week 25

Hello everyone!
This week is Mother's Day; shout out to moms everywhere! I had the
opportunity to talk to my family today over Skype. It was an amazing
opportunity and I am so thankful for them and their love and support.
I can't wait to see them when my mission is over but for now, let's
share the Gospel!!
This week, I only plan to recount a few experiences from my week:
- We have been meeting with an Indonesian man recently. He is so nice
and is staying in Saga Japan so that he can finish his schooling for
his career. For now, he is living alone and when we visited and met
with him, he was so happy and I'm so glad that we have had the
opportunity to become friends with him. He even made us some authentic
Indonesian food! Good stuff. There is a concert in Fukuoka Japan on
next Saturday (It is the BYU Wind Symphony) and Harris San loves music
so we might have the opportunity to go to that concert. We have had a
few good lessons with him and he is praying about the Book of Mormon
and Joseph Smith.
- It's getting hot in Japan. As a result, we've been having some fun
experiences with bugs. You have never heard 19, 20, and 21 year olds
scream like little girls until you put a giant cockroach in their
apartment as everyone is trying to get ready for bed. I couldn't stop
laughing and screaming and by the time we caught the thing, put it in
a box, and taped it up, our apartment was a disaster zone! Two days
later, we had chapter 2; revenge of the cockroach... Let's just say
that we spent a decent amount of money on some good traps.
Well, tomorrow is my 6 months. I'm excited for what lies ahead. Wish
me luck and send some prayers if you can!
Tell your moms you love'Em!

Brower Choroブラワー長老

week 24

Hey you wonderful people, Good morning!

"SO this week we were privileged enough to receive I pads from our mission president and well, its kind of just like having a library in a lil book. its not like we can just go surfing the net checking out whatever we want and doing as we please. its more like hey, heavenly father trusts you, which means that you use this thing and you put it to work. SO we get it and well, its great and all but, nothing beats reading straight scriptures and marking them with your own highlighter if you know what I mean. But its good tho, We can just watch cool stuff and read scriptures without having to bring the book and stuff with us."

They have been a great resource so far but this week we have been focused on a lot of other things and I have left home without it most days. It is going to help us further the work here in Japan and I am excited to see the benefits to start showing them selves more and more!

We met an old lady who is super sweet and wants to become friends. She believes in god and is interested in family history stuff and we are visiting her this week. We also met a college student from china who we are meeting with today at 3! Prayers please. ;) Um.... oh, we got to go on a companion exchanges this week for a day and.... I went with elder christensen! Long time no dendo, just like the old days. It was fun. This week has been better, I've enjoyed it a lot more but i'm still trying to figure a lot of stuff out... you'd think i'd have it down by now! Not!!

Alright, that is it for me! I'm off to work hard for another week! Love you all, Happy Mother's Day (soon)!

Brower Choro

week 23

Hello Everyone!

So this week is one of those weeks that everyone hears about that just... is like any other week on the mission. I don:t mean to downplay the miracles that happened and the cool things that happen every day as a missionary but things just keep trucking along here in Saga Japan. This week, me and my companion have been knocking a lot of apartments that seem pretty scary... on purpose! We figure that there are still people that need this gospel despite the "shabbyness" of their apartment. From this, we had the opportunity to talk to a lot of people and we have return appointments for this next week as well! Wish us luck!

God has a lot that he wants me to learn this transfer and I am slowly learning more and more about what those things are; wish me luck that I can learn from them what he has planned for me! Possibly, as I learn more this transfer, I can let you know more about it.

Time is going by really fast I don:t understand it! But, I:m trying to live up every day. My companion is awesome and definitely understands that I struggle in communicating with him. We do just fine though to be honest, I can understand most of what he is saying because I have gotten used to the vocab that he uses most often and how he talks but when it comes to talking to people on the street and their answers to the questions I ask them, I just smile real big, knod my head and say "Oh really?" It:s funny, and sometimes I can make an educated guess as to what they say by a few key words that I know but sometimes, I have no idea! I:m going to spend another year and a half having no idea what people are saying! I:m so excited! I know that it will get a little easier every day but this language is so complex and so hard to get "fluent" in that by the time to go home, you can communicate and understand most things but if you entered school, you;d only be in life 5th grade and even then it would be rough. But as far as that, I:ve gotten really good at accepting my limitations and just learning how to deal with them. I just try to work hard every day and I know that little progress is still progress. I just never want to find myself rolling downhill!

Brower Choro