its been a really good week i dontknow where to start. we had a cleaning inspection on wednesday so that took some time to prepare for but we have the cleanest aprtment in the mission now. haha. i geuss thats cool. um we also had zone conference today in taniyama. it was cool, to see more of japan. ive seen almost all of kyushu already and i love it. Zone conference was way good. for the AP training i had my first family home evening in Japan. they talked about our family here in japan, and the realtionships we need to build within our ward, with our companion and everyone we come in contact with. everyone learns something from us whether were teacxhing or not, how we act and present ourselves. so that was pretty good. we need to set the example for others so they can see our happiness and want to feel the samne love we feel as members. So that was cool. and then next day we had a junkai or split with the APs it was so fun. theyre awesome. we had lot of fun with them. we had several lessons with investigators and less actives that day which all went well except for a less active i taught in a crazy hospital, that didnt go to well...oops that night we ate at a mexican resturant in miyazaki! i was so pumped the cheif is mexican, were going to be friends. haha hes cool soo that was awesome. hisashiburi. we got to wear sonbrarros and stuff too natsukashii. after we took out shane, a half gaijin family here in miyazaki, hes home now from byu idaho but going back next semester and preparing for a mission. It was fun to dendo with him and show him how fun it can be. i wish i would have done that before my mission.That night the petersens gave me a birthday present . a huge bag of chips salsa, gaucamole, cheese and stuff. it was awesome..and tortillas. there way nice yous should look them up on facebook and be there friend. anyways that night the 22nd i ate some icecream and blackthunder with the aps to celbrate it was sso good. on my birthday we did service at the petersens house(they run kindergarden( so that was way good to finally be able to work outside, jpanese peopl normally dont let you serve them.
so we had lots of good lessons this week. me and one of the aps, elder stevenson ,the 70s son, had a lesson with hiejima. it was really well. it was on ether 12 12 and taking blind stps of faith, it was really good i extended the baptismal commitment and she wants to but her parents are hantai because there buddhist. so hoepfully something can change with that. and yesterday we met with kadota. we read out of the new gospel principles book about repentance. it was also good, hes on his way to baptism as well. he wants to repent and then be baptized but it might take a while. im so excited for him, hes going to be such a solid member.
pretty much all of our ionvestigators have tobacco problem so thats been tough but i love shareing mosiah 2 41, it really puts things into porportion. temporal sastisfdaction or eternal happiness, god will bless those who keep his commandments, sweet promise and pretty easy to follow the commandments if we just keep an eternal perspective.
lastly today, pday was awesome. tokutome kyodai shimai took us to the worlds longest pedestrian suspension bridge in the world. it was so nice to be outside in the wilderness. it reminded me of alma 3044, all things denote there is a god a surpreme creator. it was so sweet, i have good pictures but cant send them here so someday. its to bad cause i have tons of good pictures and theres actually people in them. anuyways the tokutomes drove us out there we stopped at a farm of papaya cabbage cucumbers and other stuff. they were friends of the tokutomes and loved meeting gaijin liker us haha they gave us tones of yasai veggies. then we had lunch, we ate miyazakis very own chicken nanban. so good, and now im here. so its been a long week, but im doing well. its awesome to be here in japan sharing the best message this world has to offer. anyone can find happiness through this gospel, i mean i have thousands of miles away with weird food people language and no family. talk about miracles.
until next week.
love elder martinez
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