hey mom,

the the news is that i staid in yamatokoriyama but i got a new companion. his name is elder kurose.(ku-ro-sei). yess he is a native. i dont know how i got another one. i thought it was not supposed to be common. it isprobably way good for me. we speak mostly japanese. it is way tuff but it will make me alot better. he is awesome. he is friends with my trainer elder imai.he is a good missionary and i am looking forward to woking with him.

yes i got the package. thank you so much. everything was amazing.

it sounds like chloe had a fun birth day. i can already tell you are going to have your hands full when she is older. good luck!

i would expect nothing less form the 2 redheads than for them to have a competition. the only bad part is if marshal loses he will cry about it because abby is younger than him. maybe he will learn to pick his battles wisely. i am glad to hear everyone had fun. but dont have to much fun because i want to ride the quad when i get back.

this week has been the usual;alot of missionary work. the main news is about the tranfters. me and my new comp havent had alot of time to wrk together so hopefully next week we will ahve some cool stuff to share.

thanks for hte package and for your support. i love you

love

elder christian price

hey dad

so today was supposed to be transfers but they move them back to tomorrow so i wont beable to tell you till next week sorry.

soudns like the snow activity was a success.

the asian party sounds fun. i wish i could be there but on the other hand i eat japanses food every day. i almost always like what i am given at peopple homes. i have goten used to putting on a smile eating the food and saying it was delicious. for the most part it is good. some food has an aquired taste but i eat it all. thats what i am good at.

i am sad to hear that they are starting to restrict atv usage. i hope it isnt to bad when i get home.

i dont have to many crazy stories this week but i did get a BAPTISM! i wrote about it in moms letter and i dont want to write it aigan so please look at hers. thanks.

thanks for the emials and support. it is amazing how far love travels. hopefully next week i will have transfer news for you. i love you

love

elder christian price

hey mom
yes today was the big transfer day. it was so big that they moved it to tomorrow. fun right? no not fun. now i wont be able to tell you until next monday. sorry. it sounds like valintines day was full of sweets. we got some valitines for the members and a huge basket full of misc. items. it was awesome. i am glad you sent the package to the mission home too. it is probably best if you always send it to the missoin home. i could get emergency transfered for no reason at any time. thanks for the spiritual thought. i read it and i dont know if i am emotionally ready or not. i guess that is something i need to find out. but for the time being i think i am ready. it sounds like your week was kind of like mine. the best part of my week was that i had a BAPTISM on sunday. 14 of feb. we baptized miura satoru. he is 52 and crazy! i told dad the story about him 2 weeks ago when we brought him to sacrament meeting. it was awesome. i will send pictures. i was lucky enough to preform the baptism. i only had to say the pray in japanese once and baptize him once. it was awesome. its is my first baptism while on my mission. after the baptism service i pondered on what i had felt during the baptism and during the preperations for it. yes i felt the spirit but i didnt feel any different. i didnt feel like my mission was any more of a success because i had a baptism. it made me realize that baptism is important but so is everything else. my happinese doesnt just revovle around just baptisms, it revolves around all aspects of the work. after that day i could honestly say that i could be happy with no baptisms while on my mission and i would still feel like i had a successfull mission. to me baptisms are gifts from god. people can choose to be baptized or not but as missionaries we always need to be working hard.that is my thought of the week. i love japan. its the best place on earth. there are baptisms all the time. here. japan missions are no harder than anyother mission. i love you and thank you for your support. i cant wait to have more experiences to share.
love
elder christian price

hey mom,
yes tranfers are comming up soon. when they transfer both missionaries it is called a 'white wash' and it is rare. there is not set standard. sometimes the greenie will leave and sometimes the senior wil leave. i kind of feel like i will leave but it is really hard to tell. i find out next monday 15. it is kind of warming up. the sun may be out but it will blow like crazy and\or it will be cloudy. its better than a month ago but still not great.i have heard of people being worried about their children driving but when i drove i never noticed that. i guess i am just blessed with a good common sense. that is all driving really is. i guess now you will reallly feel like allof the other parents when erica starts to drive. she gets to drive the truck. we will see if that is a good thing or a bad thing in 3 months. i think reading the book of mormon will be her achilles heal. it is tuff getting though alma. after alma is goes way fast.i look forward to the package. i dont care when packages come i just love receiving them. i dont mind if it is late. yes there is aholiday called 'white day'. in japan girls give chocolates on valintines day and on white day the boys give chocolates to all the girls that gave them chocolates. to me this sounds like a great idea that america should adopt. it make the boys life easier. that probably wont happen so i better take advantage of it now while i am in japan.yep life in japan is till great. we have a baptism scheduled for this week. it may or may not happen. the investigator really wants to be baptized but i dont feel like he really understands baptism. we have a week to figure it out. i hope it happens butif not there is always next week. my japanese is starting to feel alittle better. i still feel like i am the worst but only itme will tell.thanks for the love and support. i am glad to hear everything is doing ok and erica found out some answers.
love
elder christian price

hey dad.

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

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

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

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

love

elder christian price

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

hey dad,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

love you and thanks for all that you do for me

love
elder price