More Earthquakes and unexpected things

Yes Brandon, I've eaten octopus. Skin, suckers 'n' all. It has the texture of a bouncy ball. 

Alright, this seems like old news, all the earthquakes, tsunamis, and such, but we had another of both! (But we did't have a typhoon. It curved around Ishinomaki.) 

Side note: Every town and every name has some sort of deeper meaning. But since I can't read Kanji, I usually just ask what it means, and so here's the story of how Ishinomaki got it's name... I think... 

"once upon a time. Ishinomaki was a bog. And the first people that came into the bog saw a stone. But it was no normal stone... It was a spiral stone. A spiral stone in a bog. And there you get Ishinomaki. Spiral stone" 

Yep, but back to natural disasters. 

At 2:45ish AM we had another earthquake. But I slept though it (I was exausted), so I asked Willey Choro what it was like and he said this (and I:m paraphrasing) 

"It was big. Man. So first there were two giant booms clear in the distance. Then the ground started moving back and forth, and there was an even louder boom closer. The ground shook for about three minutues. At first I thought it was just a normal earthquake, but I looked over at Ohori choro and he was sitting up straight, and he looked really worried." 

I didn:t wake up until the tsunami alarm went off at about 3ish. 

It's not a blaring, or a screaming, or even a beeping. It's just the voice of a man, not worried, just a calm voice with long pauses between everyword. In every pause you heard his voice echo from every speaker in the entire city. And all I understood was: "Tsunami.... Ishinomaki..." 

I sat up straight and whispered at Ohoro Choro's silhouette. 

"What are they saying?"

Oc "Tsunami." 

me "I got that. What about it?) 

Oc "Stay away from ocean."

Me ".... do we need to leave?"

Oc "...We see." 

Since Japanese doesn:t have a future tense it's kinda difficult to remember. He meant "we will see" 

Turns out we didn:t have to run to the shelter, but they announced that everyone should be fine 15ish minutes later, and to be sure to stay away from the ocean. 

Now that I think back on it, it's really freaky, but whenever something that is potentially life threatening happens, I get really calm and think way clearly. (Except when it comes to mold... That mold...) So I was totally ready to ether run for my life (literally) to the shelter, or just go back to sleep. Thankfully I got to choose the latter. 

So, the six weeks are up and I get a new not wrinkly from water planner! With new planners comes transfers. New places and new companions. Since I am mid training I thought I'd be safe from that great and dreadful call... But as I never am... I was wrong. (korewa hiniku o desta. That was sarcasm) 

We got a call on Wednesday from the President (of the United States) and he told us that Ohori Choro and Willey Choro were staying together, but we were getting one new elder who would be my trainer.

I'll tell you all I know about him: 

His name is Olsen Choro.... And that's it. Well, I know he's been here twice as long as I have. (Which, means he just BARELY finished getting trained. 6 weeks more) And judging from his name, he's not Nihonjin. But man. :) I'm excited. Seriously. We'll have 100 % Gaijin power. And I'll get to practice my Japanese a lot more in real life settings. :) Yosh. 

So yep. We're going to have to divide our investigators which is really probably the saddest part. I know for a fact Olsen Choro and I get to keep our English speaker Sean san, but Hanzawasan and Onadera san... Man... 

Hanzawasan told us (willey Choro and me) that he was our Nihonjin Otousan. (our Japanese Dad). Sad... 

But life, as it always is, is amazing. I love dendo, and I love learning about this gospel. Christ truly lifts up those who turn towards him, and I've felt him lift me up. 

Thank you all for the letters. I love them.

Keep up the good work, and the sharing of the gospel, is not merely a job for people in far away countries. It's a job for us all. 

Help us out, 

Elder Wheelwright

Favorite Scripture Moroni 10:32

Alright! 

Hey Everyone! 

So this week has been pretty awesome. 

First up a clarification about last week. I feel awful. I said the houses are like 1 foot or less away. This is a lie. They are usually about 2 or 3 feet. Sometimes 5 or 6. And if there is a road in between, maybe 20 feet. 

So this week Hanzawasan took us to a ramen restaurant. It was amazing. Japanese Ramen is the best.- and you:ll never guess who walked in. The Mayor. And it was true that I didn:t know him at first, but brother Watanabe (who we were going to joint with after we ate) jumped up, ran over, shook his hand and started bowing. Then Ohori choro said "He is town president" So YA! Whoever asked that question? I have met the mayor. 

Also, a few times ago I talked about Typhoons. Apparently that was just normal rain. Ohori Choro meant `It was like a typhoon`. We had a real typhoon this Wednesday. We weren:t allowed to go outside. So we studied. 

It was crazy! I looked out the window and saw trees flopping back and forth, and power lines spinning like jump-ropes. 

So it turns out that we:re way closer to the Ocean that I thought. It:s like a ten minute bike ride away.

 We did service at a house there. 

Now, when I say service you probably picture picking up garbage, or lifting heavy objects, but for service we painted postcards, (Japanese style) Which is really actually way difficult. You have to hold the very end of the foot-long paint brush. And every line has to be incredibly slow. Five inches per minute. 

From the house you can see the tsunami wall. There:s just some empty fields in between with weeds. Which is incredibly strange. Usually there isn:t any empty spaces in residential areas at all, and if there is then it:s a park, and the Japanese people wouldn:t let weeds grow in it. 

The owner of the house saw me looking and walked over to me with a picture. He said it was a picture of houses, and a high school. I was incredibly confused until I recognized the tsunami wall in the background. The picture is of what used to be in the fields in front of the house. Everything was gone.

We talked to the man, and I shared my favorite scripture to him Moroni 10:32. He got a calm thoughtful look on his face, and then started quoting something. He was quoting the bible. John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He have His Only Begotten Son..." I was shocked. How in the world did he know that? He said he heard it once when he was a boy... How in the world would he remember that? He looked about sixty, which meant that he was actually mid 70:s. (We:re teaching a 70 year old man and he:s more spry than dad is!) How could he remember that from when he was a boy? The Spirit will bring all things to your remembrance is what the bible says. I suppose the Spirit would cause him to remember the very Person He:s called to testify about.

Speaking of the spry guy, we taught the Kitami fufu the restoration this week. Everyone is seriously so nice. We came in and she fed us chocolate covered potato chips, cake, cookies, and mugicha (burnt popcorn water. Which i:m really starting to enjoy). He looks fifty but he:s really 70. 

We also found a new investigator. It was pouring so we decided to go tracting. (It:s just the classic thing to do!) We knocked on the door of an old investigator (Ochisan) in the temporary housing and he was home! He invited us into his genkan and we taught him a lesson about the Book of Mormon. Ohori choro was introducing the Book, and flipping through the pictures. He talked about Christ, and about Joseph Smith, and then he just stopped and stared at me and pointed to the next picture. 

Alright, I can do this. "The next picture is about Lehi and his family. The first part of the Book of Mormon is about Lehi. He was a prophet. Which is a person who receives the word of God, and shares it with other people..."  Yosh. I shared my favorite scripture again, and we set up an appointment for this Thursday at 7. Double Yosh.

I love this gospel and I love sharing it with people, 

If you ever have a question, just wright away. (wright away was a triple play on words in case you didn:t catch it) 

Elder Wheelwright

Questions Answered

こんにちわ皆さん！(Hello Everyone!) 

What is the exchange rate? : Good Question. Answer: I don:t know. They give me money on a card. I pull it out of the ATM and I use it. In my mind currently every 100 yen is a dollar, because that:s the easiest. If you good, what is the "Japanese yen to American dollar exchange rate", you:ll probably get a better answer. Sorry!

How close is your apartment to the Ocean? Close enough to smell it, but not close enough to see it. Everything smells like fish. (and everything tastes like fish too. I tried some Japanese instant spaghetti yesterday, and guess what it tasted like? ... Corn. nope, fish. (and it had seaweed in it.. yum)) 

Do you have a mayor in Ishinomaki? We probably do, but I haven:t met him, and if I did, I wouldn:t know. If someone even told me, "Hey, that:s the mayor!" I:d probably say ("You can speak, English?") No, if they said it in Japanese I still wouldn:t know, because I don:t know the word for mayor. I:ll look it up. :) 

Do you have a president or and emperor? Alright, so. Um... We have an emperor, I believe. But I think he doesn:t have a ton of political power. More like a figure head. (Like the Queen of England) But I believe we have someone similar to a Prime Minister that does stuff... But. I am seriously cut of from all of my power and knowledge. I can:t google things! I know that their government isn:t actually that different from ours. 

Are there a lot of gadgets in the smaller towns? This is Japan, are you kidding? There:s gadgets everywhere. My bike has more gadgets on it than most iphones have apps. So many lights, bells, reflectors, and (the word that means the mudflaps for bikes). I think probably the most gadget-ist thing is probably the toilets to be honest. It:s amazing. I almost consider America a 3rd World Country right now. They heat up, they play water music, they... do other things. And they use less water!!! Our toilet has a sink on the top of it so while it:s filling up for the next flush you can wash your hands, and it:s got two different types of flush settings and strengths. - Sumimasen, I tried to avoid talking about that for as long as possible. But it:s seriously one of the most impressive things.

What is the coolest gadget you have found? Oh! Sweet. Look above. My toilet. :) I:ll send you a picture next week. So many buttons.

What are the names of the Anime in Ishinomaki? Ah... ue. eerp... I don:t know.... But I can list all of the names of the books in the Book of Mormon, and the Latterday Prophets at the same time. 1 Nephi, Joseph Smith, 2 Nephi, Brigham Young, 3 Nephi, Gordon B. Hinkley, 4 Nephi, Tomas S Monson, Moroni, 

Did most of the children get killed in the Tsunami? That:s an excellent/ kanashii question. No, most are still alive. Though I know that some did die. it affected everyone, but a lot of people were able to get to safety in time. Hanzawasan showed me a picture of his shop after the tsunami... It:s a scary thing.

What do they believe about families? Everyone that we:ve talked to believes that families are important. Everyone here loves their families just like we do in America. We found a new 70 year old fufu (couple) and taught them about families (we:ll actually ohori choro did :) ) and they said they want an Eternal Family and agreed to have us come back. Really, I:ve seen so many close families here, Just like America.

Are you by fishermen? No, I wish we were closer to the ocean. But, We live kinda by a river, and I saw a guy about Dad:s age all geared up with a fly rod. Soooo....

What work do most of the people do that you live around? Most people we:ve met and talked to own tiny shops. They don:t have any crazy huge WalMart stores here that everyone goes to, so little shops thrive. You can find shops for everything. Pots, rice, random t-shirts, but most are like little food stores. 

How big is your apartment? Well. probably about the size of the playroom. Or smaller actually. Hum... I:m not sure. Everything is so compact in Japan, that I think I:ve kinda lost my spacial judgment. Actually it:s probably way smaller than the playroom. A house 1/2 the size of our house here, is HUGE. 

Do you sleep on the floor? Yes we do, and I love it. 

Do you have a bed or a mat? Both. We have mats that are like beds. Their futons. We whip them out every night, and put them away every morning so we can have more room. So not only do we have to make our beds (mats) we have to put them away too. But I love it. I think I:ll buy one when I get back to America. 

What about the other furniture? What about it?.. Their not beds or mats. But everything is way smaller. Well. If you have furniture. Often times we just walk into someone:s house and kneel on the floor around a table with no legs. But every chair I:ve sat in has been a little smaller than America. Not incredibly, but enough that my knees go above the seat of most chairs, but I:ve got pretty long legs. I think it probably looks pretty funny. 

Do you sit on the floor in most people's homes? No, we kneel. You know how Dad starts groaning if he has to wait longer than three minutes on his knees for us to get ready to pray (sorry dad!) we get to do that for 45 minutes. Yoshi. But normally they have some kind of seat, or they let us sit cross legged. 

Do you have heat in the apartments? Since we:re so close to the ocean, the temperature has been pretty moderate. Usually it doesn:t matter if I wear a long sleeve or short sleeve, but I think that:s because it:s just the perfect time of the year right now. We do have a gas heater in our house, and we:re probably going to need it. People keep telling me how bitter the winters are here. One sister from Utah (yep, the only sister from Utah) told us that because the walls are so thin (and they really are) that it:s often colder inside than outside during the winter. She said "I just have to wait outside for the little bit til I get up the courage to go in." But they have crazy heater/tables that blow my mind. I haven:t got to use one yet. 

How close are the homes together? Oh.. So close. So so close... I love it. The houses are so close together and the roads are so narrow they have giant convex mirrors at every intersection between the houses. You can:t see around the corners! The roads are super weird sometimes because, again, they like to save space. We have to go in a spiral in order to get to our apartment. There is about a foot (or so) between our apartment building and the one next to us. But a lot of buildings have no gap in-between. 

What is the biggest cultural difference from our family and the families there? Well... Um. Their kids seem to have more school than ours. And the mothers for the most part stay home. There:s quite a few single people. Fathers go to work... It seems kinda like it does here. I think that I:ll be able to tell you better once i:ve seen more. Because from what I:ve seen their pretty much the same. I look for it though. Sorry! :( 

What was your week like? 

It was pretty good. We HAD 3 INVESTAGATORS COME TO CONFERENCE! Man. I:ll tell you about that later. It:s been really good though.

 Did you do any tracting? 

Yep, we do housing. We mostly teach though. We find as we go. When we do house we house the temporary housing. It was a baseball park (the Japanese people love baseball, and I think that they think, that American:s are really into it too. They know more American teams than I do) that was converted into a place where people can live. It:s actually not too bad of a place, but I think they:ve all got to find other homes, etc with in the next two or three years. 

  Your branch is how big? about 35  people. We have two families with children. Two young men. No young women. We have a few 25-35ish guys. But mostly just random people that come by themselves. I love it. We have a would:ve been professional opera singer, but somehow (again, it:s because I don:t understand a lot of Japanese) he gave it up in order to still live the beliefs of the church. You should hear it when he sings the hymns at church. Amazing.

Who is in your branch presidency? 

He:s an excellent man with two younger boys, and a wife who never stops laughing. He has far more gospel knowledge than I, and he teaches the weekly institute class. He:s classy, and he:s a good cook, and he has dendo fire. He:s always helping us, and always smiling.

 Who is your ward mission leader and tell us about him? He:s 28ish and he went to UVU in Utah for school. He:s really classy as well and has long sideburns. He speaks amazing English, and he:s always helping us out and leaving food on our door handle.

  What is a typical Sunday like in your branch? We go to the PEC meeting. Then we have Priesthood where a person teaches and people participate, then we have Sunday school, which occurs in a like manner, and then we have sacrament where we sing hymns and take the sacrament, and people talk. Exactly the same. Just less people. Oh, and in Japanese.

Do you want me to put names in of people or would you rather I didn't?  So, names. Names are probably fine. Like last names. but it:s probably hard to tell. Uh. Ya. It:s probably. 

I sent you four of the same letter with different address' on each.  Will you please take a picture of the one that gets to you first?　Yep.

  Speaking of which how is Hanzawaksan coming along?

Do you have any business cards? Oh do we have business cards. Do we have business cards? 土ウェはヴぇびｓ根ｓｓかｒｄｓ？　ｙｅｓ　ｗｅ　ｄｏ．　ｔｉｐ　ｆｏｒ　ｔｈｅ　ｄａｙ：　ｎｅｖｅｒ　ｕｓｅ　ａ　ｊａｐａｎｅｓｅ　ｃｏｍｐｕｔｅｒ：ｓ　ｃａｐｓ　ｌｏｃｋ．　

Have you ate any(I can't remember the name of it) I will describe it.  It is breaded pork and is typically served with shredded cabbage.  It is really good and is my favorite Japanese food. I probably have. I:ve eaten a ton of things, and most of them I don:t remember. But Pork is way good here. It just has a bit more fat is all. Breaded pork with black goo? Is that what you:re talking about? We:ve eaten a bunch of that.

How many people come to your ward/branch each Sunday? About 25-30ish. 

Are they strong in the ward? A bunch are crazy strong, a bunch don:t come, and some just slip in and slip out really quick. But as a whole, the ratio of strong to weak, as compared to Utah, is far FAR higher in this branch. We:ve gone on joints with most active members, and a lot love to take us out to dinner or give us bags of food. Everyone loves every one, and they:ve got to cling to one another because this is all they:ve got. We have activities at the church almost every night, and most of the same people come for all. Man... I love these people.

Have you had Korean barbecue since you have been in Japan? Maybe, I again just wouldn:t have known it. But we have had Tempra, which I think is Japanese barbeque. It:s so amazing. We had a tempra party. 

How much tracting do you do in a day? Mostly, none. When we do find, we do streeting. We do housing about... uh... Probably 2 at max a week.

How much time do you spend street contacting? Oh yes! We do... About... anywhere from an hour to 15 minutes everyday. It:s mostly a back-up plan in case something else doesn:t work out, or we need to fill time.

How many discussions do you give. We visit a ton of people, but not always teach a lesson. A lot of member visits, referral contacting, investigator stop-bys etc. But in a good day we give three, on a bad 0. But usually one or two everyday. (And almost always with a member) Usually 2 a day.

Have you settled into missionary life yet or are you still really homesick? You know... I:m sorry family, but I haven:t really been home sick for anything. Not food or mountains. I love it here. We eat noodles, rice, and fish almost every day. And have cheep rice-crackers. There:s nice people everywhere, and the city is beautiful. After exercising every morning the Ishinomaki song plays as the sun pokes its face over the sea of beautiful shingled roofs, and I just smile and soak it all in. I love it. I miss you all, don:t get me wrong. And I:ve come to really appreciate what my family means while I:ve been away. But, a mission isn:t as bad, at least for me, as a bunch of people make it out to be. Maybe next transfer will be something different, but at least for now, there:s no place I:d rather be.

Have you been to a 100 Yen store? AHH!! We:re going right after this, man, I:m so excited. Ohori Choro warned us in his best English "some time America elders go in and looking and looking and never come out." So yep. Today will be my first time.

Have you seen the erasable pens? Yep. I:ve seen the exact ones dad bought us two or three times, and other kinds once or twice. :) but we mostly have normal pens.

YAY! I did it. Yoshi. 

So this week I:ll keep it short. 

Onaderasan is the most amazing man. He was a self-referral. He just road up and asked us "kohi (coffee) suki desu ka?" (do you like coffee?) and now we;re teaching him the gospel almost every day. He has a ton of questions and is a home teacher in the sense that he teaches children at home. He:s a chemistry teacher. He;s so smart and so giving. He have me a little stuffed mushroom cell-phone thinggy. I love it. He came to both sessions of conference on Sunday. After he said "ahheieh. Confusing" in English to us. He said he loved everything they said about service, but he didn:t like it when they said "shinjinasai!" which is Japanese command form for "Believe!" which is pretty rude in Japanese, unless the person is of a higher social status than you, which the translators for conference obviously know the General Authorities are. But I don:t think it should be too big a deal. He liked it. (2nd week at church!!!) 

Sotaikai...(General Conference) subarashikata desu ne? (it was wonderful, wasn:t it?)

Man i love sotaikai. We got to listen in English in the same room as the rest of everyone. We went into the chapel, and the church sends out dvds to all of the countries a week after conference in all of the different languages. They rigged it so we could listen with headphones. They just have a translator voice over what everyone says. 

In the middle of the second session I turn around and see Matsukawa fufu (the matsukawa couple) sitting in the back of the chapel looking confused and I dare say worried. I was so happy that there where there that I almost started laughing. Sugoi! ((it was) Awesome!) 

They left after once hour and we chased them down. We talked and laughed with them, How cool is that?! 

Hanzawasan is way busy on Sundays, but hopefully things will start slowing down for him so he too can come. This is awesome! 

This week:s been good stuff. 

Spiritual tip for the week "If we ever dislike someone, it isn:t their problem. It;s ours." God commanded us to love all men, and though we should despise sin, we never should despise people. I think dendo maieni (Before my mission) I disliked a lot of people silently in my mind, and justified it because the people we:re rude or prideful. If I:m any sort of normal, I:m probably not the only person to do this exact thing as well. We are commanded to love all men. Even the publicans love those who love them. They salute those who salute them. How can God reward us if we only give back what has been given? When we love those us despitefully use us, who spit on us, or who smite our cheeks, we take the higher plane, and we unite our character with Christ:s. And through this we become joint-hiers with Him. We become one in purpose with God. So let us treasure up the words of eternal life, day by day. Let us engrave the teaches of the scriptures onto the fleshy tablets of our hearts, so that we become them, and later, they will become about us. 

I love you all, keep moving forward in the path to eternal life, and doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith. 

- ウイルライトちょうろう

Wheelwright Choro

So, Typhoons

Sodesune... 

This week:s been good. We got typhooned. 

In the Sendai zone we focus a bunch on dendo with members. So since our ward is so tiny, between the two compaionships (tri-panionships), we can visit every member of the branch. 

So, about three/four days ago, we decided to visit a Sister in the ward. The thing is, she doesn't normally get visited because she lives about 1 hour and 20 minutes on a bike away from the apartment. But, we decided to go anyways, because we felt inclined to. So off we went. :) and luckily it typhooned because it would've been an extremely boring bike ride if it wasn't/ 

A Note about typhoons: I:m not sure how science plays in, but all I know is that I had never experienced real rain until that day. It doesn't hit hard. It:s not painful. There is just so much and it never slows down. Ohori Choro probably thought Elder Willey and I were crazy because we were laughing our heads off about how unbelievable it was. It was grand.

Elder Willy took off his shoe when we got to the sister's house and poured out a couple handfuls of water.

She wasn't there. 

So we wrote her a very soggy note and headed back. We housed on the way back and we met the two cutest Japanese twins. 1 boy 1 girl, Each four years old. They spoke better Japanese then me, which makes me laugh. This really nice lady let us in and we talked about the gospel. In the end though, she wasn't interested. She was just being nice like all Japanese people are. 

A Note about Japanese People: 

You will never meet any more giving people in your entire life. We just got back to our apartment for lunch today and there was a bag of three shushirolls and potstickers. Everyone is always giving us stuff. We went to buy soymilk and noodles from this store one of members in our ward and she charged us half for everything. Then when we were in a different store, grocery bags aren't free like they are in America, so your supposed to buy them at the checkout, but I thought I could fit it all in my normal bag. I fit all of it except like twp bags of rice crackers and a carton of juice, (i like rice crackers. :)) but so I was just carrying it.  And before we walked out of the store, the lady from the checkout stand, came about fifty-feet with a bag to help me out. So nice. 

(in case you can't tell, my English is becoming worse. (but I love it!) I speak Japanese a ton, and when a Japanese person speaks English with me I have to speak really simply, so I'm just not used to writing in English.)　

Right now I'm caught between two languages. I can't speak Japanese proficiently to be considered normal, and I can't speak English like I used to be able to. :) but I love it. 

Alright　そですね　気の私たちはアメリカン人を逢います太。(Yesterday we met an American) His name was Sean. (I actually don't know how to spell it, but I'm just going to spell it my favorite way. I love you, Sean.) He's a history major that's teaching English over here, he was really amazed by the history of the Book of Mormon, and wanted to know more. So we set up an appointment in two weeks. Willy Choro was very classy in the way he set up the appointment. He got his number and then called it right in front of him to make sure it was the right one. It was. :) 

[Sean:s technically Catholic, "but only because that's what my insurance is though." He said he has a hard time with the whole Faith aspect of any religion. Which is kinda what I wanted to talk a little bit about today

From Paul and Alma we get this Bible Dictionary Definition: Faith is to hope for things which are not seen, but which are true. 
Well that:s quantifiable. 
So what Hope? 
True to the Faith says it excellently: "The word hope is sometimes misunderstood. In our everyday language, the word often has a hint of uncertainty. For example, we may say that we hope for a change in the weather or a visit from a friend. In the language of the gospel however, the word hope is sure, unwavering, and active."
So, Faith is undoubtingly believing in things which are not seen, but are true.
So how do you know it's true?

The instant you know it's certainly true, then you no longer have faith, right? it becomes knowledge. 
Hum... Faith is the first step to everything in the gospel. if you lack faith you aren't able to accomplish anything. 
I used to think that faith was a placebo effect. Where if you believe in something hard enough then it happens. 
But.. what if the placebo effect is merely science's quantification of a small aspect of faith. Not what if , I dare say  it is.  Faith to be healed.  

It's not wrong for faith to make the jump into knowledge, in fact, that's faith's natural course. Faith is eventually meant to become knowledge. Think about Moses, his faith eventually lead him to see God. Or the Brother of Jared, he had faith that God would give light to the stones, and eventually he was able to see God as well. Their faith in God became a sure knowledge. 
I only placed faith in the realm of the spiritual things of this world. But it extends beyond that. - I can't tell you everything that I've learned just yet, because I'm still trying to make sense of it. But True Faith is a different kind of faith, a Faith in Christ. The only way though which we can be saved. 
We practice faith on a daily basis. When we set a goal, our faith that our goal is possible leads us to action (for faith is a principal of action.). 

I LOVE JAPAN

We road quickly back to town after stopping at the sister's home. We had a lesson with our investigator. We taught him again in his shop. and I was dripping throughout the whole lesson. Luckily the floor is concrete. We taught him about the restoration. He's amazing. I was supposed to teach him about prophets. This is how it went.
me: "so, have you ever heard of a prophet before?"
Him: "They”re the people who receive God's word and share it with, and guide, the rest of the church."
this may not sound impressive to anyone of a Christian background, but all three of our mouths fell open. These people don't even really know who Jesus Christ is, and his man gave an perfect definition of prophets. (It sounds even more perfect in Japanese) I, because I have gaijin power, gave him a hug after the lesson... he hugged me back. :,)
I'll be more organized next time with my letter.

I normally write what I want to write about in my planner,

but I couldn't use my planner because it:s been drying. 

I love my companionship.
This Gospel is great stuff.
I love you all! 

Me and an Anime Statue. Ishinomaki has their own superheros. They're 9 cyborgs. This one is number nine. he's my favorite.

My Very last thing for this week.  If anybody has any questions about Japan will you please send them to my Mom or write them as a comment.  I would like to answer all of the questions I can in next weeks blog.