asked if it was still ok if he came to church. We were really confused, but he thought that we were really mad at him. We were not, we were ecstatic that he still wanted to talk to us! We also biked 6+ miles in the freezing cold to check on a referral. That was not fun. I couldn't feel anything when we got back, but I hope the family called us back, they weren't home.

Monday: Not much. Shopping with the Elders. I found a cool cup, forgot to take a picture. Got some socks, a new tie, and some good snacks.

I love you all! Check out this talk: "What Lack I Yet" by Larry L. Lawrence from October 2015. It was really good! Can't wait to talk to some of you at Christmas.


Bonus letter to Dad:
There are so many good snacks here now that I know where to look. I can have sour, sweet, spicy, and salty at anytime, but I dint know about eating a whole plate of cookies. My diet has changed a lot. We eat rice everyday and I have been making French toast almost everyday this week. I get bored of rice sometimes, so we have noodles! It is pretty much what everyone eats in Asia, so I don't feel so bad. I am looking forward to seeing you guys at Christmas, but I don't know when it will be yet, the president hasn't told us yet. Love you,
Connor



マーフィー長老

The week of these days

Went to Yokohama for p-day

Hello! Right now I am on the train from Yokohama to Hibarigaoka. There are so many languages here. German, French, Chinese, Japanese, English, and that is just within a couple of seats of each other.

Recently, I have been teaching lessons on Dendō time (that is a joke, I do that all of the time). We had a lot of lessons with new people, so after Kurenuma is baptized on Saturday, we will still have people to teach.



On Wednesday, we had District meeting, which was weird because Millard Chōrō (DL), was sick and didn't feel well enough to make it interesting. He is better now though. 👍 I went on splits with him to go and meet with a Street preacher from Minnesota. He pretty much talked at us for an hour and a half, telling us that we should not believe in the Book of Mormon or in having works, but to only have faith and that we insult Heavenly Father if we try to do anything for Him. His pointless argument made me not a happy camper until Eikaiwa, which always cheers me up. Shig, a really skilled old guy, said that he is going to make our names into kanji, so I am looking forward to that.


Saw some big fish

Thursday was MLC, for all of the Zone Leaders and Sister Training Leaders, so Millard Chōrō and I were together again. We went hard! So many people on the streets outside of the Pachinko and Karaoke parlors. We met a guy who just got to Japan from Turkey, but is half American. He is opening an American and Turkish souvenir store. He showed us his friends restaurant, which was amazing. That was the best Kebab sandwich I have ever had. There are a lot of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern restaurants here. He was really prepared. He literally told us his life story over dinner and he was really open with hearing what we had to say.

Friday we did normal stuff. (Did I mention there were district meetings in Tokorozawa and Kichijoji, so I am still on splits). Spackman Chōrō and I got back together and we went to a shokuji with the Asada's. the Asada's are this cute old couple in the ward and Asada Shimai can cook like no other. We went with Kurenuma and we had a lesson about tithing and fasting. The Asadas were perfect for that. They have had so much experience with tithing, they really helped Kurenuma. Asada Kyōdai served a mission when most of northern Honshu was a mission. They could wear hats and the Americans were there for 3 years so that they could learn Japanese.

Saturday was long. We cleaned the church, and did some studying. Then we went to Kichijoji with Kurenuma. We went for a baptism and concert. Michiko, the lady being baptized, is so funny. She basically told Kurenuma, I am being baptized, so now you have to be baptized. She was so happy, maybe the happiest Nihonjin I have seen in a while. The concert was the Shibuya Institute Choir and that was awesome. By the end of it, everyone was crying and all of the choir members were really emotional. You could feel the Spirit a lot there. You should see if they are on YouTube or have a website. They are the Little Witnesses.

Sunday was good. Church, a good lesson in Gospel Principles class about the Ten Commandments. We submitted stats and went housing. Met some really cool people, had some awkward conversations, and it was less cold than it has been recently.

Monday, we went to Yokohama and met some of Spackman Chōrō's friends from Yamate. We had Chinese food, which was weird compared to Japanese. We walked around Chinatown. It has been a long day. Also, the December Ensign is really good, you should read it.

 

Ok, I need to go, but I love you!

Real letter

Wow, this week was busy. We had 2 thanksgivings, the Japanese one and the American one. The bishop had us over on Thursday and it snowed. I love the snow. The Aoki family had us over on Wednesday. They are a young family with a 3 kids. It was really fun. We talked about Star Wars, which I am starting to miss now that there are advertisements everywhere for "Rouge One". Then we had a meal with the Bishop's family.  We had pizza from Costco, which is a big deal because there is only 5 in the mission.

It snowed on Thursday if you saw the pictures. Other things this week: district meeting, zone meeting, interviews with the president, temple P-day. We found the nicest old lady while housing the other day, I don't remember if I told this to you or not, but she was so nice and open and accepting. We introduced her to the sisters the next day and she really likes hearing about Our Heavenly Father. We also visited a lodging home. The old people were so funny! We sang carols for them.

Our friend K should be getting baptized on the 10th, we had some awesome lessons this week. Lots of faith building. He really admires a member of the ward who does a lot of translating for the church and almost every Japanese video that I have on Gospel Library is his voice. He is really cool. We had family home evening at the homebu, so that was fun. We biked to Kichijoji a lot again. I had really good sukemen this week. I love you all! Thank you for writing me. And this is Ramen Jido, which is a super good place in Hibarigaoka (Hebarigahooka).

Elder Murphy
マーフィー長老

Poster send to Quinten

Waking up to an earthquake

We heard about the earthquake and tsunami warning yesterday but were not worried about Connor.  Glad to hear from the mission. Here is President Warnicks letter.

Dear Parents,

This is a brief note to let you know that your missionaries are all safe and accounted for following this morning's earthquake off the northeast coast of Japan. The quake, occurring at 5:59am local time, measured 7.4 on the Richter scale; but was still felt here in the mission some 250 miles away. Although the resultant tsunami warnings for 10 ft. waves along the northeastern coast of Japan prompted evacuation from low-lying areas there, the impact for us here in the mission was simply a gentle rocking in our beds as we woke up this morning--there was no damage or injuries here.

We love your missionaries and will continue to do everything in our power to keep them safe. We appreciate the constant love and support you show your missionaries.

Sincerely,

President J. Paul Warnick

Japan Tokyo South Mission

Transfer 3, week the first

Elder Spackman. Transfer 16 of Boise Idaho.
Will attend Utah State. About a head and
a half taller than me.

Our apartment, second floor, used to be a sister
apartment, so it is pretty nice, but super small.

This is a creepy house by the church.
Too many Winnie the Pooh bears.

Here is our church, the gate is actually used here!

Not Hibarigaoka, but the next Eki over, I don't know what it is
called yet.

So, this week was transfers. I am no longer a beanchan!

On Tuesday, we spent all morning cleaning. Well, I didn't do any cleaning, I was packing, but the others made the apartment look beautiful! We went and streeted the Eki afterwards, didn't really find anyone it was so cold. Then our evening lesson fell through, so we decided to hack at our area book of over 100 people! Most of them were old, but you never know.

Wednesday: Had a good morning, no complaints. Then we went to Tsujido, where all of the surfing in Honshu is. Every other person's bike had a side rack for their board. We heart attacked 4 families that day. A heart attack is when we cover the door in paper hearts and candy. It is pretty fun. They never say anything, but it builds a relationship with the ward. The last house was super hard to find and when we rang the bell, someone answered and recognized us, and sent us away. We were really confused and thought we were at the wrong house, but no, we were "kekko desu"ed by the elders quorum presidents wife. So we heart attacked their mailbox instead. That threw us off, so we finished off or last day with contacting the 100+ hard to find people in Fujisawa.

Thursday: transfer day. We see Dowdle Chōrō off to get his new trainee. Then we stopped at the church to get some chocolate that Akemi, an old investigator of mine, super sweet old lady, had left for me. There was a print of Fuji-san with it, so bonus! Then I left. I got on a train for Yokohama and I had to stand with my bike all alone for 2 hours. I only had to transfer lines once, in Yokohama, but that was pretty easy. Then I stood until I got to Hibarigaoka. I got to the Eki and Spackman Chōrō really is as tall as I was told he would be. We streeted to the church, which is 7 minutes from the Eki. Then we had a lesson with a really cool programmer. I hope he contacts us back. Then we walked another 9 minutes to our apartment. So yes, I ride a bike literally everywhere now.

Friday:
    Our District:
Elder Millard- district leader, from Tennessee, transfer ~8
Elder Molen- zone leader, from Utah, transfer 11
Elder Spackman- zone leader, from Idaho, transfer 16
Me!- Transfer 3
Sister Casteñeda- Sister training leader, from Mexico(?), transfer 9
Sister Hartshorn- transfer 2

I went on splits with Millard Chōrō. We were together all day. The ZLs were at district meetings all day. We worked really hard, maybe a little too hard... we only took about 20 minutes for dinner. But that was rewarding. If you try something to the best of your abilities, the Lord will bless you.

Saturday: so today was 6 hours of meetings in Kichijoji. Kichijoji is only a 20 minute bike ride south and it is all flat, so it was really easy. First was a stake priesthood meeting, then a family history fair, and then a stake conference session. That was long. I learned so many words.

Sunday: last session of stake conference. So long! We went and ate lunch and went to Streeting. Met some interesting people, but no new investigators. Did some good Kubari. Went and contacted a bunch of PI's, we were pretty tired from all of the bikes.

Monday: cold day. We are writing emails and shopping. There is not much to do in Hibarigaoka. Tonight we are going to find someone to teach if it kills me.

Actually teaching in Japanese and SYLing has helped me so much. I can hardly write in hiragana and katakana, it takes me so long. I will be Working on that this transfer. I am in one of the oldest, transfer-wise, apartments in the mission, so I should be able to boost my speaking.

Bonus: Part of Connor's letter to Dad

So we just had a family history fair! It was great, it was just youth and missionaries having the opportunity to talk about what they are grateful for in their families and to tell funny stories. I told my partner, this little 11 year old about to be a deacon, about grandpa Murphy and how he worked on trains. I showed him the picture of him hanging off of the caboose. It was funny! Japanese always see trains as passenger cars, but seeing a goofy American on a caboose was really cool for him. Thank you for helping me love family history! Most of my reservations just expired, so you need to go back through and get all of the ordinances done for our loved ones. The temple will be closed next year, and I couldn't do them anyways.

Extra Bonus: Part of Connor's letter to Mom

I miss reading books. I am reading Jesus the Christ right now though. It is super good. It just took some time to work on me. I am glad that the Librarian at Northgate remembers me. I don't remember her, but she helped me get some confidence with Battle of the Books. That was so long ago.  I can't believe that it is already Thanksgiving! Holidays don't really matter in Japan, so we usually just have a nice dinner or mention it during the day. But I will miss just eating a lot and having a nap. As you know, missionaries don't ever stop doing stuff. This was an easy transfer, travel and luggage wise. I only had to switch trains once, which is a miracle, considering that I had to go all of the way across the mission. Sagawa, the company that ships luggage, came on time, delivered my stuff on time, I packed my carry on well, my bike isn't very heavy, and there was no one on the trains when I left Shonandai.

This Week

So we got transfers this week. I am transferring to Hibarigaoka. I all of the way across the mission now. I get to be on a train for a long time, but not as much as Greer Chōrō from the MTC, he has 6 hours ahead of him. This week was good, lots of shokujis.

It is pretty cold when the wind blows here, it goes straight through you. We have been visiting a lot of members and calling people recently, trying to set up lessons for the next transfer. Tomorrow I am having curry with a new investigator, who is a college student studying English. This week was the weirdos split I have ever had. I was with the person I should have been for most of the day, but then he had to go on splits. I was then with this other elder from Atsugi, but he was going on splits with Porter Chōrō. So I ended up with McDonald Chōrō for the end of the night. I biked about 20 miles over the past 2 days. That was exhausting. I didn't really do anything today, but I am reading Jesus the Christ and am on chapter 13. For William, I have reached Acts. For Quinten, I want to see what you are cooking up with Legos. Gretta, keep being cute. Gavin, don't get swamped at school or NYLT. Mom, thank you for raising me the way you did. Dad, thank you for being the best always. Love you all!

Note from Dad: we have updated the Mission Map page with pins of his new Ward building as well as our best guess of his apartment.  He will be junior companion to Elder Spackman who is on his last transfer. 

Also, this transfer will only be 4 weeks due to Christmas and then the following transfer will be 8 weeks to get everything back on track.

The p-day of Meat

Today we had an all you can eat BBQ. It was so much. We are probably going to eat dinner really late and a super small size. Right now we are playing around the world ping-pong. It is very dizzying. I can play ping-pong with one hand. This is hard. This weekly visit a lot of members. That was fun they are all doing well. The transfer is almost over. Can't wait to see where I go next. It is exciting. I hope you all saw the picture that I sent of the schedule that's about the same as this week. Right now we are going to go shopping. We need to get a lot of basics. Ties are annoying. I cannot wait to see what adventures are here this week. We found 20 big apartments was 100 doors each.
Quick Nihongo update: everyone thinks that I am pedapeda, or fluent, but I am not and I am dying. I can get a lot of the just, but the whole sentence evades me.
Here are the pictures for this week:

Here is today's Yakiniku.

Guess what we saw about Shonandai!

I am dying! You all will have to wait for me to get back for all of these movies.


Love you all, thank you for telling me how you are and for William, I am racing you. I am in John right now.

Matta nae!

穴奈白奴奈墿橾 諂今氏及珨楓分中允五哫諒�匹﹝

Yay P-Day! Ice cream! And an 🐙!

First Pictures...


Takoyaki party with the Chiba's
Takoyaki is ebelskievers with octopus.
Murphy's - you know what to do!

This is a bird I saw. Yup













Hey, look what I can read!

Wow, we have a lot of
 hot chocolate!

Might go to this concert, but probably not.
It is 12$ away.

Ok, now the other stuff.

Today is p-day and we are just going to stick around Shonandai. I will be finding a scarf soon, because it is cold! And the sun rises at 6, sets at 5ish, and is behind clouds a lot. I cannot wait for snow! Or a storm. Either would be fun.

So, since last week, I have been a senior companion, duped by an old man, eating strange things, and biking.

Tuesday: went to Tsujido to meet O! He has had so much improvement over the last two transfers. We also got in contact with a PI from Nepal. He was so excited and invited us to a Nepalese party in Hodogaya, but that is way out of our area, we had to reassign him to other elders, so that was too bad, but he will be better taken care of there.

Wednesday: Kinjin?!( Golden investigator?!) we met with a man named Hayashi and he has been trying to meet with us for a long time. He was awesome. Really excepting of the Restoration and all of that. But, there were some fishy things about him. He knew words he shouldn't have known. We were confused. I met a crazy British person at the Eki today. It was not the first meeting with our district. Not fun. Very rude and anti everything.

On Thursday was the new missionaries Facebook training, but Porter and Dowdle Chōrōtachi were sick with a cold. I got to take McDonald Chōrō all of the way to Kichijoji and be trainersama for a while. I was the only one of my doki (transfer age), there. I saw Battaglia Chōrō! While I was telling him how things were going, Hayashi came up. He then proceeded to tell me exactly what he looked like and his life story. That's right. We have a senkyōshi troll. This guy floats around the two Tokyo missions and wastes missionary time by taking the lessons and then disappearing when he progresses. I was so disappointed. We called the president to see what we should do. He was down for us snapping a picture at our next lesson, but then he tuned into the spirit and said that we should just stop meeting with him. So if you ever hear about any missionary in tokyo with an investigator who looks like Willy wonka, it is probably Hayashi, or kobayashi.

Friday: sports night and Book of Mormon class. We had an investigator and an old investigator come to Book of Mormon class. It was great. Really helped set up for the next lesson. By the way, I teach the advanced Eikaiwa class and most of the students used to be investigators. It is sometimes awkward because we try and mention the church in conversations, but they were all not interested before. They are super nice though.

Saturday: we cleaned the church today. We weeded and pruned the outside bed. It took an hour for 8-9 people working on everything. That was a mess. But afterwards, we had curry with the high priest group. They are super funny old people. It isn't like at home where there are younger people in the group. Afterwards, we checked out the city festival, or Machimasturi. It reminded me of the Preston Pioneer Day celebration. Tiny with a lot of people everywhere. That evening, we went in early because Dowdle Chōrō had a cold. He is getting better now and I haven't caught it yet.

Sunday. Sunday is a special day. A day for members to strengthen each other. Because there is only one ward in the building, the members don't get pushed out by other people, so they are able to comfortably talk to each other. Yesterday after church the festival had a parade, so some people weren't able to leave on the roads. We had a dendō meeting with the bishop. He is super cool. We figured out that our teaching capacity per week is about 200 lessons, but only if the ward brings us people to teach. The ward is really active in wanting to help the work move on, but they just need to open their mouths. They will get there though. The Lord has promised that Japan will be a great place for the Saints if the members will make the change and talk to people. We had a takoyaki party with the Chiba couple. They were married last month, takoyaki is basically an ebbelskiever with octopus. It is actually pretty good. We had to bike there, it was 45 minutes both ways, which was fun not fun. We looked like a biker gang or the sandlot crew going to the field. It was funny.

I love you all. Miss you!

Any day is good to send me emails, and I don't care how long they are. 愛しています！

マーフィー長老

I forgot to tell you about the ice cream! Today was a 31% off at Baskin Robbins. It was good. Then we walked around. And sat. That was pretty much our p-day. Here is us last night on bikes.
The ice cream is Love Potion and Vampire Kiss. They are full of Raspberry! I miss raspberry flavors. We decided to stop on the side of the road for this picture.




Bonus part of letter to William:

Japan is treating me with a cold shoulder, mostly because it is cold right now. My favorite food is skemen, which is a upgrade of ramen.

Love you too, don't be too dorky, but don't not be too dorky.







Pictures Plus

Connor has sent us all several pictures this week.  We enjoy seeing his 'handsome face' (as Gretta refers to it) and some of the beautiful area where he is serving.  In addition to the pictures we have added parts of letters he sent to each family member this week.  Enjoy!





Connor's District in Fujisawa with some members

View of Fujisawa from Enoshima

We are noticing a theme...

Beautiful!

Gretta's letter

I love you too Gretta! I met some people your age this week. They are all just as goofy as you, but not as cute. I have the pink ribbon you wanted me to put on my luggage on my bag and everywhere I go, I get to tell people about you and how important family is. I love you Gretta-goo!  (Gretta loves sending her animal drawings to Connor.  He sent her this special picture.  She is going to try to draw this for him this week)

Dad's letter

 

So, I am going to send my last planner home, maybe that will give some insight to the day to day stuff, but I am going to try really hard this week to make note of all the tiny stuff that I do this week. I am doing my best to serve the Lord. I won't be able to write a big weekly this week, just pictures, but here are the highlights. First drunk investigator, Enoshima again, it was good, lots of meals from members, so full. Heard about the earthquake in Kobe mission, hope they are all right. Love you and appreciate all that you do.

 

more coming soon.

 



My really fast week

Wow! This week flew by!

OK so a review of two weeks ago which I forgot to do last week. Everything was pretty much the same. We picked up Dowdle Chōrō and went to Eikaiwa. I taught advanced class with McDonald Chōrō. Then we had General conference. That was really good I watched two sessions in Japanese. That was interesting. We watched it with an investigator. We had Temple P-day. That was really fun. My companion lost his temple bag on the train. He was sad. We still haven't found it. But we will! We had a fiesta on Saturday. That was really fun we had real tacos and it was so delicious. I miss tortillas. There was zone conference. That happened. We had Halloween candy. Some ward members had us over for dinner twice this week. That was really tasty. My favorite part about the iPad is how you can just talk to it and write your email for you.


Today we are not really doing anything because it is raining. We are writing emails and laughing. We are getting ready to go shopping. There are a lot of really funny videos on the Gospel Library.

This week we are going to Tokyo to listen to Elder Bednar, and we are doing an activity with the young men, and that's pretty much it. Our investigators are doing well, thank you for all that you do. Miss you all!

Transfer 2

First, here are my pictures of the week. We have zone meeting, temple p-day, general conference, and a familiar looking samurai, and my new companion is Dowdle Chōrō from Montana.

Ok, so in a flash, here was my week!
Monday: Enoshima. I told you all of the fun stuff last week.
Tuesday: we did some housing, didn't find anyone though. Had a lesson with two old Buddhist ladies. We also cleaned everything. I went through all of the paper area books from the apartment and that was weird. There was stuff from about 1994 to 2013. That was crazy.
Wednesday: Our last day with Muranaka Chōrō. He is in Kōfu now. We dendōed.

I have to go now, sorry for the cliffhanger. I really wanted to talk to you all. Hopefully next week will be better.