Hey mom!
Sushi is a good choice! I also got some this week. Here, most of the sushi places are you sit down and sushi goes around on a little conveyer belt and you can pick anything off of them and then if you want something specific they have a little screen you order from and it comes on the belt and just beeps when it gets near. People always ask me if I had ever had sushi before Japan and I always think of IOU and honestly IOU is pretty much the same as sushi here! Except I can’t remember if IOU has sushi or only onigiri. Does it just have the fish on the little ball of rice or is it always in a seaweed sheet?
That sounds like a very eventful week! We still have about 6 weeks left in the transfer. This transfer was 8 weeks so. English class is fun. We are working really hard to make it a more effective thing though. There are about 25ish people I think? I get to play the piano in district meeting and for priesthood meeting in church. Not yet in Sacrament Meeting. My wrist does still hurt. I just use it all the time so it never gets any time to rest!
The weather has been weird lately! The only time it has snowed here was in the 11th month. Since then it hasn't snowed. It actually gets really warm( like today) and then it plummets and rains like yesterday! Audrey told me that when it snows in Logan its almost always like how Idaho was! I will have some fun winters if that's what it will be like every winter!
Man that sounds really nice to sit by the fire and watch snow! It's weird to think of having time to do something like that one day. I feel like free time doesn't exist anymore haha. The other day I was watching a Mormon message and the dad was making pizza with his family and instantly I thought “how can he make all that pizza in under an hour!?" But then I remembered that in the real world, unless work doesn't allow it, you can usually take more than an hour or however long! It's so weird to me that like in the summer or on weekends I didn't have time limits on eating food. Funny huh?
This week was so good! We had MLC (Mission Leadership Council) in Kichijoji. It was so spiritual. We just talked about the mission and how it was doing and we received tons of trainings and I'm so excited for the future! It seems like a lot will change here pretty soon.
Ever since then, Elder Yoshikawa and I have been trying just a little bit harder to be a little bit better and it has made all the difference! I know you and everybody are always praying for me and all of us. Thank you so much! It helps so so much. This week we have found somebody every day almost! We have found 2 people while housing, we have had two different areas in the mission send us reassignments to teach people who actually live in our area not theirs, we have found a couple people on the phone and have appointments with them and then when we were in the middle of district meeting a sister in the ward came in and asked if we could come talk to this guy who was looking for something it seemed. We went and talked to him and turns out that he came here once like 10 years ago and he thought he would stop by today. We (all 6 missionaries) showed him the church and then upstairs he asked us tons of questions about what we loved about the church so much and we all taught and bore testimony for like a solid 1.5 hours! It was way cool.
This week I've just been focusing on praying always and it has seriously changed the way the work has gone this week. I was able to give two blessing this week. One of which I was the one giving the blessing and the other I stood in. The one where I gave the blessing was probably the most revelatory experience I've ever had. I only knew a little bit about what this sister was going through but right before I gave the blessing I said a little prayer to know what I should say. It didn't come all at once but as I opened my mouth, it was literally filled with the words I needed to say. I wasn't' nervous, I wasn't anxious, Just pure peace and understanding. I am so grateful that the priesthood has been restored to the earth again.
I am enjoying my mission so much. It's literally nothing like I expected it to be. It's so much harder. But I have learned to be faithful and happy during any situation. Happiness isn’t dependent on our conditions. It is dependent on our foundation of Christ.
It's been a very humbling, exciting, spiritual, cold and wet week!
I love you so much!
Elder Draper ドレーパー長老
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