October 20, 2013 Letter

Change:

First of all my companion Elder Yamamoto went home this week. He was tired and needed a break. Pray for him if you have an extra prayer. Thank you all sooo much for the birthday present you figured out for him and an awesome uncle for making and sending it! It made him feel love at the end and helped him to think a bit more about Christ I think.

 

So, I have a new companion! His name is Elder Anderson and he is as American as they come. He is the EXACT same height as me. The same color of hair. 1 kg heaver then me (I can still whoop him like a baby at arm wrestling don't worry). He has been in Japan for 4 weeks (I am a trainer). He was a quarterback in Texas and then in Utah when he moved there in high school so we have a lot in common. He is going to get us in the door with his good looks then I will show them God with my firey testimony and colorful Japanese. I am also the district leader now.

This is my new companion. This is a really bad picture of me, I swear he isn't that much better looking in real life. :)
 

My district! Minus Elder Yamamoto now. This is when Elder Anderson came.

Fun food fact:

So I sent a picture a while ago with a Heineken label on a glass. I promised I had a point and this is it:

First of all the glass was just funny because no one else had the label on their glass and no one but me understood what it was. The actual point was what was in the glass. It's actually really common and is just liquid plain yogurt. The first time I had it I almost gaged all over the lady's kitchen because I thought it was rotten milk, the 2nd through 10th time I had it I gave a little whimper when they brought it out. The 11th through 13trh time it was just like drinking a weird soda.. and now I like it! It is actually really refreshing and like a fresh feel! I think I am turning into a Japanese (people will say I am a Japanese" when I ask them something in English; they are so cute!).

 

Spiritual thought:

There is a vision a prophet has in the Book of Mormon called the tree of life. There is about 10000 cool things you can learn from the vision and I tota01lly recommend it to anyone who wants to understand our purpose in life better. But there is this part where people are trying to find the path of God but get lost because of this darkness and fog that come upon them. I have read this scripture a million times and have always thought of the mists as being Satan blocking our vision to keep us from seeing our goal of coming to God and I still think this is true. However, this week when I read it I had a second idea come to mind. There are lots of people making there way to God all around us. Maybe the darkness also blocks us from seeing them. He blinds us by letting us focus on just the self. Let's not be blinded and when we are blinded let's call out to those other people, let's be humble enough to feel around for them until we find them and can help them. We will be happier for it I know and wont stress so much about the self! When you get His sheep HE will take care of you.

Weather:

We had another bigger typhoon. We were told not to leave the apartment for the whole day. It ended up kind of going out into the pacific instead of hitting us directly. It rained a ton and was really windy but that's it. I just learned from my dad that some places were really hit bad but we are safe. Next week I will tell you about earthquakes if I can remember.

Random:

A sports activity that we have every month. I try to keep it calm and fun.

This picture is a bit old but is akonomiyaki and its sooooo good! I hear uncle Reid is pro at making it if you want to try it! The two guys closest to the camera are the a.p.s Elder Uchida on the left (he is like Bryan Earl) and Elder Takese who is a awesome too!

 

This is a good example of the slightly odd level... but I actually think the shirt is awesome! I asked her if she knew want it meant and she had no idea.

 

Funny story:

This is another old picture explanation. So we all remember the burning eyes burning hands story from a while back... that was a dark time in my life and I didn't want to go back there. But the trainer called. The zone leaders were all coming and in order to protect our more expensive foods we had to make tons of kare. Takeshita Choro liked to watch me squirm and burn and he is better at seasoning the kare so I was assigned onions. I have baby blue sensitive eyes and our knife is more of a juicer it's so dull (we bought a new one recently) so it's not that I am just a woos (at least the only reason isn't that I am a woos)! A lesser man would have coward away and given up the meat to the animals that are the zone leaders but instead I remembered a stud aunt of mine that like to make tons of pico de gallo. That involves lots and lots of onion cutting and she has a trick of wearing these awesome goggles. I am in japan and am a poor missionary with no time or money to find goggles or buy them... but I am kind of smart.

 

Two rubber bands and a 12 x 6 inch piece or saran wrap and you are golden. It works really good! But open a window because you become so productive and start working so hard and fast because you can see that you start to get a little warm and it gets a bit steamy in there!
 

Love you all tons! Stay awesome and love each other for me!

Law Choro