Conference Weekend!!

Picture: Me at Furukawa...

Hello everyone again! Welcome to another fantastic day! Thanks for EVERYTHING! Thank you for the encouragement and thanks for the trees and the electricity and thank you for Prophets that guide our souls to eternal welfare! Thank you! And if you haven't taken advantage of the internet or your TV, and you didn't watch this recent General Conference you better do it. I loved it so much! And I know that this is like 1 week old for the rest of you, but Japan gets conference a week after America does. We get to watch it off of a DVD. I really loved them all! Some of my favorites were Elder Christofferson: Concecration, Pres. Uchtdorf: Simplify our Lives, Elder Anderson: Never Leave Christ, Elder Uchtdorf: Pride, Pres. Monson: Agency & Consequences, Pres. Monson: Gratitude!. They were way good! I also decided that if you don't watch the Saturday Sessions most of the time you miss out on the most important talks! Anyways, How was everyone else's conference!? So this week was pretty good. Not much to write cause we were on spilts and it was conference weekend, so we only had like a day to do any dendoing. So I guess you knew that already. k, I think I left on on Thursday. Ohh and Thanks Morgan! Your encouragement is invigorating!

Thursday, I got to split with Shaw choro again! It was great! He came to Nagamachi and we taught two After Baptism lessons and then did some housing. We didn't find anyone, but the lessons were so great! Me and Elder Shaw have such good unity! Yeah, all the district leaders came today so it was crazy. But way fun! I'm going to be sad, when I'm not in the middle of all the action.

Friday, So there is this investigator that the Shimai's passed to us and he is a little bit seishinbyo (mentally handicapped) but you know...we teach him anyways. We're not really sure what his motives are though, because everytime he prays he ALWAYS says that we wants a ton of friends and a girlfriend....hahaha, so it's kinda awkward, and we're not really sure if he's meeting with us for the right reasons...haha, but I guess we'll just keep on teaching him...maybe he'll get the right motive. But today I've just noticed that because we talk with so many people that have a strong opinion about religion I'm starting to get to the point where no ones opinion makes sense to me...but I love them anyways! <3 There are a ton of Jehovah's Witness's here too, and we were going to trade our Book of Mormon for their Bible sometime soon!

Saturday, Amazing...it's conference, what more can you say! But I really do appreciate it more as a missionary! You really do learn so much more as one! Big theme this year was Following the Prophets or pretty much spiritually die...haha...but seriously. Pres. Monson really cracked down on Repenting this time didn't he!?! We must be doing something wrong.

Sunday, Amazing...again. But after conference we did a lesson with Shikama-san and it was a really good lesson. Our testimonies were ridiculous right after General Conference. We showed him the Restoration video and then pretty much akashi-punched (testified to) him so hard that there was no way you couldn't believe that the restoration was true....but alas he was drunk that night when we taught him the lesson...haha! So we don't know if he even remembers meeting with us or not...haha, but it was none-the-less an amazing lesson, for me anyways...haha.

Today, we went to Imano Families home for an AMAZING meal! So good! And we did a cool lesson, not a lame one like other missionaries might do, but a cool and entertaining lesson! Then we ate Guratan, and Rice and some other stuff, and it's ridiculous that everyone thinks it's amazing that I can eat anything! They're always like "What you're gaijin, you shouldn't be able to eat that..." etc...it's kinda annoying...I might just have to start saying I don't like stuff, just to PLEASE them all! Anyways, hahaha...well dendo is great! Hope school is going good for everyone and in the pictures you sent me (Mom) it looks like Cody and Kami don't love each other or something...haha, they are standing like really really far away from each other. What's up with that? I wanna see a picture where they are hugging each other! That's your commitment! But South looks WAY suteki! Atarashi poi! Ii ne! Domo domo! That's great that Cody is in the Chess Club. It's too bad I quit...I would've loved to keep going! Do a good job Brotha! Yes, Aiura choro's teeth are doing good...kinda. The one on the bottom is still out, but they fixed the chips in his top teeth. No I don't need the microfiber sheets yet. Yeah, it's getting cold, but I can barely sleep with just a regular sheet on me. I get really hot at night...sometimes I don't even put 1 sheet over me. I'll let you know if I need them. Thanks! Bai-bai! Ohh I got the package you sent me on October 7th...4 days ago...and the cookies were delicious! Thank you! I don't know what the purpose of the notepad and the taffys and the cotton candy and the popcorn ball were, but Thank you! I Love you all! Kami's cookies are pretty much gone. Anyways, Bai-bai!