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
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