Well well well. yappari lots of big news these days. congratulations to trevor and kristen! thats way sick. im pretty pumped for them. That will be sweet. crazy. but good crazy
anyways my week has a been way good, miyazaki is still legit. i love it here. So this week our focus has been on tsuda, weve met and continue to meet everyday. Hes way cool. Hes progressing towards his baptism on feb 28th. just needs to quit tabaco this week, which he can def do. Im way pumped for him, we actually had a little scare. he had some worries at the beginning of the week, i was with elder burdge the zl on splits when he talked about them. I thought this might happened so we planned for it, we had a really good lesson. we both bore testimony really strong and the spirit was strong, after ward it got quiet and hes ask if he could humbly partake of us baptizing him. it was so sweet. he orignally had a baptismal date for the 14th but we rescheduled for the 28th. hes been doing really well since then. the other day he aske if the day after the next was too fast to baptized haha it was way funny. hes got to quit smoking and get an interview, so its been really fun working with him and seeing his life change through keeping the commandments and putting his trust in God. So thats been really good. we have been working with lots of people, i love it here.
well yesterday we went to kagoshima for conference steak conference. kagoshima is sweet its on a huge hill, its known for its huge volcano that erupted on staurday we couldnt see the volcano cause everything was cloudy from ash and junk. it was cool. well this letter is going to be short but i want to share Pres. Margetts message. it was way good. he talked about a native american tribe. they have a ceremony in which a boy must pass to become a man. He is lead into the forest blindfoolded and sits on a log the whole night, he cant take the blindfold of until he feels the warmth of the sunrays in the morning. So the boy uis sitting on the log, he hears animals and beasts, people and the wind is blowing feircely. he was very frightined and though he would be injured or attacked by other tribes or animals. but he left the blindfold on and ganbaru-ed. when he finally took it off he found that his dad was sitting right next to him and had been the whole night. we are never alone, in times when we cant see the light at the end of the tuneel, the times when we dont feel like we can go further or at times for others when they simply cant see. He is there and he lives. we need to show our faith in him and constantly draw closer to him, reach for him and we will find him. we will find peace and comfort. Im know this to be true, i have experienced and im excitesd to share this with people who dont have it, and i encourage all readers to try to share or pray for an oppurtunity to share this gospel. truly a blessing. ijyou. until next week
love elder martinez
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