Sun 11/30/2014 6:22 PM

Herro famiry!!! Today was transfer email and i am transfering to okayama. This is the first time that i have really not wanted to transfer. We recently have been teaching this family of a mother and her two kids 6yr old mirium and 7yr old gaspar. just when we schedule a solid appointment to meet and teach a full lesson i transfer:( LAAAAAME!!! oh well the lord knows what he is doing. other than that this week was pretty quiet nothing much happened. We went with the little family we were teaching to ritsurin koen which was pretty and that was probably the funnest thing we did all week. My comp is also transfering and they are closing the second set of elders here. My new comp is a half japanese have american from the states but ive never met him before. Christmas is coming up fast!!! Dont really need anything and im doing good. can you send vienna sausage in my package please!!! Haha nothing else that i can think of. not sure what else to write about.... probably gunna go eat at our favorite indo curry place today with some cheeze naan, cant wait haha. anywyas LOVES EVERYONE

Sun 11/23/2014 4:43 PM

SO first things first i have some exciting news.  We will be allowed to skype home this christmas!!!!!!!

The church has computers and idk if they have a webcam but if not ill find a way to get one.  i dont know all of the details of my schedule yet but we should be free.  Cant Wait!!!  Anyways life here has been good.  

The weather goes from suits and jackets to short sleeve like today but its really nice normally.  The mish life is good at the moment and we are working hard to accomplish our goals.  We are having fun here and Marquez choro started his 6 months to sexy so we gotta start working out more.  Im pretty fat right now but i still gots a while to burn it off hahaha. Japanese food is ono.  

I love his area there is a good balance of people here and quite a bit of stuff to do.  There are also some sick cars here haha.  I dont need anything right now and as far as stuffs i want... my lihing powder supply is still going strong but my seed supply is getting low haha. i like the sweet kine please and if can some aloha shoyu.  Das it haha.  dont waste choke moneys on a lot of stuffs cuz i can probably buy it here.  Anyways all is well and im doing good so no worries.  eat some turkey for me cuz the turkey here is expensive and sucks anyways :( but it is what it is.  

thats pretty much all i gots this week haha.  

LOVE YOU GUYS!!!

Mon 11/17/2014 6:14 PM

Herro famiry!!!  we had conference yesterday with kaicho and the APs yesterday which is why my p-day is today.  This week was great!  We just as a mission reported to the Bretheren how many baptisms we are going to have as an area and our companionships number is two by the end of the year.  The pressure to perform is palpable!  We only have around 5 more weeks to find and baptize 2 people.  Yesterdays conference was awesome as usual, I love Welch Kaicho. we talked about using the BOM in our street contacts and teaching as well as how to answer questions better through the BOM.  

I am sooooooo glad that aunty Hela is back on the path and is working towards her celestial mansion haha.  Our family is a little bit closer to the heavenly reunion that i am working towards. PRAISE BE TO THE LORD!!!  

Nothing else really.  We are teaching 10 lessons a week and we have a little family of 3 a Mom and her two kids; one boy one girl who we are hoping to start teaching this week.  

i'm having fun and although its a little cold life is great.  

This weeks scripture comes from 1 Nephi 19:9

 9 And the world, because of their iniquity, shall judge him to be a thing of naught; wherefore they scourge him, and he suffereth it;and they smite him, and he suffereth it. Yea, they spit upon him,and he suffereth it, because of his loving kindness and his long-suffering towards the children of men.

and the second from 1 Ne 21:14-16  

14 But, behold, Zion hath said: The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me—but he will show that he hath not.

 15 For can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget,yet will I not forget thee, O house of Israel.

 16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.

Oh how our Savior loves us!!!!

Love you guys!!!!!

11/9/2014 Email

Herro Famiry!!! This week was super short, nothing too crazy.  We had a halloween party after english class which kinda sucked but the kids had fun so it was alright.  Then on sat we went fishing with the branch president akamatsu kaicho and a less active.  It was pretty boring and i remembered why i dont like fishing but we had a good time.  Only caught fugu and there are a billion of them in the ocean here, thats all that people catch.  

On sat and sunday we had district conference which was really good.  They called a new district president because the old one is getting transferred to nara and the new one is an american.  His japanese is really good and I know that the Lord knows what he is doing but it is kinda sad.  Where are all of the Japanese priesthood holders?  

Sorry short rant lol.  Anyways i am fine and i dont need anything right now.  As a mission we are starting to read the BOM while highlighting in different colors; 1-any references of Christ Lord or any other name, 2-attributes of Christ, and 3-anything he said.  

Maybe you all can get a new clean copy and read with me.  The mission has a goal to finish it by march 1st so thats what im gunna be studying for a while.  Anyways LOVE YOU GUYS!!!

Sun 11/2/2014 9:44 PM

SO just got back from a district softball competition and it was pretty fun.  Some of the members are pretty good so i had the chance to throw at like 75% at times hahaha.  This week was pretty good.  We dressed up as anpanman and draimon for halloween and handed out english class flyers which was super fun.  We also found this pretty solid 19yr old kid who has interest in the gospel this week. Hes super cool and his english is pretty good.  Other than that nothing exciting. 

I jacked up my shoulder batting at the cages last week and i hurt it again this week but it is what it is.  Its gunna take a lot more than that to keep me down.  Nothing really cool to report haha.  We found this big kahuna place today so we are probably gunna go check that out.  The sign said hawaiian and mexican food so we gotta go at least once.  I am fine and dont need anything.  Love you guys!!!

Sun 10/26/2014 5:51 PM

**No pictures** 

Herro Family!!!!!!! 

this week is going to be a fast email cuz we aint got much time.  Takamatsu is awesome and we are already having fun out here.  My new comp is Elder Marques hes 12th transfer 3 ahead of me and we opened the second set of elders here in this area so just like a whitewash we start from scratch.  We still dont have desks or bikes or room to sleep cuz of our bags but it is what it is right now hahaha.  The train ride was long and boring but not super far.  

The weather goes from winter to summer in an hour but its nice and cool at night. its actually perfect right now. This week we went to go eat at the hotel in imabari at the lunch buffet before i hopped on the train.  Not great but the view was good.  THen when we were in okayama waiting for my comp to get here we did it again in okayama at a pretty tall hotel.  20 bucks decent food and all you can eat, pretty good day.  

These first few weeks or so are gunna be hard but we work well together and we are ready to work.  I dont have much time this week we gotta go to the batting cage and practice for the branch softball tourney against marugame and tokushima branches CHEEEE!  God loves us and Jesus is awesome its all over the scriptures.  

When times get tough drop your pride, put your head down, give thanks to God and get to work.  

LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!

August 3rd 2014

The island you see....that is Hanohano Chorro (Kana'i) Mission (Fukuoka)

Herro Famiry, hows everything going.  

I is good and i dont need anything right now.  actually pictures would be nice.  its been really nice lately to scroll through pictures on my ipod of the fam and i have the pic of noah giving the big hawaiian man statue a purple nurple as my home screen.

  I miss you guys.  Insight this week huh uhm i was listening to john bytheway the other day the first solo and when he talks about how his instructor got out of the plane and said "remember what i taught you." i was thinking about this the other day and i would be very surprised if our heavenly father before we were sent down to earth didnt pull us aside, talk to us for as long as we needed and then send us on our way having said something very similar.  I have that written down on the front of my planner to remind me throughout the day.  

The most challenging thing this week was that our most solid investigator dropped us the other day because he felt that he cant understand what we were teaching.  we were trying to teach as simply as possible but we could have done better.  We still have some comp issues but we are slowly working those out.  just missionary life no biggie.  

I have learned from my companion that being a pharisee is not fun so i will continue being futsu hito hahaha gotta smell the roses while ur out here or you will go crazy.

Havent really learned anything new recently except that during obon they "catch" god in this box in their house.

Onmaku was sat and yesterday which was pretty cool. we got to see 15min of the firework show and there was maguro from the giant tokyo fish market, was so ono.  OH AND I SAW A SQUIRREL! it was in a cage and i have a pic but i forgot my memory card reader at home zanen.

anyways LOVE YOU GUYS!!!