Week 6

Monday:

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I was invited to join a NC3 (another Christian church in Nagoya) event on Monday. It was an event that the KCM team (short term Korean American Team from LA) that was participating in. I got completely lost in the park that the BBQ was at. I was roaming around the ginormous park for about an hour and a half. I asked 3 different people where to go and the last person was a police officer who gave me the map pictured, and I finally found the correct place. The meat that I got to eat was delicious, but I did not get to eat much. I got to talk with some of the church members and it was a fun time of fellowship.

I rushed over to the Kang’s place for tutoring and they had some friends over. So, I tutored Sara with a couple of her friends and the energy level was very high. I tried having them introduce themselves in English. After I was done with Sara and friends, Isaac explained to me how to play Splendor in English and we played one game. We then did some math worksheets together. I had dinner with the family before I headed out.

Tuesday:

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After tutoring at the Ruck’s, I met the interns and Megumi (Karis’ friend) at Motoyama Station to go to a local festival. It was an extremely small festival that had traditional dancing that everyone was following along with. We all ate different snack foods, the takoyaki was especially very delicious.

After our time at the festival, all 5 of us spent some time praying for the people who came to the festival near the bottom of the stairs (around where the 2nd picture was taken). We prayed that the Lord would bring salvation to the people and that he would open their hearts to know that there is someone greater who they need to put their hope in.

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Lauren and I went to the only Christian bookstore nearby, and we had a lot of fun looking through all the stuff. We both ended up buying a bunch of books and such, and it left us both in very good moods! We enjoyed our lunch together before I had to go back to CBI for my Japanese lesson.

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Lauren had plans to eat lunch with Rina (her friend that she had been meeting consistently) at the apartment, and she invited me to join them. We successfully cooked together and ate pork belly with lettuce and ssamjang! We were chatting and after dinner, Lauren asked me to share my testimony to Rina, because she knew I had it all written out in Japanese. While Lauren was washing dishes, I shared my testimony (read off my paper) with Rina.

After, I asked Rina if she could help me out with my Japanese homework. I had a script of a 3 minute sermon of a pastor explaining the difference between the old and new testament. I had to write out all the readings of the kanji words that I didn’t know of (basically all of them). She helped me through all of it and found the whole script extremely interesting. She was particularly amazed at how Jesus resurrected 3 days after his death. She kept looking through it, and we asked her if she had any questions, but she said that her knowledge about the concept is so little, that she didn’t know what to ask.

Friday:

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This week for the Heart and Soul event was board games! The KCM team joined for the event and I learned how to play Saboteur. The game was super easy to learn and a lot of people joined in. There weren’t many new people that came to this event, so we just had fellowship among ourselves.

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The KCM team prepared a “Los Angeles Night” event Saturday evening. The team did a K-pop dance, 4 skits, and then a dance to the song, Echo by Elevation Worship. The skits were SO GOOD and you could tell they prepared well for everything.

We went to karoke afterwards and we were in a room that was for 30 people. We had about 27 people I believe, it was super energetic, and I had a really fun time! This was my first time doing karoke since I’ve been on this trip!

Overview:

I was back to my original routine schedule this week, and it was great! I kept mentioning to the other interns how much fun I was having this week. I enjoyed all my tutoring sessions with each family and all the events that I did along this week. I’m super thankful for the KCM team and the different events we got to do together. The interns all agreed that they really were a refreshing group that gave us energy. I was glad to meet with people from home too!

I was really glad to have that time with Rina. Although I didn’t find a person to invest time into yet, I was glad I got to share my testimony and talk about the gospel with her. I’m really feeling like we are leaving soon, so it makes me incredibly saddened. Time is really flying!