Eric's Mission, Tokyo, Japan

This is the 7th week of the transfer.  Why is this weird?  Well because there are usually only 6!  But we had a very special visit from our wonderful friend and leader Elder Quintin L.Cook from the 12 apostles so it changed our transfer schedule.  But I don't mind because the conference was super amazing!  We went up to Kichijoji, which is in the other mission but was in my first area and we met with all the missionaries from the south mission as well.  I was privileged to sing as part of a 17 person choir for the conference.  It sounded really awesome and we got compliments from everyone.  Even Elder Cook's wife who is a professional musician. The meeting was too short though.  It seemed like right as he stood up to talk he was finishing.  It was really sad and I wish that he could have stayed even longer.  But I learned a lot about preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ to God's children here in Japan. Thanks for all ...

    Hello everyone and guess what day was today, temple P-day. Yeah! I love Temple P-days but unfortunately whenever we have them we never have time to write very many emails or do anything else. So this is going to be a very short email gomen. (sorry in Japanese).  So nothing really interesting is happening this week except for the Skype call. Which was pretty amazing. I love my family and my grandparents. I love all you so much and an hour seriously was not long enough to talk to everyone. I will be sending you the picture that I took on the Skype session and some other cool ones that I have.  Guess what I just found out.  I can type my emails to you using Siri. That means I can write a longer email to you now because it takes less time. I'm sure you are all very super excited to hear more of what I have to say. But back to the ranch and more about Japan. We have not had very many interesting stories this week. Especially none of the type of ...

Wow this week was crazy! First of all it was the big week before the big Sunday challenge, which meant that we were working as hard as we could to get everyone of our friends to church. We had a goal to get 32 people there but we were only able to get 11. It was a big let down and the whole district is pretty discouraged right now. So now we need to get everyone back into the game for the next big Sunday challenge on the 1st of June . I'm going to try to make the next district meeting extra special. To answer moms questions we usually have district meetings once a week but whenever there is another meeting like zone meeting or a big mission conference I don't have to do one.  So far I have done 2 of them and my 3rd one is this Wednesday . Thanks for the article about what is bad about coffee and tea dad. I'm going to show it to my friend C...the next time I see him. If you look at the big picture of everyone he is the person standing next to me on t...

Hello everyone and Happy Cinco De Mayo!  Or as they say in Japan Golden week.  All of the college students at the university by us are on break so we thought we would be able to find lots of people at the beach by us, but it's raining super hard right now and it's supposed to rain for the next few days or so.  What a bummer! Well, as I'm sure you all heard we had a pretty big earthquake this morning.  W akened at 5:18am from an amazing dream that was about Andrew being transferred to Japan so that we could work together, I felt the whole apartment shaking and stuff falling off the tables and shelves.  We are on the 12th floor of the apartment where we live so it seemed really big from up there!  But I was so tired that the rocking of the earth didn't scare me at all, it just made me go back to sleep.  But afterwards we had to clean up all the mess.  Apparently the earthquake was centered in Tokyo and since we were in Chiba we didn't g...