29 october 2012::

お母さん、

Thanks for the Email. I really enjoied it alot. I also enjoied the Newletter. Except i told like to be said as getting trunky. I am excited to come home, yes. But i am very sad to be leaving japan. It is actually scary thought of going back. It is like you and dad coming ot Jpana. You are nervous and dont know what to expect, i am the same way about going to Amerika. I have no clue what to expect and i am nervous. I also love japan and the language. I dont want to loose it at all. But your emails are making me trunky. The location of the Hotel you got couldnt be any better. It is right next to Shinjuku Sta. and it just so happens to be one of the biggest train sta. in Japan. Not only htat, but Shinjuku is a very nice place. And on top of that, we can get about anywhere we need to go within 1.5 hours from Shinjuku sta. And about the beds, i am fine with sleeping on the floor. THat is what i have been doing for the past 1.7 years. haha. No beds for me. What are some things you want to do. For sure i want to: Go to the temple with you, visit Yamate, Visit Recent Converts, Go to Shibuya, Asukusa, and Ueno, i also want to introduce you guys to any companions that i will still be in the mission when you come. But those are my ideas. Do you need me to plan everything? Let me know so i can start now. I am way excited.  But ya, your emails get me so many mixed emotions. It sucks. haha.

 

So my week was super hard. I definately feel that it was a humbling week for me. Let me tell you why.  Recently i have been thinking i am pretty good at finding people to teach and finding new gators. The past 3 weeks me and elder call have only found 3 new gators. This past week we didnt find any. It was super hard. We didnt teach any lessons at all. We didnt meet with any gators at all. It sucked. Every day was a white day filled with contacting people. I dont mind going out and talking to people but it makes me super frustrated when i try to share somethin that is dear to my heart to a poeple that i love and they dont listen. I hate it. I really felt bad for elder call too. It was super hard on him. But like i said, i think God was just telling me htat it is him that leads people to our path and it is through God that we find new people. I also felt like God was testing our patience and how dedicated we are to the work. I know elders where if it gets hard, they stop working hard. The only time i stop working hard, is when i am mad becasue people can tell you arent sincere and the spirit isnt there. So i take a break. I had to do that on Friday because Elder Call wouldnt lead, people werent listening, and it was way cold. But i took the break, got cooled down nad then started back up. It was way bad though. My bucket of water was dumped. Towards the end of the week, we did eat the fruit of our labors though. On tuesday we talked to a way cool family about the Gospel, gave them a book of mormon and invited them to our ward primary halloween party. They came and had a blast. They couldnt come to church becasue of rain though. But now we have a strong relationship and room to work. On wednesday, the last guy we talked to said he was interested in coming to the Halloween Party with his fmaily, which he did. We were able to do the same thing with him, but he came to church. He wants to meet with us sometime this week too to talk more about church stuff. Sunday couldnt of been a better day for a young father to come to church, it was all abvout eternal families. It was great and left a strong impression on him. I felt that this past week was a huge humbling expierence to me. I agian htat this is Gods work and he is leading it. So i hate going and finding all day, so yesterday i fasted taht i would have the Spirit to direct me where to go to find those you are ready so i dont have to do so much finding. I think God is pretty happy that i learned my lesson, again.  So that is where i am at. Humbled, ready for the Spirit and ready to work hard. I know in order to have the spirit more fully, i have to be on my best. So that is what i am going to do. Me getting towards the end of my mission isnt helping at all haha. When i read your emails, i get trunky then start thinking aobut home, then loose my focus, talke with my comp aobut it, and all that stuff. It is way hard not to talk aobut home when i am so close. But i am going to try my hardest. I know these things are unavoidable too. So ya. It is good to be excited, but not to let it distract me. That is my goal for now, not to let it distract me. I do love your emails though so please dont stop. I have a  some cool expireces i want share with you. On monday, i felt like a prophet form the Book of Mormn. We stopped 2 kids riding their bikes. Kids here are the worst to talk to. THey think they are all that and just mess with you. ANyways, we started talking to them and they jsut starting making fun of us and tryin to make us feel like we didnt know crap, well i showed him up. We blindsided them with the Gospel. I was confounding them all in Japanese. It was AWESOME!!!! At the end, they both accepted a Book of Mormon but didnt want to see us again. One of the kids i know will look us up again. He reminded me of Alma. ALl the preist were trying so hard to cross Abinadai except Alma, he was interested. That is what i felt aobut the one kid and that is how come i continued that convo. But it was fun to talk about afterward and i know elder Call enjoied it.

 

Do you remember back in January and February, when i was in Yamate, i taught a guy from Sendai who had lost his wife in the Tsunami? Well his lessons have been the most spiritual lessons i have ever been in on my mission. I have stayed in contact with him since February. Well i got an email from him stating he is going to be baptized on 4th Of November and that he wanted me to do the service. WHAT???!!!!!! Well after much prayer and planning, on this upcoming sunday, i am going to Sendai to baptize Abe. I am so excited. It is going to be way expensive though and i hope that i have enough for the trip. But how cool is that. I am leaving my mission. haha. Where he lives is called Tagajo. It is in Sendai and that is about 7 hour bus ride. It is oging to be a blast. I am way excited. It will be a great re-unioun and a very spiritual baptismal service. He wants to come to Tokyo when i leave Japan to meet you guys and i was thinking since he is coming to Tokyo we could do baptisms for the dead when he comes for the first time. How cool would that be???? I am way excited about it. But ya. Way exciting right?

 

Ya i am doing way good. On Saturday i sang a solo in a music festival that we had. Everyone loved it and it was fun. On Sunday i was the translator for Sacrament meeting. That was interesting but way fun. Hopefully i do good when you guys come. I could still use prayers for my japanese. I want to get as good as i can. I could also use prayers that we will find those who are ready. I love you mom and dad. I am thankful for all taht you do. I am so excieted for you guys to come here ot my territory. haaha. It will be a blast. I love having people that know nothing about where they are at. It will be so much fun. You are both going to be so suprised. haha. It will be so fun. I promise. YOuwill really like it. I got to go, but i love you both so much. Talk to you soon.

Love ya~

Baptism!

Look at Elder Kurt in his new and Awesome Glasses!!! I love them!!!! They are so Shique.

He looks so hip and in style! Not to mention look at that smile :)

I have such a good looking brother.

Kurt....you and your Japanese Brethren all are the same size...but your companion is Goliath!

He towers over you all!!!!  Do not let him push you around :)

LOVE YOU!

22 octobre 2012 again!!!

I actually did indeed love my joke. I thought it was very funny because i told you taht i was trainer. I told dad that i was AP. Looked like you believed dads email. haha. That is what i think is funny. I am sorry that you did all that stuff for me but i am not what i said. But who knows maybe it will help later. And yes i do agree with you. I have come to realize that AP calling is stupid and i dont want it. I was thinking about it when i was ZL. If i became AP, i couldnt do my run and workout everymorning and that is a BIG NO-NO. I need that run and workout. That is a must. THen i thought about all the responsiblity that they have, i dont want that. I enjoi being outside and working with people and shining my light. I enjoi that alot. I also thought one of the main reasons people want to be AP is to to be reconigzed and that doesnt matter because you will be forgotten. SO i dont want to be that. NOT AT ALL. I told my mission prez. that i loved my area and that i wanted to stay here. Hopefullly i will end my mission here. I really do love it. But ya. I am a trainer again and i am loving every second of it. I love being a trainer. But sometimes i think it is a little dangerous. Elder Call is like me. He has a strong desire to serve the Lord but he aint Belly button pants high about that were its like only talking about church stuff. I cant stand those missionaries. I know they are doing there best and that is what matters but my best isnt the same as thier best. But Elder Call is like me. Since he is a new missionary, he hasnt fiqured out the missionary life quite yet so he talks about htings from home a little bit more than my past companions. The reasons it is dangerous is becasue i am excited to come home and we get a bit sidetracked. I am trying to be better with not getting trunky and being the good example. I have a goal with it. But my thing is, i can work hard but still have fun too. SO i hope he learns that from me. You can work hard and have fun at the same time. It makes missionary work enjoiable. But ya. We are doing way good. Yes i got the package you sent on Saturday. It was awesome but at the smae time very damning. You sent so much candy that i havent seen adn i spurlged big time by eating it. It was delicious. But I didnt eat all of it. I had to give some to the other elders. The garments were interesting. The bottoms werent right but i wore them both anyways. One pair is too small but hte other pair fit pretty good. When i wore them, i felt wierd. For the past 1.8 years i have only worn the silkly bottoms, not cotton or dri fit. It was wierid win i put that on. But it felt good. The shirts are too big. I am a medium not a large. But they will work on the mission. Not when i get home. When i wear normal shirts, the garments stick out and it looks way wierd. But as a missionary it is good. Thanks. I also got the money, no worries. Thank you.

 

So you probably want to hear about my week. It was interesting. ON MOnday night our gator, Masaki took us out to dinner. It was nice of him to pay for us. He is the Jospeh Smith. He wants to know the truth but is lost. Thats way we are here. We taught him a leson and he is progressing. Tuesday we had 1 lunch and 1 dinner appoitment. SUPER RARE in Japan. THat never happens. But it was very good. ONe Elder Got sick so we gave him a blessin. I also picked up my new glasses that day too. I have worn them everyday too. THey are great and people say i look really good. So it was a good buy. Every Friday we do a Yoga class. It is way fun. I never realized how much good it is for your body to do yoga and stuff like that. I am stretching everynight because i want to do the splits now. SO it is good. Oh that day it was pretty funny too. We needed a picture and didnt know how to get one, so we decided to ask random people to take our picture. It worked. While they were talking our picture i would just talk to them and get to know them and then share the gospel with them., We got 1 new gator from it, so that is why it worked. Pretty funny uh. On saturday we had a lesson with Soko about his bapitsm and he was just super stoked the whole time. It was super neat to see how excited he was to be baptized. It was the highlite of the day. Sunday was just amazing. Next week i am singing a solo in the song "seasons of love" for our ward halloween party with the SAs. SO we practised that. That night we had 2 baptisms. Ryutaro and Soko got baptized. They both asked me to do it for them. So i was able to baptize both of them. They were so happy and i was so excited to hear their testimonies. I know that they will be great members and do amzing things. We are going to meet with them and get thme to the temple. THat is the next step. SO ya. I attached a picture of the baptism too. Our font is in the background too. It is a kiddie pool. haha. So me and ELder Call really need new investigators, especially because 2 got baptized. SO i fasted this sunday that we will be lead to those who are ready for our message. The past 2 weeks havent been very good and we really need to find some new poeople to teach. Please pray that we will be able to do so. It would be great. Because we were havin 2 baptisms this week, i thought of my mission and how blessed i have been to see many baptisms in my mission. I get so much happiness when i think about how i have been a sharp tool for the lord in his vineyard. I really have been blessed. There is no way i can deny that. I am so thankful that i am doing what i should be doing to get thses blessings too. I know that i aint perfect but it is so nice to know that the Lord is there to help. I love that so much. It is truly happiness. I want to tell you of a cool expierence. Since i didnt get to see General Conference in English i was reading the talks during P. Study. I was reading one from Saturday morning and he talked about death of children and what not. That tlk is amazing. While i was reading it, i good fell the spirit and Kess spirti too. Kess died about 8 years ago but since i was only 11 i didnt remember to much aobut his funeral or aobut the comfort that i got form the Lord when he did pass away. But that day while reading that talk i could feel all the feelings that i felt when kess passed on. It was amazing. It brought me to tears. I could just feel Kess love and the Lords love for me so much. It was a HUGE highlight in my week. I am so thankful taht we have General Conference and that direction from our leaders.

 

SO ya. That was about my week. NOt much else. It was a pretty solid week. I am loving life right now and cant complain. It is incredible to me that it is 22 October. Time just seems to go faster adn faster with every week. I will see you all in no time. You will have to tell me some things you and dad want to do when you come. I have to start planning too. But just let me know. I love you so much mom. I really do. I hope that you have a great week. Ill be praying for ya. I always do. Let everyone know that i love them and appreciate them very much. I cant wait to see efveryone. Ill hear from ya soon.

22 october 2012::

Ha, I got ya. I am not AP. I sent you the serious email. I am a TRAINER!!! Looks like i got ya both. Score for me. hahaha. I am so good. Anyways, ya i am training again and let me tell you it is the best. I dont have a taiwanese person, korean person, or any other country. My bean is from Spanish Fork, Utah. He is 6'2" and 260lbs. He has my color hair, played lacrosse for 4 years, and is AWESOME!!! His name is Elder Call. This first week has been super fun with him. ACtually, their are 2 brand new missionaries in the apartment i live in. ANother elder is training too. This is super rare. 2 beans in one area. It has never been done in my mission before. So we have a lot of trust. But it is suepr fun to watch their reactions to all of the stuff that we give them. It is SO FUNNY!!! It makes me me even more excited for when you and dad come. I can just imagine your reactions to these same things. It will be great. But ya. It is way fun. I hope that i can do a great job in training him. I know it will have a huge impact on his mission. SO please pray that i will do good and taht we will be more of brothers not companions.

 

So about the investigators, well do you remember Soko who went to China? We had a lesson with him on Saturday to see how is trip went and everything. HE told us that he told his fiancee aobut Christ Gospel and everything and she agreed but was still against him being baptized. Then he looked at us and said "But on the 21 of this month, i will be baptized.". SO he is going to be baptized next sunday night. He has asked that i do it. He told us he is 31 and can make his own descions and what not. Then a member came to us after his interview yesterday and asked if we knew why he made the descion to get baptized. SHe then told us his reason was because of the way that i looked. He said everytime he met me, i had a special light around me and i was so dedicated to hlep him. He continued to say that he could feel my love for him and everytihgn. How cool is that? That is like the 3rd time that has happened to me on my mission. Being an example is so important. But i am really glad that he noticed. I really did try so hard. I fasted for him almost every sunday. Yesterday i fasted for him too. I am so glad that i did all those things. He will be a great member and i am excited for him. He asked that i baptize him.

 

My other gator, Ryutaro, asked his boss for work off on this upcoming sunday to be baptized but his boss went bizzare on him and told him how religion is bad and didnt give him the day off. But we have a night session so we are still going to try and get him baptized. The bishop says he wants to do the night session once a month and if that is the case, Ryutaro can get the sacrament once a month which is the standard to be able to be baptized. He has another problem though that i am worried aobut and i fasted about yesterday as well. It is with the Word of Wisdom. He doesnt drink by himself but when he goes out with friends he doesnt know how to say no to the offer. He has the desire to quit and be baptized but doesnt know how to say no to his friends. Hopefully we can help him alot. He just needs to set his standards and that is waht we told him. Please pray for him.

 

Our other investigators are doing super well too. Masaki is golden and is progressing way well. We are meeting him today and going to dinner. THen there is Kazuki who just accepted a day to be baptized too. He is pretty golden. We gave him BOM a week ago and he has read from it everyday. So ya. WE taught him the Restoration yesterday and it was pretty funny. this is waht i said "When the Authority of God was taken from the earth when Christ died, the world became Korea.". I was trying to say " The world becamse lost and in darkness". Korea in japanese is kankoku and darkness is ankoku. YOu can see where i can mess up. THe only reason i knew i messed up was because Kazuki's face showed it. HE made a little smile and was laughing at me. It was pretty funny and embarrising. But oh well. I am sure it helped my bean to know that i aint perfect and still make mistakes.

 

So ya. I am doing way good. I am honestly being blessed right now. I hope taht it continues. We havent had time to find new gators and i am a bit worried aobut that. I really want to find some new friends so i am planning on doing finding alot this week. Can you pray that we will be able to find some? Also the other companinoship too? They have no investigators and i feel really bad for teh new bean inthe other comp. beacuse they havent taught a lesson and have no investigators. I really want to hlep them. That would be great.

 

Thanks for you email this week. I really enjoied it. Thanks for the package with garments and everythign. It will help so much. My garments are really yellow now and it is disgusting. Actually you might not want to read this but hte crotch part is actaually a brown from sweat and other stuff. Pretty grss uh? I realy need these new ones so thank you. Ya. i am happy and doing well. I am staying fit and healthy and trying my hardest. I cant wait to see all of you. I am so excited. It is kinda hard to stay focused actually. Less than 4 months. But having this new missinoary will hlep alot and i ma grateful for that. So ya. Thanks for the prayers, i really appreciate them. I could continue to use them. I really want to get as good as i can at japanese. I dont like making mistakes like the one i did. I feel that since i am on transfer 13 i need to be better but it is through mistakes that we learn. So it is whatever but i dont like making them. Makes me feel stupid. Well, I love you mom. I really do. You are the best ever. You are going to love it here in Japan. I promise you! I dont have much to say. So i quess ill go. I love ya.

email to the dad:: 12 october 2012

Hey Dad,

 

Its good to hear from ya. I always look forward to reading you emails. I really enjoi thme alot.

 

So my week was way fast. I am just amazed on how fast the week goes by as a missionary. Today is my 1 year 7 month mark on being on my mission. On Thursday marks my 4 month mark until i come home. I am always blown away on how fast time is oging. I will see you and mom in no time. I am way stoked.

 

My week was pretty swell and wet. It rained at least 5 out of the 7 days this past week. It has gotten really cold also. This fall has been alot colder than last year for sure. All my white shirts are destroyed and i have to throw them away but it is getting cold so wahtever.

 

This week we had to go to district meetings and a huge zone leader council meeting. The ZL meeting was kinda useless becasue i am no longer a ZL. I am something better! Can you guess? Anyway, it was a swell week. I am way whipped from being a ZL but i am sure i will be even more tired now. ahaha. I am definalty going to need your prayers on this one. You cant tell mom yet. I have been made AP!!!! I am now companions with President and my old comp. It is pretty weird but way cool at the same time. I was super sad to leave my old area but they are in the best hands ever. I know at least 3 of them are going to be baptized.

 

Other than that nothing else is new. I am still the same ol' elder van de with red hair. Oh, i had to buy some new glasses. I get them next week and i am pretty excited to get them. I think they look cool. I love ya dad. I appreciate everything that you do for me. I know you love me too even though you dont send written letters. I too have only gotten 1 typed letter from ya. haha. But i enjoi the emails alot. It is quicker. Well i hope you have a great week and have fun up at the cabin. You are in my prayers.

09 october 2012::

So i am pretty sure you are just so excited to hear about my new calling here in Japan. Well, i have been called as a . . . . . . .

joking. I am not goin to telly you yet. I want you to quess first. I am sorry. Just know it is out of love. I am sure you will be pleased to hear about my week though.

 

We had a very fast week. I was telling dad i am super suprised on how time just goes by so fast. I mean it is October 9. I have been on my mission for 1 year and 7 months now. In 2 days from now, i will have 4 months exactly till i will be able to be released as a missionary. Isnt that fast. It is so crazy to think aobut. I hope that everyone  is getting prepared for me to come home. Thanks so much for sending me the prescription stufff. It helped out alot. I bought a new pair today and it cost about 150000yen. That is about 150 bucks. I really needed them though. I was going to ask if you could get an appointment for me to go to the eye doctors to get another prescription. I feel my eyes have gotten worse. When i get home i also want to go to the dentist and orthadontist to make sure my teeth are good. I gotta look good for the ladies when i come home you know. haha. But i seriously want to make sure everything is ok. My retainer has come off 2 times since being in Japan. So i need to get it checked.

 

I am sure you want to hear aobut my week for realz now. OK. So this week it rained at least 5 days. I dont like the rain. It sucks. It makes everyhting difficult. But my attitude has changed towards it. So i guess it is ok. This week we had tons of District Meetings and Distritct Lunches that means i had to spend alot of money. It is worth it though. Being around the missionaries is a really fun thing. SOmething way funny happened at one of them. We went to Wendys (better than America by far) for distrcit lunch in a super expensive place called Roppongi. Anyways, Roppongi is also known for all its clubs and stuff at night. Well while eating lunch, i noticed a kinda sketchy dressed girl sitting at a table across from us lookin at us via her iPhone camera. Well she got up and went down stairs. As we were all leaving, i was filling up my cup getting a drink. I noticed the girl get out her phone and then put the camera on me and take a picture of me. It was really weird because after she took the picture, she looked at me up and down and then smiled. It was kinda funny. Japan is really messed up with sexual stuff.They just dont think it is a bad thing here. Sometimes as a missionary it is really funny but alot of the time it is disturbing and sad. Funny because they fall all over you. But i thought that instance was pretty funny. I have had my picture taken so many times. It is funny. This week i also ran to Tokyo Tower from the Shibuya Apartmetn. It was a bout an hour run. It was good. I did it in my church shoes. haha. I am a beast. My gators are doing way well. Ryutaro wants to be baptized but has work on Sunday and cant make it. So we are post-poning it until he can get some time off. Pray that he can get a new job. Soko, came back from China yesterday and was able to talk to his fiancee about Christianity and have her beilieve it is a good thing. So he should be getting baptized soon. Yoshy is still sick and cant meet. He really wants too but is to sick. Pray that he will get bette.r

 

I want to tell you about a lesson we had with an investigator on Friday. We havent met with him in 2 weeks but he is a Jospeh Smith type of Person. His name is Masaki. He has had the oppurtunity to be baptized 5 times but has denied 5 times becasue he hasnt felt it was right. Well he stopped talking to us for about 2 weeks but we got a lesson with him. During the lesson, we were able to testify aobut how we came to know of the truthfulness of the Gospel and how much it means to each of us and how much it will mean to him if he accpets and believes. I know that he felt the Spirit because he started to cry during the lesson. He really expressed some deep things to us that mean alot to him. I know he will be abaptized too. He is a great person and i really like him alot. If you can pray that he will find his answer that would be great. He is awesome.

 

Yesterday i was able to go with SUgaya, recent convert, to the temple to do baptisms for the dead. It was way cool. It was Stake Temple day and there was over 50 youth there. I love seeing that much youth in the Temple. Especially Japanese youth. It is amazing. Because there was so many present i didnt get to see him be baptized. I had to go back but i know he ahd a greta time.

 

SO i am sure you are still wondering about transfers. OK. I will tell you. So my companion got transfered to my bean area, Shibuya. I am still in Urayasu but i dont know who my companion is yet. I was made a TRAINER again. How cool is that? I am going to train another missionary. I meet him tomorrow. I am way stoked and happy for this calling. Training Elder Chen was way fun. This time i am getting an american. It should be super fun. Ill need your prayers so i can do my best. I fasted this past sunday for it. I hope i will do great. I will be with him for at least 2 transfers. That means 5 transfers in Urayasu!!! I love this area so that is ok with me.

 

Yup that was my week. It was pretty good and fast. This week will be super fast too. I am sure of it. Ill be emailing you before you know it. I am sure you are way stoked to come to Japan. Dont be nervous. You will love it here. It is a great place. I dont have any money now because i had to buy those glasses but they were way needed. So iget them next week and i am super excited to get them. I love you so much mom. I am glad that you had a great week and are doing well. It really pleases me. I am way excited to hear from you guys and to see you all again. I cant believe thta is 4 months away. So CRAZY!!! Be prepared to PARTY!!! I got to go but i love ya and appreciate all that you do. Have a great week. Keep Moving Forward.

02 october 2012::

ello my dearest mother whom i love with all my heart! How are you doing this fine day? I really enjoied seeing all you of you last pday. All the elders in my apartment told me how different i am from everybody else haha. They really liked the family though. Bug is in for a HUGE suprise. haha. He is going to be so HUMBLED!!! That is the only thing that i could think while talking to him. He is going to change so much. hahaha. It si going to be a ride for him. hahaa. Keep him in your prayers. He'll do great. 

That is crazy that no one lives at the house anymore. That is a sad thought for me to think about. I love it when there are lots of people at our house and everything and just the thought that nobody is there is sad to me. But only for 4 months. Ill be home in no time and that will all change. I am so excited to see you guys. I cant believe that it is october. next thursday i will be counting down from 4 months. That is so crazy to me. I cant believe how fast the time is going. I am way nervous aobut what i am going to do. I have only thought about my life up until my mission and now that is almost over. I never really thought deeply about after the mission. I am way scared. I had dinner yesterday with a american who served here in japan and he said when he went home, he did tour guides for national parks. Like the grand caynon and stuff like that. It sounds like a great job. It is somethin i am going to look into when i get home. One fo the scariest thoughts for me is that i wont be able to use my japanese and i will froget it. I dont wnat to do that. Not after all the work i had to go through. So doing tour guides or working at the zoo being a guide sounds like a way good job. He said it pays really good too. Like starting 10 bucks an hour working 10 hour days. so 100 bucks a day just starting. Sounds pretty good right? But there is stuff i am stil worried about. SO we shall see.

 

My week was super good. I fasted for SOko. He is in China right now visiting and talking to his fiancee about being baptized. He really wants to be baptized but he wants his fiancee to agree with it. So keep him in your prayers. Ryutaro is doing great too. He made a huge commitment to follow the word of wisdom but is having a hard time living it. Keep him in oyur prayers that he can keep it and feel the Holy Ghost. Yoshy ro the black sheep could be baptized this week. If we meet with him and get him all good to go. He has a huge problem with the Word of Wisdom so pray that he will accept it. He really wants to be bapitzed though. They are awesome. I could use your prayers too. I really wnt to get as good at Japanese as i can in these last 4 months. I can understand more fully but i cant speak very well. Please pray that i will still continue to improve my japanese and beomce really good. THanks.

 

Nothing really interesting happend this week. It was just a week to work hard and thats exactly what i did. I felt really good about my service last week and i felt i worked super hard. Transfers are this next week and i think i might get trasfered. I have been here 3 but my companion might train a young new ZL. That would be the bst. They also need 10 trainers and i had a feeling that i am going to be one of them. I have always had a dream of white washing an area with a bean. So that might come true. I hope if i do get transfered i go to country side. I have been in city way to long. I am ready ot get out. I really like the area i am in though. I could definatly stay here too. I love the ward and just everything about this place. It is amazing. SO i am cool with whatever.

 

Sorry i have nothing cool or anything. I love you mom. I cant believe that my mission is comign to an end. It is really sad. I love it so much. It has done so much for me. I cant wait to tell you all about it. Well, i dont have anything else to write aobut. I dont know what to right aobut. I am healthy, happy, in good shape, working hard, doing all i can do be the best i can. Have a great week. I did get teh newletter but i couldnt see the pictures of people cutting the tree. They didnt load. So i dont know what that is about. but ya. I love ya.