He's moving to the beach and will be brushing up on his Spanish!

Hello! 

That's so cool that she went to wagons-ho when she was that age and now she is going here as a teacher! Does Mrs. Hanke still work at west? (Referring to Allie teaching 4^th grade)

Tsunoda Kyoudai has been doing fantastic! We will finish all the lessons next Tuesday and then after that we will do a practice interview and prepare a little more for his baptismal service! He is repenting and he has such a strong desire to be baptized and for those around him to believe in God. He's awesome. So his baptism will be on May 13.

We got transfer calls this last Saturday! I will transfer to Shonan in the Fujisawa zone as a district leader! And Elder Lind will be my companion! I'm so excited! I'm excited specifically for a couple things. Namely, to be Elder Lind's companion; I'm pretty sure there aren't many hills; there is a huge beach there! I get to see the Pacific again! I can see water from here sometimes too but it's Tokyo Bay. I love the ocean! So I am going to Shonan. There are a lot of South Americans there who only speak Spanish! President Warnick called me and we were talking about my new assignment. He asked if I spoke any Spanish. So I told him my back ground and he said, "oh I didn't know that! Well that's probably a big reason why I felt that you should go there." And he told me I may need to study some more Spanish at least to be able to teach! So that's pretty cool! I'm very excited! (he spoke Spanish pretty good before leaving, however, Japanese has taken over is brain so I hope his Spanish comes back!)

I'm super sad that I'll have to transfer before Tsunoda Kyoudai's baptism but I hope I can still go!

This week we did some more finding (people to teach) with whiteboards! We just go to an Eki (station) and write a simple question like "what is your dream?" In English. It's amazing how many people talk to us. Granted we do have to usually go up to them, but it works so well! In about two hours we talked to maybe 50 people. Like actually talked to them. Not just gave them fliers, we actually talked to them! The cool thing is that it draws people interested in English and the gospel. Once they start talking to you, you can just take it whichever way it goes. I talked to a lot of really good people who had some really good dreams. I talked to two kids for 45 minutes straight. 

Awe, I love that Krue loves birds! I like birds too. There are some cool sagi (cranes) everywhere in Japan. They are super long and really pretty and they always walk through the rivers fishing. There is a bird called "U" that they use to fish. Fishermen tie strings around their necks and they swim next to the boat. The U (pronounced oo as in "boo") catch fish and store them in their throats. Then he fisher men tug on the string and it kind if chokes the u and then they take the fish out. The word to make an animal a pet is "kau". The word to "gargle" is "ugai" which literally means to make an u a pet. Haha when you gargle next remember that the Japanese word for gargle derives from a bird that fisher man use to catch fish! 

Haha I will try to find a zoo next transfer! (I told him he needs to go to the zoo before he comes home!)

I have been studying Mosiah 17-29 in the Book of Mormon lately. I just finished it and I went back through and write little summaries of what I could remember in each chapter. I read each chapter twice and often spent several days soaking in all the things in it. It was amazing how much I learned by really taking time to understand the chapter, to ask questions and to apply it to my life. The Book of Mormon is so awesome! It's the word of God to us, his children. When we treat is as such, pondering, praying, and applying we can really see God's work in our lives. God is not dead, he is actively involved in our lives and he wants to make us better people to bring us back home to him so that we can be happy forever. I love him and all the things he does for us. 

I love you!

ドレーパー長老