6/19/09
Well today started off pretty well and like Wednesday we have one teammate off work we only have two of us working today. We divided the Brushy Creek into 2 teams again, but this time I was able to go to the campus and Rachel went to he train station! The two younger guys and I headed to the university and we prayer walked for a good while before the lunch hour. I was able to find all the fields for their sporting events and was STOKED about that! I got to watch some of the golf classes going on and it was fun to pray for these college students! Anyway we went our separate ways and I went to meet one of my new friends at lunch and the guys went to another basketball practice. I met with my newest contact for lunch and she invited her friend! It went great and we were able to share fun times together :) They taught me how to make ramen the RIGHT way and it was funny for me :) It was a lot of fun to st down with these two girls and invest in them! We have a date next wednesday during the lunch hour and I am so excited about that. She has said she will bring more friends to meet me :) I got passed this contact from one of the California Baptist students! Praise God that that team made great contacts and were able to pass them along to our team! So while I was eating with this presh girl, the two guys from our volunteer team were at basketball practice with their contacts! So after lunch I went and watched the soccer practice that was going on with one of the guys and the other went ahead and headed to his lunch time. Eventually we made our way to the train station for 5 ME!!! It went really well and one of our volunteers was able to help someone make our Father his SAVIOR!!! We had been there for a good while, talking to few people and this young man came along and accepted Christ! And guess what! He wants to start bible study tomorrow :) That is so exciting and great to hear! We had our friendship party for the Brushy creek team tonight at shakey's piza but ended up not eating there. There were 3 young ladies that showed up for the party and they were ALL christians!!! How amazing is that! :D We went out to eat a an indian curry place because Shakey's ended up being really busy and loud. The ladies were SO sweet and they made the team a cake to take to their hostel with them to eat! they also helped us to find and call the movie theaters nearby because TRANSFORMERS 2 came out here in Japan today! We were so excited to go see it and so rachel, one of the younger volunteers and I went to see it! It was so great and fun to experience watching a movie in Japan. The movie was in english of course, but with Japanese subtitles!! How great :) It was a blast and we had a great day today as a whole team
prayer requests:
-new friends and contacts made during 5ME today
-friendship party was a success
-Rachel is meeting with these 3 christians to learn more!
-NEW BELIEVER!!! Pray for his heart :)
-Bible study with Brian and one volunteer tomorrow with new believer :)
-Brushy Creek leaves soon... praise God for them!
-my contact at seikei and our meeting from today and next week!
haley michelle
Monday, June 22, 2009
twenty two
6/18
TODAY was a distribution day and our whole team was here alongside our Brushy Creek team AND we had a M and their family here with us! We split up into 3 groups and went into 3 different directions to start our work! We were able to cover a lot of area and like I said yesterday I AM HAPPY about that! Everyday we are getting closer to reaching everyone in the Mitaka area! So we started our 5ME today pretty early and it went great! I was standing there praying as the people walked by me and after a while as sweet older lady walked up to me! She started speaking to me in Japanese and I tried to tell her I didn't know Japanese, but she kept talking to me! It was so cute because I couldn't communicate with her, but she still wanted to stand there and talk to me. So I made conversation with her about the little band that was playing at our station and I enjoyed it so much! So she eventually left and I remained in prayer for this precious lady :D Anyway so I went along with my 5ME and talked with a few random people that would stop by, but never was able to present the gospel to these people. Eventually it was a time that I sat down on a little bench and started praying for my team and the people they were speaking to. The little lady came back to me and sat down beside me! I was so excited because it is unlike Japanese to just walk up tap someone on the shoulder and sit down by them! She started speaking in Japanese with me again and I just kept talking to her in english even though neither one of use understood each other! So when she went to leave she handed me a box of sushi rolls that she bought for me! It was so sweet and it made me so happy! It was just so sweet because neither one of us could talk to the other, but she still wanted to give me a gift! I love the Japanese and Christ continues to tug at my heart for this nation! :D There were a few children that came up to me after this older lady left and they were balancing their umbrellas on the hand and so I LOVE CHILDREN... so then I wanted to join and I started balancing my umbrella too :) It was just cute! Tonight is guy's night so all the girls were able to hangout without the guys in the apartment! We are just enjoying ourselves :)
pR:
-The presh lady that gave me sushi today, that i will be able to reach out to her again
-The 3 little band members that play at our station everyday
-The small children of japan! i want to reach out to them :0)
-Brushy Creek has their friendship party tomorrow!
-Pray that friend that are interested in the gospel come and join us for dinner!
-The guys and their night with each other and the M families
haley
TODAY was a distribution day and our whole team was here alongside our Brushy Creek team AND we had a M and their family here with us! We split up into 3 groups and went into 3 different directions to start our work! We were able to cover a lot of area and like I said yesterday I AM HAPPY about that! Everyday we are getting closer to reaching everyone in the Mitaka area! So we started our 5ME today pretty early and it went great! I was standing there praying as the people walked by me and after a while as sweet older lady walked up to me! She started speaking to me in Japanese and I tried to tell her I didn't know Japanese, but she kept talking to me! It was so cute because I couldn't communicate with her, but she still wanted to stand there and talk to me. So I made conversation with her about the little band that was playing at our station and I enjoyed it so much! So she eventually left and I remained in prayer for this precious lady :D Anyway so I went along with my 5ME and talked with a few random people that would stop by, but never was able to present the gospel to these people. Eventually it was a time that I sat down on a little bench and started praying for my team and the people they were speaking to. The little lady came back to me and sat down beside me! I was so excited because it is unlike Japanese to just walk up tap someone on the shoulder and sit down by them! She started speaking in Japanese with me again and I just kept talking to her in english even though neither one of use understood each other! So when she went to leave she handed me a box of sushi rolls that she bought for me! It was so sweet and it made me so happy! It was just so sweet because neither one of us could talk to the other, but she still wanted to give me a gift! I love the Japanese and Christ continues to tug at my heart for this nation! :D There were a few children that came up to me after this older lady left and they were balancing their umbrellas on the hand and so I LOVE CHILDREN... so then I wanted to join and I started balancing my umbrella too :) It was just cute! Tonight is guy's night so all the girls were able to hangout without the guys in the apartment! We are just enjoying ourselves :)
pR:
-The presh lady that gave me sushi today, that i will be able to reach out to her again
-The 3 little band members that play at our station everyday
-The small children of japan! i want to reach out to them :0)
-Brushy Creek has their friendship party tomorrow!
-Pray that friend that are interested in the gospel come and join us for dinner!
-The guys and their night with each other and the M families
haley
21
6/17/09
Today was a fun day :) It was our teammate Rachel's day off, so it was just Brian and I with the four men from Brushy Creek! Well since there are two older men on the team they can not go onto the college university. So, because of that they came with me to Mitaka station in order to do distribution within the community. The younger guys met with Brian in order to do campus ministry at Seikei. My team and I started our distribution and we got so much accomplished! We were able to go through at least 12 stacks of tracts with 150 in each! I was so excited because we are getting closer each time to distributing to every house and apartment in Mitaka! So the younger guys met with some of the contacts that Brian had already made at the college. They went to a basketball practice which was tons of fun from what I heard from the guys! The practice was not a real college team, but just a club type of team the university has. The girls were on one side of the court and the guys on the other and they were doing lay-ups! BUT they thing is they were like okay guy we are doing run and shoot! The guys on my team were so confused but came to find out it was just doing layups! lol :) They had fun and were able to connect with these guys and draw closer in the friendships! In the meantime, the two teammates that were with me, well we finished and went to eat :) We enjoyed a real authentic Japanese meal at a little hole in the wall place :) The lady was so sweet and she gave me two smalls gifts! She gave me a small cow bell that from being told from my M is the good luck mascot of the year. The people buy this cow and place it in their home to have good luck all year. Each year the mascot changes and the temple makes more money from the purchases. After everyone had their lunches and basketball fun we met back up at our park to try out 5ME with park ministry as well! I was able to speak with a new mother who shared with me that her new favorite book was the pregnancy book she just read. when I asked her why she told me it was because she learned so much about what to do while prego and how to take care of the baby before, during and after the pregnancy. I was so excited to share with her that I had a new idea for a book on how to now raise her child! I offered her the gospel and shared with her a lot about it and it was a great conversation! Once we headed back to that station we started 5ME and we had a girl come along to one of the volunteers and accept CHRIST! How amazing is this :) She will not be able to meet for bible study until July, so we pray she will stay on fire to learn more about HIM! Also at another station today we had our intern teammates lead a girl to Christ! His work is being done in this nation one person at a time surrendering their life to him!!! It is such a joy to see his kingdom's work everyday here in Japan! :) Today was a blessed day and I am excited to tell you about our two new sisters in Christ!
PR-
...new believer from our station today who cant meet till July
...new believer from musashi sakai with our intern teammates
...brushy creek team and their obedience :D
...our park and its opportunities!!!
Today was a fun day :) It was our teammate Rachel's day off, so it was just Brian and I with the four men from Brushy Creek! Well since there are two older men on the team they can not go onto the college university. So, because of that they came with me to Mitaka station in order to do distribution within the community. The younger guys met with Brian in order to do campus ministry at Seikei. My team and I started our distribution and we got so much accomplished! We were able to go through at least 12 stacks of tracts with 150 in each! I was so excited because we are getting closer each time to distributing to every house and apartment in Mitaka! So the younger guys met with some of the contacts that Brian had already made at the college. They went to a basketball practice which was tons of fun from what I heard from the guys! The practice was not a real college team, but just a club type of team the university has. The girls were on one side of the court and the guys on the other and they were doing lay-ups! BUT they thing is they were like okay guy we are doing run and shoot! The guys on my team were so confused but came to find out it was just doing layups! lol :) They had fun and were able to connect with these guys and draw closer in the friendships! In the meantime, the two teammates that were with me, well we finished and went to eat :) We enjoyed a real authentic Japanese meal at a little hole in the wall place :) The lady was so sweet and she gave me two smalls gifts! She gave me a small cow bell that from being told from my M is the good luck mascot of the year. The people buy this cow and place it in their home to have good luck all year. Each year the mascot changes and the temple makes more money from the purchases. After everyone had their lunches and basketball fun we met back up at our park to try out 5ME with park ministry as well! I was able to speak with a new mother who shared with me that her new favorite book was the pregnancy book she just read. when I asked her why she told me it was because she learned so much about what to do while prego and how to take care of the baby before, during and after the pregnancy. I was so excited to share with her that I had a new idea for a book on how to now raise her child! I offered her the gospel and shared with her a lot about it and it was a great conversation! Once we headed back to that station we started 5ME and we had a girl come along to one of the volunteers and accept CHRIST! How amazing is this :) She will not be able to meet for bible study until July, so we pray she will stay on fire to learn more about HIM! Also at another station today we had our intern teammates lead a girl to Christ! His work is being done in this nation one person at a time surrendering their life to him!!! It is such a joy to see his kingdom's work everyday here in Japan! :) Today was a blessed day and I am excited to tell you about our two new sisters in Christ!
PR-
...new believer from our station today who cant meet till July
...new believer from musashi sakai with our intern teammates
...brushy creek team and their obedience :D
...our park and its opportunities!!!
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