Family!!!! hey! So I'm sorry that it has been so long since I have emailed you! it has been really crazy here and the scedual is really busy. and there is so much that I want to tell you it's really crazy! so they had us proselyting the moment that we got off the plane on the trains to the mission home. and after that we got to sleep which was much needed, so far jet lag hasnt happened and I think I'll be alright. umm after that we got our new companions and mine is from Tokyo yes he is Nihonjin! his name is Elder Ikeda and he is soooo awesome! we get along great, he speaks a lot of english but japanese is his first language so I help him with his english and he helps me with my japanese, which is still incredibly hard haha. and here everyone basically only speaks japanese, there are actually a lot of portuguese speakers too. but it just means that my language is hopefully getting better. Japan is exactly how I thought it would be absolutely awesome I am having a blast, there are literally shrines all over the city where I am serving(Kariya) and rice fields and city! I love it! the members here are so great there is a pretty good sized ward here. we went food shopping one time since we got here, all the members think that we are always hungry so all they do is feed us at there houses or give us food to eat at our apartment, which for Japanese standards is huge! even for american standards its pretty big. I got a bike and we have been proselyting like crazy! right now we have 5 progressing investigators and one of them came to church yesterday and also we have been trying to share messages with less active members. our mission president really wants us to focus on the members and finding refferals from them, so we have tried exactly that. it has been going good! the door approaches are so scary, not because the people are mean or anything, but I can hardly speak the language! in fact the people if they dont want to hear the message they will wait until we ask them if we can share one and then apologize about 15 times and excuse themselves. hahahaha! so awesome! so about the call the phone number is (1 800 you wish:) I will be calling on monday for me but it will still be sunday for you。I will call at 900am here which will be 600pm on sunday for you guys. I'm pretty sure that ill call dad's cell and then we have about 45 mins to talk so I'll be able to go into more detail on the goings on and stuff. I love you guys very much!
-Jones choro, p.s. word of the week is: jisho, which means dictionary haha I have been using one everyday
(Phone number altered for the Elders anonymity)
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