Hey Family,
Megs you looked absolutely beautiful in your pictures. Thank you for sending them to me. I must say though that you look much cuter than me and way more fashionable then I did or do. So unfair haha
With the weather being so hot be careful and drink a lot of water (Mom, lay off the D.P a bit. :D) Recently it has been cool here but I imagine the heat will come in a few weeks about the same time that I first came to Japan. Can you believe that is in two weeks. Crazy!! O and Mom I did get the package. I got it last week on Friday I believe. They really came on Thursday but I wasn't home so it came on Friday instead. Thank you for sending that. The mesh garments are great and I really like my pens and japan mickey pin. You are the best!! :D
Tokyo South Mission has officially begun. Saturday night President Wada arrived and tomorrow we meet with him in a conference then next week is interviews. In two weeks is transfers once again. The south mission will be receiving missionaries slowly so only 7 new missionaries will be coming in then. I still have the feeling though that I will be transferring. I guess we will see. We also offically said goodbye to President and Sister Budge last week. How interesting that I met them a year ago in the MTC thinking that they would be with me till the end of my mission and there we were saying goodbye already. How things change. But how exciting to be a part of this historic change and to say that I served in two missions. :D What a great opportunity.
This last week was spent A LOT on the bike. For two days straight we were on our bikes for a straight 4 hours and one of those days it was down pouring. Very wet. My butt became very sore. And in case I haven't mentioned how many hill there are in our area, well there is a lot!! More than San Fran. I think. So my body is spent. I now know why Sister Missionaries only serve for 18 months. I am starting to feel it right now. I don't want to go home but everyday I am looking forward to time to sleep. I am actually worried about the condition my body will be in when I get home. That is why I am kind of hoping to end in October instead of November. I don't think my body can make it that long. Please don't judge me. :D
This go around at training has been a little harder with my companion being Japanese. Just with the culture differences and she almost gets angry about learning English. We have had just a few tiffs. It is very interesting doing it in Japanese. And I have learned things from them. We had one this morning for example and I discovered that I am a very prideful person and when pride gets hurt I am not a nice person. It has been a hard lesson.
What has also been hard is that we haven't been having much success lately. We only really have 1 investigator who will probably be moving slowly and not much else. We have been getting out but we also need to talk to more people. I am hoping we will be able to do that this week. Sometimes I just feel like I am not where I should be on my mission. It stresses me out a lot. But I just try to remember what I have done and what I have seen and I feel better. I have seen many miracles on my mission and met many wonderful people. I have changed and grown a lot and I know that the mission is shaping me to be the person that I will be for the rest of my life. Of that I am grateful. I love Japan and the people here and I feel very blessed to have come here. It is the best thing I could be doing with my life right now.
I love you all and pray for you every night.
Love,
Kenzie
Kenzie
