Tokyo Time
How is your new area? : 
The new area is good, the people here are kindof different and sacrement meeting has a feel of a rest home and a mental institution but there are some cool people here, there is no YSA but there is a 16 yr old that i have made pretty good friends with, we are teaching a bunch of middle school students they are fun, they all just like hanging around an american but whatever works haha.
How is your new companion? : he is good. elder fujiwara. he is from Kyoto Japan he speaks as much english as a 1 year old haha but thats ok. he tries really hard and im teaching him everyday. this is his first transfer as senior comp and he is way stressed out. but he is a good guy and we have fun. we are teaching about 15 lessons a week and leading the mission. haha its funny but we are always way busy and i have never been soo tired in my life. but its fun.
Did you fly to Naze? : yes i flew out of okinawa naha to amami airport. it was a funny expirence all my bags were way to heavy so i pretended i didnt speak any japanese. normally if you do that they feel bad for you and send your bags. but then some lady came out and spoke english to me i was like crap. and on accident i answerd a few of her questions in japanese. she was like. why are you pretending you cant speak japanese. i was like i gotta go. haha so i went downstairs to the post office and shipped all my bags through the post. p.s. the japanese post is the most efficient buisiness on the earth. then i went back up and the lady was just laughing haha it was funny i told her i was sorry for trying to trick her and then we laughed about the people that really cant speak japanese and how hard it must be. haha but. yeah then the plane ride was fun. it was sad to leave my island of 8 months but i geuss that is just how missionary life is.
How are you???? : i am great the weather here has been kinda crappy but altogether ok. not to much rain yet. but i swear there are vampires on this island its always cloudy perfect for the VAMPS haha but yeah. tommorow i take a boat 11hr ride up to Kagoshima. stay the night there and then take the Shinkansen(bullet train) up to Kumamoto for zone conference then Shinkansen back to kagoshima and fly back to Naze. it will be interesting its funny me and dad will be traveling outside of our residences at the exact same time. haha thats kinda weird. but i think the boat ride will be interesting haha we will see i will take lots of pics.
Naze is good. like i said in the prev. email today. our distric is 2 people. me and my comp. we are the only missionaries on the island. and we are either a 11hr boat ride or a 200 dollar plane ticket away from everyone. there for i will not have much contact with other missionaries for as long as im here. our branch p is kinda weird but a good guy. and yes i know where the post office is. that is where i sent packages to you from. haha this is a really small place i have the area almost completely memorized already.
yeah we are teaching people, and i dont start english classes. its the missions thing to do english class its all over japan and rob said they do it in italy. i started one in kadena but thats just because the missionaries before me were retarted and didnt keep it up so no one came. but here our english class is good. i also teach a kids english class on saturday mornings. its fun. japanese kids are soo funny.
you misunderstand. send big emails. lots of small ones take time to open. but i am almost out of time i have 10 min. left. and i want to send you a pic of me i took today it has no real meaning but its a recent one. so write me one more back. i will read it respond and send you the pic. i love you all so much. be safe as you travel i love you all so much. i will see if the kids want to be pen pals. they really cant speak english they are more or less
How is your new companion? : he is good. elder fujiwara. he is from Kyoto Japan he speaks as much english as a 1 year old haha but thats ok. he tries really hard and im teaching him everyday. this is his first transfer as senior comp and he is way stressed out. but he is a good guy and we have fun. we are teaching about 15 lessons a week and leading the mission. haha its funny but we are always way busy and i have never been soo tired in my life. but its fun.
Did you fly to Naze? : yes i flew out of okinawa naha to amami airport. it was a funny expirence all my bags were way to heavy so i pretended i didnt speak any japanese. normally if you do that they feel bad for you and send your bags. but then some lady came out and spoke english to me i was like crap. and on accident i answerd a few of her questions in japanese. she was like. why are you pretending you cant speak japanese. i was like i gotta go. haha so i went downstairs to the post office and shipped all my bags through the post. p.s. the japanese post is the most efficient buisiness on the earth. then i went back up and the lady was just laughing haha it was funny i told her i was sorry for trying to trick her and then we laughed about the people that really cant speak japanese and how hard it must be. haha but. yeah then the plane ride was fun. it was sad to leave my island of 8 months but i geuss that is just how missionary life is.
How are you???? : i am great the weather here has been kinda crappy but altogether ok. not to much rain yet. but i swear there are vampires on this island its always cloudy perfect for the VAMPS haha but yeah. tommorow i take a boat 11hr ride up to Kagoshima. stay the night there and then take the Shinkansen(bullet train) up to Kumamoto for zone conference then Shinkansen back to kagoshima and fly back to Naze. it will be interesting its funny me and dad will be traveling outside of our residences at the exact same time. haha thats kinda weird. but i think the boat ride will be interesting haha we will see i will take lots of pics.
Naze is good. like i said in the prev. email today. our distric is 2 people. me and my comp. we are the only missionaries on the island. and we are either a 11hr boat ride or a 200 dollar plane ticket away from everyone. there for i will not have much contact with other missionaries for as long as im here. our branch p is kinda weird but a good guy. and yes i know where the post office is. that is where i sent packages to you from. haha this is a really small place i have the area almost completely memorized already.
yeah we are teaching people, and i dont start english classes. its the missions thing to do english class its all over japan and rob said they do it in italy. i started one in kadena but thats just because the missionaries before me were retarted and didnt keep it up so no one came. but here our english class is good. i also teach a kids english class on saturday mornings. its fun. japanese kids are soo funny.
you misunderstand. send big emails. lots of small ones take time to open. but i am almost out of time i have 10 min. left. and i want to send you a pic of me i took today it has no real meaning but its a recent one. so write me one more back. i will read it respond and send you the pic. i love you all so much. be safe as you travel i love you all so much. i will see if the kids want to be pen pals. they really cant speak english they are more or less
HARROMy Namu Isu Nishihara Takumi
I amu 5
really simple english i am teaching them there ABC right now. but in the real english class mabey one of the students will write candi. there are some cool people that come.
i will ask them in 2 weeks. we have a break this week since im going to mainland.
but i love you
all so much
Love
Elder COLE
