Konichiwa

Hello, from Japan! Today our plans were changed due to the rain. On the bright side, God had different and equally wonderful plans for us. We helped the church with a few random projects in the morning and had lunch. Afterwards, we took the van around to various earthquake/tsunami-devastated areas and had a few prayer walks. It was mind-blowing to see areas where they had compiled the garbage or wrecked cars. We heard a few stories and Janet Brown (who picked us up in Tokyo), showed us footage this morning from a quake cam that showed the hundreds of earthquakes and aftershocks they experienced in just a few days-insane. On our prayer walk, we were able to go down to the coastline from the Pacific Ocean and it was a nostalgic feeling to be at the ocean (*hint*hint* to all my Oregon relatives and parents).

After our outing, we came back and had a little time to relax before going to an amazing sushi restaurant. To give a brief run-down, you sit down at a booth and a conveyor belt travels around with various kinds of sushi & other wonderful items for your consumption. You can also order different items from a screen above your table and a different conveyor belt will deliver it to you. If you know me, you would know that I was loving life. After that it was time for our team to go to a public Japanese bathhouse or sento. Needless to say--it was amazing. A definite team builder and ultimate relaxer after our wonderful time with the conveyor belt. (*I will try to add pictures later when I have more time!)

<--This is a picture of our table and the menu that we could order from. The screen behind us was how we could enter our orders



Below, is a picture of the conveyor belt. The bottom one circulated around with the food we could grab and the top level was food that we ordered and came to us via conveyor belt-so great.

Chances are good that there will not be another update for quite some time, but tomorrow a group of us are going to temporary housing to share our Gospel music while another team helps out an oyster farm :]

Love you all,
<3

A few things I've noticed:
1. Japan is extremely clean and structured.
2. (We) Americans are boisterous.
3. Nudity builds community.