Helllo Everyone! How`s
life?!
Guess what!?! I`m in
Toyama Japan! It`s the furthest North east zone of the mission...and it`s
freezing...I just threw out all my thermals so I would be under weight when I
flew to Japan haha so Karama hit me. It was kinda funny when the AP`s were
showing us a slide show of our mission, one of the pictures was just walls of
snow, and I said I hoped I wouldn`t go there...and guess where I got sent? Haha
It`s been
raining/snowing pretty much since I got here. Although they already had their
two big snow storms earlier this year, so they said it just gets nicer from
here. Apparently it`s the warmest it`s been here at this time for years haha so
count your blessings I guess haha
My Companions name is
Elder Frost. He`s a 6 ft 3" foot ball player for the air force
academy. Both of us are pretty much twice the size of most
nihonjin...haha
Our apartments pretty
big for Japan, but neither of us fit through the door, I`ve hit my head so many
times already I lost count...haha
We have quite a few
investigators! But they`re all work-aholics and never have time to meet, so
that kinda stinks. I still haven`t really taught a lesson yet. We`ve been doing
alot of finding since I got here, tracting, and talking to people on the
street. It`s been fun :) I mean...no one really wants to talk to us... and we
have yet to get an investigator from it. But It`s still fun to talk to people
:D Tracting is kinda annoying because most people don`t open the door, they
have little intercoms that you have to talk through, which are kinda weird.
Today we`re going through the area book and calling old investigators so
that`ll be fun, hopefully we can find someone to teach.
We wasted alot of time
last week trying to get me a bike, that was kinda frustrating, they actually
had a few that were big enough, but they were always like $550, which is too
expensive for me. But after a few days of bike shopping, we got a old broken
bike that a missionary left 2 transfers ago, I replaced the wheel today, and I
can`t use all the gears...but besides that it`s good! I`m only going to use it
for this transfer, then I`ll just take my trainer`s bike. He`s taken really
good care of his, and it`s huge. So that`ll be good.
Some other news*
-Eikiwa (English
class)...Is super fun! We had more people there than in months apparently, it
was great, had the whole room filled! I introduced myself in English and they
asked my questions for the first 15 minutes then we played english games. Then
at the end they had me beatbox and the other missionaries rap haha it was awesome
:D We have two sisters in our area working with us. They`re both super cool,
and one`s a nihonjin so that`s fun.
-One thing I learned
this week after a few hours of practically fruitless OYMing (that stands for
Open Your Mouth btw....pretty much street contacting) was that smoking
people are great to talk to! We we`re getting a little discouraged as to how
little success we were having that day, so we said another prayer and asked to
find someone who would at least be willing to listen to our message within the
next 20 minutes. Then we turn around and see a guy smoking behind us, with more
tattoos and peircings then he has skin. So we were just kinda like..."well
he definitely needs the gospel" so we talked to him for a good 20 minutes.
He's a super sweet dude and he's going to do our 30 30 program where we teach
him English for 30 minutes and then we practice Japanese for 30
minutes...sharing the gospel. It`s pretty fun.
-Dollar stores in
Japan are the coolest.
-We had to give away
two Brazillian families to other Portuguese speaking Elders..:( Some day I`ll
be those Portuguese speaking elders and take everyone elses investigators haha
-It`s against the Law
to do missionary work on trains....which really sucks..and I have had a hard
time time following that law...
-It`s also against
mission rules to talk to girls. Which REALLY stinks because they`re the only
ones that want to talk! I went my first day without knowing either of those
rules and I passed out like three pamphlets and a few English class cards to
girls on the train haha. Then my trainer told me it wasn`t allowed haha
Japanese girls are way nice. I don`t always follow this rule either. I asked
the prez today about it, we`ll see what he says.
-I ate the infamous
Nato yesterday at a sushi bar! It wasn`t as bad as it looks, or as bad as it
smells, but it wasn`t good haha
-We have two colleges
in our area and alot of foreigners, half of our investigators aren`t Japanese.
We even teach a few of them in English!
-Our ward is awesome,
they love missionaries and are totally on board with whatever we need. , They
all try and impress me with their english too which is really funny. So usually
they speak English to me and I speak Japanese to them haha.
Oh and my
Japanese isn`t actually as bad as I thought it was! So that`s cool. apparently
my district was just geniuses and no one usually learns as much as we did in
the MTC haha So I felt really stupid in the MTC because no matter how hard I
studied I didn`t know half as much as my district. But now coming out here all
the missionaries I meet and all the members are amazed that I actually
understand them haha and can usually make up some sort of a reply. So that`s
cool.
So I didn`t know we
were going to go email right now, so I didn`t grab my camera, and I didn`t
really take any pictures anyways...but I`ll send you pictures next week! Japan
is beautiful!
Anyways I love you
all! Sorry if this email was too long...but I mean I`m in Japan so whatever!
愛してます
Coleman Choro
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