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7/8/09

So Christ really has been laying it on my heart to reach out to the girls at WBU through a women's bible study. i am a little nervous about it and giving it to Him and allowing him to use me to reach the girls at WBU! It is amazing how much Christ has been able to show me and just showing me I am capable of doing this for Him. Last semester I struggled with wanting to reach out through a girls ministry, but I was stubborn and said no. But not anymore :) I know I can do it and I feel Christ has a plan for the girls of WBU! I am excited about going home and being involved in FBC Plainview and our WBU BSM group. God has amazing plans for this semester and it continues to blow me away as I am seeing all these amazing things this summer! :D Anyway so today was campus ministry today and I was going to have lunch with one of my Japanese friends, but she was unable to join me so i had lunch by myself. My teammate brian joined me and one of his contacts did too! We were able to sit down with her and retell her why we were here and we actually got to help her with her Christianity class! She had certain passages in the new testament that she was assigned to read and has to write a summary on them. I am excited about this because I know a few of my other friends have this class as well. Perhaps they will allow me to help them understand the passages! Our Father is great! :) So after campus ministry today we went to our station to do 5ME and another intern, Dustin joined us to reach our station! We were able to talk to about 15 people in an hour a a half and God really worked through that! I was able to talk to 2 people who knew about JC! One of the women I spoke with knew a lot about the bible, but was hesitant to believe certain stories in the bible. So I was able to talk to her and share with her some of the stories that she was uncertain about. God really spoke through me during this time! Then after she left to get on to work a man came to me and wanted to practice his english. I chose to be bold and went directly to why I was in Japan and why i was doing free english lessons. He stayed and talked to me for about 45 minutes which is not normal for 5me! this was such a blessing and I learned that he learned his english from the mormons and he has been confused with what they believe and what i was presenting to him. He is interested in studying with Brian my teammate and I so I am happy that he would like to do that. the only problem is he works 24 security shifts every other day, so please pray that we will get the opportunity to meet with him. Tonight for dinner I went with one of my intern friends to eat at a sushi bar. He ate many different things than I did, so that we could try the different ones :) My favorite was the crab! lol I learned how to say no wasabe in Japanese from one of my friends, so now when I go again I can ask for no wasabe! I like it and all, but I love the sushi more without it! :D Today was a great day and Christ really blessed our team!

prayer requests:
-the many contacts we have on our university
-our friends in the Christianity class at Seikei and an opportunity to help them with their reading passages from the Bible!
-the woman i spoke with today during 5me... clarity in stories in the bible
-the man i also spoke with that has been mixed in with mormons
-mitaka station and 5me!!! It is picking up!
-our remaining time in japan and reaching out to these precious people

Hay