I am now officially on transfer 11, and the better news,,, I'm not Zone Leader anymore! I'm a trainer! I still don't know who my companion is though, i figure that out tomorrow. So here's what happened. I was in Kanagawa area, in a four man apartment, the other missionaries were in Kohoku area. Same church, just different wards. So Since i was zone leader, I knew every area pretty well, especially kohoku. And recently Kohoku hasn't been doing very good, kinda some weird missionaries, and just not much going on. So I kinda asked president to send me there after I was done ZLing, so I got whitewashed into Kohoku, which is still in my same apartment, all that changes is where I work! I gave my leaving talk on sunday to the ward, and it was weird, cause i was saying goodbye, but I'm still going to see them all next sunday anyway, kinda funny, but i'm glad I'm not leaving yet.
So yeah, my bean came to japan today, I'm going to be going to the mission home tomorrow to pick him up, and bring him back on home to Yokohama! I'm really excited, but i hope I get a non-japanese bean, I think getting a japanese bean just itsn't the same as a trainer. I can only help him so much, and i would need to depend on him all the time for when I can't under stand what the crazy old people are trying to say to me.

anyway, today for p-day we went to this place called Zama, It's got an American Army base, so the four of us, (me, my old comp elder guy, his new comp (my replacement) elder McKarns, and my temporary companion, elder bishop, who's dad is in the military, so he got us on. It was so cool though! It was a mini america! we went and ate at burger king, got a giant size for a normal price, then we went bowling, ran in to a few of elder bishop's old high school friends from when he used to live there, then we went to the grocery store there, and got some gatorade, and just spoke a lot of english... it felt so good. The weird part though was just seeing so many white people, well, and black people for that matter. All I've been seeing for the past like year and a half is japanese people, and now seeing americans is kinda a weird feeling... I'm not sure how it's gonna go down when i return home...

anyway, dad, way to go on the Lotoja, I'm crazy proud of you, everyone else, i'm proud of you too, just not quite as much as dad. have fun this week, and I'll let you all know how it is when i get my little bean chan!!

see ya!

Elder Olsen