Japan 8 months 3 weeks-47

  Baptismal making pants....They are beautiful 

This is a lady who carries a bunny with her everywhere she goes, Elder Sunny. The bunny that my companion is holding is President Thomas S. Monson. The other one is a missionary that is serving right now. (Elder Rodenberg) Mom expect a friend request soon hahahaha. She takes TONS of pictures of the missionaries and requests to be their friends on facebook so she can tag them in the photos. This picture basically describes this whole event. It was a raw chocolate party and we all made raw organic chocolate. HAHAHA it was the greatest. 

This is everyone that went to the onsen with us. This was the hotel that the onsen was in

This is when we went to the onsen. The public bath. 

This is the Henmi family. The youngest son is not in the picture. But this is the family we visit all the time and they are now coming back to church! Oh and this is how messy their house is. Yes. We are still unpacking with them. 

The Oda Shimai dinner appointment. (Mom this is the member that sends you letters) OH! expect one soon! I just corrected a letter for her. 

I feel good I feel great I feel wonderful. 

This is a random picture that my companion took and I just stole it from his memory card. This is Japan. 

Well this last P-day we did a great activity called "Treat yo' self 2014". This means that we took out some of our personal moneys and had a party. We went to a store and bought ourselves some beautiful new pants and they became our baptismal date making pants! THAT IS RIGHT BAPTISMAL DATE!!!! 

The lady we met a few weeks ago that wouldn't tell me her name, now has a baptismal date. Her name is Hasegawa san by the way. We went over and taught them the Plan of Salvation. We teach her with her grandson so we have to teach very very simply and it is a lot of fun. I got a puzzle from my friend Jennifer Martins and that puzzle helped SO much this last lesson. It kept the grandson so interested and focused and asking questions. We taught them, they asked questions, and it ended beautifully. We talked about how we need to be baptized to be able to return to live with God and our Families forever and asked her if she will be baptized to have this joy. At first she just said 'Yeah..' but it was a pretty vague yes. So we testified even harder and it ended with her saying YES. We were going to ask her grandson as well, but he fell asleep right when we extended the commitment. (too much spirit for him) He was probably having a vision anyway. Well that lesson was a huge miracle. Her interest spiked and she progressed so much. We had an appointment scheduled with them yesterday, but she got sick and we weren't able to meet them. We are calling them today though to meet with them this week. Basically they are the greatest. 

Our goals this transfer is to have the Hasegawa family get baptized and to find another family. I love focusing on families. Families are amazing. They are so much fun to teach and this is the first time I have done it. It is very rare to find families who want to listen all together, but it will happen! We are working our hardest! 

Other then that we didn't really have a lot this week. We did a lot of finding and pinging doors. Almost all of our appointments fell through, but that is okay we will meet with them this week. Sorry for the really short and probably really boring letter, but this picture of me in my beautiful new baptismal making pants makes it all worth it. LOVE YOU ALL. Be excellent to each other. 

-Mecham Choro. 

Answers to questions: Onsens are anywhere and everywhere, but nice ones are in hotels sometimes. You can go to them anywhere they are. There are rec center status onsens and then there are rich people onsens it just depends on where you go. It is really birthday bathing suit naked. You have a little towel, but basically everyone puts it on their heads. Average person in Japan goes like once a month. Old people once a week. The one I went to was 15 dollars, but normal is like 3 dollars. I TOTALLY DID A FLIP TURN IN THE POOL! IT WAS SO AWKWARD! The towel is basically used for looks. Haven't had the high school experience yet, the lady needs to talk to her boss first. I am going to talk about the lady who wouldn't tell me her name in my email. It is good. The heater is gas.  For FHE we play minute to win it games, sing hymns and eat cake and have a message.