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Monday, February 15, 2010

letter sent 2.14.10

genki? genki yo. saikou
jya this week has been awesome, some pretty sweet stuff went down. its been way good, weve been pretty busy this week also had a long bus ride to fukuoka this week which was relaxing but ill get to it in a second, well this week has been a little hard, we dropped 2 investogators, or i should say they dropped themselves. it was way sad. one lady in particular is always busy and stressed with work, shes like our message and would listen at her pourch but we could never get a lesson at the church with her cause she was always so busy. i committed her to baptism when i first got here and she said yes, she had a great desire to go to the celestial kingdom. but lately like the last 3 weeks has just said go men ne, isogashii. its been frsutrating but this week we just asked her about things and about baptism and she said nows not the right time for her, things are to crazy. she ll call us when shes ready. it was really tough but we respect her decision. we bore testimony of the reasons we came to Japan and left her with that, it was hard. shes looking for this gospel and she needs this gospel, i know it would bring true peace to her life as it has to all of our lives. i know she was looking for this peace and wanted it, but just couldnt quite see it the way i did.life is only hard because we make it hard. if we just focus on whats in important nothing else matters all that much, we just need to trust in the Lord and he will take care of us. i wanted her so bad to know that but i geuss it just wasnt her time, but i still hope she calls again. anyway we have been working with tsuda too. hes doing great . the day befroe yesterday he didnt smoke any. hes trying so hard, he lives with a smoker and is having a hard time but is doing well. he haas to quite this week for sure, it will be way hard but i think he can do it. we havnt set up an interview yet but tentatively it should be a week from this friday. hes prepraing pretty hard core. hes scraed the interview is like a test about evrything in the book of mormon even though we shared with him the same questions that will be asked. hes way cool and im excited foir him.
so now for one of the many climaxs of my week. we went to fukuoka on tuseday. stayed the night under the temple in honbu, a real bed bytheway(and couldnt sleep well)! woke up and met Elder Dallin H Oaks of the quroum of the 12 apostles. it was so sweet, we had a taikai with him, and before got to shake his hand talk to him for like 30 seconds. it was way cool. the apostles are so amazing now since ive been on my mission ive seen elder Holland elder Scott and now elder Oaks. they are all so very different but all hold the mantle of an apostle of Jesus Christ. they have so much power. the spirit was so strong when Elder Oaks entered the room. It was so awesome. We had a good meeting and he addressed many things, even had a question session which was way cool too. it was def an amazing once in a life time experience. Anyways he announced changes that are happening in the fukuoka mission, eacyh year the church consalidates missions and because the decrease in missionaries lately japan is changing. It actually is good for us, anyway The hiroshima mission is done as of this july. It will be split in half and merging with Fukuoka and kobe missions, So now my mission includes the Hiroshima stake! it was pretty sweet we are all really excited about that. anyway its been a great week and amazing to hear from an apostle of the Lord. 1 nephi 10 18. the lord still works through a Prophet and his apostles today. we are so blessed to have President Thomas S Monson and general authorities to lead in guide us through these latter days. thanks for the emails and have a good week. and happy valentines day.
love elder martinez

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