The Japanese love new years! Everyone (mostly everyone, I guess) goes home to be with family. Before the new year everyone cleans like crazy (to get the old year out), and then at the new year they all stay together and eat with each other. It lasts until the third. Our ward is Awesome and set up meals for the whole time for the missionaries.
This is the Hirata Family, new years eve.
This is our Dendo Shunin (ward mission leader) brother Sato., who set this all up fr us. We ate at an all you can eat place with yakinike, sushi, and other great stuff. We all ate too much I think :).
This is the Nakagawa family. (we took this picture with my camera on a pole :).
This is the Bishop and his wife. The Miyase family. Also the sisters, and Yuji, our investigator. When I first got here I thought that she was a young woman and he was in his twenties. It took a while to figure out they they were married. He is thirty seven, by the way.
This was dinner with the Usui and Okamoto families. It was way fun, they are from both Nagamine and Kumamoto wards, so all the missionaries where there. It was so good to be with a family like ours. The boys would not stop wrestling all night. and I felt right in place :).
Oh, yeah. We ate Basashi here. That is Kumamoto`s specialty food. Raw horse meat.
Anyways, I have resolved to be more perfectly obedient. I have set myself to do better in all that I do. I love the new year because I love change for the good. I love it! I guess that just means really; I love repentance! I love doing better than I have done. I love to become better. I have so many ways that I must improve in order to really fulfill my purpose and my duty as a priesthood holder, but I know that God will help me to do that. I am so thankful for the Atonement of Jesus Christ, which allows us to change and improve. I cannot even begin to understand, I know, what that sacrifice has done, and is doing, and will do for me. But I can feel it just a little bit, and it is more sweet than anything else I have ever felt.
i love this church and this work.
With love, Elder Bevan
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