Konichiwa!

Yikes, it's been forever since I've posted on here. We've been busy, of course, but that's no excuse I guess. Brady came home from his mission to Japan, after the 9.0 earthquake caused a tsunami and a nuclear catastrophe. His mission, and the one north of him were evacuated. Because he only had 2 transfers left, he was sent home in order to make it easier to place the remaining 200+ missionaries! It was extremely difficult for him, but we were so glad to get him home, safe from the danger of the nuclear meltdown! We had already purchased tickets to go to Japan in May and pick him up from his mission, so we put that on hold for a while. But as it got closer to our departure date, things looked better and better. We sold our 2 tickets back and purchased 3 for June. We could only be gone for 10 days since Brady had a job by then and couldn't miss two full weeks of work, but it was awesome! We're so glad we went. What an incredible opportunity to meet the wonderful investigators and members in Chiba and Yokohama! We loved the country, the food, the people, the interesting culture...the whole experience! We weren't sure that we'd be able to get Brady to come back with us, but we won. I think he left his heart there, but at least, we got the rest of him back home again!