Eric's Mission, Tokyo, Japan

Good afternoon everyone, It is a beautiful day and I am reporting live from Tokyo, Japan. I successfully made it back from Togane and am now in my home area. Well Togane is technically my area because my close friends live there, but it's good to be back in the huge city of Tokyo. I'm sure you're all dying to hear about my adventure to Togane so I'll start with that. When we arrived in Togane, we quickly went to our friend T... house because it has been difficult for him to attend church. We went to his house and he met with us, and we had a very wonderful half hour long discussion about lots of random stuff. At first the discussion was awkward, but then we talked about the gospel and I'm telling you we had the most spiritual experience I've ever felt in my life. We shared a lot of our personal experiences with each other including experiences Elder Cannon and I had while T... was preparing to be baptized. We ...

I just wanted to start off this email by saying, "Have a great mission Andrew." Have lots of fun and be looking for a letter from me because I sent you one last Monday so it should be there by now.  I hope you get it because I didn't know what unit you were in, but it should get to the MTC.  Things are going not to shabbily at the moment.  Unfortunately we have not been meeting with our prince friend. The last thing we heard from him was that his lawyer back in Ghana called him and told him that he couldn't get baptized into a Christian church because he was a prince.  I found out more about his situation, and it seems like he is a prince of a tribe up in northern Ghana whose tribe has pretty much been wiped out by the other tribes.  I think that his lawyer may be right about becoming Christian because northern Ghana is unfriendly to Christians.  The Church doesn't have any churches or missions in northern Ghana so IDK ...

I didn't know what heat and humidity were until recently this week.  It has been 35 C here and 100% humidity for the past week.  Not very fun for wearing church clothes around everywhere.  I feel bad for anyone who works in missions more south than me.  What doesn't help is that our AC doesn't work that well either.  We have two AC units but when we turn both of them on we have to turn everything else off or else the power shuts off.  Which is nice for the night time but any other time we either have to be in the dark or the heat.  I guess I shouldn't be complaining too much.  At least I get to eat lots of American food now that I am in the English area. Speaking of weather, we had some weird weather this week. Unfortunately the typhoon happened during the night so I slept right through the whole thing!  Too bad I wanted to see it!  Also the earthquake happened at 4:00 in the morning so I didn't feel it.  We have alarm...

  How is everyone? Well as you can see from the title of this email we had our transfer calls this morning, which means I am now transfer 8, which means that I am on top of the hill starting to go over it.  As for what happened with transfers, I am staying in the English area but my dear companion is going to take my place in Togane.  So jealous!  I'm giving him tons of advice so he can hit the ground running there.  I was made a district leader and our district is the biggest one in the mission. We are starting something new in our district, having more sisters in a district than elders.  It's the first time so I'm excited to see what happens.  Do you remember Sister Snow from Togane? Well, she is in the English ward with me.  I was so excited to hear that she was moving here because she is awesome. Should be a fun transfer.  But I'm a little sad because this will probably be my last transfer in here.  There ...