Sunday, January 31, 2010

hey dad.

the priamry activity sounded really fun. i wish i could be there but there is always after the mission. i really want to know how ryan is next week. i wonder if he changed.

now that i am out of the mtc there is no time limit on how long i can write so i will probably just keep writing you seperately.

my baptism fell through yestarday. he didnt get his interview. rightnow he is notlooking likehe is on the path he was and there is noting we can toabout it. allwe can do is pray and keeplvoing him. other than that themission is going great. we have been realy busy this weekwith lessons, meetings and interviews. it feels good to be busy but being busy we dont get to doalot of missonary work like finding. finding people is the best feeling ever. this week we are alittle less busy so we will see.

i am working hard and loving hard. i am not used to praying hard but i am working on it. have fun and the snow outing.

love

elder christian price
hey mom,
thanks for the advice. my toes are better. i dont know what i did or didnt do but theyare better. still cold but better. i am glad to hear he loved his mission. i dont konw if i will want to extend my mission. we will see when the time comes. i have herd that they sometimes ask missionaries to stay if to many are going home. we will have 4 when i leave. idont think that will be a problem. ya i would have loved to be there for the football game. i would have had a blast. maybe when i get back i can be a teacher agian for a little bit. i am glad to hear the date ahs been set for syd. marriage. too bad i will miss that and the reunion. maybe you can make a lifesize cardboard cut out of me wearing a tux and brign it to the wedding. it will not only be funny but way cool to atleast have something of me there. for erica it is hard to take alot of time off of lifeguarding so ya she really needs to make thechoice. either way she will have fun. transfers are in 2 weeks. i find out feb15 if i will stay or transfer. to be honest i dont really care. they opened a new area in our mission and i would love to open it but my japanese is probably not good enough but we will see. no bike trouble but i have cashed 2 times. and by crash i mean flying off the bike and hitting the road. ya they hurt but i have been lucky. no real damage tomy bike. a couple of scrapes and with some miracle i havent ruined any of my suits!. maybe some small litle holes or tares but hat is it. i cant send picutes today because if forgot the adapter so next week i will have more. other than that japan is great. our baptism fell through. he didnt get his interview and he didnt come to chruch. he is really busy and he really doesnt make time for us so we dont konw what to do.. but we have an investigator that has come 2 weeks in a row and really wants to be baptized. i love life and i love what i am doing. thanks for hte love and support
love
elder christian price

Sunday, January 24, 2010







hey dad,

that idea sound really cool. i loved hearing of peoples mission. hearing their experience made me want to go even more. i like the idea. i cant wait to come back and be apart of it.

the xbox thing is really cool. now you dont have to make dvd if youdont want to. very cool

teaching is going well. the baptism date got bumped back to this week. so i should be baptising someone on the 31. it will be my first one. we have had only one person really back out. it depends on why they backed out. he backe dout because he will loose his job and his co workers and parents are kindof agianst is. he was keeping all of the commandments but he didnt have enough faith. he doesnt answer our phone calls. maybe onceevery week or 2 he will pick up. we ar trying different avenues to contact him. like sister in the ward that are his age and not married that he thinks are good looking. we will see what happens. othere than that i really dont know. it seemslikeif they back out we dont really talk to them after.

i really wish i could be there to see ryan come home. i really want to see what he is like. i wonder if he changed at all.

it is hard for me to beleive that the boys dont want to do moutian man. we loved mountianmen. we seemed to live for it. i would love to go if i could. have they seen pictures of what we get to do. do they know that brother knight is the man when itcome to camping and food. they have to be crazy to not want to go. you can tell them that isaid they better go or they will regret it. they are really luck to have brother knight come with them. they need to take advantage of him while they can.

the mission is doing great. i am seeing the blessings of obedience and hard work. i still need to be beter but the lord is seeingmy efforts and blessing me accordingly.

thats it from the land of the rising sun. i hope to reprot next week that i had my first baptism but if i dont htats ok. there will always be the week after.

love you and thanks for all that you do for me

love
elder price

Sunday, January 17, 2010

hey mom,i am glad to hear that you have onemore week untill you are better or you have the ok to get back to daily life. i also have one more wee till i get my first baptism, i hope. he is a realy good guy andit feels like he is ready. he had to study for a test the past 2 weeks so we havent met with him for a while. our first time to meet him agian is on thrusday hopefully. sofar he hasnt had any problem withthe commandments so i think all will go well.kick marhsal in the butt for me and tell him to pick a project. next weeki will give him a hard time about it. i am also sorry to hear about erica. i have been praying and wil continue to pray for her. lets see what happens.you should comondeer the kids into helping out with the yard work. tell themi said so. thank you for your love and support. i dont know where i would be with out you i love you.loveelder christian price

Sunday, January 10, 2010

hey dad,
it soudns like you are becoming quite the hunter. almost every email is about hunting. i like it. i think its funny that he knows the ellsworth. you will probably end up going hunt with them some day. i think it would be way cool if those rocks had silver in them.. it isnt every day that you find silver embedded rocks. i havent read dand c 46 befdore. it soudns like a good chapter and i liked the way you put a diffferent twist on it. thats kind of what misisonaries do. they wnat others to receive gifts. thank you.
yes put me down for all the hunts. i will try to get a flexable job wheni get backk so i can go and do anything.

i am doing great! i am loving thepeople and i am working to become a beter missionary. my spirit is good. my "dendou fire" missionary fire has not flattened out. it isnt low it just isnt always increasing. i am working on getting that to move. being a missionary i am now consistantly thinkig of spiritual things. i never did that before the mish. i just lived life and obeyed the commandments. i see now there is alot more that needs to be done. what i was doing wasnt bad it just wasnt the best. we teach between 10 to 12 lessons a week. we are trying to get to 20 but that is hard. some are new, some are lessactive and recent converts and some are follow ups. we get a good mix. we doboth streeting and housing. we dont have alot of good streeting places close and there are always houses everywhere but the best places are big appartment complexes. we like to do alittle of everything. yes i think my japanese is improving. my comp always tells people that my japanese is improving buti alwasy call him a liar. is till feel like i did when i first arived. i under stand more but now htat i under stand more, more thing come up that i donnt understand. it is a never ending battle of understnading. ido my best to study. i dont know alot of the vocab and i dont use alot of it if i study so that makes things dificult. i work hard every day and i try to do my best to follow the lessons. thanks for hte encourage ment. i just hate having to wait. i am sad to hear that our families changeds. i grew up on hometeaching with them. iti would have been nice to come back and getinto the same routine .
thank you for your support and prayers. i have a testimony that love has no bounds

love


elder christian price

Monday, January 4, 2010











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Sunday, January 3, 2010
















Hey mom,

new years was awesome! the sports confrence was the best. i say slater the first thing when i got there and we werent seperated after that. he had been telling everyone about me so he would introduce me to people and most would know who i was because of the way slater acted. new years was awesome.i am glad to here that there wasa little japanese culturemoment on new years day in arizona. the new years food here is different and some is kindof difficult to eat. send marshal and erica here for a month and make them eat this food and they will love meat and vegetables. sometimes the vegetables are the only thing that i really enjoy out of a dish.i think it is way cool that the theme this year for priamary is christ. youcant ever go wron with that.also i am glad that the kids start school so youcan get some good quality rest. i can relate to not being able to do much. i dont understand everything so most of the time during lessons i sit there and do my best to understand. itis very hard to sit and let my comp. do all the teaching. you can drive now right? 2 weeks will fly by.the work is great. to day was transfer day and my comp and i did not get transfered. we wre both way excited. this place is the best! we are teaching someone right now this a baptismial date on jan. 17. he is a really good kid and itlooks like he will follow through with the commitment. other than that life is the same. i am working hard and still love what i do. thanks for the prayers

love
elder christian price





Hey dad,

glad to hear the sushi turned out great. by the time i get back you should be a master. i think its funny to picture all the asians getting new years stuff in america and store being packed because thats is how it was here in almost every store.

life is going good. i saw slater at the sports confrence we had. it was amazing to see him. i would be awesome if we could be companions latter down the road. teaching is good. i teach sometimes. most fo the time i testify or i will start each principle and then he will expound upon it or correct anything i said wrongly.

i didnt expect youto get to see where i live. the addresses here are really confusing. my comp has a hard time finding houses because there isnt a really good system. for them. on maps they jsut give a general area. its very difficult. i live by yamatokoizumi train station. if you find that you are really close to my apartment.

thanks for the adapter. i will sen pictures once i get it. sorry you wont beable to wirte more. we came pretty early to email.

i love youand thank you for all you have done forme

love,

elder christian price