Dear Family,
I hven't gotten any mail yet, but
I'm still waiting patiently! It's a lot easier to think about home and get
distracted when you never have any idea what people are saying. That's honestly
the harderst part. I want to accomplishmy purpose and be tyhe best I can be and
make friends and teach with power and udnerstand peoples needs, but the fact of
the matter is I don't right now and wont for a long time. I'm learning 10 new
words a day and 1 or 2 new bunpo a day and hoping that it'll start flowing
sometime soon. it's crazy hard, but it will come and I'm excited for the time
that it does! Do you have any advice for dendoing?
I would love hearing one or two
things you think would be useful leverytime though! It's so fun and
interesting. Everyone here loves your mission stories by the way. I tell them
as I read and everybody thinks they're awesome haha :) So thank you! I love
love love! hearing about things at home and the fun things.
So this week...hmmm....
Well, we were doing service cutting
up a bunch of wood at an NA's house and they feed us everytime, but the boy
comes out with this big squirt gun looking thing from just a store on the cornr
i guess. Turns out it was a flame thrower! Crazy huh! I was scared haha, but
they were burning up the grass and we made a little fire and put bricks around
it and roasted strawberry marshamellows over it with them for a little. It was
so fun! They were so scared of getting anywhere nearthe fire though. Luckily
God sent us rain so they wouldn't have to put it out (they were so scared!
haha). By the way, the marshmellows here are way better haha.
I've lent a bunch of money to my
doryo because all the banks here were closed becasue it was golden week and
people don't work duing golden week. So he's taking me out to yakiniku today
and I'm so excited!!!!!!!! The food here is so good. I don't know why I worried.
I eat noodles and rice for like every meal and it's mixed with all sorts of
meat and vegetables. So good. Every morning I just have toast, cereal, and
scrambled eggs. Everything is so crazy expensive here! I'm spending so much
money for things I need. Today I need an electric jisho and a smaller backpack
and just other stuff for my bike, but I hope I don't overdraw! You should
probably check my account sometime.
We do have an account here and we're
allowed to take out money for food and some things but personal things are the
biggest expense right now. I'm not positive how it all works, but it works
haha.\
Also this week we ran into a kid
visiting from taiwan who spoke no english or japanese but he was so excited to
see us! He pulle dout his wallet and showed us a picture of a guy that I guess
baptized him and was getting married soon. Then we acted out what baptism
looked like to see if he had been baptized and he was excitedly shaking his
head yes haha. Funny experience.
This week we have visited a ton of
members and had great lessons. We testify about Joseph Smith's experience and
the Spirit is always there. I memorized it! an I'm reciting it a lot in
lessons. We've been building trust and asking them for referalls and a lot are
giving them. Right now we have a couple investigators and I'm not sure how
interested they are, but our goal is to help 3 of them recieve baptism this
transfer (a big goal here, but I know they can do it!). I'm excited to see how
it will bless their lives. I know how the gosple has and continues to bless my
life, but they don't see that as often. They don't often think about God and
deeping things like that and just don't care right now, but sometimes we find a
kinjin.
Well that's all that I can think of
right now. Soooo....have a great week and this is my report! Signing out... :P
Elder Sotto =D
P.S. I have very very little time to
ever write so I'd love to get letters but I may answer them through you if
that's alright. Thank you!!!!!!!!!! I love you!!!!!!!! BYE!!!!!!!!!!`111111111111@@@@@@@@
haha
