letter sent 10.19.09: atarashii

hey everyone, thanks for the letters and such sounds like everyone is doing well. well transfers came and gone and left me with a new companion, well i wouldnt say left, i was transfered to Isahaya, It was surprising to me as well but its good, my new Comp is Elder reyes, which is funny the only 2 spanish names in the mssion, we are both new to the are but things are going well so far. Elder Reyes seems like a cool guy so far, hes actually hawaiin, lives in oahu near waikiki (15 minutes) pretty sweet eh? anyway hes a hard worker so im pretty excited for this transfer, ill be here for at least 2 transfers so that will put me to january, so ill be spending my holidays here as well, anyway we dont know anything about the area but we are slowly learning. its tough but fun. and the members are so far pretty amazing. Last night we visited a memeber and she took us around her area by on here bike, we followed her and she led us to some cool families she new so we cantacted 3 referals that night, nothing happened from it but it was cool, another member named kita took us around to visit people too on sunday, so it was really cool these members seem to love, missionary work and missionaries so im really excited for this transfer. i think im going to see great things happen here.

so everynight that we have been here weve had shokujikai's or meal apts. we have one tonight and one of there daughters is going to introduce us to her boyfriend and hopefully become an investigator, we havent met our investigators yet but it sounds like we have some good ones.

Elder Reyes is a good missionary, he knows the language really well and is obedient and delligent, i think we will work well together here with the members. so thats good, i was a little worried about tranfering cause i　just got used to oita and beppu and am going to miss our investigators and members but thats alright, so yeaIsahaya has a small church, priesthood and relief society are held in the same room and our apato is way small as well but its a cool place, pretty inaka but we have a huge area and tons of people so im excited for that, so yea i dont know what else to say cause im new here and were just trying to get used to the area. but its going to be a good transfer.

so this week i was reading in alma, and its a sweet book, alma both almas were amazing missionaries, help me here in the feild, the book of mormon is truly an inspired book, everytime you read it you can learn new things. well anyway a cool chapter id like to point out is chapter f of alma. Its a big self evaluation for our lives i tying, we can read that chapter and check ourselves from time to time, its pretty cool, so.. dozo, yonde kudasai. well thats about it for me this week, looking forward to this week and excited to be here, all is well.

peace 愛しているよ。 martinez 長老