VBS Day 4; Still Going Up!

Thursday was even better. Our numbers continue to go up, made it up to 22 kids! God is so good. There are also many mothers and I think we had a grandma today as well. It is such a neat opportunity to be able to witness to these souls. Mainly by us serving their children, when you do something nice for someone child, they remember you. Some great words of wisdom that someone told me before that I would like to share, for those of you who have close friends that are missionaries. When your missionary friends are home in the States, or even when on the field, always take the time to remember their children. Even if it’s something simple like buying their kids a new pair of shoes or something that gives them a little memory of home, like peanut butter!

Anywho, back to VBS! Today, Thursday, was the fifth day of God’s creation, the creation of the birds and sea creatures. Therefore, we had small ceramic animals for the kids to paint today, oh it was a hit.

We found these awesome little animal cookies at the supermarket that had the English names written right on them. They were perfect. It is amazing how much the Lord provides, especially when we’re going into the unknown sometimes.

My English class continues to grow to as we have more kids, it’s really nice. However now that I have more kids we can’t cover as much material. I had 8 kids in my class today, which is 4 times more then I had on the first day. God is good!

After VBS, we went out to lunch what an experience today. First Isaiah and I trekked over to the Panya (Breadshop) and got some luscious bake goods, that words and pictures just cannot describe. I of course got some melon bread and I sweet conical shaped bread dipped in chocolate and filled with a chocolate custard. Then we headed over to the 100 yen (under $1) Soba shop and got a bowl of soba noodles, and we stood while we ate. I don’t think I ever ate something this fast before at the scorching temperature it was at. Don’t get me wrong it was great but I like to chew my food… but I’ll go back again.

Thursday evening Mrs. Omura, one of the widows at the church) invited Isaiah and I to here house for dinner. Akiko the girl who rents from her and who also attends the church joined us as well. We had a wonderful time of fellowship, food and a few games of chicken foot. For those of you who do not know what that is, it’s a fun game with domino’s. But I can’t even begin to describe to you how wonderful the dinner was, I would be here all night and it is already 12:20am here Friday morning.. All traditional Japanese food, I’ll post a picture and let it speak for it self.

Please pray for our strength tomorrow as we finished our week of VBS with a fun filled day of activities and lunch for the children. WE have much work to do and as soon as it is over, we have to do some planning for our camp that we leave for tomorrow. Much to do and so little time…

Thank you all! P.S. scroll down to see more pictures!