Week 3 Oct 5 2016

Wednesday: after I had sent out my email, my district had gone to go
do exercise time. They have a room full of machines so I just hopped
on one of the bike ones. They were also playing Conference talks and
Mormon messages at the same time but, I did not have an earbuds to
listen. I didn't know what was being said but they seemed cool.

Osmond Chōrō for a picture on how to tie ties, except it was the different ones and before our temple trip I had gotten the Elderege  knot and I haven't been able to since
Thursday: thank you guys so much for the letters. I noticed some of them were dated the 18 and I sincerely hope that they we just sent later. I loved reading what you

I do love the Chocolate milk.
Friday: You get a lot of repetition at the MTC, though during Zone volleyball, as it sounds everyone in the zone goes outside and sand volleyball, one of the Shimai would do a cross between a growl and a grunt every time she hit the ball, I have actually super funny many because it didn't seem to help the ball go over the net.

I have found Elder Bates, I seem to be meeting everyone I know on Fridays.
Saturday: General Conference. That sums up my day.
I'm only partially joking. Between sessions my district just went back to our room, Winchester downloaded and started playing Meet the Mormons. During the Priesthood sessions I was hoping for Utchdorf's roast on the men again but it never came. I did really enjoy Elder Holland's talk during Priesthood though. I do miss watching General Conference at home, I had get into my Sunday clothes and sit in uncomfortable plastic chairs.

Meet Elder Brinkerhoff, I randomly saw him in line and don't know how we are related

I found this will exploring a little bit, I wasn't there when it was placed but I want to be around when they take it out
Sunday: started off by watching "music & the inspired word", it was pretty good and I liked it. Pretty much the same schedule as yesterday, though between the sessions I downloaded and started watching Meet the Mormons too. We still had our Sunday evening Devotional but this one was different.
Talley, Lauren, Emma and Emily get ready to be jealous.
BYU's Vocal Point gave us, the MTC, a little concert and it was super cool but, they asked for no pictures so I don't have any. After that awesomeness we watch a movie again because they do an inspirational movie every Sunday, this was 3 new segments of Meet the Mormons. They were The Artist, The Horseman and The Entertainers. My favorite was the Entertainers, it's about a musical group, all siblings, called bless4, they were a ton of fun to watch. I forgot to mention, they are in Tokyo and that made me super excited to get to Japan, also the youngest brother is serving his mission in California.

These out my Di Sendpi, the leave for Japan early tomorrow(Monday) morning. It was fun being around them.
Monday: I slept in a little this morning so that morning was a bit off. We had another Sub this morning, Rockwood Kyōdai, the cousin of my seminar teach Bro Rockwood, so that was fun to talk to him. For the first hour or so of class we walked up an art gallery of paintings of Jesus Christ which was pretty cool.

For all who didn't know, they're building a new MTC right next door and this is what it'll look like.

This is an bird's eye view of the current MTC, all the star shaped building, right next to the new MTC, the almost square of buildings.

I suppose some background is necessary, so ever classroom has one painting but as you can see we have 3, that is because all of the rooms that used to have Di Sendai are now empty and the paintings looked super lonely, so we took the them to our room to lighten it up.
Tuesday: Today started off with studying, tons of fun but, we did find this cool new spot that had a ton of soft chairs and better yet nobody was there.

Regretfully that didn't last, our Zone leader, Maines Chōrō and Warner Chōrō found us. Eyring Shimai was our sub again today and we helped set up for the devotional. Me, Campbell and Arnold participated in the choir again, it was super small today. We didn't have Brother Agett directing us today so it wasn't as fun and we sang "Where Can I Turn for Peace" good song but it was slow. Lynde K Burton and her husband spoke today, Brother Burton spoke first and started by calling up his granddaughter up to the podium. He place his suit coat on her and talked about how the Mantle of a missionary was like the oversized suit coat and how as we fulfilled our purpose as missionaries, we would begin to grow into it. Sister Burton talked about our purpose as well, she talked about each individual part of how we bring people to know of the gospel and she only got to repentance before she ran out of time. During the devotional review I was released  as District Leader and Osmond Chōrō was called, also my whole district has been wanting to buy mini Japanese hymn books but the bookstore has never been in stock, so our Branch President, President Stevens order one for everyone online so we could get one.

To answer a common question I get of "How is Japanese going?" Hard, very hard. For those who don't know much about it, they have three alphabets, their sentences sound like Yoda is talking and if you don't hold a vowel long enough, it's a completely different word but I've learned how to pray and I can understand a word here and there so I can get the general idea of what is being said.
I love it here at the MTC, my Dōryō is pretty cool, my district is basically my family, that's right since you guys didn't come with me I had to find a new one. Talk to you all next week.