Todd sent us an email with a few recent pictures in it.

My dear Kazoku,
Here’s the weeks updates for you!
So first things first. I will be sending a package home to Mom and Dad today, there is candy in it for the warehouse staff and for mom. A birthday letter to mom. My meishi and misison map for the family. My SD card with 608 photo’s of [...]

July 19, 2009
This past week has gone by rather slowly. Elder Johnson hasn’t been feeling well, so we spent pretty much 2 full days in the apt. I think I went crazy. It was a real downer for me not being able to be out and about. When I am stuck in the apt. I [...]

Family,
Speaking of Hawaii. Yesterday we played tennis for 4 hours. I put on a bunch of sunscreen and was on the court and the smell of the sunscreen and being in shorts and a tshirt caught me off guard when I closed my eyes and listened to the wind. I thought that I was in [...]

Family!
Thank you for the box of goodies! Holy cow, it was better than Christmas. Oreos, fruit leathers, wart freeze! I mean, what else can a person ask for?! haha.  It was great, and the letters inside were also a treat.  Thank you very much for sending them my way.
Here’s a bit of my life. I [...]

Family!
I survived!
HOly cow. Japan is waaaaay weird. But I like it so far. First off, my area is Narita. Lovely place, it’s nice and small town feel. No complaints about it whatsoever. My trainer is Elder Johnson, a white boy from AZ. He`s cool, speaks the best nihongo out [...]

La Sa Ca Da, Familia,
How art thou? It’s officially 3 weeks since I’ve been a missionary. It’s been the Longest and the Fastest 3 weeks of my life. I feel as if I’m in a time warp. It’s crazy…
Tonikaku, Everything is going great. Only 2 weeks til I am in Nihon! [...]

Todd sent a CD with a bunch of photos on it from his first couple weeks in the MTC. Here are some of the pictures he sent.

Watashi no Kazoku!
This week has been great.  Talk about such a transition here in spirit prison (the mtc). Haha.  I’m used to it a lot more now and am enjoying the days a whole lot more as well.  I love the firesides and devotionals. Classes don’t seem long enough and there’s always so much more [...]

Kazoku! (Family!)
Wow.  Almost a week here and talk about rough stuff!  I don’t think that I could’ve possibly prepared myself for such a shock and adjustment here at the MTC.  It’s just so different, not a bad different. But so foreign to me.  I’m confined in a class for 11 hours a day, don’t get [...]