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