Hey mom and dad,

Sounds like the trunk or treat was a success. we did a little Halloween think in my last area but it was mainly for little kids. yes i said last area. i got transferred to a place called Nabari. it is more of the country side and my new comps name is Mauricio. he is from brazil. he speaks pretty good english but almost all of our investigators are you guessed it brazilian. so i am now studying
portuguese as hard as i can. i don't have a grammar book yet to it is kind of hard but i can say some simple funny sentences. i have the basic sentence structure down but not all of the words. it is kind of hard but easier than japanese i think. now japanese is easy for me so it is hard to tell. i hope all this portuguese study doesn't hurt my japanese. i am trying to study both. it seems to be working out so far.

yes i got the package and the popcorn was AMAZING. as you said i eat anything with out complaining and i really couldn't tell if it was stale or not.all i know it was amazing and my comp had some and now he really wants to make some.

i am really excited to be in Nabari. to be honest most people probably wouldn't like to be called here because it is a lot of housing but because of my new found love for housing i could care less. it just makes me work harder when we do a little streeting or bike work. i am having a blast here!

from here on out i will be doing a bunch of lasts like my last Halloween last thanks giving, last Christmas. it feels really weird. time is flying by and some times i have do idea what has been going on. it gives me a sense of urgency.

well i love you all and i hope to reports some cool experiences next week.

LOVE,
elder christian price.

Hey mom and dad,

another fun good week in japan. it seems like the week over there was fun too.

so this week we had a Halloween party on Saturday. it was way fun. it was mainly for little kids but it was still fun. people don't really celebrate Halloween like Americans do. they don't go door to door asking for candy, i think. but they do but up up decorations. while housing some houses have some Halloween stuff i there house. it is kind of nice to see that some people have the Halloween spirit. people know about Halloween for sure alot of stores have advertisements for Halloween stuff. i will let you know next week if people dress up and stuff next week.

this week is tranferweek. i hope i stay but you never know. i am still sempai and i have gotten used to it so it doesn't bother me too much anymore. it is hard to do something you have never done and there is no real hand book to tell you what to do. fun fun. last week nothing too exciting happened besides the Halloween party. we found 6 new investigatorslast week. we haven't done that since i have been here. it is amazing how the lord blesses you.

life in japan has become kind of normal but i would prefer America. it is a little to cramped for me. i could do it but i wouldn't want to raise a family here. if i lived by my self it would be great. now i can get pretty much anywhere i want. my Japanese isn't perfect but i know enough to go anywhere or do anything i want to.

i love it here in japan and i learn to love it more and more everyday. a cool experience i had changed the way i think about missionary work. so here in japan we do a lot of streeting. i don't know how it is in America. if they only house or they street and house i dontknow but so far ihave almost always streeted. i hated housing. it is harder to talk to someone through an intercom than face to face. iwas always scared when someone answered because ihave to talk and i still am not 100% satified with my japanese. but last week on mondaynight during planing i had the thought to do housing. i had been thinking about how my proselyting was going and how i could improve. i told my self they i hated housing earlier but since ihave been here we haven't found more than 2 investigators through streeting and that is all we have done. i asked myself why i hate housing. i couldn't really find a good answer and then i decided that saying i hate housing was the wrong way to think. i always thought housing was boring and that nothing came of it but i was wrong. i am raising a warning voice more effectively when i can get people at home than trying to stop them on the street which is harder than you think. so we put housing for the whole day except for about an hour and a half to end the day. when it was time to house i did not feel like housing at all. the devil as getting to me but we had planned it all day so i stuckwith it. at first i was scared to have someone answer but after about the 10th house i didnt care. ifound the love for the people iwas trying to talk to. it says in the scriptures that faith and LOVE over come fear. ya my japanese is hard too understand sometimes and i probably say a lot of weird things but i am doing it with love and if the other person can feel that it doesn't really matter what i say. as long as i do it witha smile and a good attitude nothing will be boring.

i testify that love has a crazy weird power to help us through trials we have and it gives us comfort and strength in times of need. so when life gets tuff or if there is something you are scared to do. try doing it with love and see how you feel see how it goes. ipromise that it wont be a bad experience.

no i did not find anyone housing that day but during the last hour and a half of streeting we found 2 new investigators. i was blessed by the lord for opening my mouth and doing what i was supposed to do not because i was supposed to but because i love the people of japan and i want everyone to feel and know the same thing that i do: Christ live and atoned for us. he gives us help in times of need, and he will always love us no matter what we are doing or have done.

thanks you so much for all you have done for me and the love you five me. love has do bounds.

i love you and i pray that your week is full of fun and love and that all goes well.

love,
elder christian price

Hey mom and dad,

thanks for the emails. it sounds like everyone is having fun. was last week fall break? that is way cool that there are people down the street hearing the lessons. i don't remember and convert baptisms when i was there so it must be exciting to be able to see one.

dodgeball seems way sweet. when iw as there it was just starting to get big. i cant wait to come back and play. i will probably be pretty rusty though .

i loved going to the Randolph house. i would have loved to go more often.

this week was a pretty good week. we had a special zone conference where elder aoyagi, a member of the area presidency over Asia came to our mission. it was a great conference and it was all in Japanese. it made learning interesting but i think it was good opportunity to hear from a 70. i was way tired after though.

probably the best part of the week was on Sunday, yesterday. our investigator nihara san came to church with his 2 kids. i was way surprised. he didn't get baptized this week because he wanted more time which is all right with me. he said he wants to get baptized in about a month. that's all good. so his 2 kids came and stayed for all 3 hours and then there was a pot luck after church and his wife came to that. she is a less active and it doesn't seem she likes church much but i was way surprised to see here there. we are working hard with nihara. he is such a great guy and he knows that the church is a good thing but i don't think he 100% knows if it is true yet. once he finds that out he will surely get baptized.

well that was a little of my week. but here is a funny story. we biked to and area that is close to ours to spend the day with him and i am emailing at a place close to there apartment. on the way here we met this guy who spoke good English and goes to the other areas English class. he was way nice and kind of funny. we talked for a bit then took of to come to the place to email. was i stated to pedal over the train tracks and my back pocket caught on my seat, i for some reason grabbed the front brake and then in slow motion i flipped over my handlebars right in the middle of the train tracks as the bell was sounding that a train was coming. luckily i wasn't hurt too bad just a scrapped knee and my bike is a ok but my right back pocket is torn pretty good. good thing i brought my suit coat because it covers it up nicely. so after email i get to go get some string from the dollar store and do a quick patch job and then finish it when i get back to the apartment.

well i love you family and thank you for everything. keep having fun and finding new cool places to go so when i get back we can go to all of them.

love ,
elder christian price

Hey Mom and dad,

to day we have a sports event so i am emailing early.

conference was great and i would love to tell you specifics but i forgot my notes at the apartment so may be next week. i will say what i can without my notes.

it seemed to me that there were 2 main themes; agency/choice and the plan of salvation. i really remember elder uchtdorfs talk on Saturday when he talked about slowing down when we have problems. i thought that was interesting. i have had some days on my mission where it feels like i have no time to do anything. those days i am way stressed and i am not a fan of those kind ofdays. i also think it is harder to feel the spirit when are stressed like that too. it made me think of just slowing down sometimes take time to think relax. taking a breather sometimes helps you get ready for the next task. and all of that is revolved around our choices. i dont exactly remember who talked about choices. there were alot. it is so to how we need to choice righteously. we can choose what we want but we cant choose the outcome. they used this with alot of commandments. when you break the commandment that is your choice but the consequence that follows is unknown. one wrong choice can snowball into bigger and bigger wrong choices until we are so deep we dont know how we got into the hole.

last week was ok. we spent alot of time not in our area due to meetings so it was hard to work effectively butwehave high hopes for next week. we found out alot of interesting info about our progressing investigator nihara san and i think this will help us teach him more effective lessons. he probably wont be baptized on the 17th but i think in the coming weeks he will.

i love you and thank you so much for all you do

love,
elder christian price

hey mom and dad.
sounds like life is doing great. busy but great.

first. the book of mormon that i use is a soft covered book.

next.dad you can make the ivories into a tie tack or cuff links. surprise me with one.(if that's ok)

ok now to the good stuff. my comp is on his 5th transfer and we are having a blast. this transfer has gone by way too fast. it already about half way over. we are dong great. yesterday after church we committed nihara san to baptism for the 17 of this month and he said yes!. he is a part member family. his wife is a less active. me really wants to change and knows that he needs baptism. what a blessing nihara has been in our lives. our district has been doing great things. we are really seeing success. it is amazing how many miracles and blessings you can see if you really look for them. i don't really have too much else to say. i am sad that i missed out on Ericas first date.. that's ok there is always next years dance.

well i love you all and when i get back i will probably be using chopsticks all the time. too me fork or chopsticks it doesn't matter.

love you all

love,
elder christian price