DAY FIFTEEN :)

I am caught up on my blogs and you guys should be proud!

Today was an early morning... I had to leave my apartment at 7:45 this morning to head to the international hostel in order to pick up the newest team that has arrived. They are a high school choir of 43 students from Georgia! It was a lot of students to handle that is for sure and with them being in high school... that was an experience! I had a great day though :) Let me tell you all about it though! So we picked them up this morning pretty early and with so many students not ready to leave, we actually were one hour late from leaving! When they finally got ready one of the interns and I led them to Hibiya park which neither one of us had been to! The team had a scheduled concert at noon today and it went amazing! It had been raining all morning and I have to say I was a little worried about people showing up... Anyway yesterday they passed out flyers during the day telling people about their concert and many came! There was about 50 people there and it was such an amazing sight to see these precious Japanese people enjoy this high school choir singing to them! It was a fun sight and Christ really blessed the choir with an audience! I was in tears when one of the elementary teachers brought her entire class into the seating area! I wish you could have seen this sight. To watch that teacher guide her students into their seats and have them sit there quietly listening to this worship music blew my mind! I was in tears and loved the fact the this teacher was so bold and so strong in her faith that she brought her students out of the classroom to this concert! I am such a cry baby :) It hurts me to know that all of those precious babies are lost in the darkness and the many gods of Japan. It hurts me. So after the concert we went ahead and ate at a restaurant in Ginza so that the team wouldn't be hungry when we went to the temple. So for the second time this summer I went to the largest temple in Tokyo and Christ continues to break my heart for these people. To see these gods and these statues and these fortunes and all the fake unrealistic things in the markets... it hurts. We led the large team through the temple and though they didn't get to spend much time touring it because of lack of time, I was able to really sit there and pray for these people. To watch these people bow down, so sad. Well the team had a bus to pick them up at 5 pm to head to their new hostel where they will stay for the next two weeks. When I returned to the cave i heard such amazing news!!! A male and a female were saved during the day! Also at night interns have bible studies with those interested and during the bible studies TWO females were saved :D How amazing is HE!!! Then right before I decided to go to bed, Brian my teammate came home from hanging out with one of his contacts... and she asked Christ into her heart! How amazing and i am so excited to start a bible study with her and Brian! our God is doing some amazing work here in Japan!

PR:
-5 new believers throughout the day today!
-Japanese people at the temple...
-New 43 man team/choir from Georgia
-CBU's last friendship party tomorrow night
-Bible studies that are going on!

haley michelle