Hello there my favorite
mother!
District leader is like
being a normal missionary but with more stress haha. I don't have to do a ton
more but it is more stressful. I have to plan and run the district meetings on
Fridays and I write the president about everybody in the district about how
they are doing. I go to church at 8 am and we do studies for an hour and then I
go to DCS which I don't know what is called in English. It is just the
missionaries, the bishopric and the ward mission leader before church. We talk
about how the missionaries can work with the ward and vice versa. Elder Masaki
is AMAZING!!! I love him! He is super hard working and diligent and obedient
and he loves the gospel and just does all he can to be the best missionary he
can be. In the very beginning he set up expectations with me and how this is
his last transfer and how he wants to be exactly obedient and but he still
wants to have fun. He is already a great friend. He is from Oahu. Kane ohe
is where he is from. I told him I love Hawaii so much! Like one of
the first things I saw him pull out was spam and those Hawaiian sandals that
like everybody who has gone to Hawaii has hahaha. He is a hard worker like I
said. We have already found 3 or 4 potential investigators and one new
investigator!
But this week has been
such a growing experience already! I'm so pumped for this transfer! Just
yesterday at church, all day really, was the first day where Japanese felt
completely natural. I understood about 95% of everything I heard, it was an
amazing feeling! I know God was blessing me so much. I really know He was
blessing me because I even talked to this ojisan and understood everything he
said! ojisan is an old man. They literally use some different words that you
usually hear with the younger generation. Plus they all slur their words on a
level 60 on a 1-10 scale of slur'ness. It was amazing!
We also got a random
text from a guy named Henry who asked if we wanted to go play basketball. We
have never met him but he was in our area book so we went ahead and took the
train over to saiyamashi station and met him! He told us it was supposed to be just
a friendly game for an hour and a half. But we got there and We just kind of
were shooting around. Then this guy comes in and starts writing stuff on a
white board and making us do drills and stuff. It turns out that we were
actually on 'try outs' for this team they wanted to make for like tournaments
and stuf like that hahahaha. There were about 6 Filipinos there who all spoke
Tagalog, Japanese, and English, it was awesome to hear the language Tanner is
speaking! So ya it really wasn't a good use of our time but we had no idea it
was going to be like that. We expected it to be like we play a bit and then
talk to Henry after and share a message and then leave. But they were all like
"I hope you can come next week! We will start tournaments in October so we
really need to build our communication skills!" And we're thinking all
like "Ya we're never coming back again." Haha. But then on the way
home we found a new investigator who came to church the next day! He turned out
to be mentally handicap so we are trying to decide whether or not he needs
baptism really. This week has been full of Filipinos, I love it! Whenever I
find someone from the Philippines I just jump on the opportunity and use
pictures of Tanner I have to kind of build a relationship with them! Thanks
Tanner! haha. But we found another Filipino playing basketball in Koukuu koen
and he called us over to see if we wanted to play. We told him we actually had
plans to go play basketball in saiyama shi but we could talk for a bit. I
showed him a picture of Tanner and he said to me"I have met him before, ya
I know him!" I was like "NO WAY!?!?" He hadn't. He was thinking
of someone else haha. But he was really nice. He is going to come to church and
meet with us again!
I love you all so much.
I pray for you all by name every day. I hope all is well! Remember to lift
someone up and love them today!
Lately I have been
thinking about something Dad shared with me that Grandad taught him or told him
once. Dad told me that Grandad could drive down the road in Grandview and be
able to tell who was a good farmer and who was a not so good farmer by if they
cut corners or if they used every square foot of the field. I compare that to
missionary work. If we cut the corners, we will miss out on the opportunities
that are waiting for us. The lord had blessed me with a full field; I need to
use every bit of it.
I got the package! Thank
you! It was a lot of food haha! I missed Nutella so much though! I have a
package I want to send home soon. I actually have 2 but one has a big picture
of Christ a guy made me, but I'm putting it in the long box you just sent me. But
it is really spacious so I don't know what to put in it other than the picture.
That one might take me longer to send home until I find things I need to send
home.
I love you so so so so
much! Remember that as members of Jesus Christ's church, we have the
responsibility to share the gospel. I love you!
Elder Draper
ドレーパー長老
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| This is what Haydon said about this picture: "This is the Kurita family! We had dinner there yesterday. Got way lost find it too!" We think his mind is thinking in Japanese order but he's speaking English. Too funny! |
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