Dear Family and stuff

Well, let me tell you what I did last Monday, 

So you expected me to eat some weird foods when I got called to Japan- 

So did I, 

But last Monday I ate something that I'd never expected... 

-raw horse meat-

Yep. 

we ate horse tongue too, but it wasn't raw so.... We're all good. 

My cowboy ancestors were crying... 

The other missionaries stopped at about one or two pieces, and it's pretty expensive and pretty rude not to eat it, so... I ate four or five. :) It doesn't even phase me anymore. I've eaten so many odd things that it's normal now to eat one more. 

Our mission got an Onegai (an honorific request) from the Area Presidency.... We're supposed to teach twenty lessons a week. (or at least try to) 

So to prove that it's not impossible, we decided to do it. We did. All twenty of them. 

I feel dead.

"Speaking of His work, we were able to work with our new investigator Fukagawa-San this week three different times. He listened intently, and when we were teaching him about God and prayer, he just paused for and second and his eyes got wide. 

He said in effect: "Let me get this straight. You don't believe that religion is a once a month at a shrine kind of thing, but rather, you all believe that you have a constant connection with God all the time! That He's always watching and willing to listen and that you can talk to Him anytime! That changing the whole meaning of religion!" 

Those are the kind of moments that make a mission worth it.  "

I love Ya'll!

Elder Wheelwright