Day 5

Tuesday started at the church at 9am to help Kanadasan cut a door down so we could get it to swing open nicely without scraping on the new carpet. Most of the time we watched, because it was a one man job until the door needed to be moved and clean up. However, it came out great and he treated us all to lunch at a Chinese restaurant and then coffee at McDonalds.

Soon after be began to pass out fliers, it went great, except we couldn’t figure out when the school was getting out so we stood around for a while. Most of the children are quite receptive; however, some always ignore you and run. When we speak English to them they get interested, then they start speaking to us in English and usually they know quite a bit. We really surprise them though when we through out the little Japanese we know, then they run off screaming wow (Sagoee) in Japanese.

Further, we had another American join us, Laney Stroup who had been ministering in Nagano. After we warmly greeted each other we headed back and on the way stopped at one of the local Panya (Bread shops) for some famous Japanese Melon Bread. Imagine warm bread, topped with a sweet green melon cookie crunch on top, soft as cotton but as sweet as honey that melts in your mouth. It is heavenly… for lack of a better term and so worth the 8 minute wait, because it had just been pulled from the oven. After having such scrumptious bread wad had to wash it down with some gourmet coffee so we went to go visit Tomo Takahashi, Sensei’s daughter, who happened to be working at a local coffee shop.

On our way back to the church the group spilt up and a few of us, Isaiah, Maki, John, Ma, and myself decided to hit up some Karaoke. We had a blast, and how cool is it to be singing Karaoke in three languages, English, Japanese and Korean!

We then made it back to church and headed out to our various home stays. Isaiah and I went back to the Kato’s where we Isaiah kept the kid entertained and I helped Mrs. Kato with dinner making pasta and garlic bread. The four kids; Seji (2), Hitori (4), Yukiko (9) and Yuki (14) kept us up until 11:30pm, I couldn’t believe they stayed up so late… and Isaiah and I still had showers to take and laundry to do. We pushed the laundry off, took our showers and went to bed. It’s now Wed as I am writing this and I am sitting here with a cold, I would appreciate prayer as there is still much to do a head of us. Thank you all and I will attempt to put another post up tonight (Wed). We have a prayer meeting at the church tonight which will be a great time of fellowship.

P.S. I apologize for the lack of pictures; I have to go to the local camera store to get a something to hook the camera up to my computer… so soon!!