6/25/10

Today was such a blessing! I'm so excited right now, so all my thoughts are swirling around and I don't know where to start. I GUESS I'll start from the beginning of the day. So in the morning, we had our usual meeting and sharing time. It was especially exciting because we found out what campuses we were assigned to. I was assigned to Kyoto University, which is a shock because Kyodai (nickname) is the second best school in Japan. All the student's there are very, very, very smart. So if you know me personally, you're probably thinking, "Then why are YOU going there?" I was actually thinking the same thing myself to be honest, but God has a funny way of speaking to me. When I was doubting and asking why I was put in Kyodai, God spoke to me and told me that He wants to challenge me. There has been another time on this trip that God said the same thing to me, and that's when we were being assigned what role's we'll have on the team. There are 4 categories in which we can help serve. The first one is inreach, the second one is outreach, the third one is stewardship, and the fourth one is worship/prayer. I requested to be in the inreach or outreach group as my 2 choices, stewardship as my third, and worship/prayer as my last. Then long behold, the leaders met up with me and told me I was going to be in the worship/prayer group. At first I was like, "What? what? what? what? why? what? what? GAHHHHH" But I could tell God had designed it this way so that I can be challenged. So after hearing that I would be at Kyodai, we left for our ministry time.

We had lunch on campus and scouted the cafeteria as we ate. Then we went to this building to try and see if we could find the English circle. There wasn't anyone there, and as we were leaving, we noticed a guy with a really cool painting in his hands. We asked if he made the picture, and he responded back in English saying that he did. It was super awesome and everyone liked it a lot. The student's name was Yuske (spell check), and he was telling us how much he liked american culture. After about 15 minutes of talking with him, our team left. We were then paired up into groups to pray over the campus. I was grouped up with Andy and Carrie so we walked around the campus praying for the different buildings. We then approached this one small building and went inside. We had no idea what building it was until we asked this one student. He told us that it was the Psychology building. He then walked away and we really didn't think to much of it. All of a sudden, he walks back to us with one of his friends! It was so encouraging to have him re-approach us, so we talked to both of the student's for about an hour! We talked about a lot of things, then it slowly turned into a spiritual conversation! The girl (Yuka) said that she kind of believed that there was a God in the trees and animals. We then asked the guy what he believed in, and he said that he was interested in CHRISTIANITY!!! In my head I was like OHHH MYYYY GOOOSHHHHHHH!!!!! but I didn't want to scare him off so I refrained from jumping up and down. Long story short, we got their contact information and will be meeting up with them next week because we wont be on campus tomorrow. Afterwards, Andy, Carrie and I were all saying that we were so excited with how cool that interaction was and how God had his fingerprints in everything that happened. Praise God for that divine appointment! I'm so excited to see how God is going to continue to work within the next 5 weeks! God is here, and He is doing amazing things!

I noticed that this was a pretty serious passage, and it sounded like nothing funny happend. We'll something did. I dropped my melon ice cream bar on my pants and now theres a small stain. The end.