I love Japanese people, they are so cute! and sweet!

Well, this week has been absolutely fabulous!! I love my new companion, and she is such a sweetheart, even though she does have a tendency to talk my ear off... Guess that's what i get for being so talkative as a kid, right? ;) It sounds like a lot of things are going to be different when i get back, and so far i've only been gone for a month and a half! was everyone just waiting for my to leave so that they could spring into action, and see how well i adjusted back to normal life, when lots of things had changed, or what? It is awesome though that things are going so well for everyone. And im sure ill be fine, just so long as you and dad dont move... it was already strange to see the pictures of the new blinds. It took me a bit to realize that it was our house, because the blinds looked so foreign, but they do look nice. I'm not surprised that you had to fix will's bed. I lost track of the times will had to add screws to that board to keep it together, since we kept breaking it. I love getting pictures! Please everyone send me more pictures. I want pictures of all of you, and especially my neices and nephews, because i miss seeing them, and honestly they are probably the ones who are going to change in appearance the most while i am gone. So if you could send me pics, that would be fabulous, though i would prefer to get them via snail mail, cause i can't print color here, which is fine for most pics, but i like color... :)I've had grilled zucchini before, and i also really like it with the butter.. more than olive oil... I'm not surprised to hear there were a lot of band people there, he was very popular in high school. I haven't seen him yet, but i will probably run into him at some point while he is here. I got to host Wednesday, and it was a fabulous experience.. The only downer part was that it was super hot. Crazy thing that happened though is that the downpour of rain that came down started right after we had finally finished hosting everyone yesterday... I was in class by that point, but i wish i could've gone out and just cooled down in the rain. It was really coming down! I don't know if you were affected by that, but it just poured, though it didn't pour very long. We also got to do our first ever skype TRC yesterday. TRC for japanese missionaries is an opportunity to practice our japanese teaching member lessons. Yesterday, we skyped with a member in Japan, who is living in the Fukuoka mission borders. Her name was Youko (Yooko), and she was very sweet. For english speaking missionaries, they have members or investigators pretending to be investigators that they teach.. I'm glad that i just teach people i know are members. I was reminded of a poem called "If" by rudyard kipling as i read the quote. I really loved that quote, because it is so true! I'm glad you have such a sweet things that helps you to remember your grandma. I can't believe that you have already had another sunshine ladies! It doesn't seem like a month has gone by since the last one! Give the sisters my love, and tell them i say hi as well. They are so sweet! My companion and i got the same feeling last night, about the same time, as my district was preparing for TRC, that we were meant to be companions, that this was right. It was a very sweet feeling, and just reaffrimed the things that i had been feeling for the past two weeks. She is a gem, and i love her so much.  it. I am currently working on being able to read scriptures in Japanese. The reading part isn't too difficult, because it's all in hiragana, but the understanding part of it is, and right now it takes me about an hour or more to take one verse, figure out where the words end, because they don't have spaces, except after commas and periods, and figure out what it is saying, using the english to assist me. It is quite the process, but it is actually really fun, and challenging. I just wish i had more time to do it. Hope dennis is doing better, and i hope everything is going well. And as for the packages that a mystery person has been sending, i think i may have figured it out, but i'm not sure, so i will just tell that person thanks for some delicious brownies that i shared with the zone. Also, yesterday while i was hosting, i got to host one of my kohai, who went to highschool with me. She is going to nagoya, and is in my zone! Unfortunately my brain was pretty fried, and i was tired because i lugged over 50 lb bags to at a time up about 3 flights of stairs, because all of the sisters i hosted were on the fourth floors. But i was still super excited and happy to see her, but i might not have made much sense. We got 48 kohai in our zone yesterday! Which was a lot! Before we arrived on the tenth, our zone consisted of 6. We joined and it rose to 36, but the 6 that had been there left a few weeks ago, so now we are at 78. It will take a lot longer to pass the sacrement this sunday, normally it takes less than 10 minutes start to finish with just 2 elders passing, and the longest part of that are the sacramental prayers, because the elders have to say them in Japanese. Sooo basically i have had a fabulous week, and just been super extremely spiritually uplifted, and blessed, and seen miracles in the little things of day to day life that have just made me so happy!Love and miss all of you!