… but busy in pretty much every other possible way.
I’ve been leading a high school Youth Group for the last three years, which is great. Right now we’re in between studies, so I’m just coming up with interesting/important topics and talking about them. This last Thursday we talked about how we as Christian’s have been chosen by God, and what the ramifications/implications of that are. Tuesday nights I lead a college Bible Study, and we’ve been going through Hebrews for that, which turned out to be a more challenging book than I expected.
Last Saturday I went to a wedding in Tehechapi (which is a three hour drive from my house), to see two of my friends from Master’s get married to each other. One of them was a girl that I spent six weeks in Japan with on my first trip there, and the guy lived in the same dorm as me for two years. The interesting part is that he had been to Japan with Master’s the year before me and his bride went, and even though both the bride and groom went to Master’s at the same time, they didn’t date or even really know each other till two years after Brandon (the groom) graduated. So for awhile they almost missed each other, but then God brought them together in His timing. I guess the moral of the story is we never know what God will do.
Sunday my housemate/landlord had an open house (he’s selling the place), so I had to make myself scarce (appearently if people saw that I lived there they would become less likely to buy the place). It’s been slow going with the market and all but hopefully it’ll sell soon.
Anyways, back on course, I learned that I have two supporters this last week, which is really exciting. That means that I’m roughly 1% of the way to going to Japan! So, I’m on the score board at least. I hope to get some more letter’s written and sent out this coming week, as well as start writing my first Newsletter, so you all can look forward to that (as I’m sure you are).
And while we’re looking ahead I might as well mention that this coming December I’ll be in Japan for three weeks. Two weeks I’ll be participating in Jesus Film’s “Love Japan” distribution project, where our team will hand out multimedia CDs (think high tech tracts) and invite people to attend Christmas events at Churches in the area. Christmas is a great time to do this, as they actually celebrate it in Japan, even though they don’t have the concept of Christ or His birth. So there’s a little curiosity about what Christmas is. The last week I’ll be haning out with my little brother Jon, and a friend of ours (Quentin) will join us. I just bought my (rather expensive) plane ticket this week, so I’m excited about that too.
Oh, and if you read this, leave a comment. I’m starting to feel like I’m just talking to myself.