Here goes nothing!

Well everybodies,

It's time for another transfer.

I packed it all up this morning. My too little suitcase is going to explode, and it took laying on top of it and battling with the zipper for about twenty minutes (and a blister) to get it to close.

I'm headed to Aomori-Prefecture

Hachinohe City,

It's a port city on the north eastern part of my mission. (It's probably the closest city to home!)

It's got 8 missionaries. Sweet.

My companion is the district leader, who is the same transfer as me: Elder Jones.

I've met him a few times, and he has a spirit of peace about him. I'm excited.

I think I've learned the more in this transfer than I have in any other.

I understand what it means to work with the branch, and I understand better than ever how to strengthen LA, find investigators, and be a good missionary in general.

I asked a lot of questions to the Zone Leaders here, and Cox Choro answered a ton of my questions.

I even asked the President some of the more difficult questions.

Good stuff...

Well, this week ne.

We cleaned out the apartment of a Less Active Member who just got sent to prison of physically maiming someone (again).

It was pretty interesting. And it took about five hours.

It was nostalgic (they use the equivalent of nostalgic a ton in Japanese), and slightly new, looking at the out side (and then the inside) of the door that had been slammed in our face so many times.

Apparently he was an active member a little while before I arrived here, but then he got offended at church, started drinking, got sent to prison... got out of prison, ignored us every time we met, and then finally got sent to prison again.

We walked into his apartment and there were pictures of pro-Japanese wrestlers all over the walls. (That's probably why you never let us watch wrestling, Mom. We'd just keep breaking peoples' arms and go to prison.)

Pffft....

Well... It's about time for me to go.

I visited my favorite man here in Iwaki... Niki-san. He got a masters from Cambridge, and we talk about science in English, I got to bear testimony to him, but he just kinda laughed. Still love him though.

I want to come back and see him.

Mah... I'm not even sure if this email is blog, worthy. 

I love you.