Japan Ebetsu 22 months -4 weeks- 104 LAST ONE!!!!!!!!

Our district activity. We played Call of Duty. 

Mimura Eikaiwa. These are the funniest grandmas ever. 

The Ikeda family! 

The people that came to the concert. 

The Ikeda Family. I love them so much. 

Mimura san! I will miss her. 

Ikeda Raiki! I love him

Tada Shimai! She was in the MTC with me! 


Return with Honor

I can't believe how quickly it came. My last email. There is a lot I want to share, but I am going to keep it very simple. But before that my Mother will be SUPER angry with me if I don't talk about the concert we had this week. 

The concert was March 14th Saturday night. March 14th in Japan is White Day. White day is like Valentines day. The guys give chocolate and presents to the girls. Because in Japan, Valentines day is where the girls give presents to the guys. We were nervous for the turn out because a lot of our investigators said they might not be able to make it. Members said they were busy, and we only had about 10 people committed to coming. The whole week we went crazy inviting EVERYONE to come to the concert. We pinged a house and this lady comes out, probably in her 80's "do you like music?" "I LOVE MUSIC!!! I LOVE ELVIS!!!!!!!!! I AM COMING TO THE CONCERT!!!!" It was so funny. In the end she didn't make it to the concert, but a lot of people did! 5 minutes before the concert started there were about 10 people there. It was sooo sad. We then went up on the stage and started to get ready. 7:05 and people start flooding in. We say the opening prayer, open our eyes and the room is full. Everyone showed up on Mormon time, just in time to say Amen.

The concert was great. We stressed out so hard for it. The mics didn't sound good, we didn't know our music, we all sounded so flat, it looked like we were doing Karaoke, and we forgot a lot of our music. BUT it was a great concert. We had 2 members testify during the concert. Their testimonies were beautiful and non members in the crowd really felt the spirit. We sang a lot of fun songs, like a version of Poker Face that we made, some Avril Lagvine (spellcheck) and then we had a lot of serious songs, like Where love is, Love one another, and Come thou Fount. My favorite songs were a Japanese song "Ue o Muite, arukou" and Come Thou Fount. We had the whole crowd sing with us and it sounded sooo good. The spirit was really strong and some of the non-members REALLY felt it. Don't worry the ward members filmed all of it and are giving us cds, so there will be a way to see it. :) The best part of the concert were all my friends that came! The Ikeda family showed up! They came to surprise me! They drove about 2 hours from Tomakomai to come to see me! They walked in half-way into the concert and I almost cried. It was the greatest.

These last 2 years were truly the best two years of my life. 

I have grown so much. When I first started the mission, I thought that I would be companions with my trainer for the next 2 years. I thought that I never left my area and I would go to the mission home often. I though I would be teaching everyday and I would have tons of opportunities to talk to people. I thought I would be lucky if I came home seeing at least one baptism. I thought I would never be able to speak Japanese. These thoughts began to change as time went on. After my first transfer I learned that there are a thing called transfers and your companions leave you and you can leave you area! After my 4th transfer I learned that you don't go to the mission home often, and that teaching is a great opportunity but you have to find investigators to teach. Around my 6th or 7th transfer I learned that I can get around with my Japanese and kind of say what I want to say. 1 year in and I saw my first baptism. I thought this was going to be the only baptism I saw. I was happy with all I have done and was ready to keep working. My testimony was getting stronger but still had so much room to grow. 10th and 11th transfer. I worked and worked. Investigators kept getting close to baptism but just couldn't quite make it. 12th and 13th. My testimony was at its peak. The trials kept coming and coming and Heavenly Father blessed me with the greatest blessing ever, a family baptism. This family changed my life forever. They taught me so much. Teaching them and being apart of their life taught me what I came on my mission to learn.

I came here to learn what is most important. I talked about it awhile ago in my email, but in the end it comes right back to that. Returning to live with Heavenly Father. That is my goal. That is all I want. To be with Him, and my family for forever. Everything I have learned over these 2 years will help prepare me to return. To be a better, son, brother, husband and father. 

My ward mission leader shared with me yesterday how when I come home, the leader I become will be my gift to my mission president. That will be how my mission president knows that he was successful. Not only will my mission president know that he was successful, my parents will know. They have prepared me more that anyone. They have taught me everything I needed to know and their prayers carried me the whole way. 

I am so ready to come home and become a better person everyday. I am so not ready to leave. But I know that no matter what, no matter where I am, I know that Heavenly Father loves me and will help me. I know I am a Child of God. I know what is most important. I know this church is true. 

I love you all. Thank you so much for these 2 years. Be excellent to each other.

-Mecham Choro. 

Japan Ebetsu 21 months -3 weeks- 103

Iida Shimai! This week I was able to go back to Moiwa for mission tour and Iida Shimai came to see me! I found her almost exactly a year ago and had the opportunity to teach her a few times. I haven't seen her since, but she got baptized and then came to see me! I was so happy! Add caption

This picture kills me. 

I also got to go visit the Tomita family!!! Last time I will see them. They are the best.

We look so good. 


Every Moment Matters

I have been thinking about what to write about for awhile but, I still have no idea. I am just going to type and hope it comes out right. 

Coming to the end of a mission is weird. There will be times when we are outside finding, teaching an investigator, over at a members house or just walking and it will hit me that I may not ever see this road, person or house again. It freaks me out and helps me work harder. A lot of people have been asking me lately if I am trunky. The answer is yes. I am trunky. I feel that if a missionary says they are not trunky they are lying.I am so excited to see my family and friends. YET I am not ready to go home. That is because I still have a week and a few days left. I am still able to focus 100% in the work, but there are other things I have to think about, things I have to prepare for. 

This week we had miracles where we were able to teach! On Wednesday President Ringwood of the Seventy and his wife (Elder Nelson one of the 12 apostles daughter!) came to speak to us. (Oh and apparently Elder Nelson is coming to Sapporo to speak 3 days after I come home. I am going to ask if I can fly home 3 days later. But my mom would kill me) Anyway he spoke to us about the importance of teaching. We talked A LOT about Moroni 10 and the exhortations that are written in it. The things he is exhorting us to do. He talked about how in order to teach we need the spirit, but in order to have the spirit we need to teach. It was interesting. Lately my companion and I haven't been teaching many investigators, so he suggested that we teach members, teach to other missionaries, teach to your companion. Just the opportunity to share your testimony will be enough to help you have the spirit. He talked about a lot of other things, like getting married, becoming truly converted, having regrets and like such as. But what stood our the most to me was how important the scriptures are. 

I think it every time we have a special guest come speak to us. They are so good at using their scriptures and they speak very powerfully. I committed to reading the scriptures harder and focusing a lot more when I read. It was a great meeting. 

I would love to talk about what we did this week, but really it is not that exciting. We met with 4 of our investigators. (yes that is right we made 4 investigators!!!!) But they are all very very weak, to the point where they really have no interest in the message, but like us so they are listening. It is a lot harder to teach when it is that way. But we are so grateful for the opportunity we had to teach. Other than that we got ready for our concert next week, visited some members and tried to meet with less active members, but they all rejected us. 

The things we have been doing lately aren't exactly the most exciting, but every moment has had a huge impact on me. Everything somebody says, every smile, dirty look somebody gives me, all of it. I love it all. Every moment is important. I am doing my best to take it all in these last few weeks and share as much as I can about the truths I know. 

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is true. I love you all. Be excellent to each other.

-Mecham Choro. 

Japan Ebetsu 21 months -2 weeks- 102

My best friends came to eikaiwa this week! Miyake Kun and his friend Eri Chan! Miyake kun came to the concert we did. So good to see him again.

The cute kid in the front. Hiromu. He makes the picture perfect. 

We tried a new kind of heart attack. 

This was my favorite heart

No good pictures this week. Sorry! This is the last one. Love you all!

                                               Testimony and Conversion

This week we spent so much time finding. We did a lot of housing and talked to a lot of people. We have only one investigator right now (and that investigator is busy) so we needed to find some people to teach. We spent so much time planning. Thinking about where we should go, who we should visit, what members may have referrals, what old investigators we should visit ect. We made some really great plans and went out to go find these people. For the amount of time we spent finding this week we had a lot of contacts. We talked to a ton of people, yet we saw no success. The old investigators rejected us. The less active members quit the church. The members have no friends(?.... I was confused as well.) And the people we talked to had no interest. It was hard! Seriously hard. We had one day where we found this REALLY good looking area. Lots of new houses and we saw a lot of young people walking around. This was our chance to go find young families! People hid in their houses. About 10 of the 120 houses we pinged, actually answered the inter-phone. BUT the people that did answer rejected us SUPER nicely so we considered it a huge success. 

I spent a lot of time thinking about our finding. I felt horrible for my companion. He just barely got to the mission and has yet to teach a lesson to an investigator we have found. We have spent hours and hours of finding, yet have not found anyone to teach. We made great plans to help members, to work with them and receive referrals, yet the members seem to be too busy. It was pretty depressing. I though about other missionaries, who on their last transfer work sooo hard and see TONS of miracles. I thought about my work and if it just wasn't good enough. I have had these times before on my mission and have learned how to get over these trials, but it was just weird to me that I had to have this trial again on my last transfer. A few weeks before coming home. 

As I thought about this my answer came to me. Yesterday while sitting in church thinking about how I can help the struggling ward members who were arguing with each other, I looked down at the Liahona talk which we were studying. It was Pres. Eyring (Spellcheck) talk in the February Liahona, Testimony and Conversion. We began talking about it and the members all had their different opinions on how and why we need to be converted. I tried really hard to feel the spirit, but was too distracted. I started to read the talk to regain focus when I read about missionaries. I talked about how missionaries rely on the spirit to know what to teach and how to help people change. It had nothing to do with what we were currently talking about, but I got my answer. 

I am having this last trial to seal my conversion. I am proving to the Lord just how much I love him. I am showing him that I will give Him my everything, even when it may seem like I am seeing nothing. I am committing to live my life as He would have me live, to obey His commandment and truly love everyone around me. I am learning what true conversion is and what it means to become like the Savior. 

My companion and I talked one night about the miracles we have been seeing lately to try and get our dendo fire up. We were pretty down and had a hard time listing off miracles. I now know the biggest and most important miracle I saw was the change I had. 

I love you all so very much. Be excellent to each other.

-Mecham Choro. 

Japan Ebetsu 21 months -1 week--my new suit. 101

We all bought turtle juice and drank it. hahah the sisters bought energy drinks. too funny. 

my new suit. 

Teaching English to the cutest kids ever! 

The Taira family. The coolest member family in all of Hokkaido. 

YES


Being Bold

There were some really funny, interesting, eye-opening moments this week. I don't have a lot of time, so I will just go over a few. 

We had a role play lesson scheduled with a member. This members faith is VERY strong and she was so excited to help us. We invited the Sister missionaries to come as well and we all went to teach. We got there and the member was so excited that she started the lesson with a testimony. She is the greatest. In that testimony my companion randomly got a very strong impression. He felt that we needed to go visit a kid in Jr. High that we met last week. He said he was busy and doesn't really have interest in religion, so we weren't able to make a return appointment. Well this was right before we were going to start the lesson with the member. I turned to my companion and asked, "when do we need to go?" He said a prayer and the lesson started. We did our best to teach, but the member got so excited she would often stop the lesson so she could share a story or her testimony with us. Haha it was the greatest. The lesson ended, we prayed and my companion jumped up and said, "okay! We have to go!" The member looked at us, "what?! No! I made bread!" the bread smelt soooo good. We apologized as we quickly ran to the door. On our way out she said to us "wow. Well there is this guy who lives next to me. I am trying to share the gospel with him. We will talk more about it later" YES! Referral! 

The interesting part of this story is that the kid lives an hour away from the place where we were at. We had no idea how to get there or why we needed to be there. In fact, I didn't even feel like we needed to be there, but my companion did. We eventually found his house and pinged his door. Nobody was home. We left a note and then left. It was a really interesting experience. It was one of those, "I have no idea why I am here, but I am doing what I know I need to be doing" moments.

In my prayers lately, I have been praying to be more bold, to work my hardest, to end my mission in the greatest way possible. We have not been finding many investigators and have not been seeing a lot of success, so I felt that my prayers are going unanswered. A few nights ago I realized that the Lord has been answering my prayers and has been providing me with SOO many opportunities to be bold. Inviting less active members back to church. Inviting Eikaiwa students to church, calling missionaries to repentance, and much more. Yet I didn't realize that these are opportunities to be bold. I then quickly changed my attitude and took every chance I could to be more bold. 

The week ended with a testimony building experience. We went to teach a family investigator with the sister missionaries. The mom of the family investigator has been an investigator for over 15 years. The husband has just barely started to listen to the lessons again. We went over and talked to them for a very long time. They shared with us their reasons for listening, their reasons for not coming to church and why they feel like they can't commit. Because they feel that they don't need it. They are happy where they are right now and they are not ready to sacrifice and change. They then asked a missionary about their conversion story. This missionary is from Japan so they asked what it was like being a member in Japan. The missionary said that they were too scared to let people know that they were a member. They never brought it up and they never shared when they were asked. They hated going to church and then one day it just changed. One day they realized that life is really hard with out the church and they decided to serve. 

The family took it all in and said, "yeah. Our time is just not yet. We need more faith." 

Sister Oxborrow ended the lesson by giving them a picture she drew. It had the word Courage written on it. It was to help remind them that when the time does come to change, that they are bold, and they have the courage to act. 

I am ready to take any opportunity I have to be bold, to testify and share His love with everyone I see. 

I love you all so much. Be excellent to each other.

-Mecham Choro.   

Japan Ebetsu 20 months 4 weeks- 100

Toyoshima shimai, kyoudai came to say goodbye to Elder Sakamura and I! Too nice of them. I love them. (they are Chitose.Eniwa members.)

we went bowling. like studs. 

its me! 

The new missionaries! 

this is the gospel group we partied with. 

Everyone was taking pictures with the snow. So we took it with this. 

Velasquez Choro, I and the snow. 

                                                           One Second Every Day

I learned this week that if there is a Friday the 13th in February then there will be a Friday the 13th in March! That was a crazy thing for me. 

Anyways... this week was great. Lots of finding. Lots of Sadness. Lots of Happiness and lots of fun. 

First I had my last Zone Conference on my mission. That is the conference where the returning missionaries all share their testimonies. I bore my testimony about the things I have learned throughout my mission and the joy that missionary work brings. I talked about the most important thing you can do on your mission, which is to truly convert yourself. It was a great testimony meeting and I loved feeling the spirit. THEN! I GOT TO SEE MEET THE MORMONS!! You have to understand how excited I was for this movie. Before seeing any of the amazing movies that may have come out while I was on my mission, I wanted to go see Meet the Mormons. We were able to watch that at our Zone Conference and it was a dream come true. It was everything I wanted, and more. I cried the whole time. It was a mess. I am going to make my children watch that movie every week and then share it to all of their friends. Too good. From there we got to go to The Snow Festival. This is the last one I got to go to, and probably the last in my life. Looking at the snow was a lot of fun, but I started to get cold. Then we came to this one snow statue and there was a stage in front of it. All of the sudden some dancers came out and we were about to leave when over 80 people came out and started singing gospel songs. All of the missionaries got together and had a dance party to gospel songs. Only the missionaries were freaking out and then people started to see how much fun we were having singing about Jesus, so they joined in. It was the greatest. 

Okay now to Friday the 13th. Usually I like to make these good days. Well it was a pretty bad day. First we were way tired from finding the whole week and having no success. We have no investigators so we did nothing but finding and found no one. Not a single person was nice to us (is what it felt like) That night we had band practice scheduled with Hikaru kun and an hour before he was going to be at the church for practice he calls us. "So Mecham Choro... sorry, but I can't play in the concert at the church. My dad is against it and he won't let me play at the church. I also can't listen to any church talks that you guys share with me." NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Our bassist left the band. It made me sooo sad. We had so many ideas and were so ready to do a great concert at the church, well we had to cancel that and now we are thinking of ideas for a new concert. We will still do it no matter what, just with out a bass. We are looking for a Kalphone(? the box that you sit on and hit, they have it in acoustic bands...?)

That was Friday and then Saturday came with many blessings. We did a lot of phone dendo the day before and had no success, then right after a depressing saturday study, the phone rings with a call from one of the people we called the day before. He was willing to meet and came to the church an hour after we talked to him. He is an old investigator who just got busy and didn't meet, but now is full of time and can meet whenever! YES! Miracle! 

Sunday was the hit of the week for me. We went to visit a less active member. The member who let us borrow a bass. He was super nice and had a lot of energy that day for some reason. Then out of nowhere he starts going off in a testimony. He starts talking to us about all of the things he has been learning lately and how much we need to take advantage of the time we have left on our missions. He is a return missionary and has been thinking about his mission a lot lately. He was studying and learned that if you waste one second every day for a year (wasting meaning, sitting there doing nothing) you waste a total of 6 minutes that whole year. Okay so if you waste one minute each day, you waste a total of 2 weeks in a year. Now add sleeping time to that, now add eating, then travel, brushing your teeth, cleaning the dishes, ect. How much time do you have left? He showed us that there is less time than we think we have. If we get the things done in life that we have to do, like cleaning, shopping, getting ready ect. and do it as quick as possible, then you will have more time to focus on the things you want. This was great info as far as a worldly perspective is, but then we took it to gospel. If you waste one minute a day for a year during your mission you wasted 2 weeks. That time isn't your time. It is His time. In those two weeks think of all the good you could have done. Think of all the people you could have saved. All 3 of us took in the moment and committed to working harder. I only have 4 weeks left. I have no time to waste.
I love you all so very much! Be excellent to each other!

-Mecham Choro. 

Japan Ebetsu 20 months 3 weeks- 99

                                                                                      we look sooo good.

Yes. My best friends. The Henmi family. 

The picture quality is bad again, but look who I got to see!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kawashima Shimai! hahaha she wants to come home to America with me... 

I got my hair cut for 30$ this week. It is usually 80$.. hahaha these are the attractive men that cut our hair hahahaha it was so funny because apparently this hair salon is only for women. 

my last companion. Sorry the picture is kinda bad quality

So this was our last lunch as a district and we ate a place where you can order a kilo of meat and tons TONS TONS of food with it, and it you eat it all in 15 minutes it is free. We made these two elders do it and took pictures with them. It was so gross and awesome. 

They came to say hi to us at the transfer spot then we all went out to eat and missionaries followed. There were over 50 missionaries in one store. 


Last Transfer

It came a lot faster than I thought it would. I got my last transfer call. I am training for my last transfer in Ebetsu. I am so happy to be staying in Ebestu and training is going to be a lot of fun. I will also miss Elder Velasquez so much. Please enjoy the pictures we took of ourselves. 

I went to the mission home on Wednesday to go pick up my new companion. All of the trainers went into the mission presidents office to have a quick workshop and then go meet our companions. I walked in the room and saw my MTC companion! He is training as well! I was so happy to see him. Nakatsuka Kaicho talked to us about the need to be confident, but humble. He said that some of us felt insecure and inadequate to train, some of us felt confident and ready to go (I was that one) yet no matter what we need to rely on the Lord. He said that being nervous and having fear/doubt shows that you will rely on the Lord for help. I was then humbly chastised, repented and went upstairs to meet my companion.
His name is Elder Skinner from Tokyo! He is half Japanese so his Japanese is perfect. More than an American with fluent Japanese, he is a Japanese with fluent English. We communicate in English, but his Japanese is 100 time better than mine. It is so helpful. From there we were able to go out and dendo. We walked around and talked to people on the streets, had some hard rejections, had little 9 year old girls talk to us in fluent English, then we visited Ran san. One of my old investigators from when I was in Moiwa. He is not meeting with the missionaries because it became winter and too cold for him to come to the door or go to church hahaha, but it was warm that day so he came out. He told us he still reads the book of mormon every night and wants to be baptized, as soon as it is warm haha. No. Come to church. 

We came back to the mission home and had dinner and a testimony meeting. The dinner was so much fun. The group of new missionaries are so full of energy and they all sing. So they randomly busted out into some pound your fists on the table song, and then reverently sang the Efy medley haha. The testimony meeting was emotional. Usually it is just the new missionaries that share their testimonies and the trainers listen, well it is different now. Anyone who wants to can share their testimonies. I really felt the spirit, and I had the opportunity to share my testimony. It was a weird feeling. I stood up near the door, looked at everyone and started to testify about the importance of sharing your testimony. I shared some things I have learned on my mission and then realized, in 5 more weeks I will be standing at that exact same spot, giving my last testimony in Japan. It was so hard not to cry. I am not ready to go home yet, which is why I still have this last transfer. 

Hokkaido is probably going to explode this transfer from how hard we will be working. We are doing another concert. We are probably going to baptize at least 250 families and learn soooo much everyday. I am so excited and ready to grow even more these last few weeks. I love you all so much. Be excellent to each other.

-Mecham choro.

oh... I forgot to talk about a guy who fed us at a really expensive sushi place... so we have no investigators right now. only this one guy who is schizophrenic. He talked to us about how crows teach him things, how an animal broke into his head and put a white thing in his brain that gave him a 'super screen' so he can see the future. I am so happy this is the first person that my new companion had the opportunity to teach hahaha. We then gave him a Book of Mormon. 

Japan Ebetsu 20 months 2 weeks- 98

Arm wrestling. It warmed up the Less actives hearts and then they prayed. 

The Tofu Cheesecake band.

Band Practice. 

My best friends from Eniwa Chitose!

This is what we played to. My best friends. There were over 50 people in this cafe. 

This was right before we were going to play. 

This guy got super emotional during the concert. He is a writer. I love him. We are hanging out with him this week. He also has a mouth of a horse. 

Ugly pictures with random college kids.

We are sooo hot. 

                                                              Tofu Cheesecake

 It was like living in a tv drama this week. The week started out with going to visit a less active member who ran a business pitch to us so we acted like business men and then went out to eat like fancy business men. Too funny. I wish I could talk more about it, but I have no time and a picture will explain it all. 

The rest of the week was band practice and sickness recovery. I was not sick to the point where I couldn't go outside and work, but I was.....'ill'. My companion had a day where he was so nasty sick. He couldn't speak and just slept the whole day. I practiced, wrote some songs and finished writing all of the lyrics. 

Wednesday came around and we had band practice with Hikaru kun (our bassist) by throat was shot and my companion sounded like a 800 year old turtle. There was this random guy who sat in during our practice and gave us A TON of pressure. We all sucked so hard and Hikaru kun got way scared for the concert. We went home all awkward feeling and insecure about the concert. 

Thursday we practiced more to master our songs and at least semi-memorize them. Friday comes around and I wake up and my voice is not working. I couldn't speak. My companion did not let me try to talk and I drank lemon juice with ginger and honey the whole day. That night we had our band practice with Hikaru and it was too dramatic.
Hikaru comes up to me and says "Hey Mecham Choro.. I wont be able to play tomorrow. I don't feel ready and I don't want people to think I suck because then I get depressed." WHAT THE?! NO! The random guy who sat in on the Wednesday practice was there again, same with our best friend Mimura san (the owner of the cafe) and they went to town. They started attacking Hikaru with love and telling him how great he is and how much we need him in the band. We practiced and had a lot of fun and then went home with Hikaru saying "I will let you know tomorrow if I decide to play" NO! Tomorrow was the day of the performance and he left us hanging. 

Saturday shows up, the day of the concert and Hikaru comes to practice. He plays with us but has still not decided if he will play or not. We had an intense staff meeting with some random college student and a mom and her kid and Mimura san. She ran the schedule by us and we set up for the concert. It was about 20 minutes before doors were going to open and Hikaru says.. "Okay.. I will play!" YES!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

The doors open and they hid the band in a back room. So we sat there and talked to Hikaru for about 30 minutes about his life. He is a really cool kid and let us pray together. He was really nervous but as soon as we prayed he calmed down and we were able to focus and get ready. The concert started out with some dramatic walk out where my companion comes out and starts playing guitar, then Hikaru walks out and plays bass, then I walk out and play piano and sing. It was too good. People started screaming and then we did our concert. The best songs were Hey Jude. Random Japanese people sang along and waved their hands. Faith was also great because everyone stomped their feet for us the whole time because we really needed a beat. Darkness was magical and college students who are writers started to cry. It really hit them. Love one another was great and everyone felt the spirit. The concert was a huge success. We got 8 numbers. A ton of new investigators, awesome friends and best memory of 2015. 

So much more I could talk about and explain, but no time. Pictures will do the talking.

I want to end with a huge miracle. Yesterday we went to the Takamastu family for dinner. Their kids are all inactive and living hard lives. They don't keep the commandments at all and don't want to be apart of the church. They like missionaries and will talk to us, but there has always been a wall with church stuff. Last night we became really really good friends with them and asked the oldest son to pray for us before we leave. He prayed. The spirit was so strong and when he finished he jumped up from his knees, put his fist in the air and screamed, "YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FIRST PRAYER IN 3 YEARS!!!!!!!!!!" it was a great ending to a perfect week.
I love you all so much. Be excellent to each other.

-Mecham Choro.