Super Saturday!

I may or may not have planned to blog this yesterday at 12:30am after a long days work (Dave has just now pointed out that 12:30am was today so I actually mean today) but Peter in his profound wisdom suggest that I do this the next day (which was actually the same day, as pointed out previously)

So here I am blogging at 8 in the morning =)

We arrived at Itayanagi at 5:30pm on the 2nd of December and God really blessed us with a chance encounter. See, from the OMF headquarters (all the way back in Ichikawa) to the Ghent's place in Itayanagi consisted of 4 trains and 6 and a half hours and on the last few rides we had to zig our way on the train to Itayanagi. We had to travel west, but there is no line that travels west, only one that goes south west and another that goes north west and after a while we had no idea how far we were from Itayanagi and then all of a sudden this one Japanese student walks up to Judy and Dave and asks if we're going to Tsugaru. Awesome right =D ?

Now get this, next he says 'I live with the Ghents'. We had just bumped into, in one of our 4 train rides and of the several carriages in that train, Yudai, who is currently living with the Ghents. God provides! Yudai then helped us get to Itayanagi where we met with Martin Ghent.

Itayanagi is a countryside farming town that's famous for its apples. We arrived having just missed out on last weeks snow. We had our first meal at the Ghent's house (they are awesome cooks, I think it's called Hayashi rice that they made, I went back for seconds and thirds!).

After that the boys went to our first men's bible study and the girls went to a reef making class held by Martin's wife, Ruth.

Dave describes the bible study as nice, I describe it as filled with manliness (being a men's bible study) and Roy describes it as *thumbs up*, encouraging and edifying. So all in all it was good. We went through Mark 10:17-31 and we went through what it meant to place hope in something. Like putting hope in the stock market, putting hope in plans, and best of all putting hope in God.

That was actually a recount of our Thursday, as we are lacking on time to blog, but we will endeavor to give more time to it. But the title is not a lie, I guarantee this was well and truly written on a Super Saturday!

Prayer points: Give thanks to God for today, we had a bazaar/market at the church today and many church goers and new comers came along. The youth helped out with a shop and I got to chat with Masato and Yudai about what they thought of love. Pray that they can continue searching through what love is, by experiencing God's love and searching through how high, far, wide and deep His love is!

As for our team, pray that we can be serving God foremost in all things. And always have His will in mind and that we treasure Him and His wants above ourselves and our own.

P.s I may or may not have finished this blog at 9:38pm