Eric's Mission, Tokyo, Japan

Hello everybody! Guess what, this is the last week of another transfer!  So next week, I will officially be labeled, an old missionary. Lol They say after you finish your 10th transfer, that you know what your doing but I'm not sure about that.  It's been a fast fun transfer and I'm looking forward to one more week with Elder Scoville.  But I think this ones going to go by really fast as well... We just got back from the temple today and it was really fun.  They accidentally started the session in the Japanese version, so the first little bit was in Japanese!  I felt really cool because I understood the whole thing!  I think for my last transfer, I'm going to try to do the session all in Japanese instead of English.  That's my language goal that I'm working on right now.  After the temple, we went to Wendy's like we used to do back home, well except everything was a lot more expensive. It was really good and brought ...

Hey Everyone! Where to begin?  This was a very interesting week.  It started off with tons of miracles and ended with a lot more, but the middle was really long and hard.  Well Dad, I'm sad to hear that you are feeling sick.  Luckily I am not sick yet, but my companion was sick for the past few days. Actually he is still pretty sick.  Because he was sick, we had to stay at the apartment for 3 straight days and do nothing but call people and study.  It got really boring after awhile.  Just watching your companion sleep and wishing that you could sleep too, but knowing that you had to stay as productive as you could so you stay awake and keep pushing on is the hardest thing I have ever done.  I got to study a lot of The Book Of Revelations from the Bible though. It was very interesting.  Also since my companion was down, I had to take care of the zone and that was very tiring.  I know why they have two zone leaders to take c...

Hey everyone, Sorry you didn't get my last email last week.  Idk what happened.  I sent it and it said that I sent it, but it didn't go through.  Maybe it's because I tried to send home a video and that messed it up. We had a great week this week with conference.  To watch it we had to take the train for an hour to get to the stake center.  The building was massive!  It was five stories tall and was bigger than our stake center in America!  It even had a bball court which I have only seen in 2 churches since I have been here.  I think my favorite talk was the one about looking in the right direction, because I see it a lot in myself and in others. After conference, we went to a park close to our apartment with a football field and volleyball net and met with one of our friends named M... He is from China but he was born in Japan and speaks fluent Japanese. And what's even better is that he loves volleyball.  Luckil...

  Hey Everyone, How's it going back in the good ol state of Ohio?  Things are pretty amazing over here and very wet. We just had a big typhoon, or well, it was supposed to be big, but my companion and I went out and braved the storm just to say that we did and we didn't get blown away, so we were a little disappointed.  We did get a lot of rain and wind but that was about it for the typhoon. It was really fun to go to the temple last week.  It is just so relaxing to be able to go there and feel the spirit all of the time.  We usually watch the session in English because the Japanese is crazy hard in the temple but I think I'm going to try it in Japanese next time.  Wish me luck!  It was also really cool this transfer to go to the temple after transfer calls because we got to meet our new companions right there at the temple.  I wonder if they'll do that again next time... Last week was pretty busy with planning as usual....