Another week has flown by. its crazy, i cant believe it. We hada lot of actvities this week to make it interesting, so it was def fun. on Tuesday i went to a pizza buffet. i miss american pizza! but i have to say i do like japanese pizza as well.im gertting used to the mayonase corn sausage, seaweed, weird cheese pizza. its starting to grow on me. haha.
so i guess the first exciting event was The Petersens American Kindergarden graduation. haha. It was way funny to see a bunch of little japanese children dance, sing and act. they all spoke in english. it was broken, but its crazy, everyone in japan knows a little english. It was funny, they sang some church songs and later Bro Petersen gave a lesson on Gods love. it was really cool. there were a ton of people there and was a good experience. Were able to meet some less actives and a potential investigator so it turned out really well.
Then on Friday we planned a sweet volleyball activity at a gymn. we invited and committed 6 non members to come. as well as several members. Then everyone bailed. so it was stunk. but it made it all worth it when Kota came. Hes 17. a way nice kid. so it turned out to be only 6 of us but everyon had a good time. The members befriended kota well so it was perfect. it was crazy playing volleyball. real volleyball. natsukashikatta. except im 2 feet taller than everyone so its kind of funny.
The third sweet activity was a YM YW activity. they played wii sports on the wall of the inside of the church. of course we couldnt play but that to was natsukashii. it was funny to watch. and of course it was all in japnese so it was extra sweet. i talked to a nice man brother Markam. Another gaijin in our word. it was good to have another good talk in english. hes a nice guy. there was a good turn out to that too, non members and all.
So this week has been really sweet, we had a lot of sweet activities to get people out, who normally dont come and we had a really good turn out to church yesterday so i think it payed off. I dont know if i told you but we had training 2 weeks ago with the mebers from a 70 elder yamashita. the church has put out anew plan for asia. A rescue Plan to help non member part member less actives and people who havnt been to the temple yet, Its a very detailed plan and will be good. It will help us work more efficently with the mebers and help evryone come closer top Christ. So we have been trying to promote that wiht the members and trying to work well with them, i think the mebers like us so thats the first step. i have been thinking about this rescue plan and thought of mathew 18 verse 12 13. about leaving the 99 sheep to find the 1 lost sheep. i think its going really well so far. the ward is working hard, and thats how missionary work succeeds
so this week hasnt been all play, weve been quite busy, im exhausted. we had lot of sweet lessons this week , and weve been working on getting Tsuda friends so its been a crazy week. We also had a sweet lesson with Sadanaga san, our fairly new investigator. hes way funny. we talked about the second part of the Plan of salvation. In the beginning we revewed what we taught last time and he explained to me what the atonement was with great detaiol hes got a really great memory. Anyway the lesson went really well. we talked about the kingdoms, and of course focused on the celestial kingdom, the spirit was strong. it strengthened my testimony. the celestial kingdomwill be so sweet. we shared 3 nephi 28 10 to help describe heaven. it sounds so perfect. a fulness of joy. i cant even comprehend it. We cant, or let anyone else, settle for anything less than making it to the clestial kingdom and obtaining eternal life with our families in a state of complete joy. so we helped sadanaga san see this. and then committed him to baptism. he said he couldnt cause he was a grave keeper, i dont know what exaclty know what that implys but we asked him to pray this week if it was the right thing to do, he said he wouldnt pray this week but tonight tomorrow and the next day haha. then he said once he recieved his answer he said he would happily receive baptism. we later got a call asking how much it costs haha. anyway it was a really good lesson. he ended with prayer and blessed that me and Elder Burnett could get married and make happy children and go to heaven. ive never had anoyone pray for me like that. i think my life will be pretty good.
so as you can see things are going really good here in Miyazaki. Its saiko. im well. happy. and alive. I love the mission and serving the people of japan. Hope everyone is doing well, untill next week
Elder Martinez
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