Hello there mother!
My week was great!!! A
LOT happened. A lot. Me and Elder Lunt get along great. It's awesome. I don't
know anything about the schools having gardens, but the whole sack lunch thing
is an art here! Literally it is. They have stores that make packed lunches, they
are called Bento. But the only thing I know about school here is that they are
all huge and look like prisons. Every single one of them haha.
How does Taylor like
singles branch? I loved it!
Tripp sounds like
I did. (it was a beautiful day and I “forced” Tripp to stay outside with me)
But good keep him outside! I wish I wouldn't have spent so much time inside.
But at least I got out of the video game phase! I am so glad. Seriously when I
stopped playing video games everything got better.
Wait so is the office is
going in Allie's room now?
Last pday after I
emailed we went with the Adamson couple in the Yokota airbase ward. We took
them to Shabu Shabu. IT is where you have a bowl of boiling sauce and water,
and you take raw meat and let it sit in there and then you eat it! IT's great!
I love it but it is way expensive. IT was there first time and they had no idea
what to do.
On Tuesday I had splits
with Elder Freschknecht! IT was fantastic. I learned a lot of helpful things.
We all have a part and we are all important. "'Where e're thou art, act
well thy part." That was found on a stone with a tic tac toe grid filled
with numbers. No matter which way you counted on the grid, the numbers would
add up to a certain number. It didn't matter if you were a 2 or a 4, every
number is important. If any number was a number that wasn't it, it would
mess it all up. We all have value and we all need to make the best of whatever
situation we are in!!
Then on Wednesday after
district meeting around 2, a random man named Miyata came in to the church. He
was there for Eikaiwa. Eikaiwa starts at 7. He was 5 HOURS EALY!!! So we showed
him around the church and then Elder Lunt and I Sat and talked with him and
intone end the gospel and God and Jesus Christ. Every time we would "talk
of holy things" (I hope that made someone out there laugh. Or at least
chuckle.) he would zone out. He likes to talk about English and in English and
about American culture and so forth. We talked for 2 hours! So we decided we
should go get some dinner. We told him that we would see him around 7 at
Eikaiwa. We walked home and he followed us. So I turned around and just asked
him if he had any dinner plans. He said no. So I said "How does ramen
sound?" So we walked very slowly over to the ramen shop but it was closed.
Then we decided to go to Indo curry. It was his first time! After that we
prepared English class and then we taught. But I basically spent my entire day
with Miyata San. IT was very interesting!
On Friday we went to Ome
and just walked around trying to talk with everybody! We found out that Ome is
FILLED with high school students! As we pass them, we always say
"Hero!" "Hello!" Haha there is no difference in Japanese.
They say hello back. Then they will almost. Inevitably yell back " I love
you!" Or "I'm fine how are you!" OR "I'm sleepy! haha it's
always a gold mine if you can stop a group of them. On the bridge in Ome we
unexpectedly were STOPPED by a group of them! We had said hello but then one
kid stuck out his hand to shake mine. Then we talked a lot and in the end we
invited them all to church and Eikaiwa. Then we all gave eachother bro hugs and
then I asked to take a picture haha. I love when I get a group of high school
guys stopped. That is my sweet spot haha.
On Saturday we had the
Mochitsuki in the morning around 10 am. I was wearing a short sleeve shirt, and
I worried every Japanese person there to sick haha. They thought I was going to
die because of how cold it was, but for me it just felt perfect. That was
way fun. Then that night we had President Wada come and do Questions of the
Soul event. He takes a part of a movie and teaches the gospel through it. We
watched The Mission. It was about repentance. One of the biggest parts of
repentance is forgiving ourselves! We are commanded to love our neighbors as
ourselves and how can we do that if we can't love ourselves?
On Sunday it was a huge
combined meeting with Kunitachi and Fussa. There was like 180 people in this
one tiny building that holds about 50 people comfortably. Guess who
came??? Miyata! He just randomly showed up! He slept through sacrament meeting.
He left after gospel principles. As we talked to him right before he left he
seemed a bit disappointed that it wasn't Eikaiwa. He thought he come to Eikaiwa!
So that was interesting. We had told him all the details but he didn't catch
them I guess. But we'll try to set up another meeting with him to answer
questions about church.
Today is PDAY and we
went to Fussa to meet Nakamura Kyoudai to get lunch on base with Adamson
couple. We went to America today! The base feels just like America! We ate at
chili's and the servers were Americans and it was all you can drink soda, they
don't have that in Japan, and it was just way fun. We got a big tour of the base
and that is why I got on email late!!! But it was way fun!!!
This week I am
ponderizing DC 123:17. The rest of the chapter is great too. But as we do
everything in our power well and if we do it cheerfully, then we can have peace
and stand still knowing that God will be pleased with our work. I love you all
and thank you for all of your prayers!
I think that is it for
this week!!!
Love you!
Elder Draper
ドレーパー長老
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