New iPad

Hey y'all so I got a new iPad which I am way pumped for like I was sitting on the third floor where we loved and I heard a van door close and I was like "this is it, my new iPad" like I just knew it. I knew it. So I got up and saw the post office guy in the window and made eye contact and went and got it and I was smiling like all day because I literally have never been this happy. Well okay this is the second most happy I've ever been, I'll tell you why in a sec. But yeah I have a new iPad. So pumped. That happened Friday. Well so the most happy I was is when I called the Naze elders out of the blue and just chatted and I found out my boy Akira is getting baptized next week! Or rather this week! He passed his interview and quit smoking! That was the most happy I was probably ever in my life. He really hasn't missed a Sunday since he was found like 9 months ago. I was there teaching for about four of those. I'm so pumped for him and he's come so far. Man I'm so happy. Apparently he still talks about me and the other missionaries too. He's the greatest person I've ever met. 

This week was chill I guess like there wasn't too much drama or nothing like that so like it's good. Life's good haha. Okinawa is a good place. It's pretty much the Mexico of Japan. I just realized that sounded really bad but let me explain. It's kind of ghetto except for the tourist places but there's no crime and they eat tacos. It's got a lot of similar architecture too and it's just everybody is kind of more economically not as well off yet everyone is happy. So yeah. It's pretty cool. Also I saw that trump really is planning on building a wall around Mexico on the news here. Japanese news is pretty weird just FYI and so I don't know if that's really going to happen or not but yeah. I guess I can't really talk about politics as a missionary but that's all people talk to us here about so it's okay maybe. Y'all will see how trump goes ha I'm coming back to Japan so that's all I have to say about that. 

So yeah everything else that happened this week so we were teaching our super interested investigator Kuroma last night. The day before she was asking about attaining perfection and pretty much told us that from what she's read in the Book of Mormon that she can do it. Well last night we were like hey so another way we can do that is through baptism and she asked tons of great questions and was like "yeah I think if god was there I would totally get baptized like I see how it's necessary" and then she was like "but I like drinking and if I have to stop drinking I don't want to." She likes drinking because it makes watching anime better. Like more interesting. I'm like I'm sure it does because anime is crap haha but anyways yeah so we probs going to teach more about faith next time and maybe word of wisdom. We never mentioned anything about that ha so like we'll see. She's also way down to come to church but has no car so we'll see. 

There was also a change in the missionary schedule and everything worldwide and its way chill and gives us a lot more power to choose for ourselves and work effectively and righteously or not. Pretty cool. Not much really to talk about there, if you want to know just read the news in Utah. It's probably everywhere.

Also funny story from last week on PDay so we went to a beach (it was freezing 60 degrees and windy which is bad choices) and it was after shopping and we had a few extra minutes. Well let's just say it was a terrible idea haha because wind and skirts don't go well together, especially when there's already a communication barrier and Sakamotos skirt is going everywhere and she's trying to get MacFarlanes attention but she's just taking pictures like no big deal and me and my comp are just like what the heck this is crazy and it's cold out here haha. But like it was super funny and everyone was laughing like it was chill so yeah so the moral of the story is don't go to the beach on cold windy days in a skirt. Bad choice. Funny memories.

Love y'all!

iPadから送信

 When I got my new iPad. Genuine smile ha.

Way pretty sunset from the apartment

Said beach and awkward hair and skirts

Me and elder Sherrill on exchanges in Okinawa city and we played with these kids for a while and bought them some bread.

 

Don't know if I sent this already but it's the missionaries, a way sick member tamale (back) and a recent convert Clarence (next to me) and it was way fun. Probably already seen but forgot.