Well, this week has been a good one. Super busy. We did a ton of
divisions this week. Wed. I was in Manga 1 with Elder Nagao, Thursday I
was back with Elder Harris in our area, Friday I got to go back to
Munhava and walk with Elder Rebeiro and Saturday we finished the
divisions up, with Elder Boswell coming into my area. It was a lot of
fun going back to Munhava. I saw a bunch of people I knew. Way fun to go back. This Sunday was fun too. The Beira 1 branch ran out of sacrament cups and we (Beira 2) used the rest of ours up for our meeting, so we had to run out to Munhava to borrow some of theirs so that Beira 1 could have sacrament. So apparently the entire District of Beira is running dangerously low on sacrament cups... ha. Luckily the Assistants are flying up this week, so they'll bring some with them to hold us over until they can ship some in to us... We're getting ready for Zone Conference this week. We were over at the "mission office" here in Beira (One of the senior couple’s house with a computer) last night until 10:00pm, working on our presentation and we're still not done. The assistants come up on Tuesday and so the rest of the night we'll go on divisions with them, so that ought to be exciting and interesting too. President Packard is driving a new car up here and so he'll be arriving Tuesday as well. I believe that he is stopping through Inhambane on the way up here and having a little mini vacation... ha. That is just a rumor though. He deserves it. I don't know how he doesn't go crazy. He's got ridiculous amounts of stuff to do. So then we'll have Zone Conference the following day. Thursday we'll have a small party for Pioneer Day which ought to be way fun. Friday will be normal and then Saturday we'll drive out to Tete with President Packard. I'm way excited to go. Apparently the drive is amazing. I guess we'll see. President Packard will return on Sunday afternoon and we'll return on Thursday or Friday, depending on how things go with the baptisms and the lessons and what not. It ought to be a great trip. So... don't be surprised if you don't get an e-mail from me next week. I have no idea what we'll be doing for E-mail or P-day or anything. So ya. It ought to be a good little branch conference. Apparently there are mountains up there and so I'm getting excited to see some mountains. I'm sure nothing compares to Colorado or Utah but it'll be a nice change of scenery... I hear Tete is really dry and hot, so it'll be like I'm back in Colorado with heat and mountains and dryness. I was glad to hear that the Klomps are coming out to visit. I'll be here in Beira. You can send just the normal stuff. Kool aid (believe it or not I've almost finished all of that other kool-aid that you sent me the last time...) As far as other stuff, I can't think of anything. Little candy trinkets are good but we can get stuff like that here. Pizza is good too, but we've found some really good places to buy it and lately I've been making it using flour, yeast, some BBQ sauce, cheese and chicken. They've been coming out pretty good too so I'm happy with that (better than they did at BYU...). So ya, to be honest I've kind of forgotten what we have at home that we don't have here... maybe its better that way. I'll leave it up to Mom and Will. They're pretty good at those sort of surprises... Tell Bapa I loved that part of the letter that I did get... It was super funny. That is totally something that he would say. I'll probably take some $ out of the bank today for Tete, incase they have some cool things to buy... Can I send some stuff home with the Klomps again? That would be kind of nice. I'll try and find a convenient (switch blade...) for Andrew... not promising anything though...
Sounds like the summer is busy as usual. That backpack trip sounds like it is going to be a good one. Are you guys going to do the same loop that we were going to do, on that one back pack trip where they switched the route on me without telling me, so I ended up carrying that watermelon and birthday cake through 10 miles of sand dunes instead of 3 miles of mountain trails? Good luck with that water run off. If the snow isn't melted by August up there, I don't think it’s ever going to melt. Maybe you guys just ought to go white water rafting instead. The rivers must be great right now.
Well, things are going good here. Sunday Beira 1 had 255 people attend!! The biggest in Beira by double any other branch and pushing the missions highest. Of course I get transferred right before it blows up. I was happy to see all of those people file out of that room when sacrament ended. To answer Dad's question, yes, we’re expected to have an exemplarily (SP? that’s a hard word...) area, lately we rarely
get home before curfew and study time has been scarce... What did you
do as ZL in Japan? Did you not have to proselyte? Well, that’s about it
this week. I hope everything is going well. I guess I'll write you
sometime... still don't really know when... well, have a good week(s)!!

Elder Okazaki

P.S.
A little update on the package thing...
Packages are becoming very costly because most of them are going through customs. They just need to be kept to a very minimal number - maybe once or twice per year, not insured (that flags them
for a customs check), marked as missionary supplies, containing no
valuable items, and sent only to the following address. Any customs charges on packages from home will be charged to the missionary, not to the Mission. The only address that things should be sent to is:
Elder ___________,
Missão Moçambique Maputo,
Caixa Postal 1166,
Correio Central,
Maputo, Moçambique 1100,
África.
All this information needs to get to your parents.