Tuesday, June 19th, 2012

Konnichi wa minasan!

( To which you respond "Konnichi wa")( Its a traditional phrase: literally means Hello Everybody!- Then everyone says Hello back; kinda like Aloha)

子に痴話皆さん
玄家ですか。私輪減家ですよ。じゃ、私輪ね本後おきて二理解島してます。たぶん、私輪根本後だけ毎日がありますよ。
So maybe one day you will get a letter from me exactly like that.  Idk, maybe someday.  To be honest, I don't know all of the Kanji for that, the computer automatically writes it in for me.  It looks cool though doesn't it! 兎に角. This week was pretty fun.  All of our 子灰 showed up and it has been fun getting to know them.  Not many of them know Japanese so all they can say are basic phrases, like, どこから着ましたか、お名前輪なんですか、愛足手間巣！And a few other things.  The Nehonjin show up in a week! And we are so excited for that！Once the Nehonjin show up, they are here for 3 weeks, then when they go back to Japan, we go with them! Everyone is starting to get a little bit antsy and anxious to leave.  Everyone in our zone, and my district especially, are really starting to speak Japanese really well.  I've set a goal, on July 1st, I am only going to speak Nehongo, not a work of English.  If I cannot say it, then I won't say anything at all.  We have been doing very well at SYLing throughout the day, but we do not do it well during meals or gym time. So, July 1st, Nehongo only, wish me luck ha. 

I was released as the District leader on Sunday.  We only serve for three weeks then we switch.  Our district accomplished a lot under my rule, It is going to be hard to get much better than we were over the past three weeks.  So this next week, from Saturday until Tuesday, is New Mission President Training, and this is supposed to be the best time to be in the MTC.  Rumor has it, and I've heard this from a lot of quality sources, is that the entire Quorum of the Twelve show up and the 1st Presidency, except for President Monson ha.  Also, the Tokyo mission is getting a new mission president and we get to meet him on Tuesday! Pres Albrecht will be gone by the time we get to Japan, and I'm a little bummed about that because everyone says he is super cool and a great president, but it will be fun to already know the mission president before we get to Japan. 

Sean shows up tomorrow!!! I am so excited to see him, to see someone from the outside world ha.  'Ill take good care of him, but I'm envious that he is leaving before I am :(. My roommate from school is also showing up here soon.  Scott Clawson, if you're reading this, know that the Korean Zone and the Japanese Zone don't speak to each other.  There is a little bit of tension there. I don't know why. 

Anywho, enjoy this next week Family and friends, I know I will.  May the Lord continue to bless you while I am away. 

じゃまたね！

-   クランヅル著路　(Elder Crandall)

Side note from Christopher's family:  If you copy the Japanese characters in Google Translate or another translate program, you can sort of understand what it means in English!