Tuesday, June 26th, 2012

Hola kazuko.  My doryo hates it when I mix like three languages in a sentence ha.  But there are just somethings that I only know how to say in either English or Spanish, so I'll just kinda throw them into the mix.  Well, this week was pretty dang awesome.  First of all, no one has heard anything about visa's or passports yet.  We are pretty sure that we are getting our itineraries this Friday, so I should know everything by next week.  Since Saturday, the MTC has been crazy.  There are more missionaries here right now than they have had before, plus all of the mission presidents are here and there are like 100 mission presidents or something, its crazy, and the Quorum of the Twelve plus the First Presidency have been randomly sighted over the past few days, but they have yet to publicly display themselves or give any talks.  However, tonight, at 4:30, there is a devotional and this devotional usually has all of the Apostles there at it.  We are so excited for that and since it is P-day and everyone else has class until then, we are going to start camping out for it early and we should be able to get really good seats.  I'll let you guys know how that goes later.  On Saturday, we met our mission president, Pres Budge, and his wife and they are awesome! Completely awesome, super chill and legit, really down to earth, really young like maybe 50 at the most, and President Budge kinda looks like JFK ha.  It was basically love at first sight, we are going to have so much fun with them and President Budge is just an awesome man.  He has lived in Tokyo with his familty for about 17 years total.  He was the first American Ceo of a Japanese National Bank, he is an economic genius, BYU graduate, incredibly successful, and loves missionary work and everything Japanese.  He and his family lived in Sandy before they got their calls to serve as mission presidents.  He will be my mission pres for the full two years and I'm sure I will talk about him more in letters to come.  We learned some more statistics about the Tokyo mission.  It is the most expensive mission in the world right now, the Tokyo temple is one of the most expensive buildings the church owns, and the church owns over a billion dollars worth of property in the city of Tokyo, that is cumulative of the temple, the mission home, and all of the apartments.  I am so excited to get to Tokyo, I leave in less than 3 weeks!  The Japanese is coming very fast, the Nihonjin just arrived and they are super cool and talkative, and my testimony of the gospel increases dramatically everyday. 

I was able to hunt down and find Sean on Sunday.  He is doing well, adjusting pretty well. He had a rough start at first because he got food poisioning or something similar to that and was throwing up all night the first night.  But he is doing really well now.  We kinda sat by each other at Sacrament meeting, we had a giant Sacrament meeting, and again at Priesthood.  He'll be in and out before I am! Kinda Jealous.

What is Kyle taking next year in school?, Connor as well, man, he'll be in Junior High.  Crazy.  Well, wish Connor good luck for me at his game.  Just treat it like any other game that they've played and they will do fine.  Keep calm, get your head in the game, and play for fun. Whats Kelsie up to?  I haven't heard from her in like a month ha.  Well, these last few weeks are the only time it will be cheap to send me stuff, not that it is cheap already, but I don't know if there is anything I'm lacking.  I'm doing very well, getting ready to go, I might send you guys a letter this week, no promises though.  Anywho, I love you! Ai shite imasu! Jamatene!