This is a picture from Sister Daniel's blogspot. It is a great site to go to and see pictures and read about Dallin's mission. He looks sooooo good. His companion is below him and is Elder Naganuma.
Here is his letter for July 7, 2009
It sounds like you had a good week (minus no family for the 4th). My week was good too. Our 4th of July activity was way fun, but the next few days I was way sunburnt and way sore.
We are way excited for the remainder of this transfer because we have some really good investigators now. We set two baptismal dates this past week. One of them was with a 70 year old man named Nakajima san. When we first met him on the street a couple weeks ago he tried to take us out to dinner, but we didn't have time. Well, we have met with him quite a few times since then, and he has taken us out for lunch twice! And yesterday he told us that he wants to take us out for lunch every day this week! We talked our way out of every day because that is a ton of money, but we are still excited to go out to eat a few times. But other than taking us out to eat, he is amazingly golden. He read the first 100 pages of the Book of Mormon (which is about 700 pages in Japanese) in 5 days! He is on track to get baptized a week from Sunday, but it will be in a different area, because that is where he lives.
On Saturday we went to a farm and had an "ichigogari" (Strawberry hunting). You basically go in a huge strawberry patch and pick strawberries and eat them. I ate 100 strawberries and they were way delicious! But I think that strawberries must have a high water content because I had to pee a lot after that.
Sunday night we got to go to the mission home for a fireside with one of our investigators. Basically, President Daniels puts on a fireside every other week that talks about missionaries' past hobbies and why they are now missionaries in Japan. He showed highlights of McKay Jacobsen (who served in this mission right before I got here). It sort of made me homesick to see BYU football. The next video was of a sister from Okinawa, Japan who was on one of the best drumlines in Japan. That was also fun to watch, but it also made me sad. So the fireside was very good, and we even got to eat delicious dessert from Sister Daniels afterward.
That is about it for my week. Now a couple questions/requests. When is the stake dividing? And will our ward still be the same? Ok, I would like my baptismal picture from when I was 8. It would probably be best if you somehow sent me a copy. Thanks.
I love you all. Thanks for all of the emails and letters and prayers.
