Not a lot of missionaries get to be on the tech team!

Hello mother! Man we live in an amazing age where I can see you from more than 5,000 miles away! It was so good to see you all!

Good for you finally getting that front thing done. It looks SO good! I'm very impressed. (my rock garden)

This is random but we are on our way to Yokohama and we stopped in shibuya which isn't in our mission but we had to transfer trains there and I got a picture of me and hachi the dog! There is a movie about hachi that we watched in zoology and they showed this statue at the end of the movie. Can you send it to Ms. Devore for me? Thanks! 

(after our phone call at Mother’s Day he emailed us and told us he had just gotten a phone call and he was moving to the Mission Office to be on the tech team. We’ve have been excited to hear all about the new adventure, definitely not something all missionaries get to do. Apparently when he filled out his questionnaire he must have mentioned he enjoys making movies, I’m not sure why he is there but it sounds very interesting!)

 I get to be one of the first people to meet president Warnick. I'm pretty excited! (his new mission president will be there in July) If he decides to change the mission portal then I will be the person to do that! I have no idea how to do that but I will be the person to do it! Crazy! Haha. So basically in tech staff I set up all the iPads for new missionaries, fix broken iPads, make training videos as requested, make power points for trainings, give trainings on Facebook and other tech safety stuff, lots of projects like anything president Wada wants me to do, and like a lot of other things that I can't really remember haha. But in 3 weeks Elder Belnap (his new companion) is leaving and then it will just be me! I will become elder Nicholson's companion while shimizu Choro trains a new commissarian and  then shimizu Choro will leave and then it will be us three in the office in a triple companionship. (I believe he will be there for 3 transfers! So for 18 weeks is my guess! He didn’t tell me that, but I guess that’s what he told Audrey, good thing she’s around to help fill in the gaps. Between the 2 of us we can figure things out)

But right before I left Tokorozawa, Hashimoto sent us a text saying he could meet us real quick because he was in Tokorozawa for a couple hours. We met him down by where we park the bikes. He finished the Book of Mormon in like a week and a half! He is starting it again.  But I invited him to be baptized right before I left and he said yes! His date is on June 11th! He also gave me and elder Masaki Japan shirts he got in ikebukuro. He is great! It's so so exciting to see people come unto Christ! I was reading in Alma 29 and found out that it is like one of my favorite chapters! He talks a lot about how joyful it is in seeing people come unto Christ even if it was you yourself who shelled them come unto Christ. Even through seeing others help others come unto Christ we ought to rejoice. You should read it! It is so great!

So our apartment is attached to the office and is right under the Wada's home. I live with the three APs, (assistants to the president )Elder’s Richardson, Frischknecht, and Rose and then with the comiserian, Elder Shimizu, and the recorder, Elder Nicholson, and then me and Elder Belnap, the tech staff. We all make our food separate so that's kind of weird to get used to. But now I can eat whatever I want! (maybe he has an oven!) The apartment is kind of messy but me and Elder Rose have been fixing it up more. 

My P day from here on out will be in Saturday's! I don't know exactly how p day goes down here but it will be on Saturdays! 

I love you all so much!!

Elder Draper

ドレーパー長老

A few hours after he wrote this they had a 5.6 earthquake about 60 miles from him. No damages and no tsunami warnings, that’s good! Next letter we will find out if he felt it.