18 weeks down!

Hello there inhabitants of America!!!

This week has been better! We had a good talk in weekly planning. Things are a lot better. However, we still get one each other’s nerves every once in a while.He said that I study too much and he can never talk to me because I am always studying. I tried studying less, like in between lunch and whenever, to see if he would talk to me more. He didn’t. SOOO I studied some more! Haha I just want to work all I can so that I can receive maximum results. If he wants to talk he can talk to me, and if I want to talk to him I will talk to him. Everything is all good. But don’t worry I am having tons of fun! It’s just I am devoting my time to God and I want to be able to look back and be proud of the time I gave to God. I’m just learning how to have fun and be exactly obedient at the same time! 

You already know who my president is???! No one here knows yet! Who is he??? I love President Wada so so much. I’m going to miss him a lot. But I also hope that the new president will be good for me. I’m sure he will! 

Being a teacher sounds so hard!!! Those little kids I’m sure are crazy. How did the whole Harry potter thing work out? (talking about Allie’s new classroom)

Hahahaha I’m glad that Tripp is still protective about what people say to him when they aren't me!!! haha 

(Tripp informed Allie that they were Haydon’s nephew’s, not hers. Also when she asked Krue who his favorite person was he yelled, “Haydie!” So they haven’t forgotten him)

I had a dream last night that I was already home. I have had 2 actually. But in my dream I was just looking back on my mission and being so stunned as to how fast it flew by. I keep reminding myself that MISSIONS END. Which means if there is anything I’m struggling with, I don’t need to worry! God promises us a promise land and if we will endure the trials we have in front of us and rely on Christ to "make the sea our path" (2Nephi 10:20) and we will be happy. Also it’s good because it keeps in perspective how easy it is to let it go by without doing much with it! Every day counts and I need to make it the best I can! Forever is made up of now’s and I want to fill my Mission and Forever with awesome Now’s!!!

 Yes I do Eikaiwa every week! (English Class) I am currently teaching the advanced class where there are 2 people (one in particular) who like to talk the ENTIRE TIME. It is way way hard to deal with. One student actually told me he was moving classes because he never got a chance to talk. But I still love Eikaiwa!

There is absolutely no way of telling if I will be here or transfer the next transfer call. I kind of hope I transfer! I am kind of tired of biking 30 minutes to visit the closest person to us. Transfers are every 6 weeks. I am almost in my 3rd transfer!!!! There are 16 Transfers in a mission. 

It really is hard to be away from you all. But like I mentioned before, it will fly by and I am learning SO much! I know that the things I am doing for the people here and the things I am learning are of great worth so it is all worth it. 

On PDay we can basically do whatever we want as long as we represent the church in a manner that it ought to be represented. And we just have to keep finding people to teach. But we usually just go to Tachikawa Eki and do something there. I need to get a haircut way bad today!!

This week I went on 2 splits. One with Elder Driscoll and one with Elder Fenton. I stayed at their house one night then my house then their house again! I love sleeping over there! It is always way fun. With Elder Driscoll I learned that in order for people to stop and talk to you, you first of all need to be the happiest person they have met all day. Then use English! A lot of people here like English! Everybody studies it but it is SO broken that it is barely understandable.  We pass out fliers at ekis and I learned to have way fun with that. He taught me the "Belly button poke". Basically the goal is to see how many belly buttons you can poke with the flyer hahaha. It is way fun and it passes the time fast! There is always an Indian guy passing out fliers too. I talked to him. He didn’t speak English or Japanese very well. But he is awesome! And just saying random things in English like "Hey you sir! I will teach you English. FOR FREE!!!" Haha then says it in Japanese so they understand. But Just being way cheesy gets people to stop at least in passing out fliers.  Its way fun. We got like 23 SOS!!! In 2 nights!! 

We also (Driscoll and I) Visited a man named Cool-J. He is a Nigerian man who has a Gangster style shop in Tachikawa. He is way way nice. He Hugged me and gave me a dum dum. He is being taught by the Kunitachi elders right now but actually lives in Fussa so he might become our investigator!

I think that is all for this week.

I love you so much and I pray for you everyday multiple times a day!!

Elder Draper