Busy, Busy, Busy!

This is the week before transfers once again.  Of course I totally spaced off that this means Elder R and Elder Mosdell were able to attend the Tokyo Temple making pday and email one day late. 

Jeff says that they are so busy that he's having a hard time fitting everything (shopping, laundry, email, stuff like that)that must be done into his pdays. I guess the Elders are gaining an appreciation of quality planning and scheduling, I hope they get it figured out before they get too frustrated!

Jeff wished his sister a happy birthday, was excited to hear about Elder Jones heading out to Costa Rica and sends his best wishes for serving as well as surviving the MTC. He was much less excited to hear the news of the passing of one of the boys he grew up with, but seems to be taking it well and was glad to have the full schedule to occupy his mind.

Jeff sent photos this week.  None of himself, but there are some interesting things to look at which we will add as soon as I figure out the technical hurdle and can get them on here.


An old Japanese hymnal

A military plane which has been flying over and doing parachute drops

The flower arrangement from church on Sunday

"A cool caterpillar"

this spider is "as big as my thumb, not the nail, the whole thumb"
apparently it is so aggressive that it will attack anything that touches the web including grass.

This is the cherry burger.  It looks like a normal burger with some kind of soft cheese (cream cheese?) and cherry jam or pie filling.  There are also fries and something that resembles a green salad with thousand island dressing.    Jeff says "it sounds kind of gross, but it is really good."

Eclipse photos and keeping way busy!

This week our email was quite short, something about a lesson and a basketball game.  Jeff says he is doing well, they are looking forward to getting the package that we sent last week.  The weekly update appears here just as it did in the email (cut and paste = awesomeness) and I'll add on some of the pictures he sent for your viewing pleasure.

Weekly update:

I'm short on time today so I'm not going to type a full summary, but here's the highlight of the week:

Today (Monday) we had a solar eclipse :) Photos will be uploaded! That was WAY AWESOME!!! Elder R got some good photos of it, so I'll upload them. It was a lot of fun. :) And tonight we played basketball with a ward member and his friends, we were supposed to have an investigator there, but he canceled as we were headed over. I'm WAY beat right now...

For new foods, I had some sweetbean paste mochi called Kashiwamochi. It's pretty good, though it looks like elf food lol.  

Awesome pictures of the eclipse from Japan!

 Pictures of the boy with his mochi filled with sweet bean paste (Anko), or "elf food".

Night photo, I'm guessing that is Elder R but that's just a guess.

I love the sticker in the top left, "DON"T BE STUPID!" and the laptop has the blue screen of death. Love it! 

1/4 of the way there already

Six months ago today we left Jeff at the MTC curb in Provo.  In a way it has gone fast, but in a way it also seems like it has been a very, very long time. 

Jeff requested some American foods (candy, box mac and cheese, chocolate) and a few other things so we packed them all up in a box and shipped them off yesterday morning. He sent us a few pictures, none of him, and I guess we'll talk to/see him next at Christmas. By then he'll have been out over a year. Crazy. 

I should have rotated this before I put it up, sorry.  I'm not sure what it means, possibly an alien crossing?

As a service project the boys (in Kanab Cowboys t-shirts) spent two days chopping down all the weeds and grass at the apartment building using what appears to be a machete and scissors.  I'm sure that wasn't any fun at all.

Of course it had to rain on their efforts.