Week #3-MTC

well watashi wa can tell you why my letter might have been short watashi wa have 5 or 6 letters to answer in this hour i have to do so and you know how slow of a typer i am. but any way ill try to give you a run down of watashi no week from last p-day so tuesday after watashi wa wrote you my day was good went to the temple and saw something new i cant really talk about which was so cool then had the devotional at the mariot center like every tuesday that was good as usual, wendsday was the same as the other days her is a basic run down of my day

 6:30 wakeup 7:00 be at classroom for district morning meeting 7:15 breakfast 7:45 personal bankyo 8:50 3 hours of of sense slinging nihongo at our faces 11:50 lunch 12:50 gym 2:10 personal language bankyo 3:10 tall or computerized language learning 4:10 aditional bankyo 4:50 dinner 5:35 another 3 house of nihongo slinging twards my face 8:35 district devotional  then doryo planning 9:30 onward personal time to 10:15 quiet time 10:30 lights out.

now thats thursday scedual the other days acceped tuesday/ p-day are the same acceped swiched around a bit and a sevice asighnment on wed. sunday consists of priesthood sacriment meeting some really good devotionals and videos of our choice and more sleapy time oh i forgot to mention we dont know who is giving talks in sacriment untill the meeting so we all have to prepair talks in nihongo assuning we get picked. whheew so thats what mt weeks will consist of until my last week the only thing that really changes is the amount and type of spiritual experiances from it all that i am blessed with. this is the busiest ive ever been in my life but some of the best i cant believe i ever felt overwhelmed at school it was nothing in comparison although i have the spirit helping me so much here i know i would have broken down already without it. 

so i was appointed district leader for the next 3 weeks so thats fun i guess it hold to the pattern decons pres. teachers pres. priests fist counselor elders district leader although for the life of me i dont understand why they would pick me for any of the positions i guess they see something i dont. but ill do my best.

oh ya somthing about the 3 hour nihongo slinging session an hour of every class is devoted to mogi or roleplay where the sense pretends to be a nihonjin who dosent speak and ounce of english and we have to go teach them in nihongo but when we relly on the spirit we have som great experiances there even with the fact that we can bairly speak to them let alone teach a lesson oh and no memorizing that is now a big nono.

anyway id just like to mentio0n this that i am so greatfull to you guys all of you especially mom and dad, for all that you have done for me i dont deserv the blessing of having family and friends like you i was totaly honest in my farwell talk that i could not have made it to this point without anatatachi.

arigatou gozaimasu 

kemp choro

Later that day:

we had devotional tonight and Neil l Anderson spoke we got there quick and had floor seats he staid a little longer cuz of weather and i got to shake his hand also on the way here to tell you that we we met two sisters who had a room mate hyperventalating they asked us to give her a blessing so we ran back to residence got the oil and blessed her i know something was going on with the spirit so strongly tonight i love you and want yoiu to know i know i am suppose to be here and that i am safe kemp choro  

A letter from the REAL companion!

Week #2-MTC

why konichiwa watashi no kazoku, i read your letters and (to mom yes i got all that you sent and ARIGATOU GOZAIMASU FOR THE DEAR ELDER STUFF, I WAS LIKE YAAAAAAAA CHIPS AND KASO, and so was my district among which i shared they love me more now) well anyway i wanted to tell you about the devotional we had last week but it was after id already sent emails so ill tell you now, we had it at the mariot center and RICHARD G SCOTT came and spoke it was sugoy desu ne. and yes i miss al of you although again theres not much time to think about it i also dont have much chances to draw iv done it a few times but im just so buisy all the time.

anyway im loving it here its hard but worth every second. thanks so much for all youve done to prepare me for this i couldent have made it otherwise

hope to here from you soon 

kemp choro

Letter from Elder Farr

Elder Farr, Connor's MTC companion sent us a letter: 

Week #1-MTC

watashi no kazoku

word bank:

kazoku- family
nihongo- japanese

nippon- japan

watashi- i

watashitachi- we

watashi no- my

ten no otosama- father in heaven 

doryo- companion 

suberashi- awsome

chorou- elder

choroutachi elders

arigatou gozaimasu- thank you so much

konichiwa, konbanwa, or ohaio gozaimasu watashi no kazoku. i am eager to know how your all doing i know its only been 6 days but with how much we do here in that much time it feels like forever you know that first day you talked about how our teacher speaks in ego the first day, well that did not happen it was nihongo from the start and we only just herd him say a full ego sentence yesterday so it was like a treat we were all so exited. oh my gosh we get pounded with nihongo every day and i'v learned as much as i would have in a year or more of school courses in there six days but my goodness it would not happen without the spirit here and help from watashitachi no ten no otosama without all the prayer and study we do i could not take it all in there is so much. as part of our learning we have a person acting as an investigator from nippon who can only speak nihongo and we have to teach him in our companionships for 20 min its hard because we cant just throw doctrine at him we need to teach in a way he can understand and relate to and i wish so much that i could speak freely but i just dont know how. we do prepare lessons and the spirit is always there but its hard to let go of that frustration. but on a happier note all the choroutachi in my district are suberashi des ne they all feel like brothers to me which i suppose they are bot you know what i mean my doryo is great i am always amazed  at how much of a connection to the spirit he has and how he can buckle down and just do the work. ja i love you all and i miss you how ever little time i have to miss you, arigatou gozaimasu for helping me to this point. P.S. sorry for the bad spelling dad if i used spell check it would have corrected all the nihongo words

from your son, brother, nephew, friend Kemp chorou