The reunion
should be so fun!
(Referring to
the video he sent last week about teaching English, you have to look at it on
the blog) The week before at dendo we told them that there was a word with
35 or so letters. We gave it as homework for them to figure it out. Then we
taught it to them. We spelled it all in Japanese and it was way funny. (It
was supercalifradulisticexpealidous) But no they all knew he was taking a
video and everything we were all having a good time. I love them! ( I
told Haydon I was going to meet Elder Belnaps mom this week and this is his
response about Elder Belnap) I love him so much. He is one of the most
dedicated, goofy, fun loving, loves to scatter the sunshine kind of guy I know.
His favorite hymn is scatter sunshine. We sing it a lot I love it!
I saw the video
of Shay. That was so sweet! I didn't realize she missed me so much for me to be
the one she cries for when she's all loopy. I love her! It was very sweet to
watch. Only 13 months left Shayla! I hope all is well for you. I'm loving what
I'm doing here. I love that I get to help people everyday and to look back on
everyday and realize how much I've changed even in one day. It's so humbling to
be able to introduce people to their Heavenly Father for the first time. It's
like helping a baby learn to walk. Please take time to get to know God. He
loves you more than any of us can right now. And we all love you so much, so
that just goes to show how much God loves you.
Wow. I can't
believe people are already coming home! I still feel like I just got here! It's
the most amazing feeling to feel the atonement of Christ work in your life.
Conversion is not an even. It's a process. It is not something that takes place
overnight but rather the journey of a lifetime. It's hard but it's our purpose
in life to change, to overcome. We came here knowing that it would be a tough
road but we knew that by going through challenges and temptation and overcoming
we could be eternally perfectly happy. More than we can even now fathom.
Sometimes life feels impossible, like everything is against us, like there is
no end to our trials I promise and testify that Christ lives and wants to
help everyone of us. The question is not will he let us, but rather will we let
Him help us.
This week I had
the opportunity to spend quite a bit of time with my friend Sajad from Israel.
He's taught me a lot about the Middle East in general. At first we kind of
thought he was a bit 不思議 but as we have got to know
him we found that he is a thoughtful kind loving person who wants happiness in
life. We met at 一圓 a famous gyoza shop here
with huge gyoza.
It was president
Warnick's birthday on the fifth. We didn't do anything other than sing to him.
The other day in staff meeting we sang and had cake. The Yamashita's always
make a cake for the birthday of the one who is working in the office at the
time. They are so kind to us.
This week I've
been working on not getting angry at anything. So the area office took away my
laptop while I was using it with out my even knowing what was going on. We can
only have 4 church owned computers in the office. But president Wada gave us
the laptop so it should be good. While I was using it yesterday I was prompted
to restart it. I did. Then nothing. Everything I was doing, the very account
itself, everything that was saved for three years was gone. I felt something
weird though. The natural part of me felt like I was justified in being angry,
but I just wasn't. I would even go as far as to say that I even wanted to be
angry, simply in spite of the fact that I wasn't, but I just couldn't. It was
amazing.
An hour after
the computer incident Elder Hattanda drove us to Hachioji so I could give my
Facebook training to all the newest missionaries. We got stuck in traffic for
two hours. We finally got out there and I gave my training all from my iPad
because well I didn't have a laptop. After that we went and picked up a bike
from the takao church. It's all foresty and jungly out there. It was great! The
mountains were really steep and covered in fluffy green trees and bamboo.
The next
missionaries come in about two weeks! I gotta get started in their iPads! That
will take a long time!
I can't think of
anything else haha. We're going to Enoshima here pretty soon. I will take lots
of pictures. I finally will see the ocean!
I love
you!
Elder Draper
ドレーパー長老
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