6/24/09

ok there are a couple things that i need Memory cards, i put the extra in to see if they would work, but i found out that those extra i got for christmas were adapters, not memory cards. So some more SD memory cards, Probably 1 is fine. I need some earplugs! Good ones that wont fall out. Ive gotten minimal sleep the past week and a half, my companion makes the weirdest noises while sleeping, 10,000 times worse than breggie grinding, so i always get woken up at like 2 or so and have trouble going back to sleep. Also some spray deoderant and something i can use in the shower to help my face so i wont get anymore break outs. The sweat is killing my face here.
You can still do emails, since it will be like 2 weeks before you get a reply to a letter, a week to get here and a week to go there. so everyonce and a while will be good.
Yea just wait til she has to get up for seminary, she doesnt know what early is ha, thats probably what the number 1 toughest thing for me is, biking all day and doing so much stuff out in the heat and getting super tired and having to wake up at 6:30( well right now about 2 in the morning :( ... ).
How did you find out that there were rats in the BBQ? thats kinda weird ha. taste good?
OK well so far no teraching appointments, we were supposed to have one tonight, but he cancelled. Language is まま (so so). Im starting to ask more and more questions about things to my companion, trying to get out of my bubble of not asking much. Um im doing a lottle better at understanding people, but not much, im trying to pick out words and grammers that i hear and try guessing what they say. Um the streets here are a little hilly, but its all paved roads so its easy biking. I dont know the name of the street, but if you can find Mito station than you can see the town im in. The apartment is about 5 or 10 minutes away fro that train station. I will let you know when people actually start doing stuff and when we start teaching, but as for now, nothing sorry. I love you so much!!!!! Elder Coffey

Email from 6/18/09

Sorry this is a day late, we went to the temple yesterday, and it was much needed and we didnt get back til late so we didnt have time to email yesterday. Um for cereal waffle crisp, frosted cheerios, frosted mini wheats, captin crunch. I haven't found the Golden spoon yet, im not in tokyo, just a couple hours by train away. Things this week are going okay, better then the past couple probably. My companion is good, i like him a lot, his english isnt good, but he practices by speaking to my in english and my japanese isnt good, so i practice by responding in japanese...WELL at least we try to ha. Yes he is helping my japanese a lot, we do this thing called baseball dendo, we each take turns, we each have to stop 3 people if they all reject then its 3 strikes and the next person goes. But if you get someone to have a conversation then its a hit and the Other person goes, so thats fun. So far no hits for me, ha but its because im white. maybe.
This morning i got the packages, right before coming to email. THANK YOU!!!! now i can save some money cause we have snacks. It kinda seems like things here are more expensive then my last area, so please will you give me an update of my money every couple weeks. Its seems like ive used a lot these past couple weeks. But still thank you so much it will all be used well. And Breggie that was really awsome what you wrote about the best two years, That was well needed as well THANK YOU!!
Well i have been reading out of Jesus the Christ, and reading well started reading out of Matt ,Mark, Luke and John. So those are helping me to better understand things Jesus did and why he would do them and how i need to become to help the people like he helped the people. I sent off some letters today, one is for dad for fathers day, i think thats soon, i have no calender so im not sure when so sorry if it is late. Then one for the family, its got pictures and a smal note. Ill be sending my card home soon cause printing pics here are more expensive, but i have to other ones besides the one in the camera, so i think i will be good.
UM my pant size is 32 i think. As for pepole to teach, we have some people, but havent had a chance to talk to them since they have all been busy, last night we did have dinner with this really cool guy, im the 123 missionary that he has met. But he seems very good, and i think if we keep working at him he will eventually get baptised.
Ok well im pretty sure ive responded to all if not, most I love you all so much and thank you for everything! ]
LOVE YOU Elder Coffey

Cool experience

The saturday night before getting transferred a ward member brought her friend over and and invited the 4 missionaries (since they were women). I shared my testimony, i talked about the book of mormon and how it has changed my life. After i shared my testimony i gave her a book of mormon. The next day at church the ward member came up to me and told me her friend said it was like i was reading her mind. everything i said she said she knew was right and that she wanted the BOOK, so before leaving i got the promting and it was strong so i gave it to her.

6/10/09 email

Ok well ive got some news for you. i didnt have time to put it in last week. Last saturday we got transfer calls, those happen every 6 weeks here. Well saturday morning i got a call. I got transfered to MITO, thats an area or 2 above where i was at on the map that has all the stakes. And my new comp is Japanese. BOY IS IT TUFF. I can say things in simple japanese, but when he says things to me its hard. these next few weeks are going to be SO FREAKIN HARD!! But my prayers are being answered in a way i wouldnt like but hey its not my choice how they are answered right? I prayed to do better at understanding and i got a Japanese comp. It was really sad to leave togane though. Even though i was there for only 6 weeks, i made friends with a lot of the ward members. You know the half japanese elder that was staying in the 4 man, he told me that i get asked if im part japanese more than he does. The last 2 weeks before getting transferred i got asked at least 5 times. OK for the box, ive got a couple more things, they dont have to be in this except for one thing. A BETTER RAIN SUIT. the thing we got at missionary mall is useless, the water seeps through and it tears easily. Ill need that soon cause its the beginning of rainyy season here.
Also for a box my CD of Andre Bocielli dunno how to spell that, but the blind italian opera guy please. Also since kira hasnt replied, ask her to put some john bytheway, a song called via dolorosa and songs from SHeDAISY on a cd for me please.Wow breggie is almost a freshman already, thats crazy. I honostly thought there was a lot more time before she went into high school. When do you think of moving to utah? I thought it was after she finished middle school so she wouldnt leave in the middle of the school year. those dogs are way to smart though, so thats a good idea on the chip. but wow, at least they were together right? thats kinda crazy. Shadow is a mix of 2 of my favorite dogs yes! ha
The session is done in japanese, but if you put an english tag on they give you headphones that translate it into english, and at the veil they will say it in english for you. I probably wont try japanese til the last couple months before coming home, it was really awsome to listen to it in japanese though. I did get a letter from caitlin gardner which was awsome, so ill write back to her soon. but yea, other than that not to many people are sending anything. Here the weather kind sucks right now. Its about to start summer, but summer is rainy season. So when it rains, it pours for 3 days at least without stopping, and when its not raining, its super hot and sunny. So im not a big fan of the weather. So hopefully this new are will be better, make sure you do emails early enough so i will get it by thursday morning here, my comp is kinda quiet and doesnt say anything, so when i see him getting dressed i just follow, and follow where he rides.Ill let you know when more happens, Im going to try sending a letter in japanese soon so look for that.
LOVE YOU SO MUCH
ELDER PR COFFEY

Email

We are doing emails right before going to the temple, so this will be quick and maybe sloppy cause we were told we dont have much time. And thank you for the email address for jackie. Yea thats crazy that they are graduating, still havent gotten anything from them. Sucks i get to miss everything, but hey there wil be a baby when i get home and a sister in law. For the box any candy. Some cearal. and deoderamt and spray i got through that fast here. Please and thank you, and what ever you want to send. Things are going ok, could definatly be better, but im working my hardest. Curry, ramen, tonkatsu, fried squid,yakisoba those are different foods. Not really any sights yet, ill send my card home when it has more pics on it. I can speak the language deciently, i was just commented on how well i pronunciate japanese, i just cant understand people.
I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!! Elder PR Coffey

Weekly email

ok there is one thing i would like you to try and find out please, JAckie Berkhimers address. If my phone still works you can text her, if not let me know and i can send my address to her quickly in myspace or facebook or something, but i would like to stay friends with her. ThAT SOUNDS LIKE A BLAST WITH THE FAMILY. THE COMPUTER IS MESSED UP SO ITS IN CAPS NOW SORRY, nevermind, fixed it.I wish i could have seen the curtis family, i miss them. Before telling me where Jake goes see if he will write me or email me please, i would like him to tell me. AS for the note, i did send you a copy of it, its in the box for you that i sent to kira right befefore leaving, kira has a copy for brock and yours is in the box that im guessing you still havent gotten. Let me know who you want to share it with, or who you do. You can share it with anyone and type it and do anything. Let the young men read it. For the most part me and my comp get along. He still has almost 2 months, so he really shouldnt be to trunk. I havent gotten a reply back from the girl that got baptised, but i will let you know when i do. Things arent happening, not teaching anyone, the one that was close to getting baptised that was beeing taought before i got there said it might be years before her husband lets her. so not so successful as of now. I havent gotten mail or email thats cool, i was actually thinking about kepper and joaquin the other day, it would be nice to hear from them. Im glad you like the poem. Im sending some pics and my memory card home with some oragami in it that i did, so be looking for that sometime in the next weeks
I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!
ELDER PR COFFEY

Weekly email

i still havent heard from anyone. I havent heard about her baptisｍ yet, but hopefull when she gets the letter i sent she wll reply.
Yea i would like the shirts as soon as possible, with at least a box or 2 of cereal Maybe some waffel crisp, or anything really. Its to hot to wear long sleeve shirts and i only have 3 short sleeve, so they get sweaty and dirty really fast. And yes im 15 1/2.
TELL people to email or something, i want to here things like that from jake. Thats really awsome though, he will do good wherever he goes.
So breggie is dong good in goal sounds like, thats great! and its good that she has friends on the team to stick up for her. Oh yea, for the Shirts send as many as you can please. The language is ok. I can barely communicate with anyone cause i cant understand what is being said. So i try to say something if i know whats going on, but most of the time its my comp haveing a conversation with me trying to catch whats happening. So ive come to realize that he is not the greatest acting missionary, by his language, hand gestures and songs he sings that we realy shouldnt be listening to. PLus he always wants to do housing everyday, and thats a failure here cause when we are out everyone works and has school.
Sports are really fun, especially soccer. i did a move on one of the kids tuesday and it made him fall on the floor, i also got the 3 other missionaries im with to agree to a compitition. The last person to score had to do the first person to scores dishes for a night. My comp has to do my dishes ha its awsome. We might make deals like that every week. But yea sports are fun, but ive gone from 75 kilos to 78 this past week. I need to excerise more and eat less.
Ok well there is a long line for the computers and im almost out of time, if i have time ill write a letter and send it off today or tomorrow.
LOVE YOU ALL ELDER\ PR COFFEYPS
tell kira to write or email or something I havent gotten anything from here in over a month and she didnt talk much on the phone