Friday

Yesterday morning I had my last class with one of my favorite classes (next Friday is technically my last class but we're going to HIrosaki to see the cherry blossoms instead of studying). Before ending the class early to have okonomiyaki we wrote a story together. First we chose words for every letter of the alphabet, then attempted to put every single word into one story that made sense. Yesterday's story was a continuation of last week, where there was a crying baby whose diapers were too small, a mom that was doing too many things to care, and a famous x-ray doctor who came home and told the family they were going on vacation. I thought I would share this week's story because it's hilarious (I think anyways) and we all shed a couple pounds laughing as we made it up.

On Vacation in Okinawa (continuation)
...They sailed on a YACHT and watched the WHALES. In the yacht there was a kitchen UNIT so they could eat ICE CREAM. THey took many PICTURES. The next day they went to the ZOO with the mother's SISTER. They spent a lot of MONEY. The father lost his JACKKNIFE there. When they were looking for it, they saw two men having an ARGUMENT in front of the elephants. They looked like BUSINESSMEN. Their faces were RED. The father said to them, "Have you seen my jackknife? It's my TREASURE."
"No we haven't," they replied, "We were arguing about which is better, CANADA or the United KINGDOM."
Just then they heard a gentle XYLOPHONE sound. A GENTLEMAN came closer to them. He said, "The QUEEN will be coming shortly, please be quiet."
She wore a FLORESCENT dress and was carrying an OCTOPUS, so her HEART was not so NATURAL. She said, "Today is VICTORY Day because I caught an octopus for the first time. I will be doing an EXAMINATION about animals and all of you can take part. Bless our country's DEVELOPMENT."
The End

How's that for a great story? I think it should be published...no just jokes.

Tomorrow is my Farewell Party at the church. We're having a barbeque and then I'll be doing a testimony/ talk about my year in Japan as well as singing a song for them. I just finished writing my speech yesterday.
Every Friday I take the train to Odate, and about twice a month I see the same lady; we've become friends over the year of riding the train together. Yesterday was the last time I would see her, so we went out for coffee in the afternoon. I asked her to help me with my talk by correcting my Japanese. It was actually a brilliant plan on God's part because she heard the gospel (written in my speech) in a way that was just her helping me. And she had to understand what it was about to get the Japanese right. She seemed to get it too, as she kept saying, 'oh, I see!' Also she talks in a pretty loud voice, so I'm pretty sure that everybody in Mr Donuts heard about Jesus that day too too. She got really excited about helping me with my Japanese speech, and even told me where to bow and how to speak where. When we left I gave her a New Testament (which God had prompted me to put in my backpack for her earlier this week), telling her that she could read it not read it, but she'll find out more about Jesus by reading it, whom she had said earlier she knew nothing about.
We'll see how the actual speech goes; you can pray along with me that many other people will see Jesus in it too.