こんにちは！
We did have one more earthquake
this week. Nothing real big. Hideki did come back but it seems like his work
schedule got changed a little bit so it's been hard to meet with him. Last
Sunday Bishop Stevenson had all the missionaries over for dinner. We had Navajo
Tacos. The sisters brought over a lady they had found in Seiyu the day before
and we had brought our friends, some members of the ward. There were a ton of
people there! Right before that though we got there before he did and there
were no brothers in the house so we couldn't go in so we decided to go knock on
some doors. I went with Elder Uemura and we got talking about families. He said
we could come back next Sunday! So we will go see him tomorrow at 5:30
pm.
Haha poor Japan day. (we went to Japan
Day’s in Boise, it was terrible.) We'll just have to come back to Japan again
one day so your crushed ideas of Japan can be built back up again. I sent you
the videos of the matsuri (festival) in Sunroad. It was pretty cool! There was
a super creepy lady with a terrifying mask on doing like voodoo with her hands.
Other than that it was way cool!
The cow sweep pen looks way cool!
I hope one day I can help build the long awaited barn! That sounds so fun with
brother Laing and Matthew and D.O.. How are they all doing? How old is Ray now?
He's not close to mission is he???
This week was a quick one. I
continued on my adventure to make emergency maps for every apartment. I have
increased my map making speed from two maps a day to about 7! In Japanese, so
there are the three different ways of writing. ひらがな（hiragana) カタカナ（katakana) and 漢字( kanji). Then writhing the kanji you have the On readings and the
Kun readings. When a word consists of more than one kanji it usually uses the
on readings and if it is one kanji as a word it usually uses the Kun reading.
For example...
食べる means to
eat and is pronounced Taberu. Then I add this 事 which means thing and it becomes 食事which means meal and is pronounced Shokuji. But then a
lot of the kanji completely change if they are used in the names of people or
places. 海老名市 usually
would be read kairounashi but it is ebinashi. So I'm getting good at
reading the name versions of kanji from making so many maps!
Elder Loftus is a master at excel.
He has been helping me simplify and automate a lot of the things I have to do
with excel. I've learned so much!
Just yesterday we had about 2
hours to proselyting so we headed over towards mitaka. We found a guy just
sitting there so we started talking to him. We taught him about families and
eternity. He said no to our invite to meet with us and learn but then I teached
briefly about the Book of Mormon and testified about it and told him that if he
would read it and pray to god he would know it is true. I gave him it and felt
the spirit really strongly that what we did was good.
I love the scriptures. They truly
do tell us the things we ought to do to gain eternal life. I
When there are times where I am
sad or disappointed or whatever it may be, I can open Up the scriptures and
hear gods voice teaching me and howling me the way to be happy. It's
amazing.
Well that's about it for my week I
think. Just lots of rain, map making, finding, and scripture study!
Love you so much!
Elder Draper
ドレーパー長老
I asked him what
the difference between American fast food and Japanese American fast food.
Hmm. At Denny's they serve you
salad for breakfast haha. That's weird.
McDonald's they have a chicken
shake thing called the shakashakachiki that isn't in America. Everything is in
English though so it is a makodonarudo and bigu makku and makuguridoru if you
want to try to figure out what those represent haha. (I asked if that
was a chicken milkshake!) Oh no haha. You put some flower in a bag and
shake it and eat it!
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