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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!!!