How are things there? I got to Japan safe and sound, everything here is super cool and even though I still cant understand anything I love it! The plane ride here was long and very boring but I slept a bunch and caught up on my rest. The area I'm going to be in for the next 12 weeks
(supposedly) is called Iwamizawa and my trainer's name is Elder Tamashiro. He`s from Hawaii and is fun to hang with and talk to and is a really hard worker. How is everything there? Was Christmas good? I had a great Christmas I talked to mom and dad, gave a talk in church and then went to dinner at the Branch Presidents house. All in all a pretty good day with missionary work mixed in.
The rule is I'm not supposed to send emails to anyone not related to me just so everyone knows, yeah. We don't have any investigators at the moment so that means that we do a lot of tracting and such. (The reason we have no investigators is because of Christmas and New Years) So all of our appointments are set for about a month from now.
So I suppose I should do a run through of the trip to Japan. So first we get on a little island hopper from salt lake to Portland. And of course they spread everyone out so I sit next to this awesome lady and we start talking. Her name is Cindy Blake and she is the mother of the Blake that plays for the Lakers so that was way cool. I introduced the Book of Mormon and gave her a pass-a-long card and we talked for the entire two hour flight.
So our group gets to Portland and we have just enough time to call home and grab a bite to eat before we get on our delta flight across the
pacific. I sat in between Elders Rindlisbacher and Turley both of whom are awesome but we were in the VERY BACK of the plane but it was kinda nice. We all just slept and studied the entire way there and so we get to Narita airport in Japan and I walk off the plane and the rest of my travel team had left me. So much, not cool, was going on. So I stuck with the Tokyo and Sendai missionaries through immigration and low and behold there is the rest of my travel team waiting around the conveyor belt for their luggage. So now reunited and with out luggage we head through customs saying goodbye to all the people that we've just spent the last 2 and 1\2 months with and off we go... to the wrong terminal! (someone gave us bad directions) so we book it back to the terminal that we started at and make it to our flight just in time (PS, everything that could have gone wrong in between our flights without us actually missing it, did) so now we`re on the plane to take us to Sapporo and I konk out. We land in Sapporo and our mission president, his wife and the assistants are all waiting to greet us. We stopped and got some ramen(which was delicious) and took off for the mission home. I got my companion and now I'm in the coldest, snowiest place in all of japan. I'll take pics and send them home. But yeah I love and miss everyone.
Love, Parker
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