Christmas 2016 part TWO!

Here's a little video of our Chat with Spencer.

Christmas 2016

Hello Mina San,

This is just going to be a short email because I just want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. It defiantly hasn't felt like Christmas, all the trees still have their leaves, not even cold and people here are going to get KFC. It has been nice to tell people about the true meaning of Christmas even if they don't want to know more. It is lots of work and none is easy but I love it out here the people are great and the Branch is a ton of fun. 

Remember, one only needs to drop the last syllable in Spirit of Christmas to make it the Spirit of Christ. I believe President Monson said something close to that but the Idea is the same.

Lots of love to everyone and remember to open your mouth about the gospel and God has promised it "Shall be filled"

Dec 18, 2016

Hello Everyone,

I have successfully survived my first transfer and have made it to being out a little under a year. To answer some unasked questions, yes I do hit my head on lot of things though probably not as much has a would on Kyuushuu(the island that has Fukuoka) or Hondo(the main island, has Hiroshima), kaicho has asked that we either say 'a little over a year' or 'a little under a year' when asked how long we have been out. And now to my Week...

Tuesday: Me, Aoki and Mizukawa and staying in Nago while Osborne i leaving to Yamaguchi to be a breaker(first companion after trainer), District Leader and Zone Leader, he is going to be busy. We went down to the beach and just hung out for a good amount of time, it was Kirei(beautiful) and there was a fantastic breeze, okay it was really strong but it felt great. 

(sign says "Dangerous beyond this point", but it looks really cool)

Wednesday: I got a package today, a little underwhelming

(the forced perspective is supposed to make the box from us look like the size of the Altoids can. It did not look like it to me, but I sent the box so I already knew how big it was)

 Okay joking, I was really excited and it is actually much bigger. It arrived around lunch and then we went straight to work. Since Osborne was leaving tomorrow, him and Mizukawa stayed at the apartment so he could pack. We made some RA (return appointments) for today but none of them happened, it was a little sad. When we came back for dinner, we waited a little longer to leave to でんどう(dendoing - tracting) so we could see Osborne off and so we could take Mizukawa with us on our でんどうing.

Yep, we have wands, I have Voldemort, Aoki has Harry, Mizukawa has Belatrix and Osborne has Ron

Thursday: the companionship was a threesome because Mizukawa doesn't have a companion so he came with us. We mostly でんどう in the inakas(countryside) and there weren't many people who talked to use. I did teach eikaiwa mostly by myself, which was pretty fun. Elder Houseknecht(the new elder) came near the end of it, so I had him come up and finish it off.

Friday:today we taught an AB(After Baptism) Lesson to Kouichi Shimai and I did teach a small part of the Lesson, it was mostly scripted but it went okay. Then we did weekly planning and でんどう, which nothing interesting happened. 

Saturday: I went on splits today with Houseknecht ad we started it of with a drive to Ginoza, a small town. We took part in a "Forgetting the Year" celebration, it was super cool and a ton of fun. Then we had our Basketball でんどう, still a ton of fun, but since Houseknecht's bike isn't here yet because he had to ship it from his last area so, we walked everywhere. It was a lot of fun, we stayed by the Basketballcourt to でんどう s that we didn't waste time walking back and forth. 

Sunday: church as usual, can't understand anything. We did do a song practice afterwards for the upcoming Christmas thing we are doing. Then we got back for lunch, and after lunch we tried in vain to contact some LA(less-active) but one where home. But, while we でんどう we did hand-out 2 BoM, which was really cool.

Things our great here, still super hard but it is fun. There is a lot to do and not much at the same time, is weird. 

The top and bottom are the guy who was in charge of the event and the middle is the group I sung with and I am next to Houseknecht

This video is of a 6 year old playing the piano.

This video is from the Forgetting the Year event.

Opening Christmas Advent 2016

Here are the things that we sent Spencer for Christmas. We sent them wrapped and he was supposed to open them one day at a time.

He knew to expect a package from us and received this altoids box (on left). Not sure who that was from, because the box on the right is the one from us. It cost us $95 for shipping!!  Yikes! We will have to learn more about how they charge for shipping so we can be more frugal next year.

Day1: Christmas decorations. This tree was cut from a plastic table cloth. The star is from craft foam and glittered up by Talley. We also sent tinsel garland and battery powered Christmas lights. Hopefully he used those to decorate and just didn't send pictures of it. We also made red circle ornaments that we put notes from family and friends on. Again, hopefully he used those and just didn't send a picture.

We sent a Harry Potter wand and house tie for each of the missionaries in the apartment. Spencer got all of the house ties, because we just like him more! We sent each of them wrapped and labeled with the missionary's name. They were not supposed to open them until Christmas day, but I guess it worked out for the best since one of the elders was transferred shortly after Spencer received the box.

Here is Spencer and his companion playing with the wands and lightsticks

Day 2 - A Nativity set. We wanted him to have some things to make it feel like Christmas. 

Day 3 - Stockings. Again we wanted him to have some decorations. Also, later gifts are things Santa usually leaves in the stockings.

Days 4 - muffin mix. Just a little taste of home

Day 5 - Snowman Soup (a.k.a. hot chocolate with candy canes and marshmallows)

So far Spencer has not sent us any more pictures of what we sent. I guess next year I will need to take pictures as we wrap them up!

Dec 12, 2016

I did not receive an email from Spenci as expected, so I emailed the mission office:

Dear Mission Office,

I really don't want to be a difficult or hovering parent, so I really hope this email is not out of line or an annoyance. I know you are very busy. Elder Brinkerhoff is our oldest child so I realize I may be more concerned than is necessary. However, I did not receive the expected email from my missionary Elder Brinkerhoff yesterday, so I am just checking in to make sure that he is fine.

Thanks,

Jennifer Brinkerhoff

First time Missionary Mom


This is the reply I received. I love the tag line.


Sister Brinkerhoff,

Thank you for your email of concern. Every six weeks we have transfer in the mission, and during that week, transfers are pushed back to Tuesday. This is transfer week, so P-day has been moved to Tuesday. 

You should receive an email from him today! He is an incredible missionary!

-Elder Colton

Japan Fukuoka Mission Office

First time missionary!

Dec 12, 2016 Accident Counter - 1

Hello everyone!  This is going to be about a day later than normal because we  have transfers this week. I'm staying, Aoki Chōrō is staying, Mizukawa Chōrō is staying, and Osborne Chōrō is going to the mainland but hasn't told us where. Now the Week:

Monday: Nearly died on my bike. We had gone to a music story that Mizukawa had found, he is really good at guitar and Osborne is really good at banjo and after we. And finished we were heading back to the apartment and they had all turned off the sidewalk to ride in the street and I was a tad bit late on turning. The side walk was a lot lower than the curb, so I hit the curb and bounce over it and landed in the middle of the street. It shocked me but I was able to ride and catch up, I am unhurt and fine. Tuesday: we had DTM this morning on how to use the Christmas season in the でんどう (Dendo - “proselytizing") and it was pretty fun.

Then we went out to eat and おいしかった(Oishikatta - “was delicious”).

Wednesday: we had lunch today with Taketomi 兄弟(brother) and we went to this Hotel and they have a restaurant that is basically an all-you-can-eat buffet, that was really good. Also I almost got hurt again. Riding on the sidewalk and there was a car parked on the sidewalk so, I slowed down to go around it and there were these two people walking and I couldn't get a round them so, I turned a little wider and my tire hit some uneven pavement and it launched me off my bike. Luckily I land on my feet so i was able to pick up my bike and ride away unharmed

Thursday: Oddly we did no でんどう (Dendo - “proselytizing") today, it was weird. We weekly planned until dinner then we went and taught Eikawa (English class). We did do some one on one conversation because only two people showed up and that was really cool.

Friday: じゅんかい (Junkai - splits). I went with Mizukawa Chōrō today and had a blast. I found out he is a huge Star Wars fan as well so, that was yet of or conversations. We also found this Lady who literal lives on top of a hill and she had a huge house. We taught her for about 10 minutes, baptism invite, gave her a Book of Mormon and tried to get a Return appointment, it was really cool. After dinner we went to the area by the church, oddly it was more rural feeling. We didn't get many contacts but we did visit a member who lives in the area and shared a message with her.

Saturday: we had a weird thing happen during the でんどう(Dendo - “proselytizing"), the last house we knocked on before going to go do “basketball でんどう” (Basketball Dendo) (get to that later), this lady answered the door and we started to talk to her and she told us to wait and she went and got this younger girl (looked like her daughter) to come talk to us. It was really interesting and part of it was because she has a bible, pretty much no one has a bible in Japan.

Basketball でんどう, we went to a basketball court near the beach (pretty much the only one I've seen in Nago) and we played basketball with who ever showed up and we had a pretty good turn out and it was a blast. Afterwards we invited them to A&W to get some floats but no one could come. We also had dinner with some members today, the Kasamura. They are really cool, the English isn't too bad. They were sealed in the Hawaii temple a couple months ago and both are really strong members.

Sunday: We gave Kouichi 姉妹 (Shimai - sister) the gift of the Hoy Ghost before sacrament part of sacrament meeting started, it was super cool. でんどう (Dendo - “proselytizing") was the usual but this one lady did tell us about the Water God, I understood none of it and neither did Aoki. Before dinner we went caroling with Taketomi 兄弟 (Kyodai - brother) and that was super fun, we went to 4 people but only 2 opened up their doors, one of them had us come in and we talked for a little bit and she gave us a little snack.

Monday: Not P-day. We went and でんどう (Dendo - “proselytizing") farther than normal, about anchor bike ride to a place called Yagaji island, it was a long ride but mostly flat.

Blue dot in the bottom center of the picture is the Apartment and the arrow at the top is where we went to.

After that we went to the mall to get some food with Miyagi 兄弟 (Kyodai - brother), a branch member who is nice but has some mental disabilities. After that me and Aoki went to go teach a patient all investigator we found while tracking, Miyamoto San. He is really nice and likes the mormons.

During the lesson I felt something on my neck so, I reached up to grab it and I felt it wriggle so I panicked and flung it at the ground, it was this pale worm looking thing, it was really gross. The bug thing left this on my collar, not happy and disgusted

Japan is a ton of fun. Thank you all for your prayers of protection. Here is a video for your entertainment of me eating Nato (it's fermented soybeans), enjoy!

In Japan Nov 23, 2016

Konichiwa Mina san. To all how have not heard, I am alive an well in Nihon. My P-day is Monday but I am emailing today because I have ZTM(zone training meeting) to today and then I have P-day when that is finished. Oh ya, I'm not i Fukuoka, my area is Nago, Okinawa, which is basically the north side of the island, its pretty out here. And now to my week

Monday-Tuesday:  I left the MTC around 5 in the morning in to catch a flight from Utah to Seattle and then Seattle to Tokyo and then Tokyo to Fukuoka, if you didn't know, Japan is almost a full day ahead of us and because of that I lost a day in the air. I slept on most of the flight to Tokyo because we couldn't watch any movie but I did talk to the Passenger next to me, Jimmy but, sadly he didn't want a BOM. We finally landed in fukuoka at 8 pm Japan's time and I was dead and I slept pretty soundly at the mission home, under the temple.  

Elder Swapp - I had to pack some of his stuff because he didn't have enough room

Me and Elder Campbell

Wednesday: after breakfast kaicho (what we call President Egan) gave us some slide shows and some videos to watch about things here in the mission and that took a while but was interesting. After that was done we went dendoing until dinner, I don't know Japanese that well but, It was fun. Dinner was at a Japanese restaurant, it was good but I can't tell you what it was and I didn't bring my camera. After some more dendoing we went to the church to get our assignments. I'm going to Nago, Okinawa with Aoki Chōrō, who is native Japanese.  

Thursday: we left for Nago today. It was a short flight but it took forever for our driver come and we got dropped off at the Okinawa church building because he had to drop off some other senkyoushi elsewhere by the time we final got to Nago it was almost 11 but I did get some good pictures.

Miranda, Me, Barbosa, (W?), Campbell, Swapp, Bacon, Clayton, Winchester, Weaver, Walbeck, Torgusson, Takishita, Miyagi, Bills

Aoki Chōrō and me

Friday to Sunday: a lot had to be done in this time, first I bought my bike and a wallet that holds Yen because the bills aren't the same size and they use coins. Also we where preparing for dinner party we will doing for the members on Sunday, so we had to buy lots of groceries. Saturday, we taught our progressing investigator, who has a baptism date on Dec 3. Sunday was interesting, I gave a little introduction in sacrament meeting and then had no idea what was said the rest of the time. The dinner party went good and was delicious.

Monday: I bought my own groceries for the first time, that was new. We  also did lots of tracking today and it was sprinkling a little bit but it wasn't to bad. So, in Japan they have these little shoulder bags that pretty much everyone has and I bought one because I wanted a smaller bag

kono bagu ga daisuki desu

Tuesday: Kaichou gave us these 5 steps for a successful mission and the last one is "come home tired" that is a very easy one to follow. We taught Kouichi san again today and went over the Baptism interview questions with her. We were planning to go to a restaurant called captain Kangaroo but is was closed so we went to A&W to get some burgers, they where only okay. We went to visit a less active that apparently no one had been able to get ahold over and she was there, yay. I have no idea what was said.

Wednesday: I am an Arizona boy through and trough, that being said It rained all day and i was not prepared for that at all. We had some limited success with tracking. Today and we had set a RA today but when we got there she wasn't home. We did have another lesson though and that went well.

Its crazy actually being in Japan but a ton of fun. I'll get Japanese eventually but a Japanese companion will decently help. I forgot, there are two other elders in the Aptment, osborne choro and Mizukawa choro. Osborne Chōrō' family lives pretty close to the Mesa Temple so its nice having another Arizona Boy with me

Mina san ga ai shitte imasu

The Room

Outside the room

Arriving in Japan - Letter from the President

Arrive in Fukuoka Nov 15, 2016

日本語は下にあります。

To the parents and loved ones of our Fukuoka Missionaries,

We just wanted to take a moment to let you know that your son and daughters have arrived safely here in Japan. We already love them! Thank you for sending them to us. We are excited to have the opportunity to serve with them here in the Japan Fukuoka Mission. They will have the opportunity to email you tomorrow afternoon. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. 

Best Wishes, 

President and Sister Egan.

敬愛する福岡伝道部宣教師のご両親の皆様

私達は少しだけお時間を頂き、皆様の愛する息子あるいは娘さんが無事、この福岡伝道部に到着したことをお伝えさせて頂きたいと思います。私達はすでに彼らを心から愛しています！彼らを愛し、育て、福岡伝道部に送り出してくださったことを深く感謝申し上げます。日本福岡伝道部で彼らと共に奉仕する機会を心から楽しみにしています！彼らが直接、明日の正午近くに、短いメールを皆様にお送りする機会がございます。ご不明な点がございましたら、ご遠慮なくご質問頂ければと思います。

心からの感謝と愛を込めて。

イーガン会長と姉妹より


HI mom and dad!!!! I have made it alive and well, except for major jetlag and a crapped neck from sleeping on the plane. Its great and I love it. I don't know where I'm serving until tonight but President Egan should send you an email about that. I excited, love it here and can't wait until I know better Japanese. My PDay is Monday so, you'll get my emails Sunday night and I'm emailing on thanksgiving instead the normal day. Matane 

Week 8 Nov 9, 2016

Sorry, I hit the wrong button, here is my real email.

This week has gone by crazy fast. Its weird to think that I'm almost done with this place and I'm not going to have much of a choice to speak Nihongo for 24/7. And now the moment you're all been waiting for, my week

Wednesday: I got a package today, lots of home made chocolate, a family picture, inspirational pictures and a Rogue One pillow case. My favorite thing is a tie between the pillowcase and chocolate. We had TRC, not a clue what it stands for but we teach members, this evening and we taught a brother named Miura Kyoudai. It went pretty good and he surprised us at the end by finding a picture of Campbell 長老 that he had posted be leaving.

Thursday: everyone was dead today. Not much happened out of the ordinary.

Friday: 

Its official, I'm leaving. We also so did an "eigo fast" but that just means we tried speaking more Japanese that English. We taught 2 lessons today, one to Nakahara San and a surprise visit from Nakagawa San but the both went well.

Saturday: some of the chisai kohai, the ones that just came in, are trying to kill me during volleyball. One of them kicked a ball yesterday which hit me in the gut and today her doryou didn't hit the ball high enough so it it me in the gut as well, hopefully I'll make it to Japan before they are successful. Also I'm finding more people from Mesa, I saw Kaylee Bowman, who I was on swim team with, her at the MTC.

Sunday: Fast Sunday........actually wasn't to bad. I finished Our Heritage today and that made me pretty happy. Also during our temple walk, we had just crossed the street and I heard someone shout "Spencer?!?!" I look over and haven't got a clue who they are but my doryou has the same first name and turned out to be his Girlfriend and that was the last we saw of her. For our special Devotional speaker we had Jenny Oaks Baker, an accomplished violinist, come and play for us. She would share a short message before each song and after she had finished her husband spoke and he started his talk in Japanese and Barlow 長老 freaked out and started shouting "konichiwa" really loudly, it was very amusing. 

Our Senpai left behind a lot of origami and I found this's dragon one.

Monday: today was the last Monday we have here in the MTC. We had class with Rockwood Kyoudai, which we spent most of class make sentences in Nihongo and it was a challenge.



Tuesday: not much happened today, well out of the usual schedule. But our speaker was Sister Jones the primary president. Her talk was mostly on obedience and we have been told that at least every other talk is going to be on obedience, so I'm looking forward to that.

I may have gotten a bit bored last night.

 Its been a good time here, my next email will be from the land of the rising sun. I have decent Japanese but its about to meet its true test pretty soon. I have a challenge for all that read this email, I have been looking for this talk by Henry B Eyring about the importance of Journalling and I can't find it, if anyone knows it please let me know it would be much appreciated.

The Kingdom Of God Or Nothing   

-Brinkerhoff 長老
Sent from my iPad

Week 7 Nov 2, 2016

Its P-Dar already? I promise you time works differently here at the MTC. Another week down and sadly not much has changed but I love it here.

Wednesday: it was a fairly normal day, when we went to the temple we did initiatories and during it, I was thinking about the significants of olive oil. This is what I came up with, during the time of Jesus olive oil had many uses, for food and others and the atonement has many uses as well, healing, cleaning and self improvement; the performance of the atonement is called the 'olive press' and the result of an olive press is olive oil or the atonement; therefore the olive oil is symbolic of the atonement. Before the day ended and we all went back to the residency, we began our splits and I got paired up with Haroldsen 長老.

Thursday: today was the beginning of splits and to describe Haroldsen 長老 in a nut shell I would say he is a ball of energy, this elder literarily could not sit down for 10 minutes straight but he was a ton of fun. We taught both of his investigators today and they bot went pretty well.

Here is Haroldsen 長老

Friday: thank you so much mom for sending me the "Book of Mormon Made Easier" books, I love them and they have really cool insights. We also taught Yoko today and it did go well, I just need to work on my listening. 

Saturday: we had a super good lesson with Nakahara san. We here teaching her more about baptism so we had her reading the scripture talking about how baptism is the gate we must enter and the I drew on the board to help illustrate and she did commit to baptism which made me super happy. The second best part is I was using Bunpo (Bunpo means grammar pattern Tango is vocabulary) that I'm not super familiar with and the sentences made sense, gift of tongues all the way.

Sunday: today was not my most Christ like day. It started during our Priesthood meeting, Jensen 長老 was giving the lesson and one had the first councilor, Brother Turpin, in supervising and right from the get go, he hijacked Jenson 長老'S lesson so that he can talk about Greek words. What he had to say was insight and cool but he was saying it instead of Jenson 長老 being able to give his lesson. Jenson 長老 did say this one quote that I really like fro the Count of Monte Cirisuto, or something like that, "I don't believe in God" "That is alright because God believes in you". Our devotional speaker tonight talked a little bit about the atonement and it was super cool.

Monday: Happy Halloween Family and Friends. Me and Campbell 長老 taught Yoko san today about the Word of Wisdom and it went pretty well considering the fact that it wasn't well prepared and we got her to commit but I'm pretty sure we're going to have to recommit her ever time we meet. The night ended with a ton of せんきょうし going around the classroom halls trick or treating, I didn't participate but I couldn't doing much because it was so loud and at the residency hall, there was a parade missionaries in costumes and they were even louder..

Tuesday: we had a weird schedule today because we had choir practice at 4 pm as a posed to it's usually 5:15, it was because the speaker wanted an hour before the devotional to get any kinks worked out. The special speaker turned out to be President Russell M Nelson and I loved his talk. Being it the choir I got to sing Praise to the Manarranged by Mack Wilberg and it was some much fun. 

i am well, learning Japanese and the Doctrine. I love getting mail from you guys, its a break in the same old rotation.  I leave on November 14, and that is less that 2 weeks away and I get my flight plans on Friday. We got our Japanese name tags last week and that made me super happy. 

Love you all      

-Brinkerhoff 長老

Week 6 Oct 26, 2016 - Still Here

Hello everyone I want to start this letter by just simply saying, GET ME OUT OF THE MTC AND OVER TO JAPAN!!!! But other than that I'm goood.

Wednesday: after our endowment session, Osmond Chourou and planned with his mom to drop off some Cafe Rio, it was fantastic to have real food. Regretfully our meal did not go unnoticed, about half way though it one of the MTC security guards came up to see what we were doing but she seemed pretty chill about us having food. After we had finished, we placed our empty containers back into a trash bag Sister Osmond had left and put it some where she could find. We where walking back to the MTC when we see some crazy driver pull up super fast into a parking space, an old man hop out and he stated yelling at the group in front of us and all we hear is "did you guys have cafe rio ?!?" Yep, when e rounded on us he proceeded to start yelling and cussing at us about littering. He claimed he was the MTC grounds keeper but I don't know. He also got there super fast if the MTC had called him but in reality he probable was watching us and called us in to the MTC. No one got in trouble and its also not in any rule book we have but we won't do it again.

Thursday: Today I was humbled. We were teaching Yoko San, our progressing investigator, and through out most f the lesson I had no clue what was being said. I hadn't been super prideful up to that put but I hadn't been as great-full as I probable should have. The reason the Lord "knocks us down a couple notches when we are prideful or when ever is so that we can reach far greater heights than before.

Friday: Today my Senpai, the senkyoushi that have n here 3 weeks longer, got their flight plans to Japan today. It is especially sad because the new kouhai is going to be one district of 6 Shimaitachi and they are 2 districts of about 17 chouroutachi and 3 shimaitachi, there is no one left. I have applied more studying, SYL and obedience (Juujun) to prove to the Lord that I am worthy of the Gift of Tongues and I have seen improvements.

Saturday: we got a referral today. He's name was Nakagawa San, from what I remember and understand was his mom is a member and referred him. The lesson was mostly getting to know him and we talked a little about God and the Book of Mormon. I'm pretty excited about teaching him because now I get to apply(oyou) all the things I learned about how getting to know them is supposed to go and now I get to uses it. I think I am on the track of improvement because I understood more than I usually did and that makes me super grateful.

Sunday: In Priesthood today we talked about fait and the teacher also talked about asking for blessings. Here is what he said "first you got to ask What do you want, be specific on the blessing(s) that you want Why do you want that specific blessing(s) and How will you use it when you receive it" he called it presenting yo case to the Lord. Since the senpai are leaving, we need new zone leaders and since its been 3 weeks, we also need a new district leader. The new Zone Leaders are Neslson and Walbeck chourou, they are in the other district and the new District Leader is Arnold chourou, he was not super excited but he will do a good job. I have never realized how much symbolism is in the Book of Mormon, it's crazy. I challenge you guys that as you are reading the Book of Mormon look for how it can be applied in your life.

Monday: I got woken up and 5. It was to say goodbye to our senpai, so it was for a good cause. Instead of doing our usual 3 hours of class time this morning, we did an hour and help all the new senior couple missionaries to their rooms until about lunch time, it was great. It had been sprinkling all day long, which was great. I got this fancy new bluetooth keyboard, THANK YOU!!!!! And this thing is fantastic, I love it. We unexpectedly taught Yoko San, she kept her commitment to going to church and we committed her to baptism and SHE EXCEPTED we still go to teach her the lessons but still.  

Tuesday: today was a good day. You especially know this because I never say it. I had a bomb diggity personal study in the morning. I did a lot of studying today and I hope it helps improve. We had a our devotional  set up and then choir, we sang Jesus once a Humble Birth and the K Brett Nattress talked to us about the Jesus and his Atonement and I felt the spirit so strong. He also handed out notecards and had us write "Be not afraid, only beleive" like the on that President Hinckley got for his mission. We had the Turpins for our devotional review and it was super cool. Brother Nattress also said a joke "I wonder is the Devil checks under his bed for Elder Holland before going to bed"

Its been a good week. I love getting mail and emails for you guys and I do appreciate you guys sending me my ballot, it was very random. I become Dai senpai today, to a district of 6 shimai. I love it here but i would love it more in Japan, mainly because of the food but serving would be good to. Until next week matane

Meet my new friend Elder Barlow. He got here 2 weeks ago and is going to Fukuoka. We had a special bonding moment when he was sing the aqubats song talking about how Friday was the best day of the week and I started to sing along and that's when we made the connection that his and my dad wee both in Sendai at the same time. I found him dad, it took me a week to relieve it was him.

That is a vacuum, i hope all are as amused as I was

-Elder Brinkerhoff