Week #40

Cool, not a lot of time now and I'm the slowest reader in the world so I'll print off the story and read it after wards,

Anyway, this week was good for us too, temperatures in the 90`s with 100% humidity 3 or 4 times getting caught in a torrential downpour but that's just the rainy season still kicking, but hey being soaked head to tow in cool rain is better than the same by mug and sweat, so i like the rainy days.

Yeah, this transfer marks the longest I've been with one comp. I'm glad its with Elder zim, he's a lot easier to work with than Webber, who i loved, but it was an up hill battle, but ya with those goals we set, we reached some and got close to others, we way amped up the level we usually go for so of course it was going to be a struggle but, because of the work, this was probably one of my most full and effective weeks, of the mish, and were going to keep shooting for higher, we have 2 investigator's we're meeting with regularly, Tatetsu San (50 years old) and Shirasena San (18), and a few other that are promising that we just have to set up some appointments with.

I've had the chance to draw a bit lately mostly just anime stuff but im going to try and get some more variety in to it soo., This last week or twio i finally started losing weight again, dropped about 10 lbs, probably, cuz weve been running low on food near the end of the month, consequently, no snacks and smaller meals, and I run in the mornings when I can, so I'll try to make that continue!

Language learning is futsu, so never quite enough, I have a constant study but my inner cookie monster wants Japanese now! I can teach, and communicate and that's what's important.

As for the things of today, were going to a habu (Okinawan viper) musium, the things have 4 fangs for the biting, kowai (scary).

Anyway love you guys a ton, stay strong, stay faithful, stay diligent, J.K.S.

Elder Connor Kemp 

**Here are some older pictures I haven't had a chance to post until now. -Samantha

 Connor's Companion getting treated at a holistic Doctor's office...

Connor getting treated at same dr's office... he started bleeding into the suction cups... that doesn't seem normal...

Week #39

konnichwa watashi no ai suru kazoku to tomodachi

minasan wa genki to kita kara yokatta desu yo!

It's a simple message if you'd like to decipher it 

Anyway, on to my week, so yeah it was transfer week and, wait for it wait for it, I'M STAYING! yappari desu ne.(as expected right.) Well that's not all, the other companionship had a change, Elder Inagaki left and a new one came named Elder Haiyashi, I'm still comps with Elder Zimmerman.

So the beginning of the week was futsu or as futsu as transfer weeks are, but the pivoting point was weekly planning on Thursday, up to this point almost all Elders have a talk on the first weekly planning of the transfer, about how this transfer will be different, what there going to do to become better missionaries for the Lord, well most of the time it doesn't hold to long cuz the very next day satan doesn't want good things to happen he wants you to stay average if he can help it, and he tried just that with us, we woke up Friday morning grumpy and unmotivated, but come comp study instead of grumbling about it for a while and falling out of our goals, we got focused on the work and goals so for the past few days we have seen the benefit of working really hard, greater obedience, and such, and we've seen the blessings flow in, that's the up side at least, the rough part of the week was Sunday, which was a great dendo day but in stake conference we got this information the two stakes Okinawa of Okinawa are now becoming one steak a bunch of wards are combining and we are going to sell the church in this area and will be going to the stake center in naha now which has 2 wards now, things became too spread out i guess and most of the wards have become branch sized, many have gone less active over the years and the activity has been running thin, were not sure what  going to happen for missionaries arias right now.

This change is full of uncertainty for us but the hope is that this slight pruning of the plant if you will, should stimulate growth , so please pray for Okinawa, the saints really need a temple here and that's the goal. The work with the members needs to take a step up if that's going to happen, there is some foreseeable blessings from this but it is sad that it had to come to this, we will keep looking forward to the day of 3 steaks and a temple.

That's been the majority of things going on here, if you have any questions, go ahead! 

Just know that the work is progressing the Lord must bring us low so he can build us higher!

I love you all and miss you, but not too much.

Stay strong, stay faithful, stay diligent, J.K.S.

Connor Kemp Chourou

Week #38

sorry its a bit late, p-day was moved to tuesday, because of transfer calls, and we eagerly await that call today but i don't suspect that there will be any big changes personally, i know at least that I'm staying, theres no way id be leaving,

our weeks been pretty good, a little barabara(all over the place) but it was good, we had a few lessons but mostly tracting, with that we've started a few sports dendo things, so this last Saturday morning we played soccer with a bunch of people it was allot of fun, but i really suck at soccer, my only redeeming event was that at the kick off after one of the goals, i was kicking off and for that usually you just tap the ball to a team mate but, it beamed it right at there goal, flew past all of them and the goalie and went right in, (the goalie was my dorio(comp) ) every one was just like "what!" but i was just like booyah!, but any way that was fun.

we had a chance to go to an oriental doctor this last week, my comp has a sinus infection, and one of the members told us to go see her mom, she does acupuncture and stuff, she put suction things on my dorio`s back and if its way red or purple han its way stressed, i also told her about my knee cuz it gives me troubles all the time so she did that to my knee and it just started bleeding out in to the suction, ill send pics, in essence i found out again that my knee sucks and also that its more closely related to back problems which is made worse cuz i still 40lbs over weight, but well see about that, anyway ill try to get healthier.

love you all so much 

stay strong stay faithful stay diligent J.K.S.

arigatougouzaimasu

elder connor kemp chourou