Temple Week

Dearest Family and Friends,

Kanji: Japanese character for "Love"

I am on the train back from the temple right now. We had a great session conducted for the first time entirely in Japanese! I understood it pretty well, so that is pretty exciting! It is far easier right now for me to understand Japanese than to actually speak it. I don't think in a Japanese way yet. It is coming slowly but surely though! Ugh!

I would like to get a beginning kanji book so I can start studying the characters, but we have some funny rules here in the mission. We aren't supposed to go into any book or electronic stores because Inappropriate pictures and videos are too prevalent there. It's too bad. Otherwise it would be super easy to walk right in a grab one. Here's another one: at least in the Tokyo missions, we are not allowed to talk alone to women. It puts out a very bad image. If they talk to us we need to keep it simple, brief and straight forward, and hope to set up a time to meet together with them and their husbands or turn them over to the sisters.

Curry for dinner--Yum!

That's really exciting, Mom. that you will start working in Westlake Academy again! I hope you love it! Good luck! I heard about a quote today, although I don't know if it is true or not. It is that Obama said something along the lines of urging women to not decide to be stay at home moms. Now it would not be accomplishing my missionary purpose to go off on one of my typical rants about socialism and big government wanting to take over teaching kids basic principles instead of parents, etc, etc, but Iwouldlike to say that I cannot thank you enough for the time and patience and dreams and goals that you must have sacrificed to be my mom. I really am grateful for you and everything that you have done for me. Sure do love and appreciate all the moms out there.                                                                                                              

Well I love you all and hope everything is going well with everyone. Thank you for the emails! You're the bomb!

                                                     Love, Siebach Choro