First I like to have a guest writer. Elder Anderson is a missionary who has also had 6 years of Japanese experience.... let's see what it's like from his perspective.
or he'll write about whatever....
"I awoke at 3 AM, a cool spring morning. The wind brushed lightly against my face, while the sun painted my skin a cool golden brown. There are very few things that give me this much joy as a super action ninja TV star. Today is day 332 of filming my new action movie: Threat Level Midnight. I crawl from my tattered sleeping bag, rolling in the leaves that neighbor my humble tent. They crunch noisily under my red tennis shoes, almost crying for help. I revel in their misery. As a ninja, it's difficult for me to imagine anything but doing awesome ninja-esque moves on everything I see. The leaves are no exception. I jumped quickly into the air, twirling my body like a whirling tornado, the leaves rising into the air. I use my sweet, hot ninja legs to kick them into oblivion. I am pretty dang awesome, and even the leaves know it. They humbly return to the ground, touched by my presence. I flash a quaint grin, and continue with my day. I can't help but think to myself 'Yes, the MTC will be awesome.'"
In case you ever thought that I was the only one slightly off my rocker here.... I'm just a dime a dozen when it comes to the missionaries going to Japan. Well, maybe not, Elder Anderson and I are kinda different..... Well, I don't have a whole ton of time today due to various reasons: we pretty much have all of the 12 apostles here and the first presidency because of all of the new mission presidents, so today is a special fireside at 4, and I want to be in the choir which starts at 3, which is like 5 minutes from now.
The temple was nice, kinda sad that it was my last time to go to the Provo Temple in 2 years, our next p-day will be almost entirely in-field orientation, so I don't actually know if I'll have time to write or not. I do know that I will not be able to go to the Temple though. Speaking of temples, Sonntag and a couple of other international elders went to the Salt Lake Temple today to do a session. I was kinda jealous. Sonntag got to go because he actually turned his papers in from Tokyo, so he counts as an international missionary.
Everything here is doing pretty sweet, we've got to host new missionaries for the past 3 weeks so it's been really nice to see all of the new missionaries come and to be reminded of how I was only 10 weeks ago. I've gotten to know everyone here very well and I am very grateful for all the opportunities I've had to change and affect the lives of those that I've met.
I told you that we got new Japanese roommates right.... well, one was Korean, couldn't do Japanese only class and moved to be with our lower class and will be here for 9 weeks, the other roommate moved to another room so we lost both of our foreign roommates. Sad day. But it's all good, I go to Japan in 10 days. Our flight plans are here and we get to go on a non-stop flight straight from Salt Lake to Tokyo. So if you happen to be in Salt lake around 2:00pm on the 4th of July, look up, you might just see me fleeing the country on it's anniversary.
Good luck everybody, and remember, you are all supposed to be great, so go be great
Elder Everett
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