Eric's Mission, Tokyo, Japan

Hey everybody!  How are you all doing?   Wow it has been such a busy week and I don't know where to begin talking about it!  So the picture I sent you today is the lake that is right next to our apartment at night.  I really liked the pretty lights there and I thought that you would enjoy it.  But no, I didn't take it during the typhoon.  That's crazy to hear that we had a tsunami while I was here.  I hadn't even heard about it so thanks for the news.  I did hear that we had an earthquake though, but I slept right through it and I can't believe that I missed it!  My first earthquake and I totally missed it!  So guess what happened this week, the cops pulled me in for questioning again.  That's the 3rd time that has happened and I have no idea what they have against me!  All I was doing was passing our flyers for our free English class and they came over and took my id card and all of my info.  And to make things worse, my companions were at di

Konnichiwa minasan!  こんにちは   How is everybody doing?  Thank you for all of the emails that you sent me this week, I officially got more than both of my companions combined! lol  and Thank you so much grandma and grandpa Stevens for the care package that you sent me this week!  It was super amazing to have American candy again!  I'd forgotten how sweet it tasted! lol  So thanks!   We are all doing super awesome over here on the opposite side of the world! To answer mom's question, I didn't baptize any of the converts but I did witness for all of them.  We always try to have ward members baptize the converts so that they have an unbreakable tie to the ward.  All the missionaries will leave Japan someday so we just want to make sure that the converts have friends in the church.  The baptisms were so amazing!  F... gave his testimony at the end of the baptism and to end his testimony he said, " In the name of Jesus Christ Amen,  Go Buckeyes!"  It was

Hello Everybody!   Where to begin?  About the pictures I sent, I am in the regular Tokyo mission but we are in the southern border of the mission and since we are in a ex-patriot ward, our area actually goes out of the mission.  So technically I serve in both the south and Tokyo mission.  lol  It felt so weird to leave the mission boundaries yesterday to visit our bishop, but don't worry, we had permission from our president.  And the picture I sent of the building was the south mission home and not our apartment.  I'll take some pictures tonight and send them to you soon.  General Conference was super awesome.  I hope that all the talks pumped you up as much as me!  I loved hearing all the talks about missionary work.  We actually watched conference at a members house the Mandoza's.  They have invited us over for dinner like 3 times in 4 weeks!  They're so awesome and we love their American cooking.  And about the cookbook I still haven't be

Hey, First of all I'd like to apologize for not being able to email you last Monday.  We had to go shopping for my bike and for groceries and then we got pulled in for questioning by the police so I had like 0 time for emailing.  I feel really bad about it so Ill try to make this letter super awesome!  First of all, thank you so much for all of the letters that I have received.  I've gotten like 6 and all of my companions are super jealous, especially about the package with lots of goodies in it!  It always makes me feel so loved to get them so thanks a bunch!  Have you gotten any of the pictures that I sent you the past 2 weeks?  Ill try to send them again because I guess you didn't get them last week. Well its been raining everyday here for the past few weeks and all of my clothes are pretty wet.  I also found out that all of my ties that I brought are 100% silk so Ill have to buy some new ones so that they don't get too ruined.  And good news,