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