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Konnichiwa!

Dearest followers! The MTC has been wonderful save some of the food possibly dipped in toxic waste.  Maybe I'll develop superpowers though!

I have learned so much and I am swimming in time.  It's as if every day is a week and every week a minute.  I hope to get the hang of it soon.  I have learned of my calling and have been speaking the lovely Japanese language a lot.  I hope it will be received well among the island's people.  My companion is upbeat and the work carries on.  I love the doctrine of the word of God as I invite all to come unto our Savior.

I have written the girl in the green dress and have gotten letters that rain down like heavenly manna.  This mission is sure to be great.  I have learned how far a prayer and a smile will carry you.  I am learning to run before I walk...

More letters to come.  Know that I am still as philosophical as ever.

-Bansoko

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Herro sisters dear.

I'm safely at the MTC and it's fantastic.  My companion is a jock, but he loves the Gospel.  We work well together even though he is having trouble with Japanese a bit.

Already we have prayed, testified, introduced ourselves in four days.  It's very intense.  One Elder put it like trying to drink out of a fire hose.  I agree.  We have one or two three-hour Japanese classes every day.  Sometimes we study Japanese 8+ hours every single day.  I'm doing my best.

My district or the self-proclaimed "Nakama" is awesome.  There are 10 of us.  A lot of them are experienced so it's fun.  We are all very close-knit already.  We all work hard and all work for a common cause.  And although we are all so different we mesh well.  Because of this we are learning faster than average and leaving is a lot easier.

Your pictures on my desk inspire me daily and I enjoy the work.  My companion might think I'm a player though with seven girls on my desk.  I'll send pictures and bios of my Nakama soon.

One quick thing though.  Around here we see mail like manna from Heaven.  It raises our spirits and we all fight over it.  If you want to send me my first letters for free (for 12 weeks) go to dearelder.com and click "Nagoya Japan mission." Write in my name John Alex Dinkel and my departure date August 15th and send an email through it.  They will get it to me free that very day!

I hope summer is treating you well.  I miss you both but it's not that hard when you work for God every hour.

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Adieu

God be with you til we all meet again. 

Dear followers, This is my adieu. My closing of Jacob, my finale. Don't ever stop, be the brightest, look for those moments, and live.

-Bansoko

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Just so I remember ;)

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"Le Miz"

One more day, one more dawn, one day more!

Here we go piggies. Thge lyrics to my sng have been posted as "Th Boy Who Could Fly." Tonight will be my last night of posting and it will be turned over to my sister (thewanderingpenuin.tumblr.com).

I am so ready as I sit in this half minded state. The moment between the moment.

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yep, but i might not answer right away. gotta prep my face.

Why? need to put a mask on?

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it

For every person on this earth I think have a moment. I split second where something strikes them so profoundly. Something Rocks them to such a core where they cannot think about anything else. Where every hair on their neck and arms stand up. Their spine tingles and everything stops. They forget everything but that twisting and tugging sensation in their stomach and the spinning and reeling in their soul.

Some people have it when they read a verse of scripture (James 1:5 Joseph Smith). Other read a simple sentence and are locked on it so profoundly they cannot think (Covey in Stim & Reaction). Some in a moment they see a person and they loose themselves and everything but that person escape their mind and they think "I'll Marry them one day" or "It's them". Even others are captured with these moments that almost sink us and overwhelm us.

This idea of the 'perfect moment' has always stuck me as I've waited for it to happen. Some people I think have it and miss it but have had it.

Others it's simply a word said or an idea ingrained into them by someone else. This idea becomes part of our soul. My Mentor walked by Adlers book list and thought about how he would never read them... So he dropped out of school and began to and it's shaped his whole life.

I think I had that as a very young child and again a few months ago. The first time was when I learned about serving a mission. I was so convinced I would go on one I wasn't afraid of death til I was 16ish.

The other was when I saw a face and felt that twisting in my stomach. I don't know all why this happened. Now I'm just trying to figure out if we can have 'psuedo-perfect moments.'

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Here's To You

I'ma be strong. I'ma be the Brightest!

I know She must be out there... but forgive my while I swoon and work. Because I'ma work so hard on my mission. So hard when I come back and do the best I can.

That she might notice me. Whoever she is.

I know this may be the swoonings of a kid. The heartbeat of a kid about to leave. The lost thoughts of a secret romantic (shhh don't tell). But I have devote everything I have, forget myself and go to work. Question is do I forget 'The Girl in the Green Dress'? Mostly yes.

Yeah I'll wash her from my mind and write her maybe every month so she doesn't forget I exsist... maybe.

Maybe it's better she forgets me, so when I come back she might SEE me.

In the words of Douglas Adams: "Don't be afraid to get lost"

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Dialysis

I'm trading my blood out with something greater.

I'm undergoing some surgery almost as I change, morph and evolve into this new creature. A missionary. I see God in everything, I yearn to study and give some of his word away.

I am ready to LOVE/

Love, I know crazy right! Me Ban-Holdback-soko. Rapunzel knew I needed to love and I'm ready to give it away to everyone I meet in Japan and give them the greatest thing I know... Truth.

He gave His blood as payment. I'll give everything I can to him.

(Now only if there is someone waiting for me in two years...)

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are we chattin tonight?

if I can get the computer.

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Fool For You

Bottling myself has been a love/hate relationship. I tend to either hold too much in or let too much flow out.

I feel like a OCD thinker. I think, think, think, think, and overthink before figuring something out. Gyuess that's my talent. x)

I'm done missing people and I'm ready to leave. I'm done thinking for now I'm ready to leave. I want to go.

Just let me fly off to my Japanese Paradise.

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My Team!

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i like the new layout! and how did your talk go?! did you feel my cheers and intent listening (in spirit)? and where are my promised posts?!

Post one made, and my talk went well. Hope your sunday went goo as well.

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Have the most wonderful mission! You'll be fantastic (:

thanks, I know I will. I've prepared and I'm ready to go! I hope you sick around for letters!

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!:30am

The magical world known as Skype has been kind to me these past few days. Ive made a new friend, adayinthelifeofgnj.tumblr.com

Kid's a pimp-player.

Asde from that though it's been nice to talk to someone and not think so much. She's kinda been a answer to a prayer almost now that I've said goodbye to all my dear friends for a short while. Someone who I can just mess around with, and chill (for lack of a better word).

Hck I'm a sure happy her pretty face is around at 12:30 or 1:00am.