Elder Mason Ford Bloomfield Tokyo, Japan Mission: Week 36 - Christmas Day

We got to Skype with Mason for 40 mins. for Christmas. It was nice as we had the whole family. Everyone was here at the house except for Kyle and Alyssa. They were in Las Vegas with Alyssa family for Christmas, so they just Skyped in as well and we had all three going at the same time. Mason seems to be doing well. He shared a few experiences with us as well as talked in Japanese. It was fun for Travis and Dad (Steve) to get to talk in Japanese with him as well. It made our Christmas!!!

Here is my letter to President:

Merry Christmas!!!
This week was really good! We had a lot of people come to our Christmas Party. There were so many less actives and English students and investigators there. They all had a really good time and definitely felt the spirit. We were able to build really good relationships with all of them and will hopefully be able to visit with them some more.

We also had a lot of people come to church on Sunday as well. We had a lot of people totsuzen show up. Including the guy that wants his daughters to come to mission school and two Vietnamese guys who just moved to Japan three weeks ago. They hardly speak Japanese and zero English but Elder Breeze did a way good job at
translating for them. We gave them each a Vietnamese Book of Mormon. They are moving to Tokyo next week so hopefully we can refer them to the correct people.

The guy who's daughters are going to come to eikaiwa and mission school also said he will try to stop by church more when he has time. It was a way cool experience to see so many people at church and really feeling the spirit too. Even though we have been dropped a lot lately I know that we can continue to use this spirit of Christ and Christmas to find those that are ready to learn more!

Have a Merry Christmas!!!!

Love,
Elder Bloomfield