Week 38

So.  It feels like there's actually a lot I wanna say this week.
I just found out the place I'm at closes in 10 mins so I gotta be quick.

The mountain climbing went well.  It wasn't that big.  It was kinda like a sissy mountain, (only 600m high)  but next Saturday I get to go climb Mount Fuji!!  Mount Fuji eats Rockies for breakfast.  No joke.  The hike will be like +9h.  Yahhooooo!!!! Google it!!

The main religion is for sure Buddhist.  (ah bukkyo desu!  is what they always say.  Meaning I'm Buddhist.)

 I love Japan and being on a mission has honestly been the best choice I've made to date.

Love you.

Elder Keith

Week 37

Hey Parents xD,

 

My birthday was terrific! 

 

Yeah you would eat a cake in my name and think of me when eating it wouldn't you xD  and the cinnamon rolls too?!  ahhhhhh I'm totally green with jealous rage xD.  

I'm outta time right now because we're actually gonna go climb a mountain!!  xD

 

love you. take care

Week 36

Heyyyyyyy

Thank you for the birthday wishes.  ahhhhhh I'm gonna be 20!!!!! legally an adult in Japan.  Once again I get to be an adult.  xD  heh heh yeah young padawan indeed.  My first 2 decades of life are finishing!!!  ahahahahahaha.  The relief work in Sendai was a little anti-climactic.   We went to this one house that was in the middle of a suburb and shoveled some dirt that had become bad.  Then after that we went with another group and did the same thing in a small field.  It was anticlimactic because it didn't really feel like we were doing any special kind of service.  It didn't even really hit home that we were in Sendai until we started seeing the wreckage. After the service we all went to look at one suburb that was completely destroyed.  Let me tell you being in a disaster area, in the area where the destruction is, is really quite an experience all on it's own.  Not comparable to anything.  The destruction was immense.  It was scary to think about it at all.  It was a terrific experience and I'm super glad that we were able to go and see it. 

Yes this gospel is most definitely true.  The more I study it the more I understand.  The more I come to realize that there is no way that anything on this earth could exist without God.  Being able to study this gospel for +1h every day and then having the chance to have it as the central focus of my speech, my thoughts, is really a blessing.  I've only been gone for ...(8months?)  a little while and already I wonder how I'm going to get along after my mission when I won't be required to talk to everyone I meet about the gospel or have to live by missionary standards...it'll be sooooo weird.  But right now, I'm just drinking in this opportunity.  Heck I see the couple missionaries that I work with and I'm excited for when I serve that kinda mission.  Because it will happen.  But until that time...  Thank you both so very much.  Without this gospel and your guidance I would really be a different person and definitely not for the better.  Thank you.  Love you both so very much.  Take care

 

Elder Keith