Hey mom and dad,

i dont know everything about the special transfer. i vaugely know the reason and it was not health problems. sumoto was fun. it kind of felt like a vacation. it has a weird feeling though. the only way to get there is by a hour and a half bus ride. you feel seperated from everyone else. you get phone calls every night but you still dont feel connected. i think that might be alittle like what island fever feels like. all in all it was fun and a good experience.

but

i am back in hanayashiki with my same companion. we are doing great. when i got the call saying that i am staying the ap also said that not alot of people will be transfering because the hiroshima mission and the kobe mission are combining. i dont know if that is a forshadow that i will leave next transfer or not but i am glad to be here still.

the baptism didnt happen. the investigator was only 17 and it turned out that his mom was really agianst him joining the chruch. he can still talk to us on the phone and he said that one he turns 20 he will be baptized. i hope he keeps that goal in mind.

it was a bummer that imanaka-san didnt get baptized but we had 2 new investigators come to church. their mom has called us a couple of time saying that she and her daughters have interest. only the daughters came on sunday because the mom had to work but i think the will progress really fast. we are trying to meet with all 3 of them at the same time. the amazing part is that we did not find these people. they called us. what a blessing from the lord. he really does prepare people for us. i never really realized/ thought about that until now. it is amazing!!!! no i just need to know let this blessing slip out of my hands.

i am doing great. i am still loving what i am doing and i am doing it with a smile. this is the best ever. i have recently got in touch with garen(do you remember him. he was one of my room mates during summer semester). it has been great to talk to him. he gave the addresses to the other guys in our room and i cant wait to get intouch with them. this transfer i am really trying to focus on having no regerts. it is easy to just do the work day in and day out but i want more. i feel i am still missing something when i go out to work and i think working as hard as i can and doing all i can will fill that spot.

i am learning so much about my self. i love the work for that reason and more. with out this experience i would not be haveing the same growing experience and life lessons. MISSIONS ROCK!

i love you and thanks for your love

elder christian price

hey mom and dad,

dontworry about the short letters. i totally understand. it sounds like this vacation is the craziest one yet. you sound way busy but it sounds like you are having alot of fun. i am glad to hear that the kids didnt fight too much on the way up to utah. i am glad to hear that grandma price is doing well. i always pray for her. i cant wait to see the pictures from the wedding. i wish i could have been there but i am glad that at least a peice of my clothing made it there. i cant wait to see them when i get back.

so this week turned out to be really interesting but first i need to tell a story about last week that i forgot.
so we were biking to find an old english class student to invite them to a party. on our way we biked past an elementary school. nothing big right? wrong! shcool had just gotten out and there were aton of litle japanese kids walking on the side walks. as we were biking of course i said hello and they all turned and looked at me and started yelling `gaijin!gaijin!` they started chasing me on my bike. it was way funny. i decided to stop and let them talk to me for a little bit. they didnt beleive that i was from america. i finally convinced them that i was from america and once we got that settled they all asked for my autograph. i felt to cool! i had never been asked for that before. it was was awesome. one of the most interesting experiences of my mission up until this last week.

on saturday the 19th i got a call from the mission president. he told me that i would begoing on an emergency transfer that day to sumoto. (the island just south of kobe.) he told me to pack a weeks worth of cloths and to leave that day. i was way suprized. i had never even thought that i would be invovled in an emergency tranfer. so i am now emailing you from sumoto. i dont know how long i will be here. tomorow is the real tranfer call day so tomorrow i will find out what will be happening. all of mystuff is still in hanayashiki so i will atleast have to return to get it. the mission president said that i would be probably staying in hanayashiki so after thursday i may go back but no one really knows.

other than that all is good. in hanayashiki ther should be one investigator that will recieve baptism on the 27. he hasnt told his parents about him wanting to get baptised so once he does that and they say ok he will get baptized. thats about it. this emergency transfer was the most exciting thing so far this week. next week i will tell you what the final verdict is. if i will stay here or go back tohanayashiki or go some where else.

now i have a couple things that i would like to see if you could help me with.
1.can you find me a clear scripture cover. they showed some in some photos in one or 2 ensigns ago. they cover the blue book of mormons. i have one that i use to studyand i would like to keep that one looking kindoof nice. it is the one i take with me to lessons so i will get beat up pretty fast.
2. my comp here in sumoto say the `how to be and extra-ordinayr missionary` book and he wants one in japanese. could you please look to see if there is one in japanese. thank you.

lastly i would like to say happy fathers day! how was fathers day?

see you next week

i love you and thanksfor the emials
elder christian price

hey dad,

japan is doing great. we set a goal as amission to get 67 baptisms by the end of june and we are at 60 with 10 baptisms scheduled for this week! this mission is amazing. it seems like almost everyone has the faith to find and baptize. it is amazing.

the language is coming. i still have trouble with some sentences. there are so many grammar points and combinations that i dont really hear or that i havent learned so when i hear them i have do clue what they are saying. my comp mainly only give me knew words. sometimes i can ask him how to say something and he can usually help me. we get along well enough. after living with him for a while you know when to say and do stuff and when to not to. its all good. we have a good time. my area is doing ok. we have acouple people preparing for baptism. one is looking pretty good. finding is hard but thats life. it cant always be easy. transfer calls are next week. i could stay or leave i have no clue

job hunting is always fun. i would tell erica to go to papa johns and put my name on the her job application but the poeple i work with have all left from what i can remember. working there wasnt a bad job and you get free food.

tell g and g price hi for me. granpa has beens ending me some emails and i have been answering back.

thanks for your love and support.

love
elder christian price

hey MOM,

the trip back to my old area was great! there were about 20 missionaries there. it was crazy. the ward there is awesome. i got a picture that i might try and send. sorry i didnt explain the pictures. so one is a spider that we found in the boys bathroom of our chruch. one is on me and slater at a shrine in ikeda city. i dont remember the other ones i sent i will send them agian next week with a discription. i may not have sent the baptims pictue yet. right now i dont have it i actually filled one of my memory cards and it is in my other one.

that is way cool that marshals friends are curious as to what i am doing here and is is a way good idea to help marshal know how to explain what a mission is. i do that everyday. most people want to know why i am in japan. if he can learn now that will help him if he goes to japan or another foreign country for his mission.

i am glad to here that erica did not get sick and that she had a fun time. i havent recieved an emial yet but i cant wait to get one.

i know how marshal feel about working on the cars but now i am thankful for it and i wish i would have done it more. working on cars is a ver good skill that most people dont have. it is a very good opportunity tolearn a valuable skill.

i will definately pray for dad. marshal is one lucky kid geting to fly in to california and go fishing and then go to tiajuana. he is getting spoiled now that he is the only boy in the house
well this week was awesome we found 13 new investiagtors this week. we found 200 as a mission. we are doing great work here. i was talking with our zone leader on friday and when he came into the mission there were 30 new investigators a week. see what alittle faith and hard work can do.. it can work miracles. we can have all the faith in the world but if we dont try our best our faith means nothing. i love it here and i am doing my best to wrok hard.

well tell dad sorry agian i havent received his email yet and my time is aboutt o run out. we have to pay here so the faster the better. the past 2 weeks we have emailed just alittle earlier and i usually get both but because of activitys we come earlier. we dont have activities all the time but for some reason lately there has been alot. if i have a chance i will try to check it agian but i cant make any promises,

i love you and thank you for you love and prayers.

love
elder christian price

hey mom and dad,

dad is probably at meetings or writing my emial as i write this one. i am emailing early today because i am going to yamatokoriyama! there are some people going home after this tranfer that lived in koriyama and i decided totag along. I might have a chance to read his email at the church in yamatokoriyama but i can make any promises. sorry!
i hope i bought a good rain jacket too. It is way cheep and i dont know how good it really is. probably not that great. i bought it at a walmart like store. after i bought it i found out that there was and outdoor shop really close. i might go there next p-day. sorry i might have wasted 15 dollars.it hasnt rained that hard since so for now i am ok.

it sounds like the kids are starting off the summer well with a party. i will definately pray for erica. i hope it is nothing too serious. i am glad you are finaly getting your bathroom. maybe if you are lucky you will get it before i come home.

so how did dad get a hernia? man he is starting to get old . i love you dad.

life is doing good here. we have 2 people with baptismal dates and we are teaching a young family. me and slater found them but we just started to have actual lessons this past week. there biggest problem is smoking. they both smoke and the wife doesnt want to try and quite be cause it is going to be hard. we are trying to have lessons with families so they cans ee how the gospel blesses families and so they can make friends.

we had one investigator that came to chruch. his is 17 and he said he wanted to be a missionary when he prayed. he is alittle socially awkward but it isnt too bad. he didnt understand anything at chruch which made 3 hr. hard but he is way nice and said that he would meet agian.

that was pretty much my week. we are still haveing trouble finding investigators. it seemed so easy with me and slater. that is one thing i want to focus on this week: finding investigators.

sorry it is kind of short we are trying to hurry. sorry dad i will do my best to read your email. if i have time i will right back.

thanks for your help and love

love
elder christian price

hey mom and dad,

it sounds like life back home is doing great. the talk by sister holland sounded really good. i wish i could have heard it. i kindof remeber when i went a temple dedication. i remember i was really tired, i stole aunt tammy`s white hankercheif, and the hosanna shout. that is all i realy remember. i was what, 8 years old. that seems like forever ago.

i cant believe that school gets out this week for the kids. i left for my mission when school started, now 1 school year is ending. man time flies fast! all of these end of the year parties sound like fun. i remeber when i had those. fun fun

i am blessed to have another japanese companion. we speak all japanese. it is great for me but i get way tired of it. it is so hard to speak only that language. no breaks. my comp. understands english pretty well but he cant really speak it. he really doesnt want to learn english that much or someone told him not to speak it with me :)

this transfer has helped me grow so much. i have really studied the book of mormon and pmg these past two weeks. it is amazing how answers come from the scriptures. the words never change but the meaning does. there is no other book like it. that is probably the biggest thing that i have learned so far this transfer is that the scripturesare one way the lord answers prayers. i kne w that before but my testimony has been strengthened. i know that if we have a problem and we actively seek to find a solution to that problem or an answer we will get it wether it be through the scriptures, other people, or revelation. this one fact makes this gospel so cool. when ever we have a question we always have some where/someone to turn to. how awesome is that.

i just want you to know that even thought slater is not my companion any more i am still the happiest missionary there is! no companion change or bad day can change that. I create my own weather. for the past 2 days it had been raining like crazy. on sunday we were contacting some old investigators. through this i found outthat my rain gear isnt quite up to the challenge of facing the japanese rain. it must be stronger than america`s rain. i was soaked from head to toe with in the frist hour. i could have complained and said i wanted to go back to the apartment but i didnt. i just made a joke out of it. there was nothing i could do about it right then so why worry about it. i couldnt get any more wet so i might as well continue. all of the people that we visited werent interested which was sad but i was doing what i was supposed to do and i was happy doing it.

I LOVE MY MISSION!!!!!

thats all i have to say. i am not saying i am the best or most effective but i am saying that i love what i am doing and i will do it with a smile because i know what i came out here and i know that i have something that every one needs, something that everyone should want to have intheir lives. this is the best experience ever!

Lastly can you send me another harmonica. my comp wants one. his birthday is just before we transfer and i think that would be a good birthday present. sorry i dont want to make you send another package that quick but i think he would really like it.

Sorry i lied not the last thing. can i get the hoffmans home address. i want to send them and derek a letter. and can you give the my blog site address so i can give it to them. thanks abunchy.

Well thats it for this week. it is raining like crazy and i am excited to see how this next week turns out.

thanks for your love and support. you are the best!

love
elder christian price

Hey mom and dad,

i am going to try and just do one email today and see how it works.

sounds like everyone is doing great. it sounds like the week is going to be busy. have fun!! i remember when i wrote my eagle project write up and it took me forever and it was way stressfull. i amglad marshals went easy.

this week was good. we met an investigator 3 days ina row. his name is isamu. he is 29 and he has been to church before but he never really cared. now he is searching for something and he has found it with us. his date is for the 16 of may. he is looking good. he lived in canada for a year so he speaks english and it is funny to teach him because some times we will switch into english. it is fun.

we also met with 4 breakdancer/hip-hop people. it started out as one 2 weeks ago and then it blew up to 4. they are all way cool. 3 of them are really nice but one kind of has an attitude. they invited us to see them practice but they practice at 10 at night which is way past the time we are supposed to be in the appartment. it is way cool to meet with them. if we are lucky we might be able get them to teach us some cool dance moves. we are meeting them this saturday. maybe i will get some cool videos.

sunday we had 3 investigators come to chruch. isamu came and an old guy named harumoto. harumoto is retired and loves to make things out of wook. him and grandpa hunter would get along great. i have a picture of one of the things he made. i will try to send it. the next one was a guy named korbin. he is from canada. we met him a month ago whenhe first came here looking for a job. we have seen him around a couple of time and have tried to give him some people who want private lessons. he aske us about chruch so we invited him. he is awesome. i am not sure what is going tohappen from here but he said he is coming next week so i am pumped.

life is great. japanese is still a struggle but ihave fun doing it so its all good. i am learning so much about life and my self that i would not have learned so early inlife with ou the mission. i am excited to be in japan at this great time!!

well thats it for this week. if bro. reynolds ever calls agian tell him osu back. that word is slang for 'whats up'. it is a good word but not very polite in japanese society. mostl business men say it and people who think they are the man.

love you and i cant wait till monday.

elder christian shoji price