Week 4

Hello again, its been another week and its been a fun one

Wednesday: instead of doing an endowment session like we normally do, we decided to an initiatory session. It was different but after that we got really food at the temple cafeteria. Every Wednesday is when new missionaries come in and this Wednesday my zone got a new district of Kohi. I haven't been able to interact much with them because I've been so busy.

Thursday: I may have gotten a little sick and I still have a bit of a cough. Everyday we have over 3 hours of study time, so me and Campbell Chōrō found a nice spot with couches.

I got one zone leader taking the picture and the other chilling by me. There weren't a ton of people in the gym during exercise time, so we started doing doubles on volleyball until more people showed up.

Friday: Man I wish my life was more exciting. Nothing really big happened to today. We doing a Zone Volleyball, where the whole zone heads out to the volleyball field every Friday. Actually, one of the shimai from a different zone came up to me a bore her testimony in Nihongo (Japanese), and that's crazy since she has only been here 3 days and I definitely didn't and probably wouldn't have done that on my third day.

Saturday: I have memorized the first vision in Eigo (English). That's all

Hahhahha joking, along with the first vision I got the Mokuteki down in Nihongo. I played sand volleyball today and was a blast, the sand was super cold too.

Sunday: Fast Sunday, yippy. It wasn't actually that bad but my throat was dying and I couldn't get a drink. We started the day with President Stevenson talking to use in depth about the Plan of Salvation. After that we study tell Priesthood, the lesson was on recognizing the Holy Ghost. Then we had our temple walk.

It was a nice day outside. After the walk, Arnold Chōrō taught us again in our district meeting then we had sacrament meeting, which did include testimony meeting. I was the last person to go up and bare my testimony but it was super cool. Normal we don't have choir on fast Sunday but we have someone important coming in for the Tuesday devotional, so we practiced Precious Savior, Dear Redeemer. We had the devotional given today by President Heaton, I can't think of the topic but there was a lot of crowd interaction and that was really cool. That didn't have a ton of movies going but I did see the new visitors' center film, which were super cool.

Monday: today Osmond Chōrō turned 19. He got a total of 7 packages today and he has been getting a package pretty much every other day since we got here. When we went back to the room we did a little birthday party for him

It was some good cake.


Tuesday: THANK YOU FAMILY FOR SENDING THAT PACKAGE!!!!!!

Yes, it is hanging on the door that goes to our room. 

Me and Campbell Chōrō taught our investigator named Nakahara today and it went pretty well. 

Now I'm sure you are all dieing to hear how the special speaker for the devotional was. It was David A Bednar and his wife. It was awesome. He talked about how he takes notes during conference and then gave some examples for us to try. This is how he takes notes, first he writes the speaker, then he writes what the doctrine or principle they talked about was, then the invitation to act and lastly the promised blessings. Start paying attention, those 3 things are in every talk. After the devotional was done we went back to the classroom to do our devotional review. 

Before I get to that, we had been trying to get the pocket sized Japanese hymn books but the were always out so President Stevenson offered to buy us some and inscribe it with our names.

I'm pretty happy with it. With the devotional review we had Brother Turpin, he gets distracted super easily but he has some cool stories

I'm doing good. The language isn't getting easier but its making more sense. Everyone in our district has been getting sick so hopefully it is over soon.

Miss you all but I am not coming for another 2 years