March 24, 2015

Elder Stevens's had a special conference so we did not hear from him on the Sunday evening like we always do. The mission president's wife posted on FB not to panic if we did not hear from our missionary. That they were instructed to write us Wed in Japan, which is Tuesday here :)
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New Week new Transfer!! Transfer 4 has begun and it is with Elder Tsutsumi he is currently on transfer 6 and I am on transfer 4 I am staying in Kitami and I am excited to be able to work with him! He speaks almost no english he knows a little bit but so far only we have only talked in Japanese, so that is great! His Bday was on Monday as well so bought some cake and celebrated it yesterday!! All the missionaries went to Sapporo this week for Ipad training it was a lot of fun we learned a lot about effective ways to use the Ipads and good ways to resist the Temptations with them as well. I had the Wonderful opportunity to say the opening prayer for the training, I said it in Japanese and it was in front of all the missionaries and 2 members of the quorum of the 70 and there wives probably the most nervous that I have every been but to all those missionaries that do come to Japan that Ipad training was recorded and will be used for Ipad training in Japan so if you come you get the lucky opportunity to see me pray and be super nervous!! Yayy!!! 

Anyways after training me and My companion missed our bus and got lost in Sapporo but it was okay because we are smart and found our way back right before the Gps on the phone died but ya that was a blast love having cool experiences like that!!  But other than that nothing really big happened I was on splits with another missionary that came to japan at the same time as me so I had to take the lead in contacting people and stuff it was hard because there is still a lot of japanese that I need to learn but it did help me build some confidence in being more independent in the language but that was a lot of fun as well we basically just knocked on houses from 12-9 everyday until we went to Sapporo!!

We will be receiving Ipads middle of april and probably be using facebook in may would be my guess but thats about it from the land of Sapporo I love you all and hope that you all have a great week!!!!

Elder Stevens

1. Abashiri Jail

2. Elder Yamada and me

3. ipad training conference

4. a member's son and me