Hey there Mother!
Just to start off, I am going to plan on doing my face time call on my 25th at 10 am. So that will be your 24th at 7 pm. Ah wait a second. Shimatta. That will be your Christmas Eve. How about I call the 24th and that will be your 23rd? Will that work??? I can do anytime the 24 or 25 or 26. But if I do the 26th or 25th, that will be your Christmas Eve and day and I don't know if you want to do that. Will the 24th be ok? My 24th your 23rd at my 10am and your 7 pm.
Ishikawa Choro is awesome!!! He is very obedient. I love it. He is a really hard worker. If we get home like 5 minutes too early, we go and house the neighbor hood till the very last second. No joke though this week has definitely been the hardest week of my mission so far. He speaks English but not a ton. I speak Japanese, but not very much. I have been struggling a lot this week but I have also learned more this week than in my whole mission so far I think. My Japanese has already improved A TON just from having him as my companion. Although I still can’t say everything, obviously, I can say a lot and we have pretty good conversations. I can understand his Japanese pretty well, but there are always going to be people you can’t understand. It is even like that in English.
I forgot to tell you, but last week we had a taco party! I made a ton of tortillas and they were great! I have really come to love cooking. Actually while I'm waiting for the rice to get done cooking and then I’ll make Chahan, as I am writing this. Yesterday morning I made crepes. They don't have nutella here but they have Nutcao, which literally exactly like nutella. I now know how to make tortillas, ramen, crepes, okonomiyaki, yakisoba, shabushabu, yakiniku, chahan, gyoza, and sushi! Their cereal here is ridiculous!!!! It is seriously like half of one box of cereal and it is like 800¥ That’s like 8 dollars!!!! I could literally eat a whole bag in one day, but I don’t because it is so expensive. The trains here are way expensive. They eat money faster than anything here. Some interesting facts about my mission. We have the most people in our mission than any other mission here in Japan. We are the smallest mission geographically in Japan and among the smallest in the world. We are absolutely one of the most expensive missions in the world. That’s it right now.
Before I forget, I have been meaning to tell you this since the first week at the MTC. But I keep forgetting. Some Elder or Sister at the MTC stole my really nice Jesus The Christ. (or he lost it, he loses a lot of things) I’m over it by now but I just keep forgetting to tell you. Also in your next package can you send me the little floss threader things to get behind m retainer? Thank you!
Some interesting things about the Japanese that i have learned so far. they WILL NOT step in the genkan without shoes on. The genkan is like a tiny area that is lower than the rest of the house and they put their shoes there and put slippers on to go in the house. And they will not for any reason set foot in the genkan without shoes on. And they will not for any reason walk in the house with shoes on. They don’t cross their legs like us. Well like how most of the men sit in church. They think that it is rude to have the soles of your shoes pointing at another person. But you can sit how the girls sit in America. So I have kind of gotten used to that. It is way hard to get used to though. You can’t have your chopsticks pointing at anybody. That’s rude. When you walk in any restaurant or store they all say Irashaimase like 50 times. But you don’t respond. It basically just means that they acknowledge your existence haha.
Just to start off, I am going to plan on doing my face time call on my 25th at 10 am. So that will be your 24th at 7 pm. Ah wait a second. Shimatta. That will be your Christmas Eve. How about I call the 24th and that will be your 23rd? Will that work??? I can do anytime the 24 or 25 or 26. But if I do the 26th or 25th, that will be your Christmas Eve and day and I don't know if you want to do that. Will the 24th be ok? My 24th your 23rd at my 10am and your 7 pm.
Ishikawa Choro is awesome!!! He is very obedient. I love it. He is a really hard worker. If we get home like 5 minutes too early, we go and house the neighbor hood till the very last second. No joke though this week has definitely been the hardest week of my mission so far. He speaks English but not a ton. I speak Japanese, but not very much. I have been struggling a lot this week but I have also learned more this week than in my whole mission so far I think. My Japanese has already improved A TON just from having him as my companion. Although I still can’t say everything, obviously, I can say a lot and we have pretty good conversations. I can understand his Japanese pretty well, but there are always going to be people you can’t understand. It is even like that in English.
I forgot to tell you, but last week we had a taco party! I made a ton of tortillas and they were great! I have really come to love cooking. Actually while I'm waiting for the rice to get done cooking and then I’ll make Chahan, as I am writing this. Yesterday morning I made crepes. They don't have nutella here but they have Nutcao, which literally exactly like nutella. I now know how to make tortillas, ramen, crepes, okonomiyaki, yakisoba, shabushabu, yakiniku, chahan, gyoza, and sushi! Their cereal here is ridiculous!!!! It is seriously like half of one box of cereal and it is like 800¥ That’s like 8 dollars!!!! I could literally eat a whole bag in one day, but I don’t because it is so expensive. The trains here are way expensive. They eat money faster than anything here. Some interesting facts about my mission. We have the most people in our mission than any other mission here in Japan. We are the smallest mission geographically in Japan and among the smallest in the world. We are absolutely one of the most expensive missions in the world. That’s it right now.
Before I forget, I have been meaning to tell you this since the first week at the MTC. But I keep forgetting. Some Elder or Sister at the MTC stole my really nice Jesus The Christ. (or he lost it, he loses a lot of things) I’m over it by now but I just keep forgetting to tell you. Also in your next package can you send me the little floss threader things to get behind m retainer? Thank you!
Some interesting things about the Japanese that i have learned so far. they WILL NOT step in the genkan without shoes on. The genkan is like a tiny area that is lower than the rest of the house and they put their shoes there and put slippers on to go in the house. And they will not for any reason set foot in the genkan without shoes on. And they will not for any reason walk in the house with shoes on. They don’t cross their legs like us. Well like how most of the men sit in church. They think that it is rude to have the soles of your shoes pointing at another person. But you can sit how the girls sit in America. So I have kind of gotten used to that. It is way hard to get used to though. You can’t have your chopsticks pointing at anybody. That’s rude. When you walk in any restaurant or store they all say Irashaimase like 50 times. But you don’t respond. It basically just means that they acknowledge your existence haha.
I have not yet received your packages. I have the first one you sent of course, and the Sessions sent me the most perfectly organized package I have ever seen in my whole life. I love it! It hasn’t rained in a long time so I’m glad. On transfer day it started to rain but didn’t last long. We were late to the train and Elder Jesperson just barely barely got on the train. We didn’t even get to say goodbye. Elder Laird missed it and had to wait for the next one. It was way intense.
Elder Ishikawa is pretty strict Japanese as in he follows the culture to the Tee. Oh I forgot to tell you in my list of Japanese culture things. They sort their trash like into burnables, glass, plastic, pet plastic (bottles without the labels on it. labels are pastic) and cans. And they follow it exactly. They wash every bottle out before they throw it away. It is way intense. He is from Aichi. It is in the Nagoya mission.
Ya I’ll speak Japanese to you! I will prepare something to say so it isn’t all awkward like "what do you want me to say" also maybe think of things you want me to say and I will try my best!
I love what Tripp said about agua hahaha. That is way funny. Water in Japense is Mizu. Tell him I said that. And to say I want water it is Mizu ga hoshii des.
Write back so we can figure out the Face time stuff! Love You!!!
Merry Christmas!!! Or as the Japanese say. " meri kurisumasu"
Elder Draper
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