August 25, 2008

Hi Mom,
I got the package that you sent. Thank you!!! I am so excited for the cheese dip. I am going to make it tomorrow for a district meeting that we are going to have. They will all love it I am sure. Hey by the way. On the list it says that there is soap and books in there. Where were the soap and the books. There wasn't any of that in there. I hope that they didn't loose any of it while it was traveling about. ***Well, this week has been a good week. Elder fukui ***is cool. He is Japanese so that is nice to have him as a translator, I mean companion. It is really going to help out with my Japanese. Well, I hope at least. so guess what I had for dinner last night. SUSHI!!! and not just raw fish, but even worse than that. RAW SQUID!! AAAHHH!!! But, really it was pretty good. Just really chewy. which for some reason they don`t have a word for chewy in Japanese. Kind of weird. So ya it has been nice here. they weather has been great. It has been really cool right now and pretty rainy. I am actually kind of cold. My companion makes fun of me cause I think it is cold. But, it is really cold. blankets gallor (spelling) at night. But, I am just glad that I am not hot when we go out and go proselyting during the day. Which has been really great lately by the way. There is a lady that me and elder bohman met one time. she was way cool when we talked to her then, so me and elder fukui went back yesterday i think and talked with her some more and loaned her a book of Mormon and she said she was going to read and call us back. So way exciting. Also the other night at English class, we teach English then at the end of the night we share a message. Well, I was sharing the message and I was talking about the restoration, in English though since everyone there can pretty much understand, so I was talking then I got on the topic about the atonement and how it can help us find peace when we are struggling with things. I think I said because Christ performed the atonement he knows how you feel when you struggle with life, with school, with family, with work, and type of struggle or pain or hurt you have felt he has felt, and you can find relief through him. Well, at the end of class a girl came up to us, and she said she has been having trouble at work and when I said he can help you with struggling with work, she said she just started to cry. So she asked what she could do to get help with that, so we taught her about prayer and stuff. It was really great. This work is so awesome. so she is going to pray and hopefully call us back. Way cool, way cool experience. So ya some pretty exciting things have been going on right now. Things are changing. Its going to be great here. Well, other than that not much else is going on. Going around each day to try and find those that Heavenly Father has prepared. It is a great work and I am so glad that I am a part of it. I just wish this language would be easier to get. But, that is part of it all, the struggle right. If we didn't have struggle we really wouldn't be able to understand the atonement more and more huh? Man I love this work. Okay well, I have gone on long enough. I best get going. I love you. Talk to you next week.
Love,
Elder Lane Ashmore

PS The card didn't work in my camera, I think the card is just too old or because it is a canon card. or its too small. I am not sure, but it didn't work. that's all.... Wait just kidding. I want to print a bunch of pictures to have here with me before I send the card back, but it you want me to do something else, then tell me I will wait til next week to do that. Also I was looking at electronic dictionaries the other day, and the lowest amount was about 120 dollars. I know Andrew said that not using one is better but it is just really tough not having one. but, if it is too much tell me and I will do my best with what i have. I know if I try heavenly father will help me. okay, that is all for this PS usually they are smaller but hey. alright. Bye now.

***there weren't any books or soap, but i didn't want to say on the customs report what was really in there...I didn't want it to get stolen!!!
***New Comp!!!