Hey mom and dad,
so, it is now the month of december. it is starting to get very cold here in japan. a cold like no other. so tomorrow is transferday. Man it has been a fast transfer. me and my comp want to stay together but we have no clue what will happen.
so we had a lady chase us down the other day. we pushed her interphone button and she said that she was sick so she couldnt talk but that it was ok to put a flyer in her post box. we have 2 flyers taht we use. a question one and an English class one. we gave her a question one and then we went to the next building accross the parkinglot and then we hear someone coming up the stairs and it was this lady asking us if we teach english and if we pray during class. we said ya and we gave her an english class flyer. she came to class last week and said she had fun. i had never been chased down by some one before. Kind of funny.
then we found this family that is way cool. the wife is almost fluent in english and her kids are way cute. ones is 11 and the other is 4. her mom met the sister missionaries about 20 years ago. she has some interest and she is way nice. she also likes english class.
i feel like this month is going to be a good month. as a mission we are trying to have every area in the mission have a baptism between the months of oct and dec. nabari hasnt had one yet to it getting close adn we still dont ahve any really good investigators that are progressing. it is going to be a good learning experience.
ok now for some questions.
1 can i get copies of ericas efy cds? we cant listen to to much music so those would be nice.]
2. what are funeral potatoes? more specificaly how do you explain them? Why do you call them funeral potatoes? i had an englishclass student ask me so I told him that i would ask my mom.
3. am i getting money for christmas? if not that is absolutely ok but if i am howmuch? next week i might begoing to osaka for p-day and i think i now what I want for christmas and i can onlyget this item in osaka. if you could let me know that would be great.
I love you sooooo much. thanks for the package. no i havent opened it yet. It is still in one peice. lets see what kind of miracles this christmas season will bring.
love,
elder christian price
Monday, December 5, 2011
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Sunday, September 25, 2011
Hey mom and dad,
Ya if you could I would love to see the itinerary for Japan. I would like to call some people so we can meet them. So knowing exactly what we will be doing would help.
This past week for me has been amazing. One of the best weeks on my mission. I have not found that many people while in Kochi but this week we found 6 people. And most of them were through little promptings that we had from the spirit. By following them we got these new investigators. I have had to work hard day in and day out with little to now success to get to where I am now. The ward had a bye bye party for me on Sunday. They expressed how they would miss me and the branch president wishes I could stay there for 6 more months. I love it here. It was a struggle but it makes this moment all worth it. If I would have given up I would not have had such a great week this week.
Training has been legit! I loved it. It was so good to get the spirit/feel the drive from my comp elder healey. We got along great and had a really good time. It will be sad to leave him but I know he will be a great missionary. If I had more time I would definitely do it again.
So when you come to pick me up at the mission home we might actually eat breakfast with the mission prez and his wife. Then I will actually be able to ship my bags from the mission home to Narita airport and the church pays for that. Then for my shinkansen ticket to go to Tokyo the church may actually reimburse you for that because they would have to send me there anyway. I can get more particulars next week. Next, to get to the mission home the best way is to take a bus or train. If you want a van taxi you may have to look around for it. I can meet you half way or something. We can talk more next week.
This church is without a doubt true. If 2 years on a mission doesn't do that for you I don't know what will. This has been the best thing that I could have ever done. Not just for my self but for everyone I talked to and have met. Missions are not just to preach the gospel they are training grounds for life.
I love you guys. I can't believe next week we will see each other. Cant wait.
elder christian price
Ya if you could I would love to see the itinerary for Japan. I would like to call some people so we can meet them. So knowing exactly what we will be doing would help.
This past week for me has been amazing. One of the best weeks on my mission. I have not found that many people while in Kochi but this week we found 6 people. And most of them were through little promptings that we had from the spirit. By following them we got these new investigators. I have had to work hard day in and day out with little to now success to get to where I am now. The ward had a bye bye party for me on Sunday. They expressed how they would miss me and the branch president wishes I could stay there for 6 more months. I love it here. It was a struggle but it makes this moment all worth it. If I would have given up I would not have had such a great week this week.
Training has been legit! I loved it. It was so good to get the spirit/feel the drive from my comp elder healey. We got along great and had a really good time. It will be sad to leave him but I know he will be a great missionary. If I had more time I would definitely do it again.
So when you come to pick me up at the mission home we might actually eat breakfast with the mission prez and his wife. Then I will actually be able to ship my bags from the mission home to Narita airport and the church pays for that. Then for my shinkansen ticket to go to Tokyo the church may actually reimburse you for that because they would have to send me there anyway. I can get more particulars next week. Next, to get to the mission home the best way is to take a bus or train. If you want a van taxi you may have to look around for it. I can meet you half way or something. We can talk more next week.
This church is without a doubt true. If 2 years on a mission doesn't do that for you I don't know what will. This has been the best thing that I could have ever done. Not just for my self but for everyone I talked to and have met. Missions are not just to preach the gospel they are training grounds for life.
I love you guys. I can't believe next week we will see each other. Cant wait.
elder christian price
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Hey mom and dad,
Good to hear all is well. I am happy that mom has now a new bathroom and kitchen. There will be alot of changes when I get back. The weather is cooling off here too. It has actually rained alot this week. It makes working interesting.
We do eat cereal some times, not american stuff though, it is the japanese stuff. Not as good but not bad. I dont eat it alot because it can get expensive. I normaly eat rice or bread. sometimes oatmeal if the appartment has some.
Well this week was a good one. But what really happened that was cool happened today. Today we went to the point of Kouchi Ken. it is 104 miles round trip. The reason behind it was to visit a less active and it would be cool to go. Going there was good until the end. Me and my comp were beat. i mean really beat. And what made it worse was that it started to rain. So we go to the point and couldn't do much. I didnt even take a picture of the ocean from the point. Bummer but I took some others. Then we ate lunch and then decided to get going to visit the less active. Me and my comp were kind of sceptical wether or not we could make it back in time to email. We were so tired from getting there that the return journey looked dim. but we said a prayer and we were off. We decided to bike in the rain without our rain gear and it actually helped us bike better. We went to the less actives house and she was amazed that we had come even though it was raining. They had a little food prepared so we ate it and talked for a little bit. When it was time to go she asked if we would make it back in time. I said ya why not. We should be able to make it back in 2 .5 hours or so. (we were about half way at this point.) we had 40km to go. She didn't think we could do it. That is really far and we had just biked there and half way back. This is not flat either there are hills too. So we started off and we kept going in the rain and we made it back in almost exactly 2 hours. The time it took us to get there was about 4.5 hours to 5 hours. and the time that it took us to get back was 4.5 hours. We made it back faster! That is a crazy miracle.
The whole time I was riding my bike I couldnt help but htink about all the help that the Lord was giving too us. I also thought about the prayer we said and the word of wisdom. I have never really had an experience with the word of wisdom beside me having pretty good health up until now. I know that the promise at the end of d and c 89 is true. I experience it today. Now I really dont hurt. While I was biking there my body was really sore. I felt like I couldnt make it back. But on the way back I felt like my energy would not and could not run out. I felt better than before. I still feel way good. my sun burns hurt but right now I feel like I could do it all over agian. Maybe tomorrow I will feel it but now I am on top of the world.
I know the lord will fulfill all of his promises. This chruch is true I know it without a doubt.
Love you guys cant wait to see you in a little bit. You are the best.
love
elder christian price
Good to hear all is well. I am happy that mom has now a new bathroom and kitchen. There will be alot of changes when I get back. The weather is cooling off here too. It has actually rained alot this week. It makes working interesting.
We do eat cereal some times, not american stuff though, it is the japanese stuff. Not as good but not bad. I dont eat it alot because it can get expensive. I normaly eat rice or bread. sometimes oatmeal if the appartment has some.
Well this week was a good one. But what really happened that was cool happened today. Today we went to the point of Kouchi Ken. it is 104 miles round trip. The reason behind it was to visit a less active and it would be cool to go. Going there was good until the end. Me and my comp were beat. i mean really beat. And what made it worse was that it started to rain. So we go to the point and couldn't do much. I didnt even take a picture of the ocean from the point. Bummer but I took some others. Then we ate lunch and then decided to get going to visit the less active. Me and my comp were kind of sceptical wether or not we could make it back in time to email. We were so tired from getting there that the return journey looked dim. but we said a prayer and we were off. We decided to bike in the rain without our rain gear and it actually helped us bike better. We went to the less actives house and she was amazed that we had come even though it was raining. They had a little food prepared so we ate it and talked for a little bit. When it was time to go she asked if we would make it back in time. I said ya why not. We should be able to make it back in 2 .5 hours or so. (we were about half way at this point.) we had 40km to go. She didn't think we could do it. That is really far and we had just biked there and half way back. This is not flat either there are hills too. So we started off and we kept going in the rain and we made it back in almost exactly 2 hours. The time it took us to get there was about 4.5 hours to 5 hours. and the time that it took us to get back was 4.5 hours. We made it back faster! That is a crazy miracle.
The whole time I was riding my bike I couldnt help but htink about all the help that the Lord was giving too us. I also thought about the prayer we said and the word of wisdom. I have never really had an experience with the word of wisdom beside me having pretty good health up until now. I know that the promise at the end of d and c 89 is true. I experience it today. Now I really dont hurt. While I was biking there my body was really sore. I felt like I couldnt make it back. But on the way back I felt like my energy would not and could not run out. I felt better than before. I still feel way good. my sun burns hurt but right now I feel like I could do it all over agian. Maybe tomorrow I will feel it but now I am on top of the world.
I know the lord will fulfill all of his promises. This chruch is true I know it without a doubt.
Love you guys cant wait to see you in a little bit. You are the best.
love
elder christian price
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Hey mom and dad,
Life is good. Life should always be good.
Here in our missoin we are really trying to focus on revelation and working through revelation and the spirit. This last Tuesday we had a way cool experience. during planning. The next day was Wednesday. We were having district meeting so we would only have 3 hours do work in our area. Me and my comp asked the Lord where we should go. My comp felt like we should go housing at an apratment. Housing at nights in Japan isnt very good normaly but I said ok. but then the question was where to go. I then thought that the apartment should be brown, but there are a lot of brown apartmetns. Even our apartment is brown. Then my comp said that we should go to a town where we had been a week earlier. Once he said that I remembered a brown apartment that I had wanted to go to earlier but we hadnt had time. I felt like this was were we were supposed to go. So we got back from district meeting and we made our way to that apartment. About 5 doors into it we came to door that was open. I called inside and someone answered back so I started my contact. Then this older lady came out and said she was a member of our church! what! I had no idea that a less active member lived there. It surprised me. We talked to here and she told us about some health problems she has so coming to chruch is difficult but she said that we could come by next week.
I thank the Lord for this experiece. Everyone says that the Lord answers prayers and that we can get revelation but actually experiencing it solidifies that testimony. This work is the Lords work. d&c 50*:17-18 says that the only way to do the Lords work is by the spirit. I know this to be true. I remember the feeling I felt during that Tuesday night planning session. Before that I had a special training. I almost learned nothing from the training because I was thinking about so many things and the spirit was trying to tell me so many things. I was on a spiritual high and because I was on a spiritual high we had the spirit with us when we were planning and through that we were able to receive revelation on where to go.
This chruch is true. Some people say the mission is a duty but really it should be something that people are dying to do. There is nothing greater a 19 year old boy can do to strengthen his testimony and learn how to grow up. It should not be a `have to` it should be a `get to`
I love you family. You are the best. I am excited to see you all. have a good week.
love
elder christian price
Sunday, September 4, 2011
hey family,
Thanks for the emails and the happy birthdays. I got your package. Thanks so much. The candy was great. Now I am fat! justkidding. So in Japan because the temple can be far from people and there are only 2 working temples right now they only go about 4 times a year. It also cost money to take the bus so that is also a factor. If the youth dont have sports or school stuff I think they go but I dont know how much they push it.
I havent got a letter from Nobukazu yet but the most important thing is that you got incontact with him. And I think that it is soo cool that another one of your cousins is coming. The picture was cool but there dad looks scarry. It will be exciting to see how he is when we meet him.
For the omiyages I think the eco bags are a great idea and then put stuff in them. You can find eco bags. I dont treally look for them but they are around. I know the japanese people will like it if you bring some from America. The whole idea is great. If you could find a shirt that has the words grand canyon and arizona on it that would be sweet. Everyone in Japan knows arizona for the grandcanyon. But if you cant I have narrowed it down to 3 or 4 shirts. on img. 16 far right and 5 from the top or from the right column 2 and down 5 look cool. img.17 from the right down 5 orfrom the right 3 and down 5. Next the magnets. img.19 any of the catus ones are good. Japanese peole know that arizona is a desert and has cacti. or img.23 and one of the ones that is shaped like arizona. For shirt sizes. japanese people can be small and big. one idea is that you could buy alot of different sized shirts and then let them pick or you can just go with all mediums. It is really hard to tell. I cant be too much of help with this one. sorry
I am excited for you all to come. Time is ticking down. I am working more effective but it is still hard. I spent 4 days stuck in a different area because of the big typhoon that came. They closed all the buses and trains going to my area so I spent a copule of nights in a different area and had to go to chruch in the other areas branch. Kind of sad but there was nothing I could do about it. I learned alot about doing what it takes. My shoes have holes in them so they get wet immediately. I have over shoes but I forgot to bring them so I had to but plastic bags over my feet and then put them in my shoes so they would stay dry.
Life is still great. Working hard trying to show a good example for the new missionary. Pray that i can keep it up till the end.
I love you guys. see you in a few short weeks.
love
elder christian price
Thanks for the emails and the happy birthdays. I got your package. Thanks so much. The candy was great. Now I am fat! justkidding. So in Japan because the temple can be far from people and there are only 2 working temples right now they only go about 4 times a year. It also cost money to take the bus so that is also a factor. If the youth dont have sports or school stuff I think they go but I dont know how much they push it.
I havent got a letter from Nobukazu yet but the most important thing is that you got incontact with him. And I think that it is soo cool that another one of your cousins is coming. The picture was cool but there dad looks scarry. It will be exciting to see how he is when we meet him.
For the omiyages I think the eco bags are a great idea and then put stuff in them. You can find eco bags. I dont treally look for them but they are around. I know the japanese people will like it if you bring some from America. The whole idea is great. If you could find a shirt that has the words grand canyon and arizona on it that would be sweet. Everyone in Japan knows arizona for the grandcanyon. But if you cant I have narrowed it down to 3 or 4 shirts. on img. 16 far right and 5 from the top or from the right column 2 and down 5 look cool. img.17 from the right down 5 orfrom the right 3 and down 5. Next the magnets. img.19 any of the catus ones are good. Japanese peole know that arizona is a desert and has cacti. or img.23 and one of the ones that is shaped like arizona. For shirt sizes. japanese people can be small and big. one idea is that you could buy alot of different sized shirts and then let them pick or you can just go with all mediums. It is really hard to tell. I cant be too much of help with this one. sorry
I am excited for you all to come. Time is ticking down. I am working more effective but it is still hard. I spent 4 days stuck in a different area because of the big typhoon that came. They closed all the buses and trains going to my area so I spent a copule of nights in a different area and had to go to chruch in the other areas branch. Kind of sad but there was nothing I could do about it. I learned alot about doing what it takes. My shoes have holes in them so they get wet immediately. I have over shoes but I forgot to bring them so I had to but plastic bags over my feet and then put them in my shoes so they would stay dry.
Life is still great. Working hard trying to show a good example for the new missionary. Pray that i can keep it up till the end.
I love you guys. see you in a few short weeks.
love
elder christian price
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Hey mom and dad
What to bring to japan? Well it will be cooling off but it will still be hot. Shorts should be perfectly fine. Maybe bring 1 or 2 pairs of pants just in case. Definitely bring jackets just in case it gets cold. If I remeber right, the evenings can get chilly.
That is great that the Satos said that it was ok to meet. Did they respond in English? I am way excited.
So about you coming here. If you want I could probably pick you up at the airport if you want and we could do something on Thursday. I am not exactly sure where I will be for my last week but I think i will be in the mission home. That is what makes the most sense. If I am there the possibility of me picking you guys up is very high. What do you think?
The plan looks good. I am way excited. I have acouple of people I want to see but I will probably see them at confrence. I need to double check that confrence is on he 9th. If it is it works out perfectly. I would say to bring between 10 and 15 omiage`s. Probably closer to 15. What exactly are you going to bring anyways? If they are big and hard to bring what ever wroks is ok. I dont know exactly how many people I will visit/see so about 10to15 should do it.
Ok now to my week.
This week we worked hard and did what we could with the new study schedule we have for new missionaries. Some days we would have no time to go out because of appointments with memberts etc. It was kind of rough. We would talk to alot of way cool nice peolple but when it came time to meet again and talk about Christ they said they couldnt. Kind of frusturating but we love them and we hope to see them again on the street. Then Sunday came with no one coming to chruch and no new investigators for the week. Kind of a bummer. I thought I would be reporting alot of zeros that night. But halfway through sacrament meeting we got a call from a potential investigator that we had met about month ago. He was having a rought day and so he called us to meet us. I told him we were at chruch so if he wanted to meet he would have to come to chruch. So he did. He had a good time. We had a temple fireside and a pot luck after church. He came to both of those and the members were really nice. He felt way welcome. He became our first new investigator of the transfer. He is not the strongest investigator but he knows why the missionaries are here. To help. He knows that if he called us he could feel better. What a tender mercy from the Lord.
This strengthened my testimony that the Lord is watching over us and knows what we are going through. I will work hard even if we never find and investigator and I wont complain. I know that this is the Lords work and that no matter what happens as long as I am working hard and doing my best it will all work out.
I love you all. I am getting excited for you all to come. see you soon
elder christian price
pictures!!!
1 meand my comp
2the kouchi castle
3 cool statue in the castle
4 the veiw fromteh castle
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Hey family,
How are you? I am great. My new comp is from utah, american fork. hey mom do you remember a kid named Brandon Healey? He went to elementary school with me. Well, I am his cousins trainer. My comps name is Healey. He is awesome. We hit it off right from the start. We like the same things we are both chill and we are both ready to work. This past we we have had not alot of time to work but this week is going to be amazing. I know it.
No dad ihave not eaten biscuits and gravy for over 2 years. I cant even imagine the taste. That is how long I havent eaten it.
I am also excited for you to come. We definately need to go to the noodle factory and the ninja museum. When it gets closer I can solitify plans but that will probably take up most of our time. we also need to go to Nara and see the deer(dad i know you would love that) and see the biggest budda statue in the world. It is way cool. Hiroshima; if we take the shinkansen it probably wont take us too long to get there but it will eat up some time. The matsuda factory sounds fun too. Becasue we only have 4 days I think we will have just enough time to do all of it. Sunday will be general confrence in Japan I think so we will probably go to Yamatokoriyama because there I can see the members from Nabari and from Yamatokoriyama. And then that day we can go to Nara and stuff maybe. I will give it more thought in a couple of weeks
I sent the translated letter to the Sato family last week. It was kind of hard to find the address and make sure tha it was correct but I think it was. I will wait about another week before I try agian or call. I will get the numbers from the old email you sent me.
I cant believe Kyle is getting back. thats crazy. Tell him hi for me will ya. and I am glad that Greg is doing well and gave a good talk. Missions are the best. They shape our lives, and teach us how to be, how to face the hard times. I am so thankful for this opportunity and I am sad that it is coming to a close but it is just one amazing chapter. This last 6 weeks is going to be heaven becuase that is what happens when you get blessings from God and you see his hand in the work.
I love you all and cant wait until we meet again.
love
elder christian price
How are you? I am great. My new comp is from utah, american fork. hey mom do you remember a kid named Brandon Healey? He went to elementary school with me. Well, I am his cousins trainer. My comps name is Healey. He is awesome. We hit it off right from the start. We like the same things we are both chill and we are both ready to work. This past we we have had not alot of time to work but this week is going to be amazing. I know it.
No dad ihave not eaten biscuits and gravy for over 2 years. I cant even imagine the taste. That is how long I havent eaten it.
I am also excited for you to come. We definately need to go to the noodle factory and the ninja museum. When it gets closer I can solitify plans but that will probably take up most of our time. we also need to go to Nara and see the deer(dad i know you would love that) and see the biggest budda statue in the world. It is way cool. Hiroshima; if we take the shinkansen it probably wont take us too long to get there but it will eat up some time. The matsuda factory sounds fun too. Becasue we only have 4 days I think we will have just enough time to do all of it. Sunday will be general confrence in Japan I think so we will probably go to Yamatokoriyama because there I can see the members from Nabari and from Yamatokoriyama. And then that day we can go to Nara and stuff maybe. I will give it more thought in a couple of weeks
I sent the translated letter to the Sato family last week. It was kind of hard to find the address and make sure tha it was correct but I think it was. I will wait about another week before I try agian or call. I will get the numbers from the old email you sent me.
I cant believe Kyle is getting back. thats crazy. Tell him hi for me will ya. and I am glad that Greg is doing well and gave a good talk. Missions are the best. They shape our lives, and teach us how to be, how to face the hard times. I am so thankful for this opportunity and I am sad that it is coming to a close but it is just one amazing chapter. This last 6 weeks is going to be heaven becuase that is what happens when you get blessings from God and you see his hand in the work.
I love you all and cant wait until we meet again.
love
elder christian price
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Hey mom and dad,
...Next the nuclear thing and food. You probably are a little worried about it but I dont really know. We dont watch the news. An english class student said that the store we shop at had been selling meat that had been tainted with radiation but I couldnt taste the difference but even with that being said the store is still open and a whole bunch of people still go there so I dont think it is that big of a deal. Sometimes people in Japan like to make it seem bigger than it realy is. They really dont like nuclear stuff here or some peolpe don't so they amplify that kind of stuff, I think. I dont watch the news so I dont know.
Ok now this week was crazy. There was the Yosakoi festival (yosakoi matsuri). It was 3 days of straight dancing from 12 to 10 all over the city. I took some way cool pictures and videos. Just to explain Yosakoi a little bit, there are over 100 teams and they use wooden paddles that have two pieces that move so when you move it fast they snap. So they play really loud music and walk/dance in the streets and in large coverd walkways. It is nuts. My pictures and videos don't do it justice. There were a billion people here from all over. I will send some pics later. Then after that the Obon festival started. It is not as extravigant but it is all over Japan. It is a buddhist festival where they beleive that their ancestors come to visit them and their graves. It is pretty neat. It is summer vacation so when ever we find people they say call me after summer vacations and stuff so we have been struggling to find new investigators. And with all the festivals going on it is hard to talk to people. All we can do is try right?
This morning we got transfer calls and ........ I will be staying in kouchi and I will be training a new missionary. I thought I would. It is going to be way fun. It is also going to help focus more on the work and work even harder to show the new missionary how to work hard. I am excited. I will send his picture next week.
This week during study I learned about prayer. There is a good part in pmg chapter 4 that talks about praying with faith and has 11 steps to good effective prayers. You should read it and try to apply some of the things. It has really helped me in my prayers. Prayer is so powerfull but it is so easy to make it a routine and repetitive. Especially as missionaries prayer is key. Realizing that it is a conversation with God and treating it like one is really important. When we have that faith and pray earnestly anything can happen. I am looking forward to working with a new missionary and working hard.
You are the best family every. I know not just my immediate family reads these so when I say family I do mean everyone. I am so blessed to have such a great supprotive family. There is no greater blessing than a happy supportive family.
love you all
elder christian price
pictures.
first 4 are of yosakoi
then last one is of the last district meeting of the transfer.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Hey mom and dad
thanks for the emails. Life is good. This week I spent most of my time in different areas so I dont have much to say. I did get to go bowling for the first time in japan. It was pretty fun. We had a single adult activity and we had some less actives, recent converts and english class students come. It was a blast I will send pictures with this email.
It has been amazing to see how I have changed in the past few days. I can definitely see and feel the power of fasting and prayer. The sons of mosiah and alma were such great missionaries and were so knowledgable because they fasted and prayed and I wish I would have done the fasting part more often. It is way hot so it makes it hard to want to do anything especially if you dont sleep very well which can happen a lot. But recently it hasnt been that much of a problem especially when we were fasting yesterday I didnt feel hungry or tired. I felt good like I iknew that this was what I was supposed to be doing. It felt right. It was a crazy awesome feeling. Even though it was burning hot I didnt care, life was good.
Missions are the best!!!!!
by theway here is my address.
kouchi ken kouchi shi aioi cho1-25 rejidensu nonami 601
I live way close to the kouchi train station.
Being on the island of shikoku is fun. I dont really feel like I am on an island because I cant really see the ocean but when I think about it and realize that there are not that many missionaries here it feels like I am on an island seperated from everyone. But is is all good. It doesnt change how I work. I came to kouchi by train. You could probably take a boat which would be funner but we take a train.
Loveya lots. these next 2 months are going to fly by. so see you in a bit.
elder christian price
ps
1. is of zone confrence. all of the missionareis that gave their last testimony before they go home
2 and 3 are of bowling
thanks for the emails. Life is good. This week I spent most of my time in different areas so I dont have much to say. I did get to go bowling for the first time in japan. It was pretty fun. We had a single adult activity and we had some less actives, recent converts and english class students come. It was a blast I will send pictures with this email.
It has been amazing to see how I have changed in the past few days. I can definitely see and feel the power of fasting and prayer. The sons of mosiah and alma were such great missionaries and were so knowledgable because they fasted and prayed and I wish I would have done the fasting part more often. It is way hot so it makes it hard to want to do anything especially if you dont sleep very well which can happen a lot. But recently it hasnt been that much of a problem especially when we were fasting yesterday I didnt feel hungry or tired. I felt good like I iknew that this was what I was supposed to be doing. It felt right. It was a crazy awesome feeling. Even though it was burning hot I didnt care, life was good.
Missions are the best!!!!!
by theway here is my address.
kouchi ken kouchi shi aioi cho1-25 rejidensu nonami 601
I live way close to the kouchi train station.
Being on the island of shikoku is fun. I dont really feel like I am on an island because I cant really see the ocean but when I think about it and realize that there are not that many missionaries here it feels like I am on an island seperated from everyone. But is is all good. It doesnt change how I work. I came to kouchi by train. You could probably take a boat which would be funner but we take a train.
Loveya lots. these next 2 months are going to fly by. so see you in a bit.
elder christian price
ps
1. is of zone confrence. all of the missionareis that gave their last testimony before they go home
2 and 3 are of bowling
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Hey mom and dad,
well this week as definitely a better week. We all have trials and when we rely on the lord we will recieve the help we need to continue. We were kind of busy this week with a lot of things. We vistited a lot of less active members. We had some lessons with investigators and we found 2 new investigators too. Of course not everything this week was good but it is getting way better. Little by little I am strating to change and the lord is giving me blessings.
well this week as definitely a better week. We all have trials and when we rely on the lord we will recieve the help we need to continue. We were kind of busy this week with a lot of things. We vistited a lot of less active members. We had some lessons with investigators and we found 2 new investigators too. Of course not everything this week was good but it is getting way better. Little by little I am strating to change and the lord is giving me blessings.
I can see how good my japanese is now and how lazy I have gotten when it comes to study. Becasue I can get around I kind of loose the need to study really hard. I am also at a dificult spot because I have learned all the basic stuff so now I have to move on to the tedious stuff which I like but every moring it seems hard to study. but I feel comfortable with my japanese.
One of our investigators speaks fluent british english. She is way nice and has no religion. She is not against religion but she does like to rely on others. We talked for a long time and she actually realized that whenever she was in hard situation that she didnt go through it alone. She always had help. She thought alot about that. I told her that is a blessing from god and god helps us through many ways. I dont know how interested she is in the gospel but I think she has definitely seen that religion or the principles of religion have been in her life for a long time without realizing it. I hope in the coming weeks we can work with her and help her progress towards baptism.
This week we will not really been in our area to work because we have zone confrence tomorrow and then we will be going to an area in my district for a comp. exchange. The areas in my district are so far apart and so expensive that you can really only afford to go once to an area so we stay a little longer so I can work with both elders.
Life is still amazing I Japan!!! and it always will. No matter what kind of hardships I have I will always be thankfull for them because I have seen how it has changed me for the better. This gospel is great right?!
I love you all and can't wait to see you all
love
elder christian price
One of our investigators speaks fluent british english. She is way nice and has no religion. She is not against religion but she does like to rely on others. We talked for a long time and she actually realized that whenever she was in hard situation that she didnt go through it alone. She always had help. She thought alot about that. I told her that is a blessing from god and god helps us through many ways. I dont know how interested she is in the gospel but I think she has definitely seen that religion or the principles of religion have been in her life for a long time without realizing it. I hope in the coming weeks we can work with her and help her progress towards baptism.
This week we will not really been in our area to work because we have zone confrence tomorrow and then we will be going to an area in my district for a comp. exchange. The areas in my district are so far apart and so expensive that you can really only afford to go once to an area so we stay a little longer so I can work with both elders.
Life is still amazing I Japan!!! and it always will. No matter what kind of hardships I have I will always be thankfull for them because I have seen how it has changed me for the better. This gospel is great right?!
I love you all and can't wait to see you all
love
elder christian price
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Hey mom and dad
A surprise to hear that the tanners are moving. But i guess it’s all good. That place in Colorado seemed way fun. Maybe we can go there some day. The atonement is such a great blessing. I have actually been thinking about that a lot lately. It seems like I don’t use the atonement enough in my life, but then again I feel that I may use it more than I think without realizing it. Or may be receiving the blessings of the atonement without realizing it. I feel like I am working hard in my new area. But I seem to be seeing no results. It is kind of frustrating. I know numbers are not everything but our numbers are really low. We can’t find, it’s hot and we haven’t really met with members. There is only so much I can do and it seems like it isn’t enough. I am still happy and excited to be here in Kouchi working hard and learning a ton but because of this situation I have been thinking about the atonement. It is hard to go to a ward missionary work coordination meeting with no new investigators and nothing really to show for the week. We studied grace when Pres. Mcintyre was here and grace it what you recieve when you have done all you can. It is the percent out of 100 that you couldn’t do. The key is to rely on the lord. That is something thatIi am really starting to learn. It is way hard to rely on something you can’t see or touch but when we can do this we can better be a disciple of Christ.
Because of this I have really had to change. And I mean a lot. Uncle Dave always said `when the going gets tuff the tuff get going. ` Well now it is tuff and I want to be a tuff one so I am going. With all this being said don’t worry about me too much. I am focused on my purpose thanks to your prayers. I thought that my last 2 transfers were going to be easy. Boy was I wrong. I am growing so much from this experience. I am actually happy to have this experience. Because without it I would not be progressing and if you are not progressing you are digressing.
That is just what I have been thinking about lately. But we are still having a great time. Talking to people. We talked to a guy from Australia who is here to work. He was way sweet. He is way busy so he can’t really meet right now but he was way interested in what we had to say. Way cool guy. There was also a festival the other day and that was way fun. Got some cool pictures. Next week there is going to be a crazy big dance festival that lasts like 2 or 3 days. That will be a great time to talk to people and experience some Japanese culture.
Hey dad so i actually just got done retranslating the letter you sent. I will probably send it with a letter that i will be writing. Nobukasu might understand the other one but just to make sure i will send mine too.
And the plugs in japan are similar. If they don’t have the third ground prongs you and use it in japan. But if it has the ground prong you have to buy an adaptor.
Well thank you family for everything. I am so blessed to have such a wonderful family. Japan is amazing and don’t you forget it. It is the best place to work as a servant of the lord. 2 and half months are short but it is going to be the best 2 and half months ever.
Love ya
Elder Christian Price
A surprise to hear that the tanners are moving. But i guess it’s all good. That place in Colorado seemed way fun. Maybe we can go there some day. The atonement is such a great blessing. I have actually been thinking about that a lot lately. It seems like I don’t use the atonement enough in my life, but then again I feel that I may use it more than I think without realizing it. Or may be receiving the blessings of the atonement without realizing it. I feel like I am working hard in my new area. But I seem to be seeing no results. It is kind of frustrating. I know numbers are not everything but our numbers are really low. We can’t find, it’s hot and we haven’t really met with members. There is only so much I can do and it seems like it isn’t enough. I am still happy and excited to be here in Kouchi working hard and learning a ton but because of this situation I have been thinking about the atonement. It is hard to go to a ward missionary work coordination meeting with no new investigators and nothing really to show for the week. We studied grace when Pres. Mcintyre was here and grace it what you recieve when you have done all you can. It is the percent out of 100 that you couldn’t do. The key is to rely on the lord. That is something thatIi am really starting to learn. It is way hard to rely on something you can’t see or touch but when we can do this we can better be a disciple of Christ.
Because of this I have really had to change. And I mean a lot. Uncle Dave always said `when the going gets tuff the tuff get going. ` Well now it is tuff and I want to be a tuff one so I am going. With all this being said don’t worry about me too much. I am focused on my purpose thanks to your prayers. I thought that my last 2 transfers were going to be easy. Boy was I wrong. I am growing so much from this experience. I am actually happy to have this experience. Because without it I would not be progressing and if you are not progressing you are digressing.
That is just what I have been thinking about lately. But we are still having a great time. Talking to people. We talked to a guy from Australia who is here to work. He was way sweet. He is way busy so he can’t really meet right now but he was way interested in what we had to say. Way cool guy. There was also a festival the other day and that was way fun. Got some cool pictures. Next week there is going to be a crazy big dance festival that lasts like 2 or 3 days. That will be a great time to talk to people and experience some Japanese culture.
Hey dad so i actually just got done retranslating the letter you sent. I will probably send it with a letter that i will be writing. Nobukasu might understand the other one but just to make sure i will send mine too.
And the plugs in japan are similar. If they don’t have the third ground prongs you and use it in japan. But if it has the ground prong you have to buy an adaptor.
Well thank you family for everything. I am so blessed to have such a wonderful family. Japan is amazing and don’t you forget it. It is the best place to work as a servant of the lord. 2 and half months are short but it is going to be the best 2 and half months ever.
Love ya
Elder Christian Price
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Hey mom and dad,
That San Diego trip sounded and looked awesome from the pictures. I am so jealous that you got to go spear fishing. You will have to take me when i get back. That looks like a blast.
I will send a letter to the family in japan a.s.a.p. Hopefully it will be sent by the end of the week but at latest next week.
Japan is amazing. It is so hot, I am tired, by head hurts, my mind is going a million miles an hour and I am loving all of it. I am still trying to learn how to street. It gets better every day but it still isn’t where it should be. That is way I like it I guess. I have realized thatIi am a person that does not like to be stagnant. I always like to be moving or doing something. I always want to progress and get better. I try not to settle. Relearning how to street is one of those things that will be hard but will make me stronger and a better missionary. I am really starting to learn the meaning of diligence and hard work. This is my second to last transfer and i can feel myself, the natural man, wanting to go home. Not work too hard, and not be exactly obedient. I never thought i would be this hard. I feel like the end is what gets a lot of missionaries. It is so close to going home. You can almost taste the jet fumes. It is crazy to think about. But i don’t want to be an ordinary missionary. I want to finish out strong to the end. I don’t want to think about the end until it comes. Elder Slater was a great example of this. He was way happy while working and he was way focused. Then when i way him just before his parents came it had finally hit him that he is done. That show i want to be. I want to go all-out and have it hit me when it is over that I am done. It has been a real personal test to keep my self-motivated. I also have a transfer 3 missionary who is trying but i still need to do most of it all. I need to be a good example in all i do, say, etc.
I am loving it here in Japan. It is the best place on earth. The work is starting to move here in Kouchi. Slowly but surely it is moving. I am trying to leave my mark on Kouchi. And not just with the members but with the people to. I have never really had this desire until now. I don’t know if Kouchi will be my last area or not so i am going to do all i can to leave this place better than when i found it.
We were housing the other day and we found this way old guy. I say way old but he was probably around grandpa prices age and he actually reminded me of grandpa price. He wasn’t as big but just the atmosphere/ora he had just made me think of grandpa price. He also loved America and westerns. We are going to visit him this Friday. I pray that it goes extremely well. There is something different about this old guy. Most old people yell at you, say they are old so they can’t understand, or the say they are in a different religion. But this guy listened to us little and said we could come back. I will let you know what happens next week.
You are the best family in the world. I owe all thatIi have and have done to you. I am who I am today because of you my family. Thank you. I love you all, have fun in the pool. Save some water for me.
Love
Elder Christian Price
That San Diego trip sounded and looked awesome from the pictures. I am so jealous that you got to go spear fishing. You will have to take me when i get back. That looks like a blast.
I will send a letter to the family in japan a.s.a.p. Hopefully it will be sent by the end of the week but at latest next week.
Japan is amazing. It is so hot, I am tired, by head hurts, my mind is going a million miles an hour and I am loving all of it. I am still trying to learn how to street. It gets better every day but it still isn’t where it should be. That is way I like it I guess. I have realized thatIi am a person that does not like to be stagnant. I always like to be moving or doing something. I always want to progress and get better. I try not to settle. Relearning how to street is one of those things that will be hard but will make me stronger and a better missionary. I am really starting to learn the meaning of diligence and hard work. This is my second to last transfer and i can feel myself, the natural man, wanting to go home. Not work too hard, and not be exactly obedient. I never thought i would be this hard. I feel like the end is what gets a lot of missionaries. It is so close to going home. You can almost taste the jet fumes. It is crazy to think about. But i don’t want to be an ordinary missionary. I want to finish out strong to the end. I don’t want to think about the end until it comes. Elder Slater was a great example of this. He was way happy while working and he was way focused. Then when i way him just before his parents came it had finally hit him that he is done. That show i want to be. I want to go all-out and have it hit me when it is over that I am done. It has been a real personal test to keep my self-motivated. I also have a transfer 3 missionary who is trying but i still need to do most of it all. I need to be a good example in all i do, say, etc.
I am loving it here in Japan. It is the best place on earth. The work is starting to move here in Kouchi. Slowly but surely it is moving. I am trying to leave my mark on Kouchi. And not just with the members but with the people to. I have never really had this desire until now. I don’t know if Kouchi will be my last area or not so i am going to do all i can to leave this place better than when i found it.
We were housing the other day and we found this way old guy. I say way old but he was probably around grandpa prices age and he actually reminded me of grandpa price. He wasn’t as big but just the atmosphere/ora he had just made me think of grandpa price. He also loved America and westerns. We are going to visit him this Friday. I pray that it goes extremely well. There is something different about this old guy. Most old people yell at you, say they are old so they can’t understand, or the say they are in a different religion. But this guy listened to us little and said we could come back. I will let you know what happens next week.
You are the best family in the world. I owe all thatIi have and have done to you. I am who I am today because of you my family. Thank you. I love you all, have fun in the pool. Save some water for me.
Love
Elder Christian Price
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Hey mom and dad,
How was the dust storm? A member in my new area told me about it and some other crazy stuff that is going on in America. He is actually from America and got baptized a couple weeks ago. Way cool guy.
My new area is awesome! I am back in the city and i don’t know what to do. I haven’t streeted for so long. I am way rusty. It is a good mix of city and rural. By the station is kind of city like but away from that gets more rural. I am excited to work here. The ward is amazing! My first day made me feel at home. Everyone is so nice. I actually found out the one of the sis. in the ward is the same age as me and has the same birthday. Kind of weird but cool.
It took forever to get to Kouchi. I rode about 6 hours’ worth of trains and buses to get from Nishiwaki to Kouchi. Way too long. I can’t see the ocean from where i am at. If i go east a bit i can probably. I am way excited to be in Kouchi. I think this will be my last area but i have a strange feeling that it’s not. We will wee in 6 weeks. (I will send pictures next week or may be after this email.)
I hope we get drawn for the hunt. I have been a while so it would be nice to get back into the swing of things.
The address is pretty much ok. One of the addresses it says `itami city` they probably understand that but city in Japanese is written as shi but other than that it is ok. The postal code isn’t there but the post office can figure that out. The addresses are ok. No problems. Grandpa P used them and it seemed like he had no problem.
My new comp is from Vegas. He is interesting. He is transfer 3 and just got separated from his trainer. He is a good one. He works decently hard. We are going to have a good transfer.
Life is great! Kouchi is heating up and so am i. I can’t wait to see what next week’s brings. I have had some crazy awesome experience since I have been here. I have entered into a jumping contest, found a cool new investigator, went to the hospital while my comp got surgery, got to wear a funny hat to go into surgery. Just excitement for my first couple of days. Let’s see how it goes from here.
Love ya and thanks for all you have done for me. I will be praying for uncle JD.
With love
Elder Price
PS
pic one is of my new comp elder Maris
pic 2 is of 3 famous samurai form Kouchi prefecture. The most famous is sakamoto ryoma
How was the dust storm? A member in my new area told me about it and some other crazy stuff that is going on in America. He is actually from America and got baptized a couple weeks ago. Way cool guy.
My new area is awesome! I am back in the city and i don’t know what to do. I haven’t streeted for so long. I am way rusty. It is a good mix of city and rural. By the station is kind of city like but away from that gets more rural. I am excited to work here. The ward is amazing! My first day made me feel at home. Everyone is so nice. I actually found out the one of the sis. in the ward is the same age as me and has the same birthday. Kind of weird but cool.
It took forever to get to Kouchi. I rode about 6 hours’ worth of trains and buses to get from Nishiwaki to Kouchi. Way too long. I can’t see the ocean from where i am at. If i go east a bit i can probably. I am way excited to be in Kouchi. I think this will be my last area but i have a strange feeling that it’s not. We will wee in 6 weeks. (I will send pictures next week or may be after this email.)
I hope we get drawn for the hunt. I have been a while so it would be nice to get back into the swing of things.
The address is pretty much ok. One of the addresses it says `itami city` they probably understand that but city in Japanese is written as shi but other than that it is ok. The postal code isn’t there but the post office can figure that out. The addresses are ok. No problems. Grandpa P used them and it seemed like he had no problem.
My new comp is from Vegas. He is interesting. He is transfer 3 and just got separated from his trainer. He is a good one. He works decently hard. We are going to have a good transfer.
Life is great! Kouchi is heating up and so am i. I can’t wait to see what next week’s brings. I have had some crazy awesome experience since I have been here. I have entered into a jumping contest, found a cool new investigator, went to the hospital while my comp got surgery, got to wear a funny hat to go into surgery. Just excitement for my first couple of days. Let’s see how it goes from here.
Love ya and thanks for all you have done for me. I will be praying for uncle JD.
With love
Elder Price
PS
pic one is of my new comp elder Maris
pic 2 is of 3 famous samurai form Kouchi prefecture. The most famous is sakamoto ryoma
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Hey mom and dad
How are you? It sounds like your week was good. My week was full of craziness. I was on comp exchanges from Monday evening to Friday after noon. It was way fun but tiring. I met the new mission president on Friday. I call him PAPA LEHI. He is such a visionary man his ideas mixed with what we are doing now will really help the mission. The hard part is doing it. But he is awesome and so nice. They got married in the mesa temple! Ya! Sister Zinke is from Arizona way cool. I also talked to the mission president directly about me staying an extra week. It sounded like it was ok. He didn’t know all of the rules about it but sister zinke was there and she was saying that that would be so cool to have your family come and then go visit relatives in Japan. I also told them that if i couldn’t that dad would come and it would be me and him for a week. They said that they really didn’t want to do that so it looks like it should be ok. But who knows. They should call soon.
Well i got a call this morning from my trainer who is now an AP and he told me that i am going to a place called Kouchi for my transfer. I got transferred to Kouchi! It is the biggest area in the mission. It is going to be awesome! I am way excited. But other than meeting my mission president there wasn’t anything else to exciting. My mission pres. is amazing. Way good guy.
Look up Alma 7:24. I have come to love this scripture. If we have the 3 attributes that it says we will always do good works and may I say be happy. This 3 attributes start with our thought. And if we have good thoughts we will definitely do good things but if we have bad thoughts we absolutely can’t do good things. How important is this verse. How important are our thoughts? Good stuff
Well let me answer some of your questions you had.
Card or cash? You can use card in some places. If it is visa you should be ok but most people use cash. So probably the best would be to carry mainly cash and when you can use your card use it. A lot of shop can’t accept card because they are way old. You can probably pull out money at any post office and there are quite a few around where ever you go so getting cash should not be a problem. But ya, my suggestion is have a lot of cash on you but use the card when you can, if you want to use the card a lot.
Marsh and fireworks ya give him a chance. Just tell him to not shoot his eye out, oh wait wrong holiday but still. I think it is A OK. He probably doesn’t really remember doing his own fireworks a lot anyways so why not.
I am so happy that you invited that family over. You are the best!!!!!! Missionary work is as simple as that. Just invite someone over to have fun. Sometimes it is made out to be some hard thing that the only thing i can do is to ask if they will join my church but it starts with being an example and being a friend. That is awesome.!!!!!
Life is just grand here in japan. It is getting hot but hey it is getting hot everywhere. No use complaining.
Thanks for the addresses to uncle kiyoshi and cousin nobukazu. Who should i contact first? Will we meet both? Lastly do you have anymore to their addresses? I can work with what is here but there is
one part that is missing in the address. When you sent letters to me towards the end you write 657-0067 right? That is like the area code. If i don’t have it they can figure it out but if you got it that would
be great.
Mission are awesome! I only have 3 months left so if you could pray that i keep focused and that i work hard every day. i am not saying that i am unfocused or that i don’t work hard but when you are tired it is hard to get the motivation some times. These last 3 months i want to make count.
I love you all and can’t wait to share my experience with you after my mission.
Love
Elder Price
How are you? It sounds like your week was good. My week was full of craziness. I was on comp exchanges from Monday evening to Friday after noon. It was way fun but tiring. I met the new mission president on Friday. I call him PAPA LEHI. He is such a visionary man his ideas mixed with what we are doing now will really help the mission. The hard part is doing it. But he is awesome and so nice. They got married in the mesa temple! Ya! Sister Zinke is from Arizona way cool. I also talked to the mission president directly about me staying an extra week. It sounded like it was ok. He didn’t know all of the rules about it but sister zinke was there and she was saying that that would be so cool to have your family come and then go visit relatives in Japan. I also told them that if i couldn’t that dad would come and it would be me and him for a week. They said that they really didn’t want to do that so it looks like it should be ok. But who knows. They should call soon.
Well i got a call this morning from my trainer who is now an AP and he told me that i am going to a place called Kouchi for my transfer. I got transferred to Kouchi! It is the biggest area in the mission. It is going to be awesome! I am way excited. But other than meeting my mission president there wasn’t anything else to exciting. My mission pres. is amazing. Way good guy.
Look up Alma 7:24. I have come to love this scripture. If we have the 3 attributes that it says we will always do good works and may I say be happy. This 3 attributes start with our thought. And if we have good thoughts we will definitely do good things but if we have bad thoughts we absolutely can’t do good things. How important is this verse. How important are our thoughts? Good stuff
Well let me answer some of your questions you had.
Card or cash? You can use card in some places. If it is visa you should be ok but most people use cash. So probably the best would be to carry mainly cash and when you can use your card use it. A lot of shop can’t accept card because they are way old. You can probably pull out money at any post office and there are quite a few around where ever you go so getting cash should not be a problem. But ya, my suggestion is have a lot of cash on you but use the card when you can, if you want to use the card a lot.
Marsh and fireworks ya give him a chance. Just tell him to not shoot his eye out, oh wait wrong holiday but still. I think it is A OK. He probably doesn’t really remember doing his own fireworks a lot anyways so why not.
I am so happy that you invited that family over. You are the best!!!!!! Missionary work is as simple as that. Just invite someone over to have fun. Sometimes it is made out to be some hard thing that the only thing i can do is to ask if they will join my church but it starts with being an example and being a friend. That is awesome.!!!!!
Life is just grand here in japan. It is getting hot but hey it is getting hot everywhere. No use complaining.
Thanks for the addresses to uncle kiyoshi and cousin nobukazu. Who should i contact first? Will we meet both? Lastly do you have anymore to their addresses? I can work with what is here but there is
one part that is missing in the address. When you sent letters to me towards the end you write 657-0067 right? That is like the area code. If i don’t have it they can figure it out but if you got it that would
be great.
Mission are awesome! I only have 3 months left so if you could pray that i keep focused and that i work hard every day. i am not saying that i am unfocused or that i don’t work hard but when you are tired it is hard to get the motivation some times. These last 3 months i want to make count.
I love you all and can’t wait to share my experience with you after my mission.
Love
Elder Price
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Hey mom and dad,
Sounds like your week was a good one. Stake conference sounded way awesome and way spiritual. Sad I missed it but my week was pretty good. My comp got better and we are back to doing our thing. I have been way tired lately and sometimes a little down but you know what, the lord really does answer prayers we say but prayers of the heart too. I also have a testimony of planning.
Saturday we got home late so we didn’t have time to plan so we planned Sunday after church. We planned to visit some less actives an old investigator and go to a park. The less active was not very nice. Her child actually said that she wasn’t home and started talking to use then his mom came out and told him to go inside and said that they were busy and they would come to church when they wanted to. We actually came to give them flyer to come to our ping pong tournament on Fri. but she wouldn’t even accept that. She kept saying that they were all busy when they were doing nothing right now. I started to bug me after we left there porch. I just don’t know how people can just not come to church or have some bad feelings toward the church. It is a small branch so you can’t really run away from those you don’t like. They will always be there. Anyways after that we didn’t get to meet with the old investigator and then we went to visit another less active but they weren’t home. And on top of that it looked like it was going to rain the sky was a gloomy gray. We had planned to go to the park but i didn’t really think anyone would be there but i decided to go there anyway. We had only about an hour left so we could kill some time and try and talk to any one if there was anyone there. So we go there and after about 2 minutes we find this family who knew the missionaries 15 years ago and haven’t met them since! They were way nice and we talked to them for a good 15 min. They invited us over. Yes they invited us over! That is very rare here in japan. It felt awesome. We traded phone numbers and they gave us there address. I think we will try to go next week some time. That just made the day so much better. That was a little miracle from the lord. Even though the weather wasn’t good i felt like i should go to the park and after a little trial and tribulation i receive a blessing. And what a great blessing it was.
This week has really been a good week. i went crazy on Thursday on a comp exchange and found a new investigator, met this crazy old guy who gave the elder that was with a back massage and did a lot of crazy stuff. It was awesome! And then we got pulled over by the cops. The first time that has happened to me in japan. He turned out to be way nice and he might come to English class. He stopped me to see if I was here legally and to check my foreigner card. There are so many blessings that we can and will receive. All we have to do is ask and then work way hard to get it. Only after we ask and then do will we get the blessing that has been prepared for us.
I love this gospel. When people reject us and don’t come to church I am saddened. It is sad to see someone miss out on all of these wonderful blessings. I wish i learned this a little earlier in my mission or should i say i wish i applied this knowledge earlier in my mission.
Life is great. It is a time to learn and boy is i doing just that. I love you all. You are always in my prayers
love
Elder Christian Price
Sounds like your week was a good one. Stake conference sounded way awesome and way spiritual. Sad I missed it but my week was pretty good. My comp got better and we are back to doing our thing. I have been way tired lately and sometimes a little down but you know what, the lord really does answer prayers we say but prayers of the heart too. I also have a testimony of planning.
Saturday we got home late so we didn’t have time to plan so we planned Sunday after church. We planned to visit some less actives an old investigator and go to a park. The less active was not very nice. Her child actually said that she wasn’t home and started talking to use then his mom came out and told him to go inside and said that they were busy and they would come to church when they wanted to. We actually came to give them flyer to come to our ping pong tournament on Fri. but she wouldn’t even accept that. She kept saying that they were all busy when they were doing nothing right now. I started to bug me after we left there porch. I just don’t know how people can just not come to church or have some bad feelings toward the church. It is a small branch so you can’t really run away from those you don’t like. They will always be there. Anyways after that we didn’t get to meet with the old investigator and then we went to visit another less active but they weren’t home. And on top of that it looked like it was going to rain the sky was a gloomy gray. We had planned to go to the park but i didn’t really think anyone would be there but i decided to go there anyway. We had only about an hour left so we could kill some time and try and talk to any one if there was anyone there. So we go there and after about 2 minutes we find this family who knew the missionaries 15 years ago and haven’t met them since! They were way nice and we talked to them for a good 15 min. They invited us over. Yes they invited us over! That is very rare here in japan. It felt awesome. We traded phone numbers and they gave us there address. I think we will try to go next week some time. That just made the day so much better. That was a little miracle from the lord. Even though the weather wasn’t good i felt like i should go to the park and after a little trial and tribulation i receive a blessing. And what a great blessing it was.
This week has really been a good week. i went crazy on Thursday on a comp exchange and found a new investigator, met this crazy old guy who gave the elder that was with a back massage and did a lot of crazy stuff. It was awesome! And then we got pulled over by the cops. The first time that has happened to me in japan. He turned out to be way nice and he might come to English class. He stopped me to see if I was here legally and to check my foreigner card. There are so many blessings that we can and will receive. All we have to do is ask and then work way hard to get it. Only after we ask and then do will we get the blessing that has been prepared for us.
I love this gospel. When people reject us and don’t come to church I am saddened. It is sad to see someone miss out on all of these wonderful blessings. I wish i learned this a little earlier in my mission or should i say i wish i applied this knowledge earlier in my mission.
Life is great. It is a time to learn and boy is i doing just that. I love you all. You are always in my prayers
love
Elder Christian Price
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Hey mom and dad,
Glad to hear everyone is alive well and that life is still exciting.
Life here isnt too bad either. Life is good. We had 2 investigators lined up to get baptized in the coming week but we had to drop the dates. They still meet with us but some problems came up. Then my comp got sick on Friday so we spent the days of Fri, Sat and Sunday in the apartment. He still isnt feeling well and we have a comp exchange today and I am not sure if we can do it. I hope he getts better soon but who knows. It has been an interesting one with some ups and downs. investigators calling and saying that they dont want to meet any more and so on. But it is time like these that you need to remember the good times.
This weeek I was able to have a comp exchange with my trainer Imai. He is now a traveling ap so he dropped in to see how I was doing. It was a way good experience. I learned so much from him. It gave me more desire to work. We also district meeting went really well I thought. And even though my comp was sick and we stayed inside all day I got alot of stuff done and was able to call some people.
When life is tuff it helps to remember the good things and think positive. I always think of a song by rob thomas i think that is called `little wonders`. It is the theme sone to Meet the Robinsons. When we let problems `role right off our shoulder` we can become more happy. We can realize that we will not always be in this kind of situation for ever. We can have hope for tomorrow, hope for better days.
Sorry this week wasnt alot about the work but the work is going. It goes asfast as you make it. It is a new week and a new chance to make it go.
I love you guys it was great to hear about the little girl named Sydney. I will be praying for her.
You asked if there is any thing I need...well I didnt want to say anything but I am out of deoderant and the japanese stuff just doesnt cut it for my big american body. And my toothpaste is almost out. other than that I am ok. You dont need to rush to send it. I have been doing ok with out it but of course it is just good to have what works best.
love you so much,
elder christian price
Glad to hear everyone is alive well and that life is still exciting.
Life here isnt too bad either. Life is good. We had 2 investigators lined up to get baptized in the coming week but we had to drop the dates. They still meet with us but some problems came up. Then my comp got sick on Friday so we spent the days of Fri, Sat and Sunday in the apartment. He still isnt feeling well and we have a comp exchange today and I am not sure if we can do it. I hope he getts better soon but who knows. It has been an interesting one with some ups and downs. investigators calling and saying that they dont want to meet any more and so on. But it is time like these that you need to remember the good times.
This weeek I was able to have a comp exchange with my trainer Imai. He is now a traveling ap so he dropped in to see how I was doing. It was a way good experience. I learned so much from him. It gave me more desire to work. We also district meeting went really well I thought. And even though my comp was sick and we stayed inside all day I got alot of stuff done and was able to call some people.
When life is tuff it helps to remember the good things and think positive. I always think of a song by rob thomas i think that is called `little wonders`. It is the theme sone to Meet the Robinsons. When we let problems `role right off our shoulder` we can become more happy. We can realize that we will not always be in this kind of situation for ever. We can have hope for tomorrow, hope for better days.
Sorry this week wasnt alot about the work but the work is going. It goes asfast as you make it. It is a new week and a new chance to make it go.
I love you guys it was great to hear about the little girl named Sydney. I will be praying for her.
You asked if there is any thing I need...well I didnt want to say anything but I am out of deoderant and the japanese stuff just doesnt cut it for my big american body. And my toothpaste is almost out. other than that I am ok. You dont need to rush to send it. I have been doing ok with out it but of course it is just good to have what works best.
love you so much,
elder christian price
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Hey mom and dad,
Man I miss slater already. He is the man. Tell him I said that when he comes over. Tell dallis the that he is the O.B.T.
That hike looked way fun. I miss all of that outdoors stuff.
I would love to talk to the Sato family. Is the address an email address or mail address. Mail address would be easier but I might be able to work with the email address.
I got a little email from John today. It was a good one. Short but good. Could you tell him to give me his home address so i can write him a letter. We are really only supposed to email familly and such so I can email him but sending a letter is better.
Well this week was a good week. Nothing too exciting. I am really starting to feel tired though. I have never put all i got into anything. I always leave just a little bit left. which isnt bad but in some cases it is not the best. I have started to but all I have and i mean all I got. I have no time for myself at night with district calls and during the day I a trying to do what I can to talk to everyone and find new investigators. I am tired physicaly but mainly mentally. It feels good. It is giving me a set of trials and barriers that I need to overcome. I have found a love for the hard things. Some times it takes guts to do something you dont feel comfortable doing but if you dont do it you never know what would have happened. If you do it andit turns out good then arent you glad that you did it. even if it is not that great of an outcome it means you can still learn from it. I dont think I would have learned this if I had not come on a mission. I would like to say I would have but probably not. The way I think has changed so much. I am a little more bolder a little more of a go getter. Life(my time as a missionary) is too short. Especially since I really only have 4 to 5 months left. I have not time to mess around and waste time.
I love my mission. I dont know how many times I have said it and I will probably say it for the rest of my life. My mission has made me into a better person and a better priesthood holder and a better member of this chruch. Missions are awesome!!!!!!they are the best thing you can do to grow and learn.
I love you all and pray for you always.
elder christian price
Man I miss slater already. He is the man. Tell him I said that when he comes over. Tell dallis the that he is the O.B.T.
That hike looked way fun. I miss all of that outdoors stuff.
I would love to talk to the Sato family. Is the address an email address or mail address. Mail address would be easier but I might be able to work with the email address.
I got a little email from John today. It was a good one. Short but good. Could you tell him to give me his home address so i can write him a letter. We are really only supposed to email familly and such so I can email him but sending a letter is better.
Well this week was a good week. Nothing too exciting. I am really starting to feel tired though. I have never put all i got into anything. I always leave just a little bit left. which isnt bad but in some cases it is not the best. I have started to but all I have and i mean all I got. I have no time for myself at night with district calls and during the day I a trying to do what I can to talk to everyone and find new investigators. I am tired physicaly but mainly mentally. It feels good. It is giving me a set of trials and barriers that I need to overcome. I have found a love for the hard things. Some times it takes guts to do something you dont feel comfortable doing but if you dont do it you never know what would have happened. If you do it andit turns out good then arent you glad that you did it. even if it is not that great of an outcome it means you can still learn from it. I dont think I would have learned this if I had not come on a mission. I would like to say I would have but probably not. The way I think has changed so much. I am a little more bolder a little more of a go getter. Life(my time as a missionary) is too short. Especially since I really only have 4 to 5 months left. I have not time to mess around and waste time.
I love my mission. I dont know how many times I have said it and I will probably say it for the rest of my life. My mission has made me into a better person and a better priesthood holder and a better member of this chruch. Missions are awesome!!!!!!they are the best thing you can do to grow and learn.
I love you all and pray for you always.
elder christian price
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Here is a sign at a famouse donut place thanking me. :)
My previous district meeting
My new companion
Hey mom and dad,
That is exciting that erica gets to go to Canada. I want to go there one day to check it out.
No way! I cant beleive that Slater and Dallis dropped by, thats nuts. I can't wait to see how they are doing when I get back. The bacon rapped hot dogs were pretty amazing werent they, all thanks to you and mom.
Well whats new with me is that my new comp is awesome. He has a lot of stomach problems so he has to go to the bathroom a lot. I feel bad for him but its all good. We get along great. I like speaking japanese all the time. I am still learning so having a japanese companion helps. We work pretty well to gether. We are really starting to get busy, not busy but like the work is starting to move. We are working alittle more effectively.
Some other news, I got my its time to prepare for you to go home so tell us what airport you are going to fly into call. That was interesting. Sister Pridis in the office my be contacting you. or sending you some stuff. I am not exactly sure what will be going on. But that was a suprise to get that call.
Life is great! I am having so much fun learning and working. this is such a good experience and I wouldnt trade it for the world.
I love you and and i dont care if you letter is short or long. it is the thought that counts
love,
elder christian price
That is exciting that erica gets to go to Canada. I want to go there one day to check it out.
No way! I cant beleive that Slater and Dallis dropped by, thats nuts. I can't wait to see how they are doing when I get back. The bacon rapped hot dogs were pretty amazing werent they, all thanks to you and mom.
Well whats new with me is that my new comp is awesome. He has a lot of stomach problems so he has to go to the bathroom a lot. I feel bad for him but its all good. We get along great. I like speaking japanese all the time. I am still learning so having a japanese companion helps. We work pretty well to gether. We are really starting to get busy, not busy but like the work is starting to move. We are working alittle more effectively.
Some other news, I got my its time to prepare for you to go home so tell us what airport you are going to fly into call. That was interesting. Sister Pridis in the office my be contacting you. or sending you some stuff. I am not exactly sure what will be going on. But that was a suprise to get that call.
Life is great! I am having so much fun learning and working. this is such a good experience and I wouldnt trade it for the world.
I love you and and i dont care if you letter is short or long. it is the thought that counts
love,
elder christian price
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