Paintings, 53 bowls of cereal, and lesson on prayer

Konichiwa tomagatchi to kozoku!

This week has been busy! i can't imagine that it is aready Thurdsay again. Here is my recap.

Thurday

After I finished emailing. We went to the Provo Temple again. We rented clothes and I go a size of pants that were too small so I had to trade them in. After getting the new pair we went to the session, I then realized I didn't have my locker key. I thought i had just left it in the locker. NOPE! it was in the washing machine. Thank goodness for master keys.

Friday

We went to the Togan building to do online Japanese study (the better version of Roseta Stone). We then found out that the Tongans get these really nice chairs. So we found an emty classroom and did a little switcherooo. We also found a lot of paintings in emty classrooms so we decided to beautify our rooom by adding 3 more paintings. Sadly our teacher made us return them becuase we "dont want to make everyone else jealous of our multile paintings"

Saturday

We were all pretty tired in class so our teacher had us race....I came in second to the runner, but in the process i pulled my hamstring. Needless to say Ibprophen has been my friend. 

Sunday

Our district has been joking about eating a bunch of cereal to set a record. The current record was 13 bowls of cereal by a sister (probably tongan). We couldn't let that happen. After 53 bowls of cereal between 6 of us we were all tasting cereal for a few hours. Reed choro ate 15 bowls by himself and has been sick recently (conection?). Church was good, the missionaries have to speak in nehongo which turns to me understanding about have of sacrement. We go on a lot of temple walks on Sunday to enjoy some fresh air. That my my doryo and I joined choir, Brother Edgett is the director. I knew he looked familiar and realized he is the chorister for the Mormon Tablernacle Choir sometimes. That night we had a devotional given by director of Media in the Church. IT WAS AMAZING! He showed us the imortance of Mormon.org, and how it is such a useful tool. He showed us the video #itwasmom. I would highly reccomend anyone reading this to watch it. 

Monday

That morning we decided to have a little fun in the showers so we blasted the "rubber ducky song" by voicemale with my companions seakers.IT was hilarious to walk around campus and hear others singing/humming along. My companion and I watched mormon messages in japanese! They are pretty cool! i can't wait to get there! We taught three lessons (one was to our teacher, then the other two were to volunteers from byu). We got to teach a native! Thank goodness people are patient as we flip through dicionaries frantically. 

Tuesday

I started learning piano again! It is a big help to stress, I hope to be decent by the time I get home. We went to choir again and sang "We are all enlisted". It was a really good arrangement. The devotional was given by a member of the seventy. He was a surgeon, and spoke on the temptations of the adversary. He compared the MTC to boot camp. 

Wednesday

We hung up the international flags around campus for service (they let another district do the leaves ((without the leaf blower)) ). They said we are the last group to do it as they will be tearing them out within the week. There is a lot of remodeling going on here. My companion and I taught a lesson again to Toshii (our teacher, he role plays someone he taught on his mission). I took the lesson by the reigns this time and taught him how to pray step by step. He was so impressed that he had me share it with the class. He even understood my Jaanese! Careful planning and listening is key!

Today
One of the elders in my room thought it would be funny to hit me with a pillow to wake me up this morning. After tackling him, I don't thing he will be doing that again. 

The work is moving fast! I can't wait to be in Japan!

Love you all,

Dunn Chourou

Dunn (cho-dough)