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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