Month: July 2008

Hi everyone!!

My name is Tomo. I’m David’s fiancee.

So this is David’s missionary blog, and right now I’m not raising support yet because I’m not a SEND member yet, but since I will be soon, I’m going to be writing on this blog as well. My posts will basically be about what I’m up to, and also what my church is up to. I’ll try to post as often as possible so please come visit and check what’s up in Tokyo!

I live in Tokyo and I attend a church of about 100 people, which is a huge church in Japan!This past Sunday was a clean-up day. So we cleaned the whole church building. (We have a four-story building) Cleaning is always fun J especially when you do it with the whole church.

And then the most exciting part was, we installed a new rice cooker, stove, and a microwave/oven!!! We had had the old ones for years and the oven didn’t even work and was just taking up space, so it’s really exciting that we got new ones!

After that, a church elder took some of us out for dinner.We have four American guys helping out with VBS this year so they all went too.And David’s brother Jon, who is in Japan as a SEND missionary, was there too.We ate a lot and had a good time JWe had Okonomi-yaki, which is kind of like pancakes with vegetables and meat and sometimes seafood, and Monja-yaki, which is… hmm I don’t know how to explain, it looks kind of gross but it’s soooo good!! There’s a lot of food like that in Japan, looks gross but really good! So if you ever come to Japan, don’t be intimidated by looks and just try them.

You’ll be surprised how good it is in spite of how gross it looks. I think.

And we’ve been having VBS this week.

More about that next time.

Thanks for reading!

Jaane! (‘See ya’ in Japanese)

Tomo =)

Pray that I will be faithful and diligent to spend time in the word and make God’s glory my top priority.

Pray that I will be faithful and diligent to do my part in support raising.

Pray that I’ll have the courage to ask people to support me financially.

Pray that God will move the people that I talk to to partner with me, and provide financial support so that I can go to Japan as a missionary in Summer 2010.

Pray that God will bring some churches on board to provide larger financial support.

Pray for Tomo and I as we’re apart for the next 5 months (I’ll be going to Japan for a few weeks in December). Pray that we’ll be able to get her a Visa so she can get back into the states when we get married.

The last two months have been extrodinarily busy, but that’s no excuse. I should have been posting here more often, and I intend to be back posting regularly from here on out. For now though, I figured I’d best give you all a recap on what’s been happening the last two months.

A few weeks after getting engaged in May, Tomo finished her last quarter at UCI, and went to stay at my parents house for a month before returning to Japan. This was pretty nice, as I got to see her almost everyday before we’d be apart for 5 months after she went back to Japan. I also kept busy leading a high school Bible study on Thursday nights and a college Bible study on Tuesday nights.

June started getting a little hectic as my brother’s wedding approached. Jon was in Japan until a week before the big day, leaving most of the preperation to us, so I had a good time making phone calls, organizing tuxedo rentals, and doing whatever else was needed. Also, as some of you may know, Tomo is the little sister of Jon’s wife. We both became good friends with Tomo, Maki (Jon’s wife) and their parents over the years, so it was exciting that they were all going to be staying here for a week or so.

The wedding turned out beautifully, surpisingly so, thanks to much help from friends and family. With all the last minute preperations I sort of figured more would have gone wrong, this being a Robison wedding and all, but it all came together. The only thing that was noticably flawed was our lack of exit strategy for the bride and groom, who got stuck being the last ones at their own reception.

The next week was spent haning out with Tomo and her family, who decided to take advantage of being in California by taking a week of vacation after the wedding. And I started packing up all my things, getting ready to move back into my parents house once Tomo went back to Japan. First Tomo’s family flew home, then Jon and Maki returned from their honeymoon, and after spending one last day with us, they flew back to Japan, and a few days later, Tomo left as well.

It was pretty rough saying good bye to her, knowing that I wasn’t going to see her again till December, when I’m planning on participating in the same Jesus Film trip I’ve been a part of for the last four years. However this couldn’t really be avoided. We both had things we needed to do before we could get married; she had to finish her last year of school in Japan, and I had to raise a lot of support here in America.

So that brings us roughly up to date. I’m here, and she’s over there, and we’ve both got a lot to do. For me I’ve got to get back to support raising. The last two months I’ve only done a minimal ammount of that, and now it’s time to start a concentrated effort. I’ll keep you posted on my plans for doing that as I go along, but this post is getting a bit longwinded. So I’ll just give you step 1: Prayer. I’m going to spend more time in prayer myself, and I’m going to try to get as many people praying as possible.

This was originally made for my group over on Facebook, but it works here too.