Hello again!
Ohio Gozaimasu from Japan Ishinomaki-shi!
We have have been here for a little over 2 weeks now. We are
staying at a home where a missionary family is temporarily
staying, they call it the Be One house (the name of the
ministry they are with) Below is a picture of the room we
(aka my team) sleeps in. We have to pack up all those
blankets and foutons every morning after we wake up so
that we have a little more room to meet in.
We have been doing a lot of hands-on work here.
We have breakfast at 8 then leave for the worksite to
either move rubble to the dump (one of the many huge ones here)
(little fact: the tsunami created the amount of trash that
this town alone would create in over 100 years!) or we gut-out,
or mud-out a destroyed house. We have also been helping a man
named Cameyama-san rebuild his shed for his car shop, which
also involves digging for water lines in rock-soil. So we
have all been very tired physically from all the labor but
it is such satisfying work that you don't even care that
you can't feel your hands or have a forest of knots in your
back. The ministry here is amazing because the people are
so ripe for the gospel. Just yesterday a young woman who hangs
out at the Be One House a lot was asking us openly what we
thought of God and why we loved Him so much. It encouraged
us as much as it encouraged her because we were reminded why
we were here in the first place. We love because HE first loved
us. Amen? Amen!
Oh I forgot to tell you guys! The last day we were in
Narashino-shi we had a goodbye night with the kids who came
to the church for english class. None of the kids were christians
so before we said our last goodbye we presented the gospel to
them and told them why we were here. Then at the end we asked
them to bow their head and close their eyes and told them
we were going to say a blessing prayer for them and at the end
of the prayer we asked them (while their eyes were closed) if
they wanted to accept this Jesus into their heart, and AT LEAST
2/3 of the class raised their hands! They are young but definately
old enough to understand what was happening. Praise God!
Thank you Jesus we got to see some of the fruits from our
ministry! He is so good and faithful. Please, if you remember,
pray for these children who accepted Christ, that they would grow
up to be strong men and women of Christ, expanding His Kingdom.
We as a team are getting very close too, unity is definately
a gift God has given us. Praise God!
Its snowing here and the heat isnt working so my fingers are too cold to type
any more, so sionara!
Naturally,
Demetria
