I really don't see President Warnick very often. Maybe
once a day. Definitely more than other missionaries! I saw the picture of the
boys! They are so stinkin cute. I don't think they've grown at all since I left
haha they still just look so small and adorable! Do you think they will let me
teach them Japanese? You should ask them for me. It was weird though being in
Japan for the Fourth of July! Nothing happened! I think I saw one person with
an old navy shirt on.
It's pretty hot here! I'm finally getting a taste of
what Tanner feels everyday! When it's not raining it is really humid and really
hot. But I'm in the office most of the day anyway so it doesn't have too much
of an effect of me. Speaking of rain, we had a HUGE rain storm the other day! I
don't think it was taifuu( I have no idea why we changed it to typhoon, it's
completely wrong it is actually 台風 which is read taifuu.
Anyways haha) but taifuu season is coming up I think! I'm pretty excited for
that.
Goodness mom! I can't keep you satisfied with my
pictures I see! Haha ok I will try to take better and more pictures. I actually
have like none this week. I just have a video of the rain. I'll try to take
pictures of the way I take to go to this really good ramen shop. This Monday we
are eating out as a district so I will take some pictures there. It's in a way
cool underground restaurant! Literally it's underground. All the best and
cheapest places to eat here are the ghetto, underground, hole in the wall,
needs a password to enter kind of ones you probably wouldn't eat at as just a
tourist haha. Just kidding their not that bad, but comparing to the city life
of Tokyo it seems like it!
Last Sunday our friend Johnathan come to church! He
only stayed for sacrament meeting. Our gospel principles class is so bimyou!
Like its a class for investigators who don't know much about the gospel. Every
week here is an intense deep doctrine class about God having parents and so
forth. It would be a great class for members but it just leaves our investigators
with and head ache when they leave!
On Monday it was America's birthday! I barely noticed
haha. I finally got Elder Yang and
Elder Mizuguchi and Elder Ota's iPads working! They
haven't been working for about 4 weeks since they came and I've been "in contact"
with the global service center to help me fix the problem. They did nothing
whatsoever and had it not been a random blessing from God it would have never
been fixed through them! At night we had a meal with the Yamashita couple and
Jonathan. He is fluent in Chinese, Japanese, English and is learning Korean.
The Yamashita's only speak English so we spoke English. It was so fun though!
We had Costco pizza and salad. It's crazy because we have become such great
friends with him but we have really only met like 4 times I think. At the end
we all talked about our personal testimonies about the Book of Mormon.
On Tuesday morning we ran to the bus stop about ten
minutes away to see Jonathan off to Taiwan. That was pretty sad. I hope he
visits America when I get home. Or I will go to Taiwan. While we were talking
to him this random guy who worked for the bus kept like snooping and walking
around our little 4 man circle. It was way weird. I don't know what that was
about. Other than that, literally ALL day we were moving the Fussa elders! It
was fun because I got to go back to my first apartment. It's all empty now. We
had to move the stuff to the Yokota apartment because the Fussa church is
finally finished! It was under construction when I was there so I never got to
use it and that's why we lived in kunitachi. We STUFFED the van full of
garbage. Every little hole was filled with garbage. There was only room for two
people so me and Elder Hattanda drove about an our north to a dump. Only to
find out we were 45 minutes late and they were closed. We walked in a sign told
us too. It was a huge recycle shop warehouse with all the lights off and no one
there. There was cool stuff everywhere though! We waded through the mountains
of stuff and found an elevator. We went to the third floor and found an office
full of people. They just told us we were too late. So we drove an hour back to
the apartment. Then I took apart some tables and stuff so they could fit in the
van. That was fun. When all was said and done we got home around 9:00 pm and we
left around 12:00. So it was a fun experience!
Wednesday I finished all the iPads for the new
missionaries! I went with Elder Freschknecht and Hattanda to teach a man named
Nishimura San about faith. Instead he talked the whole time and fed us roasted
nuts and grape juice. We also had a really good lesson about the plan of
salvation with Hideki that night before eikaiwa.
Thursday was a famous day here. The legend goes that
there was once a princess and a prince. They could only see each other on the
7th of July. That's it.
Yesterday was Friday. We went out to eat with an
eternal investigator or 永遠の求道者. He took us to a nice ramen shop
and paid for us.
Time is just flying by as usual! In a week July will be
like almost over already! This week I have learned a lot about how real the
atonement of Christ is. It doesn't matter how down you may feel about something
you may have done, Christ can fix it. It doesn't matter who the world says you
are or what you are, to God you are a precious child learning to overcome the
world. He wants to help us more than we can fathom. The omnipotent supreme
being who created the universe and this world on which we live is calling out
to us this very instant. We only need to open our ears to hear and open our
eyes to see and we will realize that we have a infinitely larger purpose to
life than to be born, work, have great experiences and then die and have all
those precious memories lost for ever. God lives and He loves us and He has
created this plan for us to come here, to learn and grow and to overcome the
circumstances that try to pull us downward, so that we can return to him and
partake of eternal life with Him.
I love you all so much! Say hi to everybody for me! Say
hi to Edgar for me!
Elder Draper
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