letter sent 10.13.09: week 6

愛する家族と友達

today was a pretty crazy week and its hard to believe its over already. Sorry for not writing yesterday but we had a ward trip to the Fululoka temple. It was a lot of fun. they rented a bus and we had a little voyage to fukuoka. So i was not able to email but it was a really good experience. the japanese people have a great love for doing work for there ancestors, children included.

So what happened this week? i cant even remember. we had a little typhoon scare, but as you probably saw it missed us completely but we still felt its power, it was pretty dang windy and rained a ton. so it was coool to see but i kind of wanted to see a typhoon.

So our lesson with Noriko was canceled which stinks but we have one tomorrow. Oh yeah our other investigator, or sort off, isnt feeling to well. her name is Ritsuko. Shes really nice and always feeds us tons of food at her house and vacation apartrment. Anyways shes had heart surgery 5 times and her heart is giving her problems again so thats not very good, hopefully shell be alright though.

Oh and this weekend was general conference weekend. So i got to watch all the sessions in english was pretty good. It was super goood. I like general conference more than i thought i did haha, i just have a new appreciation for it now. the talks were pretty good huh? i loved the talk related to a heart transplant. It made so much sense. it is so important to do the little things everyday. i also liked the talks on love and the other on anger, by president Monson. Everything starts with little arguements, and lead to anger. there is way too much anger in the world. everyone needs to chill out eh? Its pretty hard for me at times but like said we control our emotions. No one makes us angry we decide to be angry. Its so hard sometimes but something i def need to work on. replacing anger with love. something everyone can work on i think. two opposites and when it comes down to it its just selfishness vs selflessness. anyway try to go out of your way to help out those in need of help this week. Ill do the same in here in Japan . there were so many good talks i could go on but i hope you guys watched them all. Theres tons of good stuff.

hmm so what else? im not quite sure but transfers are tomorrow. Im pretty sure ill stay right where i am but its likely ill get a new companion so that should be interesting, ill be sure to tell you about that next week, im kind of nervous for a new companion. you get used to one and they give you a new one, ill be a pro at human relationships in two years haha. this week i also went on junkai (split) with mccarthy chourou , hes only been out 4 transfers so were pretty new between the two of us but it was pretty fun talking to the people all the same. some times older people just say wakaranai (dont understand ) and shut the door, its pretty funny.

Umm eikaiwa is good , its always fun. the people really like us and conversation time is the best. werid stuff comes out everytime and their broken english is way funny, do i sound weird like that when i speak japanese? probably

well i think thats about it for the week actually. pretty good week, alot of cool activities. Excited and nervous for new transfer but things are going well here. Untill next week,

Martinez長老