Catching up...

August 8, 2010
Oookay… I’ve been slacking off on blogging. A lot. Haha. But here goes a recap of… well. I guess the last week…?
The end of TMK VBS… was soooo good. The new kids really opened up and the ones from previous years were their usual energetic selves. I gave the intro and my testimony in Japanese… and well. I just hope they understood what I was trying to say lol…. Speaking of which I just found out I’m giving my testimony tomorrow too so prayer for that would be appreciated. ><. What else… crafts went pretty smooth… towards the last couple days it was kind of sad though because some of the kids were leaving and we had to give them their crafts… it’s kinda hard to say good bye. Even though we only got to hang out with them for a week it’s really hard to say bye ><… they’re soooo cutteeeee!! Ugh. Haha…
Post VBS we were invited to go to Yamanaka with the Reasoners. It was suuuuuper nice there. We stayed next to the lake in a cabin…. Somewhere around the base of Mt. Fuji. We had some fun… but more than that we got to rest and relax a whole bunch… enjoy God’s creation and such… we ended up canoeing across the lake (me and lizzie) and eliot took a kayak… which was nice… enjoying the lake and the sun and stuffs… good barbequing and food and stuff. Rest is awesome. Haha… then the next day we went up to Mt. Fuji later in the day and climbed from the fifth to the sixth station… that was a lot of fun… a good workout… and rough on the feet on the way down haha. Me and eliot got up there and waited for 30 minutes for everyone else… which was kind of nice… sitting there enjoying the scenery… then to omiyage shopping… then… stuffs. Yeah. the next morning we woke up suuuuuuuuuuper early and had breakfast at denny’s… then saying good byes to the Reasoners… which was hard… after living next door to them and serving with them the previous week… we met up with the Nokendai team without any hiccups… took a tour around parts of Tokyo… which was really good. It was a really good experience… a good mixture of having a good time and experiencing the darker parts of Japan… it was really good how Richard explained the Meiji shrine we went to… their prayers and wishes inviting the darkness in… and learning to pray against it… it was a good time because I haven’t been in that kind of intensive time of praying for a while… it also reminded me that a lot of younger kids… those that have grown up in the church in particular… either don’t fully believe or fully understand then reality of the battles we fight… it was a very spiritually dark place… and saddening as well. Seeing a whole bunch of people lifting their praises to false gods… most because they have never heard the word of God and they don’t know any better… it was a good reminder of why we’re here… and the battle we’re here to fight.
Anywhoooooo… then was onto nokendai… it’s been good here. Different. The atmosphere here is different with new team members and such… but in a good way. We had a day to rest… a day to shop around a bit and go to the fireworks…. One of the days in there I felt really exhausted and rested for a long time…. But I guess it was much needed rest. Today (Sunday) I felt much better… ended up going to church… seeing the kids was… once again. A huge blessing. Seeing their faces light up as they saw us and seamlessly jumping into well. Jumping on people. (namely us. Haha)… but it was lots of good fun. And I’m really excited and feeling renewed for the next few days! Oookay… well. I suppose I should go off to think about my testimony tomorrow… and get to bed soonish.

OH! And there will be pictures to come… (I super duper promise!... sometime soon…)