Another email - a nice surprise.

Hey mom yeah I can't believe what happened in Japan it is just so sad,
do you know if any of the missionaries were hurt? i hope not. Our
president was talking about how things will be happening in the world
that we just don't expect and that we need to be ready always and
never do anything to take away our agency. Then he gave us all 72 hour
kits and explained what to do with them in case something happened. An
elder told me last time he did this the volcano erupted and left
people without food for two days but all the missionaries were in good
hands. I know the president receives revelation and it is amazing to
watch him, he truly is in tune with the spirit and I love him for that reason.
I'm sure the mission presidents in Japan had
revelation too and prepared their missionaries. My mission is
going just as I planned and I am loving every minute of it. I learn so
much every day. It really is flying by and I don't really like that. I
love it here and I am learning so much everyday. My companion is great,
we work good together and he is fine but I mean we have only had one
argument, it was something he did and he realized his mistake and
we're good now. I can honestly say I'd feel lost without my mission, it has
become something daily for me now an I hardly think about home now. It
is weird for me to think of back home and to think you guys are living
a completely different life style. The American lifestyle is totally
different than here and I'm starting to adjust to it here but
like Elder Clark told us that we are here to change lives here not for
us to be changed to them. Elder Clarke wants us to teach self respect
and to honor the church and literally bring the feeling of the church
to the homes of the people here. I'm making that my
new goal to help change more people. Our mission president
actually just gave us a beat down on how we need to
look to serve more and so people always think we are perfect.
Missionaries try to say were not robots but president asked why not.
We need to be perfect and completely obedient so people can't say, oh
well this elder did that. He said we can be loving robots. Haha it was
funny

So I think you should do seminary so I can sub in your classes. Ha I
think that would be so much fun. And I hope nanny is doing good and
Grammy too I pray for them always. But yeah when is brother banner
coming. Hopefully soon and yeah send some envelops also I'm running
out. And I'll send the chip with brother banner when he comes, it is
just too expensive to send.

So give me the details on what's going down with the move, what are the
chances on a scale of 1 to 10? Garrett says he will just move up with
us haha. And also he wants me to tell you to fix the blog. The part of
his mission he wants Otto say Chile Santiago north mission. Haha but
yeah well I better get going talk to you later I love you guys.

Love elder daniel Shipley