Elder Mason Ford Bloomfield Tokyo, Japan Mission: Week 22 - New Companion (Elder Broberg)

I just want to say for the record that a little while ago I was thinking about Will Watanabe and I pretty much decided my self that he would come to the Tokyo Japan mission so no surprise there. Will's family and ours have been friend for many years. We met them when we lived in Tokyo the first time in 1989. They were also living in Japan when we lived there in 2000 and we have kept in touch all these years. In fact Will and his dad stayed at our home last year while attending a Stanford Football camp. So we were so excited that he was called to the same mission as Mason and hope they get to serve together at some point. Just some fun other trivia - 6 out of 7 (one sister did not serve a mission) member's of Will's family have served in different missions in Japan. Travis served in the same mission as Will's older sister, she had just come home when he went out. They currently live in Provo and have been there since 2002.

Ok as for exciting news. Not much. My new companion is great! He's kinda a goofball but I love him. He told me he doesn't know what it is but he tends to bring the weird out of all of his companions hahahah. We are getting along real well hahaha

Well I never actually got to say goodbye to my companion cause we had to go to Niigata for transfers cause that's how it works and he and someone else that was getting transferred had to leave way early in the morning and he didn't want to wake me up. He did how ever write me a note so that was nice. Anyway he was great and I miss him but this new transfer has a lot of new opportunities and new things to learn.

Friday night I punctured my bike's back tire so I've been riding basically a pogo stick on wheels. It's kind of humiliating but I'm embracing it. Hopefully my bike will be fixed today but for now I'm working hard on the one geared pogo stick.

As far as other things go this week went by so fast. Elder Broberg and I set some high transfer goals for Joetsu and we are trying to find some more effective Dendou ideas. It's been raining the last three days and soon winter is going to come and it is going to be way hard to do regular Dendou so we are trying to find some new effective ways.

Anyway if you could send me more of those little Jesus pictures/postcards that you sent me in the MTC that would be great. You don't need to rush on them but next time you feel like sending a package those would be great. I am going to leave them as like notes for investigators and less actives when we visit and they aren't there.

A little about Elder Broberg- He's from Provo. He is in transfer 11 I think. Works way hard and yells at people in English to get their attention. His Japanese is way good and he's a great companion. We laugh a lot and sometimes we lose focus but we decided as a companionship we are going to be better about that.

I'm way excited for this transfer as I think we will really start to see some big miracles take place.

Also in October Elder Bernard is going to come and talk to the two Tokyo missions. Usually the Niigata Zone doesn't get to go to mission conferences as we are so far away and it costs so much, but we get to this time! I'm way pumped for him.

Also shouts out to Sister Nagano and her flattering message about me. I loved it. If you could send me a picture of it that would be great! Like the whole conversation please! I have added the picture with the conversation below so you can see what Sister Nagano (She is his Missions President's wife) said about him. It also includes messages with Will Watanbe's mom. It is truly a small world and I love when we get to cross path's with those from our past!!!!!

Love you!
Here are some pictures!
Elder Broberg's mom wants him to take more pictures so we are making it a companionship effort!