Christian's Christmas gifts

Family that Christian spent Christmas day with

Family that Christian spent Christmas night with

New Year's Day outside Christian's apartment

Hey mom and dad,

what you got a wii!!!! thats crazy! where did you put it. unless there has been alot of changes to the downstairs there isnt much room for it. i cant wait tocome back and play. talking on christmas was
amazing sorry i wasnt focused 100%. they family was totally ok with me talking to you guys. they said they had fun. sorrymy english isnt that good. my japanese isnt the best either butrightnow i would prefer to speak japanese. thanks for the presents and pictures. everyone is getting so big. maybe i wont be the tallest when i get back? as weird as it is abby and mushmush look even more like twins now. i wonder if they get told that at school?

i am glad you all had a goo time with aunt sherry and uncle ward. i wish i could have been there. maybe next year? new years was good here. we had a crazy sports activity on the 1st which was ablast and we got to watch kung fu panda. i love that movie and it is way funnier in japanese than english. me and slater got to hang out and have some fun. we are trying to work it so we can be comps agian. i dont know if it will work but it doesnt hurt to try.

my love and determination grows everyday. i only have 9 short months left. that is about 5 or transfers. it is funny how your priorities and they way you see and do things changeswhen time is running out. i need to be thank ful for the time that i have been given and really make the rest of my time count as a missionary.

thank you for your love and support. i will probably write the family(gneitings, williams, grandparents)letter but just let them know that i love them and thank them for the presents that they sent. i really felt the love from everyone. i had an amazing christmas and newyear and i am ready to start this year off with a bang.

akemashite omedatogozaimasu!(happy new year)

love

elder christian price

P.S. pic1 is mychristmas presents picture. 2 isof the family that i was visiting while talking to you guys(the 2 infront of me are friends of their daughter)3 is of a brazilian/japanese family that we spent christmas evening with. they are holding pictures that i drew for them. 4 is of my bike when we came out of the apartment. 5 is a picture of me leaving my apartment into the cold.

Hey MOM and DAD,

it is looking like every one had a good week. it sounds like the 2 shall i say men in the family had quite the adventurous weekend.

so i got your package you sent today. it is nesseled under my desk because we dont have a tree but it is the thought that counts right? i got a package from aunt tammy that had a letter from grandma and grandpa hunter but i havent got a package from them yet. maybe today?

so life is good. we meet or try to meet the brazilians on sundays and there are not any memberts that live in nabari. or not yet.

this week is going to be very crazy. we have alot of plans to eat dinner with people on christmas eve and christmas day. it is way cool. there really arent alot of people in nabari because it is country side but we do get alot of invites to eat during the holidays. the work here hasnt changed too much. we are just trying to talk to everyone and use are faith to find. i am very grateful that i got
sent to nabari. it has helped me be a better missionary. so christmas eve here we will probably eat luch with an investigator and her family and then at night have cake with a member. on christmas
we will visit an investigator and a member. my comp is going to get his call first and then i will get mine. if you could call me around 10.30am JP time(christmas morning), which is about 8.30pm US time(christmas eve) that would be fantastic. i will repeat please call me at 8.30 US time on christmas eve.

i cant wait to recieve your call.we can talk more then.

love

elder christian price

Hey mom and dad,

thanks foreverything. the 12 days of christmas is going good. to day was day one and i did not guess the present right. i forgot to record it but i will form here on out so everyone can see when i get back.

i think it would be great to have the whole family come. i think it would be a good experience for everyone. there arent that many red heads in japan so i really want to see what people do when they see two walkind down the street. plus it would just be really fun. the question is how long do you want to stay and what do you want to do?

so i had the opportunity to see the first presidency Christmas in japanese but because we didnt have an investigator to go with we decided to go work and we visited an investigator that we havent met in a while(who is brazilian) and so we watched it with him in portuguese. i kind of got the jist of what was going on but i didnt quite understand everything. after that my comp taught lesson 3 which is about baptism. during this lesson i realized for the first time the gift of tongues or the interpritation of tongues. they only spoke protuguese but i could understand what they where saying. it wasnt like it was all translated in to english for me or i under stood the portuguese is was more like i could feel what was going on through the spirit. ofcourse i could under stand certian words so i could kind of get where it was at. but up until now i have never realized that i was doin this. i did this sometimes
with japanese. i would hear something that i didnt completely understand but i felt like they where sayingthis but because i wasnt sure i didnt say anything. looking back on that i wish i would have
trusted that feeling or shall i say the spirit. i was praying in my heart while watching the christmas fireside for the gift of interpritatoin of tongues but i actually just got more and more tired from trying so hard to understand and follow that talks but when it ended and my comp started to teach i woke up. i was alert and i did my best to follow along. what an amazing experience. i always thought that when you recieved these gifts that you would be fluent in the language or that you could understand everything but that may not always be the case. i understood what i needed to know. i didnt
understand the words they where saying but i felt the meaning of what was being said. i could probably go on and on abou this. this was an amazing experience that i wouldnt trade for the world. i dont know i think my love for my mission might rival that of elder hollands.

other than that this week was anormal week. trying towork hard to see all the success i can wether it be a baptism or seeing someone make little steps to come closer to god. my job is to invite people. thats it. when i do all i can and people use their gift of agency to say no i can feel that i have done all i could to invite people to come unto christ and come closer to god. it is too bad that it took me coming to the country side to realize this but i still ahve almost a year to apply this. this life is all about learning right?

i love you all and thanks for the pictures and packages. i can allready feel the christmas spirit coming form the states.

i love you with all my heart

elder christian price

PS i say some pictures and marshal is wearin some close that look like mine. i had a way cool brown jacket and sea foam green tall tee that said skt jsut like those. i actually used to wear them together all the time. i wonder where he got them?:) (i love you little bro.take good care ofmy stuff while iam gone but becarefull they will attract the ladies:))

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.

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

hey mom and dad,

i bet you are a little suprized to see my email so early.we have a special comp exchange that starts on monday so they moved our p-day to saturday. this is just for next week. after that it should be the same. this week you can send your email as normal or wait till the following week to send it. i wont beable to read my email until december6 so if you dont want to write this week that is ok.
so how was thanksgiveme?

my thanks giving actually wasnt toobad. we went to an investigators house who we are really good friends with and we talked withthem for alittlebit and the made us dinner. i really hadnt planned anythingfor thanksgiving. i had a comp exchange the day before and it ended on thanksgiving so i didnt have preperation time. this dinner at the investigators house was way good. it wasnt the usual thanksgiving. it was done brazilian style. it was good and it had chicken. Pretty close to turkey so i am not complaining.

the other day we found this lady who speaks way good english and she said that her mom had met with the missionaries along time ago when sister missionaries used to live here. we talked to her for alittle bit and she said that she had been looking for the missionaries. She has 2 kids:11 and 4. she said that she wanted be a good mom and wanted to help her kids. she feltlike we could do that for her. She is right. we dont have a next appointment yet. she needed to talk to her husband first. i hope she calls ifnot we will definately give her a call. she is also very good in english. she said that she watches tv in english.

this week was a good week. had some fun and worked hard. Transfers are in acoulpe of weeks. dont know what will happen but i am excited to go and work where ever i need to. thanks for every thing by the way i havent got some msf rembursments in yet so i tooksome money out for trains. like 60 bucks. it gets expensive when you live far. sorry. most of that i can reimburse so i hsould have about40 bucks come back to me. love you, cant wait to hear from you next week.

Love,
elder christian price

Hey mom and dad,

this week for me was a good one. one of the best days we had was on friday. we went housing in the morning and often people dont really talk in the morning. so we housed and we were shut down pretty hard on most of the houses we knocked on and my comp was starting to get bothered by it but we continued. acouple houses later we got shut down by this lady who said she was a member of GLA. i have no clue what kind of religoin that is but i simply asked her what is that. I have never heard of that religion before. then she came out of her house and we talked for about20 min. about her ideas and she said that people dont just run into eachother by chance but that god planned it. she was way open to talking about religion. she actually welcomed it. it was amazing. she didnt become a new investigator that day but we got all of her information and plan on meeting her in the coming weeks. after that house we had alittle more time so we decided to work toward the direction of our bikes. the last do that we knocked on before our bikes was and old man. 60`s or 70`s and we talke to him for a good while about how he believes that god exists and how he believes that god is protecting his house and family. He also talked about haveing a good attitude and not being quick to judge. he was way cool. sometimes his japanese was hard to understand but i got the gist of it. he did become anew investigator and we plan on seeing him this week.
i am having a great time here in nabari. if i would have come here one transfer before i know that i would not be having such a great time as i am know. this is a good area even though there is almost no place to street. houses never move so it is easy to going to them. I feel that i was being prepared to come here. maybe not to do anything to crazy but to work here witha good attitude. before this i hated the idea of going to a place in the country side but now i love it and it is way fun.
life is great in the service of the lord.

i miss trevor. i am glad he gave a good talk. did he speak Romanian on accident of make funny sentences when we gave his talk? As missionaries in japan we always joke about that. i can tell that my english has gone down. i either make a funny sentence in english or I am only make the sentence in japanese and i dont know/remember how it translate itin to english. i occationaly think of my homecoming talk and how well i will speak because right now if i did it i would rather give my talk　in japanese. it just feels easier.

well, thanks for the emails and the testimony. it is always good to hear those.
Love
elder christian price

hey mom and dad,

sounds like this week was a good week. congratulations on the deer dad! cant wait to get back and go hunting and fishing.

life is going good. i am in a branch of about 30 people. good branch. very nice member. the branch/wards make a rescue list for activation. from that list ward members or ward presidency members try and help reactivate them. if members are doing it i am not sure. never really asked but as missionaries we definitely go and visit less actives and try to get them to come back to Church. we actually when yesterday after church. its really fun to do.

so my Portuguese hasn't improved that much. i got a new pmg in Japanese(kanji and hiragana only) so i have been way excited to read it. that kind of set my Portuguese on the back burner. it is hard to study both languages if i am not always studying and relay diligent. after a week the excitement of getting the new pmg will wear off so after that it might get better. but i really want to learn some Portuguese so i can understand what big-j says and then i can talk to Slater about it in Japanese. it will be way fun.

ok so my address is: miyaken, nabari-shi, konodai 3-43, if you type this in the way it is in google earth it will be hard to find but if you can type in the kanji you can find it really easy. i did it with a
less active on his i phone. i don't know the kanji now and it is really hard to type kanji so i will see what i can do. have fun!

i dont have that muchtime left. i cant afford to not work hard, i cant afford to have a wasted day. i started to realize this when i came to Nabari. i wish i would have had this sense of urgency when igot here but thats in the past. now is now and that s all i can worry about. this work is amazing. being able to teach in the language of my ancestors is a great blessing and opportunity. there is nothing iw ould rather be doing.

love,
elder christian price