Hello! So it's
not decided for sure how long I will be here. But the trend has been for at
least three transfers. I will definitely be here when president Warnick gets
here. It also isn't decided how much dendo time (proselyting time) we get per
day. We just usually do about one to two hours of dendo time and then we are in
the office the rest of the time. I'm just learning everything I can before
Elder Belnap leaves! We send out the transfer calls and it’s so crazy! It used
to be a four hour process but Elder Belnap condensed it to a 45 minutes.
Transfer emails is like next week! That's so crazy! It's crazy to think that by
the time I am done with tech staff I will probably be more than half way done.
No I still don't have an oven haha. But the microwaves act as ovens here! And
you do have an oven, they work as microwaves! It's way weird haha.
Yes I did feel
the earthquakes! We were in the middle of daily planning sitting at the table.
All in a sudden everything just started shaking and swaying back and forth. It
went on for like 5 minutes I swear! Me and Elder Belnap didn't really know what
to do. The phone alarm went off and just said in Japanese to "prepare for
strong shaking." We felt the other ones later that night and in the
morning too but they weren't as strong. No damage though! Well not here at
least.
Haha we always
get stuck in the scary hotels don't we? Isn't that like a family tradition? (Referring
to the girls and my trip to Utah)
So ya this week
I have been learning a ton about how to make websites and how to send transfer
calls and how to use excel and connect it to the mission portal and what not.
We tuned up the Facebook training a little bit. We still need to figure out
where we can fix iPads. We have a lot of broken iPads. When the new
missionaries come in we want to hand out the broken iPads in the boxes like
they are new and then drop them right in front of them like on accident and
watch their reactions when we pull out shattered iPads haha. I don't know if we
will really do it but it would be funny! Haha. (A different missionary
came in and taught him how to code websites too. He was very excited about
that!)
We have had a
little dendo time this week. We went to mitaka train station and did a
kubarikai (passing out flyers for eikaiwa (English class, He will still be
teaching English classes). This one drunk guy came up to me and we talked for a
second. Then he told me to stop being an elder and to stop what I was doing. I
told him that I would not stop and he just kept laughing at me. We talked some
more and he shook my hand for about 3 minutes solid and just told me how I was
wrong. He left and I was so mad inside. I couldn't really concentrate so I just
started down in a nearby bench and prayed. I felt better after that.
I lost my ring a
couple weeks ago. I prayed to be able to find it but never did. Just this last
week I went to choose a pair of pants. I went for one but then just had the
feeling to choose a different pair. My ring was in the pocket! But I literally
had checked that pocket at least twice before. It was such a miracle!
In a mogi ( role
play) yesterday morning I was pretending to be an old man. In Japan, and it's
the only place I've ever seen this, the old people are most always bent at a
perfect 90 degree angle. So I did that in the mogi to be kind of funny. But my
back is still seriously sore from that! It was crazy!
We haven't had a
lot of time for finding this week but I have got to see more of kichijoji and
it is way cool! We found these back alleys with like markets in them and ramen
shops. They are about three feet wide and lots of people in them. We went and
got ramen. It was way good!
So ya we went to
Yokohama last week which was way fun! Still didn't really get to see the ocean
but we saw a lot of really cool stuff! We shopped at a mall for a while and
only bought a cd from the Ghible store. You should look up Ghible, it's awesome
haha. They were playing some sweet Japanese music that I could listen to so I
bought cd. Elder Nicholson bought one as well but the bit more pricy one. We
get home only to find out that he is just a music box sound and mine is just
background music with now singing! Haha oh well it still sounds nice! When we
came back president Wada chastised us about not letting him know earlier that
we were changing p day to Monday. He was still ok with it.
This week was
crazy that's for sure!
(I asked what he
was doing today) I am going to buy some
cheap ninja shoes after this! They are about 600¥ they are way comfortable!
Elder Belnap is from south Jordan Utah. An elder in my room is from Pocatello!
Also, Elder Freschknecht who was from kunitachi when I was in Fussa is here as
the new AP so that's cool!
I love you all
so so so much! Thank you so much for all you do and how much you support me
with your prayers and love and everything!
Elder Draper
ドレーパー長老
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