Logan's second email!! Amazing!

family! i can not believe that i have made it an entire 10 days in the mtc! it is crazy to think that it has already been that long! they have a saying here..where the days feel like weeks, and the weeks feel like days! it is incredible that it can start moving so fast! but i love it!

  so a little bit about this week, we have been teaching our investigator and it has been awesome! i am sorry that i wasn't more clear..but no the investigator is not really seeking out the church..they are already members and are just helping us! but they still act just like a normal investigator would..most are return missionaries so they know what they investigators are going to be like! but it is a really crazy experience! we have had our first investigator, Tominaga San, and we are already finished with him! we will be teaching our new investigator on Monday! its crazy how fast they go! but our district did awesome and all of us committed him to baptism! the other kohai (new japanese students) district didn't even baptize him so we felt pretty good! me and my companion really did a great job with him i thought! and we got a picture with him haha we were the first companionship to do that, and then all the other companion's started doing it it was funny! so i will try to send some pictures today..i have heard its not very easy...but i will try!

  so as far as my companion...he is alright.  he definitely is a little different..kinda says weird things sometimes but you know i can definitely get a long with him..its not too bad! i really feel like the lord knows i need to learn some things before i get out in the field..so i am really using this as a learning experience! well at least i am trying..lots of prayers! haha i really do feel like things are getting much easier now though.  the first few days were definitely challenging yes.  it was so hard being away from you guys..everyone that i love and just looking at how hard it was going to be for two entire years.  but all of the elders just kept telling me just get to sunday and you will feel better.  so i worked to get to sunday and they were so right! i woke up sunday and felt so relieved..like i knew this is where i needed to be and i didn't want to be anywhere else! the devotionals were incredible and it just really started this week off great!

  
  
  

  so for routine we get up at 6:00 because we have the earliest breakfast schedule at 6:45so we have to be showered and ready by then and the showers get packed! so we get up and after you go to breakfast usually have personal study, so we will usually go to class and do it..i have been reading the morumon sho (book of mormon) in Nihongo!(japanese) haha its slow..and i dont really understand it yet..but my teacher was telling me it really can help alot! so in personal study i do 30 minutes japanese, 30 minutes english book of mormon its been cool! i have really picked up the hiragana and katakana really fast..kanjii is much harder but my teacher says you just figure that out with time. like i can read all the symbols already! its crazy how fast you can learn in here. you truly learn by the spirit it is such a blessing! like literally..i had just finished the hiragana..which is a 46 letter alphabet instead of english's 26? ha so i have that down perfect now but yesterday i started the katakana which is the same alphabet, 46 letters, but they are all different symbols! they are used for things that arent japanese like names, "nephi" and stuff like that.  so i started yesterday and i already have almost every single one! MIRACLE. they are not easy. but you mind is so clear in here..it is amazing and i am so blessed!

 as i have talked to others..i found my experience wasn't has difficult, however when i was in it i felt so alone and like i was struggling so much more than everyone else! it is so nice to talk to people..it really helps relieve the stress of being in here and everything..

  i love the packages and i love the dear elders. from everyone. even if i cant reply right away, keep sending them.  we check the mail every day and it is so nice to have something! you dont realize how much it helps.  i wish that i had more time, but i just want you guys to know how much i love you! i know this church is true and that the gospel of jesus christ is the ultimate source of happiness.  i love the opportunity to be able to teach people and bring that happiness to them! it is such a powerful calling to be called a missionary, and you are continually strengthened by him as you put your faith in him. i have felt it! i love this gospel so much. you really realize how much you love it once you start focusing on nothing but it;) haha it is a marvelous work we are a part of.  there is no where i would rather be.  i am so grateful for all the support i have gotten.  it is such a blessing to be a part of such a great family, and have so many amazing friends as well.  I AM BLESSED.  i love you and i miss you! i will talk to you soon!

love,

logan