Well I think I can honestly say that
today is one of the hottest days since I've been here. It rained
pretty much all day yesterday and today is cloudless – therefore
making it VERY humid and just plain HOT!
So what did I do? I went for a run up a
mountain obviously!! - I think I must be crazy....
Anyways – Now just killing time until
4pm when our work crew plus a few others are meeting up with the
Kikawa family for dinner at some fancy French restaurant that they
really wanted to take us to.
But yeah. Going back a little bit – I
just really want to thank everyone for their prayers for me, everyone
here at base, and for Rebekah and Josiah's family. Through the week
we were being informed of when the visitation and funeral were taking
place and were constantly praying for them. I kept looking on
facebook to see if there was anything from Rebekah and watched as her
page got covered with notes – and then as I opened it up on
Saturday there was a post by Rebekah on the top of the page that
literally blew me away. Here is it:
I cried.
God is truly incredible. He is indeed
close to the brokenhearted and gives grace to the humble. The
strength that the Lord has given her is simple amazing. And I wonder
if I could possibly say the same thing if I were in her place. It has
definitely challenged me.
On another note. This week is filling
up with things. Obviously today we have our dinner appointment,
Justin's birthday is on Thursday, on Friday the states volunteers are
heading out with means we will be losing “grandpa” Nigel, and
before he goes we are going to take him out for dinner, Saturday we are having a BBQ for a bunch of our homeowners, and then Sunday Yunome-san is getting baptized! It's all very exciting. And after all that the last wave of
volunteers will be coming in – I can't believe that phase 2 is
almost over...... so sad. :(
Well – that's all I can really think
of at the moment....
Many blessings to you all!
Pressing on!
Erin-chan
I can't believe it. I've written this message twice and have done nothing different and it keeps getting lost. I'll try once again. It sounds like your busy and having lots of fun, and all of this while ministering. Isn't God good?!!! It was good to read that Rebekah, though grieving, is holding up with the prayers of many. It was odd to hear that you are experiencing your first hot day, while today we are experiencing our first tolerable day. As I came home tonight from Park View our car thermometer read 78. How wonderful it feels. PTL!!! Keep on with your blogs as you have time. It is good to see what you're doing. Love and hugs and prayers,
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