June 1, 2016--First Day!!!

(This is the email that we didn't receive on that first day!)

My dearest darlingest wonderful mother,

So our p-day will be Wednesdays, but they are letting us have 10
minutes to email today since we won't be able to email until next
week. But I am loving it here! The chocolate milk is good. They were
out of apple juice and grape juice and raspberry lemonade. But they
serve BYU ice cream every time new missionaries come in so that was
nice! Haha I had some nice chocolate ice cream with oreos.

We had just one Nihongo lesson today, I understood everything so that
was good. There was one girl who took Japanese in high school and has
taken it upon herself to be the district translator for the rest of
us.

Other than that we've been busy all day, teaching "investigators" and
listening to the MTC presidency's orientation. I'm thinking about
doing the MTC choir, and I guess they have audtitions for musical
numbers so I might do that too.

My comp is Elder Nathan, he is from California and his Dad is from
New Zealand so he looks like a New Zealander and can protect me from
the MTC mafia. And he was on swim team and in choir so that's super
cool! Our district is good! there are 10 people, 4 elders and 6
sisters. Everyone is going to Tokyo except me and Elder Nathan. All
the other Sendai missionaries are in another district. Sister
Williamson and Sister Frank are both from Boise and they're going to
Japan but they're in the other district so that was too bad. My
district is good though. One of the guys (Elder Akagi) was actually on
my floor in Heritage Halls at BYU!! I had never really talked to him
but I recognized him right away.

Our room has 3 bunk beds but only 4 people so we put 2 of the bunk
beds together to make a super-bunk bed. Our plan is to switch off
which companionship gets the super-bed every week.

I am feeling the spirit so much already, I'm so excited! This will be
great. I'm just not sure if it will still be great after 8 weeks ;)

I saw Jessie! Or I guess I should say Sister Schneider. Right when I
was checking in! So we got to get a pic with her and Ruth and Dannica
and Grandma and me. Also, I've seen a couple people from my BYU ward
today, I recognize someone almost everywhere we go.

Sorry it's so short, we only have 10 mins but I'll send you a longer
one next Wednesday!! Things are going great, except I'm already tired
after just a half-day. But it's all good, I'm excited :)

Love,
Elder Paskett