You know when Peter Parker gets bit by a spider and the next day wakes up with crazy cool powers and such? well i mean you could say they should call me Parker choro because that is the only way to explain this. Ive been waking up on time totally fine, enduring 50 billion hours of study time, not worrying about not having my phone or any communication with the outside world, learning a million things a day, not hugging or flirting with girls, and not having dr pepper and being fine. On the flipside might as well call me Elder Rupunzel because I feel like everyday and every night I am just waiting for my life to begin. Just kinda stare out the window wondering what the outside is like... I CANT WAIT TO GET OUT OF THIS TOWER!! Also im probably the prettiest elder here so I mean...
These Emails are going to be all over the place and terrible grammar but ill try to keep it semi understandable. So my first week was good but it was also the LONGEST WEEK OF MY LIFE! I swear I have been here for like a month! My companions are Kenin Richards Choro and Blake Barnett Choro. They are great and so nice! I got here not really knowing where I was supposed to go they kept saying i was leaving in 2 weeks and then i changed probably like 20 times back and forth. After a very confusing and frustrating week i was told yesterday that i will not leave till Sept 29. So that sucks but I mean its all for a reason I guess. The class I am in has been here for 3 weeks now and it is insanely easy for me. Its stuff i knew when i was 5 so its been pretty hard. I keep myself busy by learning gospel terms and such. I help the other members of my district a lot and its good practice for me. I just kinda wish i was leaving on monday.... but i know its all for a reason. The hardest thing about being a missionary is always being with your companion... no alone time :/ its killing me!!! All i have to say about the sisters here is they wear a lot of bows...... :/ asking people what their first names are after calling them Elder or sister something is probably the weirdest thing in the whole entire world
My Week
First Day
I got dropped off and said bye to my family which was probably the hardest thing ive ever had to do. I was greeted by a ton of people it felt a little bit better. Parker Wilson was my host and he was a great one such a nice guy! i got through orientation and such and it was good I was with a bunch of nihongin. They welcomed us and the coolest part was when they called out every single place that our group was from and they stood up when where they were from got called. it is amazing to see missionaries from all over the world go out to every part of the world all sharing a common message and sharing God and Christs love. At the end we sang "the army of helaman" and the lyrics were changed to " we are now the lords missionaries" and a few other lyric changes brought tears to my eyes but im a baby. We had a workshop and we kind of role played helping a investigator. the person leading it said your only job is to love this person. It really got me thinking that this is about individual people and their needs. I need to cater to them and all i need to do is love them the rest will come. I am going to teach people not lessons!
The rest of the days are all jumbled up. the days here arent really days they are just like one long day with a few naps in between. The days here are either like the worst most awful thing in the world or the best thing.
We teach our teachers acting as investigators. They play the investigators that they taught on their mission. My heart breaks for them and their problems and I want to help them so bad. I hate just studying to study but studying for an investigator is the coolest thing in the world. I find that if I have someone in mind that i am teaching it helps me find so many things. I cant wait for it to be real people!
Its cool using japanese so much its like learning to ride a bike again i know just about everything and its cool remembering it. Translating in my head is the hard because i use different parts of my brain for Japanese its really cool to think that way its kinda like i have two personalities I think it is cool looking at a board of kanji and not being able to read it now but soon i will be able to understand it. Its kinda like unlocking a shadowed character on a video game!
Sundays and Tuesdays we have devotionals so those are really cool. Its really fun to see all my friends from west campus (spanish campus) because they come over for devotionals.. waiting for you Elder Meese :D i also got named district leader... idk what they were thinking but its going good!
Myths of the MTC
MTC FOOD SUCKS?
Everyone asks about the food. Also everyone complains about the food... all i have to say about that is that if you are coming to the mtc to eat well, sleep well, get a quality workout, email, or use nice bathrooms you are here for the wrong reasons. Its not great food like my mamas well not even close but I mean its way better than what half the world will ever eat. same goes for everything else. I have the rest of my life to eat delicious food but i am here for other reasons.
The days are slow and the weeks are fast?
This is false everyday is the longest day and this week has been the longest week of my life! We are scheduled to do things every minute so our breaks are basically when we have personal study. studying for me has been the hardest thing. We have probably 5 hours of study time a day outside of all day class. if any of you know me you know that the most i studied in one day before now has been probably maybe an hour... if that.
KJ wont be able to live without a phone
this is also false ill have you know that i basically forgot how to use a phone. its been kind of a huge relief to not have to be thinking about it all the time and just focusing on what i am doing. sure it is inconvenient to not have it but its been totally fine. ive pretty much lost all knowledge of the outside world. ive replaced my time with my phone to speaking with the lord. I have prayed so much here! we pray before and after everything. good thing my phone bill is free!
If you make it to Sunday you will survive?
This is semi true. Its not really that sunday is the greatest or its something familiar or the devotional or anything like that. Its that I think God rewards you if you make it that far. sunday was alright for me but the thing that was really my reward was that a couple of shimai in our district gave the sunday school lesson. the spirit i felt that day and the message shared was one i will never forget. i know that was a blessing from God to help me out and kind of reward me for my efforts. they even asked me to sing I stand all amazed. It was a very spiritual experience.
Weekly Vocab
Nihonjin- Japanese people
Choro- Elder
Shimai- Sister
Ai Shiteru Yo!- I love you!
Weekly Tweets
*MTC food is kind of like vaccuming... If you are creative enough it wont suck #suckstosuck
*Its way nice being the one who gets the mail... for everyone else #thanksforallthelettersNOT #stampsdontevencostthatmuch #letterhergo #youneedtodeliver #likemypost
*Its nice tweeting and not having to worry about how many characters I have left #hashtagsfordays #missionmailperkes
*I love when people who have been here for 8 weeks try to tell me something about japanese or japan #comeonson #getonmylevel #ivebeendoingthisfor20years
*I guess ill be here on my birthday so..... #hinthint #nothingheavy #justlettersischill #prettyplease
* The MTC is the only place where doing laundry and emailing is the best thing in the world - Eli Miller
Well love you all so much! please send letters and dear elders they keep me going. emails are not as good but still love them. Have a great week. Something that helped me get through this week was D&C 121 real applicable to the MTC.
Love, Rice, and Pikachu
Ai Shiteru Yo!
Much Love,
Adachi Choro
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