Dear Family,
Well, I'll start off with a little story. So, like half an hour ago, I decided that I needed to give myself just a little trim. My hair was starting to get a little bit long, just a little. So I borrowed my comps buzzer and just wanted to take a little bit off the back. Then I started to cut the back of my head and after a few seconds of buzzing I looked down and saw the clipper guard fall onto the ground. The buzzer was still going and I was still cutting. My heart sank when I made the connection. I felt the back of my head and sure enough it was shorter than the grass on a putting green. I called for Elder Hill and he came into the bathroom. I told him to look at the back of my head and tell me if there was a giant bald spot. Holding back tears of laughter he grabbed a mirror and showed me the back of my head. However, I am happy to say that after 30 minutes of strategizing, blending, and a whole lot of little hairs later, my head is ok and just barely missionary appropriate length :) Yatta!!!
Did you guys hear that Tokyo got nominated to be the 2020 summer Olympic games!!! I did, like 100 times from everyone I met, haha!
Last night and all this morning we endured through Typhoon "Ming-Yi". It was kinda a weak sauce typhoon, if you ask me. It didn't do any damage at all, like maybe it should have been considered a tropical storm, not a typhoon. Everyone was freaking out though. But we tried to make the most of it and we got together with some of our buddies and went out to all you can eat pizza this afternoon. I went hard in the paint and had like 20 slices of pizza, no regrets yet, haha!
In answer to Connor's question, yes, that is kinda what I am doing. The big difference is that I have a computer in my apartment so I just email everyone asking for the stats and if I have specific questions on things I'll give them a call. Elder Hill makes every moment of the day interesting. He is one of the funniest guys I have ever met, haha. We is a way hard worker but has fun with everything that he is doing.
I went on splits with a few people this week. I went down to the Yokosuka US Naval base and got to hang out with some Americans!!! We had dinner at an American's house and then went to an SA activity on base with a lot of crew members from the George Washington Aircraft Carrier. That thing is huge!!! And like 4,000 people live on it all the time. We had a banana splits party and then the couple missionaries on base took me over to Taco Bell and I had Taco Bell for the first time in over a year. I almost cried.
I also had the opportunity to go on splits with one of the AP's named Elder Rindli. He is from Maui and we got to talking about Maui and there is like a 90% chance that he was the fire dancer that we saw when we went to the Luau up at that one place that one time. He is a way awesome missionary and he taught us a lot of finding skills. The past two weeks or so, Elder Hill and I have gotten like 20 or so phone numbers from people and we are working on getting them to church activities and getting them to start hearing the lessons. One thing that our zone is struggling with is finding. The people in the Yokohama area are very rich and hard hearted. Most people have a very dark and bad opinion about God and the church so we have to search long and work very hard even to find just a few prepared people.
But we are working with quite a few great people. One is a young boy named Yaguchi. He is 17 years old and he has read the BOM 7 times in the last 5 months. That is more than me!!! Way more than me! He wants to join the church very much, but his mother is very anti church. She doesn't know that he has been meeting with us and he has tried to bring it up with her a few times but she shuts him down hard. Last week we started a 40 day prayer for him and his mom. At the end of the 40 days we are all going to fast together and he is going to boldly and lovingly confront his mom about the church. Yaguchi is such an awesome guy, but his faith is still rather small. Anti-parents are a big problem in Japan. Yaguchi is dead terrified of his mom, however, he has to be the one to break down the barrier and expose her to the gospel. Right now we are doing all we can to pray for him and to help build his faith through reading the scriptures with him and sharing faith building stories. Please pray for Yaguchi and his mother that he will be able to talk to her and that she can have a change of heart.
Thank you so much for the pictures of the boys and stuff at the fair. It looked really weird just seeing the three of you and all. Half the family is MIA , but next year it will be even less!!! Poor Connor, he is going to be all alone in a big house very soon....
Things are going great here in Tokyo. The work has me busier than ever, but also happier than ever. Elder Hill and I are truly teaching with "power and authority" and the Lord truly works beside us as we help bring our brothers and sisters closer to Him. :) I thought and studied a lot this week about how Love is the Motive to everything we do and it is true. Love is the reason I am out here and Love is the reason I do the things I do each day.
I love each and every one of you and pray for you daily. :)
Have a great week and please throw Tuxedo's ball at his face for me!!!!!!!
愛をこめて
クランダル長老
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