one heck of an eventful sunday and a very calm day off monday

Yesterday was another busy day. Sunday is where the team has to muster all their energy! Like last week, we had english class and 3 services to go to.

We began with english class first for the kiddies! losing one of the teachers (Ruth fell ill *sadface), naomi had to improvise, and i honestly think she did a great job with it! we first played a fruit name game, and it was so cute seeing the kids struggle to say the veggie or fruit in english. Have in mind though the oldest was probably 10 and the youngest was 3, i thought they did a pretty good job. After this game, we helped them practice their lines for the christmas happening in 2 weeks time. it's sad toknow we won't be able to see thier skit =(. It was so cute hearing them read their lines. It's all really gospel-y lines, i hope they will get to the stage in life where they can understand their lines and come to know god through that.

Young Life (the youth group at Itayangi Chapel) had to prepare lunch for service, so we gladly assisted. i can't descibe what i was (pete calls it an asian-rice-lasagna). Go yudai! service was awesome! though it was hard to understand.it was really awesome to see the older people form the congregation to lead in music! judy and myself said our testimonies. it was so weird to hear martin translate it into japanese....

Dave, Pete and myself then headed to Kanagi church headed by Armin Messer and his family. The church was just newly renovated so it was real pretty. there were 5 people who attended the church. one of the church goer's lived right opposite the church building! she was really nice. We also met eiji san. He suffers from short term memory loss after suffering a high fever a few years ago. Armin had to translate for us, but it was so encouraging to hear that he turned to christ despite his disease (armin shared that eiji san sometimes forgets his baptized too).

it was then nite english church~! pete did the sermon on psalm 73, funny references to fraser island! we also did our christmas skit, i very good practice run! i know what to edit now! was a great time to feel at home again, with an english service! yay! then we had a massage sesh! yay

day off has been awesome! really relaxing. we're doing a test run dinner for aussie night on thursday! wish us luck!

Prayer Points

• pray thanks that mission has gone well so far
• thanks for the on going work on the missionaries
• pray for Ruth as she's a bit ill
• pray for the continual health of the team