Week #64

I do indeed have a p-day, we would die of starvation if we didn't, and we are low on food stuffs.
As for the long arduous wait since we last spoke, a few mannish things happened the movie was great I enjoyed it immensely and I'm know my costume for next Halloween, I’ll have to grow my hair out a bit, and lose the extra weight but I'm on the right track for the second one, (went for a 30 min run this morning) and I have a goal to be able to see my abs before the end of my mission.
We then had a junkai(splits) with the zone leaders, on Friday and I was with the Japanese one named nakabe chourou. We didn't have bikes that day and we had plans to go to a faraway mnt. My legs hurt that day but it was still way fun, he is one of the most fun nihonjin missionaries i know. It was strait dendo o Saturday and then we had church and a dinner at a member’s house, way good food and company.
As for plans today we are mostly taking it as a rest and then doing more fun things next week,
Sorry if it’s short today its only been four days though.
We found some new investigators on the junkai too; I’ll tell you more about them soon.

Anyway ruv u rots
Stay strong stay faithful stay diligent JKS
Connor

Week #62

It’s less that I was down and more that I was a little distracted I think… I had fun.
Anyway on the week, so this week was long but fun but short but yeah know, were in a bit of a slump as far as investigators at the moment, talking to allot of people but no one really wants to go beyond the initial contact, but what can you do? It’s just not the right time yet I think so we'll keep working our hardest to find them that are prepared.
one of the cool messages that came from the conference we had, was that everyone is in their own levels of preparation, not just prepped or not prepped, heavenly father knows their path and is leading them somewhere, I feel like it’s a lesson currently to help make that principle stick, we may not meet anyone for a while who is at the point where they will hear the lessons, but I feel it a privilege to be part of any of their way closer to Christ, learning this principle is helping my mission as a whole to be happier.
My comp is struggling with the fact of us not finding many people ready for the lessons, but I feel as I remember it I stay happy through all of the waiting,
One brighter topics we are going to start meeting again some previous investigators of earlier missionaries, and I'm excited for that, I’ll tell you more about them when I know more myself.

My comp and I have taken to running every morning now and it seemed like weight was starting to come off again last week, and my knee is taking it allot better than before, no soreness, and I can run nonstop for a few miles I think now, more related to boredom or lack of time being too tired now, it’s great.
Not a lot of chances to draw this week but I’ll try and do some today, and send some next week.
Speaking of next week, p-day is on Christmas, the 24th for you, and I’ll be open to skype, I'm thinking around 9 or 10ish 5 or 6 at night for you, and my account is still the same, if there is any problems ill email that morning, before that time.

as for other cool things this week, the ward is giving us all kinds of cool stuff and one sister heard that I wanted to find out about getting shoes here in japan and on Sunday I found out that she had got me a pare somehow!. I was way surprised.
As to why I needed them, my breaks died on me again, and my foot became my break destroying the sole of the shoe, I ended up trading my bike for my 1st comps bike and am riding that now.
Any way I got to go now I’ll tell you more about that stuff more next week
Love you so much, stay strong stay faithful, stay diligent JKS
Connor

Week #61

as for this week/last week​... in this day and age, there came a new beginning, a new face, a new transfer, like the spring time after a long harsh winter, accept that it's still really cold, but like the spring after a long winter, new opportunities arise, and in the midst of the new time of new beginnings stand Kemp and Lee, two 19 year old heros, standing for truth and justice!

da   dadadadaaaa da da   dadadadaaaa da da   dadadadadaaaaa!!!!!!

As you can see from that astounding introduction its a new transfer, my new comp is Elder Lee, around my same transfer and in age, he's a lot more of a lets go out and do all the den-does type of worker, in contrast to my last comp. So because of that, starting from when he got here till now its been good hard work every day,the first part of last week was the wrap up of the end of the transfer, and therefore lots of last minute stuffs for my comp who was returning home, the Thursday was waiting waiting waiting, with the zone leaders until 8 that night for my comp to show up, and fun thing when he did, he didn't know i was waiting at the main station for him so he went straight for the connecting train line to my area, so i made a mad dash to get a ticket and find the train, thankfully i found him before anything too drastic took place.

safe to say we got back in good sorts on Thursday evening with no surprises accepted how cold it was, its been dropping in temperature here and that mixed with humidity is killer, 

and from that day onward we have been working hard daily to really get some good people going here, we have a few people were working with and allot of potentials that we are looking to turn into active investigators, but no one super solid at the moment, and then on Monday we had a mission wide conference, besides Okinawa,*(poor islanders), were we heard from bro Heaton pez. of the MTC, it was way good and we got to see allot of old faces. including my mission family consisting of my trainer who is my dad and my two little brothers, all of whom are Japanese, i didn't know i was Japanese but the evidence speaks for its self, i am the first born of an all Japanese family.

and all that fun happened in Fukuoka, then we took the shink, back home for some dindin, and a bit of dendo,

but that's been the highlights of my week so far.

as for pick up stuff when i asked the mission prez. about it last time he just told me not to worry about it until i get death calls six months out form the end but I'm sure you can talk to him. 

sorry my time is gone, 

love ya 

stay strong stay faithful; stay diligent,JKS

Week #60

Samantha,

Nobody knows about Christmas origins unless they're christian here, and most people find more importance on new years. I think that's from Buddhist culture, but it's fun with the ward and it's cool sometimes to tell people about what Christmas means.

Dad,

No worries about the emails I'm doing it on Tuesday for transfer calls day, so I got everything!

As for my week, we had a few lessons, and as for highlights we had a fun 3 hour lesson with our new investigator Asai San, and we got to visit a resting investigator as well and have dinner with an ekaiwa (english class) student, at her restaurant! Waaaaaay good! You would have loved it, dad, there was plenty of funny chicken parts, raw horse meat, bacon wrapped stuff, 3 cheese jalapeño poppers, etc. It was great! We also had ward conference with a way good lunch afterwards, courtesy of the ward!

Its been getting a little colder every day here, especially today, and that mixed with rain makes for some cold days! We might get snow here soon.

Lots of fun chances to draw and stuff and we and got some good places to find art supplies for cheap here so that’s useful.

Anyway, not much else as far as other news, stay strong, stay faithful, stay diligent, JKS

love you.