Watermelon and Napoleon Dynamite!

Something that I have definitely learned here so far is that offense is only an offense if you make it be one.   

Me and Hawkins choro are getting along really well.  Yesterday we taught Kato San and it went very well.  A couple days ago we taught Muraoko San, and I was getting really frustrated with the language barrier, and then we showed him the Easter video, "Because he lives" and during that, i prayed soo hard that I can express what the lord wants me to, and then after the video I was blessed, I spoke what I felt and the holy ghost carried it to his heart.  It was sooo awesome!! I met a girl who knew Drew  in Tahiti!! She has a crazy story. She got hit by a car when she was almost done with her mission, and ended up serving a 3 year mission!! I can’t remember if i told you or not, but I met Napoleon dynamite's Grandpa in the temple last week!! (a man came up to him in the temple and asked Haydon where he was going, when Haydon said Japan he said that his grandson went there. He then said do you know who Napoleon Dynamite, he’s my grandson!) 

Lowry Shimai got a watemelon in the mail from her neighbor so we all ate it in class.  

Every night me and the other chorotachi share stories about just whatever it’s great. I love them all!! 

The cookies were such a nice surprise! We still haven’t eaten them all, mainly because I hid them away under my bed so nobody will steel them.  But I should probably share haha.  My companion, Hawkins Choro is the new District leader but that doesn't give me any leadership roles. So we thought we were getting kohai on Wednesday but we didn’t.  (IF ANYONE KNOWS WHAT KOHAI IS PLEASE TELL ME)  But the zone down the hall got a ton and we went down there and like they were wild animals locked up in a cage.  I can't believe it has already been 3 weeks! After the 2nd week they rotate the food again so now i have realized how bad the food is here.  The first 2 weeks it seems fine but then you have it all over again and it is awful haha.  But it’s ok!  So the other night I prayed that the night would be calm and quiet, and NOBODY snored at all. I have been sick twice so far.   A couple weeks ago we had Gerald Causse speak to us and he played the piano and he play Come Come Ye Saints.  He played the intro in different octaves like 10 times. At first it bothered me and then I started singing the words that would have gone with the music and it is "We'll find the place, that God for us prepared."    I found this poem: 

"Doubts and fears may oft set deep into our mortal hearts, 

We may be lost in our own ways, but in the lord we're not. 

Futures dark unknowns, may seem too much to bear,  

But courageous faith in Christ will bring us safely there. 

There is a place prepared by he who is divine, 

For each of us this place exists, Savior be our guide." 

The spirit really has been pressing on me that we each have a plan, and the Savior is preparing the way to obtain that Promise Land. 

I love you all so much and I know that this church is true!! Please look for opportunities to share the gospel with somebody this week.  Our job is not to convince. It is to invite them to come unto Christ. We explain it in a way that is specific to their needs, and the Holy Ghost will testify the truth of it to them. 

I love you all!! 

Draper Choro