Are You Genki? ( I have no idea what this means!!)

December 6, 2009 Are you genki? Hey family it was good to hear from you again. Everyone sounds all happy and ready for Christmas. Christmas sounds busy as usual. That buffet sure does sound good and the Music and spoken word was always fun to go to. The buffets hear are pretty different. The most popular ones are the all you can eat meat places. There is a grill in the middle of the table and you just cook the raw meat yourself. It is way good but pretty expensive. A member took us to one that was $60 a person. Crazy huh. Man that is a bummer that Miles and Wyatt are both home. When you see Wyatt or Miles tell them write or email me. I haven’t heard from him for a long time. I’m sorry you guys are missing me. I guess I should have been more of a nuisance or something so you could take a deep breath of fresh air when I left. lol. I’ll answer the questions now. I did receive the package and everything was in tact. Thank you so much! I can’t wait to bust into the salami. It is huge! I am pretty sure that I got the camera card. Should I take more pictures? Don’t be afraid to tell me the truth. I still don’t know about the Christmas thing but I guess that you usually call. The language is fun. I think I am improving more because I am really forced to use it to communicate with almost everyone. I still can’t understand too well but I translated for this white guy from Colorado at church yesterday and I was surprised at how much I understood. He is a member but was just visiting. Suzuki really doesn’t know any English. Communication is definitely way hard. I hear the words differently than what they really sound like so a lot goes misunderstood. I am feeling great. I am staying warm and my headaches are pretty good. We are really focusing on Moriya san right now. He is 43 and two of his kids are baptized. He is scheduled to be baptized on the 20th of December. I have been trying to figure out how interested he is. I have really been praying about how to help him realize how important baptism is. This week every time we met the spirit was way strong and I know that he felt it. The Lord really does answer prayers because now I feel that he is sincere. This transfer has been different. We aren’t finding as many investigators as in other transfers. I have really relied on the Lord to help me in everything. I might be down on myself but I feel the spirit everyday as I testify about Christ. This tells me that I need patience and that I am talking how the Lord would want me to. This is so comforting. The other day me and Suzuki had just got home from a long day of trying to find people. We definitely got rejected a lot and I could tell that he was a little down. It made me think how blessed I am to know the restored gospel. Every person that rejected to even talk for one minute may never get that chance again. It is pretty sad and both of us felt really blessed that night. These people are lost and they haven’t thought about things like life after death, or receiving direction from something they can’t see. Simply explaining the Holy Ghost is so foreign to them. This is exactly why this church is true. We believe very strongly that there is one way back to live with our Heavenly Father forever. These strangers that I talk to everyday aren’t strangers to me. Heck, I don’t know, maybe I am talking to my best friend in the pre-earth life that came to earth knowing that this life wasn’t going to be easy. I feel a special bond with them and I do love them. Thanks for all the emails and I hope you can feel my love through these emails. Hope to hear from you soon. And I love you again.