Eric's Mission, Tokyo, Japan

Hello everyone, and welcome to my last email from my mission in Japan.  The time has gone by fast and my 2 year mission has finally come to a close. Crazy stuff right?  I can't believe that in just 4 short days, I will be able to see mom and dad and the rest of you will have to wait for a few more weeks.  But it's coming fast!  By the way, I'm sorry that my last email is late this week. I will explain later in the email. So my last week was pretty intense.  Like I said, I was able to go on splits with my district leader and we got to eat Taco Bell.  So good!  I'll have to go again soon! Next was temple day.  We were able to meet with a lot of our old missionary friends and to say good bye to all of them before I leave.  We went to eat at a place called burger mania where they are famous for their cherry burgers, maybe we will have to go after the temple session mom and dad!  They are pretty good!  The following da...

Hey Everyone! You know what's happening this week?  I started my last week of my last transfer!  And boy are we going to be busy.  As soon as the Bishop in both wards announced to everyone that I only had 7 more days in the ward, everyone started inviting us over for lunch dinner appointments.  I feel so popular because this is the most member lessons that I have ever had.  Pretty fancy!  But this last week has really crept up one me.  During weekly planning, my companion brought up, hey, so you need to start packing this week.  When are we going to do that?  And it hit me, dang, I really do.  It's going to be fun to try to make my bags under 50 lbs each.  But enough about that, let's get into the good stuff. So last Sunday was awesome at church.  President and Sister Nagano came and gave our ward a surprise visit.  Yes, they are both from Japan but their English is amazing!  We were so surprised to se...

Hello Everyone!  How's it going? I guess to start off, I'll explain the title of the email.  After two years of working with our beloved President and Sister Budge, they have gone back to their home in America.  It was so hard to see them leave and I can't imagine having another mission president for two more weeks.  It's hard to fill such big shoes so I wish President and  Sister Nagano good luck!  We had a conference where the missionaries in the Tokyo area met together to welcome President and Sister Nagano to the mission and that was pretty fun.  Their English is so good I was really surprised!  We pretty much had a big question answer session and after a little bit we went back to our areas to teach English class.  I'm looking forward to talking to President Nagano more during our interview coming up in a few weeks. We also had a really fancy fast and testimony meeting last week and after the meeting, I realized th...