Week #72

One nice thing about being a missionary is that even if you are super busy as usual, you kanarazu(without a doubt get 7 to eight hours of sleep, as for the food, it’s hard to explain it’s like the difference between going to a legit Italian place and Olive Garden it has an America feel to it, just here it has a very Japanese feel, you will understand when you have a chance to eat at a restaurant it’s just the nuance I guess. I'm daitai(mostly) the cook here sometimes I feel too lazy and others do it but I like to cook to make sure it will be good. i have trust issues unless I know there, good at cooking. Which I'm not but I don't usually experiment so far as to mess up big time. But I need more recipes.
My comp right now is getting a bean(new miss.) so he won’t be comps with me soon, we haven't gotten calls yet so other than that we don't know what’s happening I’ll tell when I know.
When he had to go to Fukuoka for trainers training yesteryear I went into a 3 man with the other companionship and dendoed that day, we went and ate at a dope sushi place with a member and then ate gyudon(beef on rice) for dinner oishii!!!(Delicious).

Those were most of the interesting thing this week I think.
Love you

Stay strong stay faithful stay diligent

JKS

Connor




PS. As for the bullet train, it costs like 90 bucks from hiroshima to fukuaka, the windows aren't bad for me your high off the ground or in a tunnel, it’s just like a supper comfortable bigger airplane on the inside. Fruit are very expensive as is cheese and beef, most things are more expensive but especially those things usually, milk ranges but the 1.00 stuff isn't 100% milk so it depends on what you want, they only come in 1 liter cartons too. Chicken is the best priced stuff at least for us.
Glad to hear sunny is ok, I miss that pup you guys too, I’ll see you all in not long though i guess.
Love you.

Week #71

hayhayhay!
As for this week, we had a few interesting things go down greatest of which are, on Thursday we awoke at the wee hours of the morning 0400 hours in order to get our usual morning run in before our unusually early day was to start, shower food, then off to the train station to catch out bullet train bound for Fukuoka city hakata station terminal, my comp. sleeps on the train, I cannot. Hurtling 180 mph across the Japanese landscape, like the swipe of a blade the train pays no heed to mountains valleys or seas.
Why make the trip? well, elder whiting of the area presidency happened to mozy on down to little old Fukuoka mission for mission tour, the same who came to our stake conference a few weeks before, he did some Q and A it was good and so was the food.
We didn't get back home until 9 that night, on account of the bus ride home 5 hours, versus the 1 and a half of the bullet. That night we had returned with a bit of a heavier load than we had left that morning namely our zone leaders in tow for splits which we would hold the next day. that was the second event worth mention, a fun day of dendo ending off with Japanese Italian food, and hugs goodbye.
As for Saturday, it being Valentine ’s Day what better way to spend it than making chocolates for the ward, YSA activity. Melt down tones of chocolate bars and start pouring. It was fun. From there it’s time for a long bike ride up north the tsukamot family’s house for a sushi dinner, enough to say Saturday was fun all together.
The rest of my week was fairly normal, oh and one of our investigators came to church as well, names heguchi san, cool guy, catholic background.

As for me personally I'm doing great, things have started to pick up allot more and it makes life allot more interesting, we got a new Stake prez. here as well he just got back from a senior mission and got called in, no brain rest there.
I hope our new ones do well for the stake.
Anyway stay strong stay faithful stay diligent
JKS
ruv Connor

Week #70

As I write this I'm also having a conversation with you and Samantha about the pushups you’re not doing come on pops I can do like 50 straight better catch up.
any way about this week it was a good one things are starting to move along and we and we have some peeps who want to learn down side is that one of them can only meet on Thursday and we are going to Fukuoka for a big meeting all day long, so we have to reschedule, other cool things I found out this week that I can do pull-ups now like 3 or 4 in a row a few times, it’s not a ton but it’s a far cry better than the 0 it was before it feels like so many things just become doable one day its weird, like running long distance speaking Japanese etc. it’s cool and encouraging though.]
Today we are going to the bomb museum again so my comp. can see it, and we will eat Indian curry, new place it will be fun. This week is going to be great not just for me but for you too, believe it! I'm still a district leader or co dl I should say we don't do much so it’s not really adding to much to the responsibility list just district meeting lessons on Tuesdays.
But not this week because we’re going to Fukuoka so it’s a good mind rest.

Love you guys I’ll send pics of the stuff when I can

Stay strong satay faithful stay diligent JKS

Love you 

Week #69

Thanks for the confidence you have in my abilities, someone has to I guess, Japanese for me is to the point where I have days it’s as easy as English and other days were I'm slow and broken, I guess the thing that bothers me about it most is getting the learning process to go faster than it is, probably just seems slow because it’s in comparison to what I know now rather than what I didn't know, it just feels like sometimes things don't like to stick unless I'm also hearing it all the time. Anyway enough my unsure feelings about the ins and outs of language learning.
we had one particularly cool thing happen to us this week I would call it the most directly indirect answer from heavenly father I have ever received, so we had to change our plan in the evening on Friday cuz we had to do dinner later and so were discussing what to do, our previous plan needed more time but we felt that we might try to either head to there while street contacting go to it a different way that would be faster or go to another area in the opposite direction, so we had 3 choices the north road south road or head east, we pray about it but have no feelings about it, so were like ok let’s spin the bottle and see where it points, first was a bad throw points south next hits a wall points north, 3rd bad throw points east, so were decide 1 more toss is the tie breaker toss it hits a wall lands pointing up in the air, we laugh our heads off then realize God is saying it doesn’t  matter were just go, so we head out and the last person we talk to is the soon to be father in a young family that said we could come back. Either way one of the things I feel like god has been trying to teach me on my mission is to make decisions for myself more, because I’m super indecisive and need to overcome it.
In other news the other companionship had a baptism were the resent convert son baptized his mom, it was great.