Hello Family!!! I hope your doing well because I sure am. I leave for Japan in 4 Days!!!!!
And I have some really important information about being able to TALK to you guys on Monday!! So that’s why its in all caps haha.

SO, ON MONDAY THE 10TH, I WILL BE IN THE AIRPORT HEADING TO SEATTLE AT 8:30 FROM THE SLC AIRPORT. I AM GOING TO BE CALLING DADS CELL PHONE WHEN I LAND IN SEATTLE!! I BOUGHT A PHONE CARD FROM THE BOOK STORE AND WE ARE ALLOWED TO CALL HOME ANYTIME THAT WE CAN IN BETWEEN FLIGHTS. SINCE SEATTLE TIME IS SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT, BE READY TO ANSWER DADS CELL PHONE AT AROUND 11 A.M. I HOPE YOU GUYS AREN'T BUSY IN THE MORNING BECAUSE I JUST FOUND OUT WE CAN CALL. THE MINUTES ON MY PHONE CARD GET GREATLY REDUCED WHEN I MAKE A PHONE CALL SO MAKE SURE YOU PICK UP. IT DEDUCTS MINUTES EVEN IF NO ONE ANSWERS. I WOULD LOVE TO TALK TO YOU GUYS AND HOPE THIS CAN HAPPEN!

So yeah, I just found out about being able to call so now I'm telling you haha. Unfortunately, I won't be able to communicate anymore through email after today so I hope there aren't any problems. I really hope you guys are free in the morning and I can't wait to talk to you! And by the way, my layover in Seattle is about 4 hours so I should hopefully have around an hour of time on the phone. But I'm not positive, because if there aren't many phones, it will probably be cut short so that other missionaries can talk too. There are 18 of us going to the Japan, Tokyo South mission so yeah.

Eyyyyy, so yeah that would be totally great to talk to you guys in just a few days! Although last week went by quite slowly, this week has been going by pretty quick! And it’s also been one of the best, if not the best week, here in the MTC! I don't know if it’s because I'm going to Japan so soon, or just because the days have been great, but they sure have been! And to think that my next P day will be IN JAPAN!! Sooo yeah, what is up with you Dad? I really liked reading the DearElder you sent me. Anyways, I wish I could see that awesome dog Zeus! He sounds like such a cool dog and he looks cute as heck. Plus I love the name, haha. Ah man, and I would really love to talk to you guys on Monday so that I can talk all about Japanese, and some of the awesome friends I've gained here but yeah. I can always try to do my best in emails as well.

So Japanese is going decently well. I'm sure it will be a whole new ball game when I enter Japan and that’s where some serious (and necessary) learning will start to take place. I'm sure I've said it before, but just to emphasize it, THIS LANGUAGE IS SO DANG HARD TO LEARN! Holy cow, if I wasn’t totally needing to learn this language and feeling the motivation of what it will allow me to do in Japan, it would probably take me 6 years to learn this freakin stuff! There are just so many things that you have to know and memorize in a language (besides just words obviously) that you don't even realize until you delve in. And I'm pretty sure I've just hit the surface. But wow is it cool to think up a sentence and be able to communicate it in Another Language!!! Plus I always think of how dang cool it will be when I actually know how to speak this pretty well and that I will be able to talk with Japanese people in their language! So yeah, I have a lot to learn, but I have also learned a lot while I've been here. And I'm getting so jacked to head to Japan in just 4 days!! Yoooooo!!!!

Anyways, I really hope to get to talk to you so you can ask me questions and I can instantly answer them. And also I could teach you some random Japanese that could be fun to use haha.

I can't wait to hear from you mates!
- Carlini ちょうろう