tanoshyugozaimashita.
well this week was way good. lots went down. oh and i made my birthday cake this week except, in japan there are no ovens just toaster oven microwave things, in apartments and stuff, and i really wanted to have some funfetti cake, so i put it into the rice cooker. haha it turned out allright, looked way weird at first but was still good. haha
anywaysthis week i finally made my way to the beach for the first time in japan! it was cool, we played american football with some members and an old invetstigator were trying to teach again. hes way cool, hes like 28 and a pretty solid dude, hes training now for his rugby season coming up so he enjoyed playing with us, we had fun, it was nice to run around on the sand, but made me sore, im out of shape. Anyways we got to met with him at a members house, we ate some good food and made takoyaki (octopus things)had a good time, we shared a pretty awesome messgae so i hope that will turn out good.
As foir our investigators there all doing well, we have some pretty cool investigators. I have told you a little about Tsuda before but this week has been good. we have been talking about the word of wisdom and it has been really hard for him, he was a heavy smoker. hes been doing good but this week we talked and asked him if he thought if he could go without smoking for a day and he said hed try. i asked him to ride to the store with us, i bought him juice and stuff and than went back to his apartment and took all his lighters and stuff (he agreed) The end of the next day we went to check up . he looked alot more genki and happy and we we asked he saidhe didnt smoke that day! we were so pumped and way excited for him. way happy...then he said he smoked 3 his friend gave him after dinner at his house haha. anyways it still was way good, we were way pumped, hes still working on cutting down but hes almost there. he also said this week that his life has been alot better since he started meeting with us, it was really cool, we actually fasted together yesterday and he did awesome. this gospel is helping him change his life around for the better, its really cool to see. weve taught him almost all the commandments and hes still doing well. so thats been the highlight of the week.
last nught we did some home teaching at the shibukaichyo house (branch president) he had a normal meal of rice soup salad gizards and squid haha, it was good. we had a good time with the family as they tried to speak english to us, (there dauighter is studying it in middle school.) it was good. we shared the first presidency's message for january about holding on. and shared on of my favorite scriptures, Doctorine and Covenants 88:63. Its awesome. we talked about how everyday we need to build our akashi by doing the little things so we can "draw closer" chikazukinasai! when need to do the little things averyday so when rough times come we can hold on and not loose hope like some of those in Kirtland. so the messgae trhis week is hold on a little longer. if you havnt read it i would reccommend it. anyways that was a glimpse of my week. hope everyone is well and thanks for the support and prayers
love elder martinez
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