Eric's Mission, Tokyo, Japan

おはようございます！ 皆さんは元気ですか？皆が本当に素晴らしい週間とたくさん面白い事をしたとお願っています。今私は十二転勤の七週間です。多分つくばで、最後の週間かもしれません。来週は転勤発表ので、僕と僕の同僚は一所懸命働いてたくさん人々と会って見ています。そして神様の助けによって先週一杯奇跡を見ました！これから英語でその奇跡について話します！日本語で書く事はすごい難しいのでタイプ事はとても遅いです！大変ですね！lol Translation: Good morning! Everyone is how are you? Everyone I am your hope to have a lot interesting things and really great week. I am seven weeks of twelve relocation now. Maybe in Tsukuba, it might be the end of the week. Because next week relocation announcement, I and my colleagues have seen met with a lot people worked very hard. And I saw a full miracle last week by God's help! I will talk about the miracle now in English! Since it is amazing difficult to write in Japanese type it is very slow! Hey Everyone!  How did you like the Japanese section of today's email? It doesn't really say too much but if you want to read it, maybe you can type it into google translate and it should be a little close to what it really says.  I would write more, but it...

Hey Everyone, Welcome to the 6th week of the transfer!  Guess what that means? I still have one more left!  Whaooooo!  Sorry my email is two days late. We spent all day Monday at the temple in Tokyo, and yesterday we were super busy on splits with the other missionaries in our Zone.  I just love these long transfers because it makes me feel so much more attached to my companion!  I hope we get to stay together for another one but I've already been here for 4 transfers so maybe not.  My companion is super cool though and we are the best friends ever!  Except for some reason, he seems to think that France is better than the U.S.  I keep showing him how America is the promise land in the Book of Mormon, but he doesn't seem to believe me. I'm still working to convert him to America, but he is my hardest investigator yet!  Just kidding!  We have so much fun together!! Anyways, this week was great!  Like ev...

Hello Everyone! How is it going for you?  Well guess what?  It is already week five of the transfer which would normally mean that I only have 1 more week till it's over.  But, luckily since we are having a member of the Seventy come to speak to us in 2 weeks, they are making the transfer 7 weeks long instead of 6 weeks. So I get at least 2 more weeks with my wonderful companion.  Super excited because we are seeing tons of sweet miracles as usual. Speaking of miracles, we have been meeting with our friend A... who will be baptized on the 31st of this month.  We taught him the word of wisdom this week and we were a little worried because he smokes a ton, but he loved it!  He said that he has wanted to stop smoking for a very long time but he never had a reason to stop.  Now that he has a reason, he said that with our help he is sure that he can do it.  We met with him and some of the recent converts in our Ward who had to...

Hello everyone, What's up?  I hope that everyone had a wonderful New Year's Day and a safe fun New Year's Eve party.  It seems like the family had lots of fun from all of the pictures that I saw in my emails today.  Thanks so much for those.  We had a fun New Years time this year.  For the 31st we had a full day of cleaning the apartment.  It was really nice though because the apartment really needed it; and I got to wear normal clothes all day which is a luxury that I have not had in a long time.  The next day we had a full day of Book of Mormon reading.  I read all the way to Mosiah but I had to stop because we had a dinner party at a members house.  To celebrate New Years here, they have a tradition of eating lots of mochi.  I don't think they have an English word for that, but it pretty much is a pounded rice ball cake thing. They put it in pretty much anything from soy sause to ice cream and seaweed.  We also w...

Hello everyone! Wow, I can't believe how fast the Christmas season has flown by!  It seemed like I was so excited to skype and now it's all over and done with.  I guess there's always Mother's Day in a few months. It was good to hear about all of the fun things that you have been doing for Christmas and the New Year!  How is Nepal going?  I bet it is really fun.  I really want to show all of the pictures to my friend from Nepal named B...  We are hopefully going to meet with him on Wednesday so I can show them then. He is our friend with a baptismal date for the 14th of February but he is still having trouble getting to church.  He works everyday all day so it's really hard for him.  We need to help with him with that. This week we were able to meet with a lot of new people.  There were just tons of people that were in the area book that no one had heard of so we called them up and set up appointments.  They all wen...