Week 10

1st Day in the Field

So yes I lied, I haven't even been on my mission for even 5 hours! But alot has happened. 

Some Highlights

1. Flight plans were scrambled

2. Met my new companions, Elder Bodily and Elder Brewer!

3. Met my mission President and his amazing wife, the Wrights! 

This morning I woke up at 3:30am and got to the Shenandoah Local Airport and said bye to my family :(. But, we were all happy :). Apparently the plane was broken when the pilots got there this morning, so it was an hour delay. I rerouted and called Church Travel people. But in like twenty minutes they got the plane to work and fixed the issue and hurried us on there. So I made it to my original flight. There were weird complications with my ticket, but I got on. Instead of getting there at 5pm (rerouted flight), I got there at 1:30ish. Thankfully, before my last flight I emailed my Mission President and Wife and they were able to leave right away and pick me up! We went to the Mission office and had Chick-fil-A and we talked together and then I met my new companions and filed out some paperwork. We went to Walmart and Walgreens and then we got home. Because of the housing situation in Gilbert, we have a house :). There's our trio and another companionship. It's been pretty fun. The other Elders are Elder Vargas and Rojas. But things have been going good for the short time I've been here. From now on since my P-days are on Mondays, when I do my Week 11 email, it will be about week 10, or I don't know how, but I'll make it work. 

ロバートソン長老

1st Week in the Field

So this is the actual week 10! Quick recap, we've had several lessons, great street contacts, and had some interesting experiences. We've eaten shrimp to Peruvian to good old burgers. We've had some cool experiences while street contacting. We went on exchanges and some guy was arguing with us from his garage and we talked for a bit and left. But that night went much better and we found a cool guy and we talked for 10-15 minutes. We handed him a Book of Mormon and a Plan of Salvation pamphlet!

So the days aren't as crazy as I was imagining, but it's still a busy schedule. My Japanese practice has been going well and I've been getting around an hour a day. I've also enjoyed the awesome members here and meeting them. It's also been awesome starting with a trio for just a week. I got a good headstart on things and my companions 

Elder Bodily and Brewer were amazing. We had a great time and even though we only had a week, it was great. We also had a really clean house and great roommates. So yesterday and today were trainings. It was cool to see two sisters from my MTC district here, and President Wright has been really supportive of us video calling to speak Nihongo, so that's been nice. 

Today was transfers and for my first week I was in Florence. Now I'm all the way in the northern eastern zone. So I was in the most southern of the mission and now in the complete opposite. Our new house is a bit rough...some elders just don't know how to live by themselves. Hopefully we can clean up and get the house better. 

There's also 6 elders in this house, so I think we'll all get along, and if we do it should be fun. But we've had some amazing spiritual experiences with members and friends we've met. There's so much to say, but there's a lot happening. I'm here in Gilbert so I'm going to give my best, but I'm still praying for Japan to open up. But before then, I'm working here. It's a great time to improve my teaching and progress the Work of Salvation in Arizona! I really do love it here--it's awesome . Love you guys! 

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