Email #31       May 25, 2015

Dearest Family and Friends,

I am exhausted! This past week was awesome, I'll just give a quick recap of the past two weeks because I'm so wiped. The week before last was awesome, we taught a lot of lessons and had a lot of fun. Our investigators are doing well, we had a lesson with a new one named Yamanaka last week that went really well! We gave him a Book of Mormon when we found him, and he had read 15 pages between then and our first lesson! It was awesome. We're meeting him again tomorrow, but I'll be on exchanges so I won't see him. Last p day was amazing, Nikko was a blast. We then went to the BYU Wind symphony concert in Tokyo and I got to see a bunch of friends from the MTC and Sanjo. We have temple p day next Tuesday, so I won't email until then. It's going to be a blast, my first one! I think that is one of the times I feel most happy, just seeing my buddies. It reminds me of Alma 17:2 and 3: "...Alma did rejoice exceedingly to see his brethren; and what added more to his joy, they were still his brethren in the Lord; yea, and they had waxed strong in the knowledge of the truth; for they were men of a sound understanding and they had searched the scriptures diligently, that they might know the word of God. But this is not all; they had given themselves to much prayer, and fasting; therefore they had the spirit of prophecy, and the spirit of revelation, and when they taught, they taught with power and authority of God." It's so legit that we're brothers in the Lord, spreading His gospel together. I love those guys. This week also went really well, we taught a lot of lessons and found a couple cool people. Arnaldo had a cool experience this past week. He's been working on the Word of Wisdom lately and loved coffee. He drank it like water before we taught him the Word of Wisdom. Now, he hates it! It gives him a really bad stomach ache whenever he drinks it. Super cool. Now he just needs to stop smoking! On Saturday, we went to a mountain really early in the morning and dedicated Oyama for missionary work. It was a really cool experience. Today we woke up early and went to seminary and we were the only ones that showed up until the last 5 minutes! Reminds me of high school. It was a great week! Love you all, have a wonderful week and a day, talk to you on Tuesday!

Love,

Elder Calhoun

1) Me and Yamanaka, he's the man! After our lesson, our first one, he

gave us mango soda!

2) We went went and happy birthdayed a youth's house from the ward

3) There was this random guy with a ferret at Nikko, he was holding it

up so it could watch the parade. No idea why

Have a wonderful week!

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