Eric's Mission, Tokyo, Japan

Hey Everyone! As you can see from the title, the transfers are already coming to a close!  Only 2 weeks left till we get the call to see if my companion and I stay together.  I hope so because we have had lots of fun together.  It's been a great transfer so far and I'm excited to see what happens for the next 2 weeks! Last week we went back to Odaiba and got to see some cool things that we missed last time.  They have a big transformer statue outside of a huge transformer mall and I just had to get a picture of me giving it a Book of Mormon.  It goes really well with the picture that Andrew took with the Book of Mormon overlooking Taichung city.  I'll send it to you today.  This may be a little boring for some of you, but it was amazing for me.  They had a Krispy Kreme on Odaiba too.  As soon as I saw the advertisements for it, I just had to go and I bought a dozen doughnuts, for over $16.  They are so expensive here but ...

Hello Everyone, In case you were wondering, we have meet a hero as the title suggests.  I'll talk more about it later, but I just wanted to get that out there so you weren't too confused. What happened this week?  It was mostly just a normal week.  We had our stake conference this week for the English ward.  Next, I guess something that was fun that happened this week is we had a typhoon.  We had 2 appointments set up in the evening but almost simultaneously both of the people called us and promptly canceled their appointments because of the typhoon that was going to be coming in the next few hours.  We looked up the weather on our iPads and it said that it should be fine so we thought that the people just didn't want to meet with us.  So we decided to go venture out in the farthest part of our area, about a 45 min bike ride that we have never been to before.  When we got there, we started contacting until we started to feel some rain dro...

Hello Everyone! To start off the email, I would just like to make a shout out to the Mothers that have really effected me in my life.  Mom, of course, Grandma Stevens, and Grandma Kaldahl.  Thanks for always being there for me and spoiling me as a mother or grandmother.  It's been a great life so far, and I am excited to see you all again soon.  I hope that you had a great, wonderful, amazing Mother's Day. For my Mother's Day it was amazing to be able to skype with my family. It's been five months since I have been able to do that and the time has flown by.  The time just seemed to go too fast.  I can't believe that we were talking for an hour.  But I guess all good things have to come to an end.  Besides seeing everyone, I especially liked singing the song "Secret Prayer" together in Spanish.  Music always really gets me.  I guess I'm just a musical person, but whenever I hear a song like that, the memories just come flo...

Hey Everyone! I'm back!  Yeah that's right, I'm back in the largest city in the world and having a blast.  My companion is awesome!  We get along so well!  We have the same sense of humor and he is almost as sarcastic as me. The past few days have been so fun just going on adventure after adventure in this huge city, talking to people, meeting with less actives and recent converts, and just laughing with each other.  I can definitely tell that this is going to be a sweet transfer.  His name is Faganello Choro and he is from Victoria, Canada.  I just keep working with people from everywhere but America. Our apartment is really cool as well.  We have Elder Nukaya from Idaho, who was in my zone when I was a zone leader in Tsukuba.  He is super hilarious as well, and at night we just joke around and tell old dendo stories.  It's really cool because we have a lot of old missionaries in our apartment right now....