Hello Everyone!
> Greeting from Kitami, Japan. Things are going swell here. The weather
> lately has been lovely, almost a little too good when we are biking up
> to that investigators house that lives at the very top of the hills.
> But hey, no complaints from us. Transfer 1 has just ended, Ive been
> here 6 weeks now, sometimes it feels like alot less, and sometimes it
> feels like alot more, but I am loving it. I am still getting used to
> people staring and school girls giggling as we go by. Either God
> really loves us or we are very lucky, as my "nearly being run over by
> people not looking both ways when they pull out onto the road" is at
> about 7, lets just say Ive come within inches of a few bumpers. The
> other day someinvestigators gave us some tasty food, we call them
> "tako balls" (tako is Octopus) since it is just an octopus tentacle
> with suckers and all fried in some kind of dumpling thing, it was
> chewy but good. Our investigators are well, we have 3 baptism dates
> and one guy who is golden, we are working hard with him and everyone
> else so there should be some miracles soon. Other than that not much
> is going on, we are making every Preparation Day an adventure. Lots of
> fun, and lots of hard work. There was a missionary I got to know well
> who just finished and went home a few days ago, he said: "a mission is
> like being held in the arms of Jesus while Satan is standing there
> punching you". Im beggining to understand what he means. Please keep
> all the missionaries out there in your prayers, we need all the help
> we can get. Everyone have fun and write sometime!
>
> Elder Andrew Kade Jones
>