cold weather, changing circumstances...

It's getting colder here in Okinawa, which has also brought a lot of random spurts of rain.

(Take note of our hats and coats)

Like today, in the morning it was raining super hard! But then mid day it was bright and sunny and hot!

But now, it's raining again and cold again. Praise the Lord then, ね?

We also headed down to Kokusai dori a couple weeks ago (sorry, haven't updated consistently).

All of the students got to see the cool shops and had sea salt ice cream (i passed, it didn't look great, but i'm also lactose intolerant ahaha).

(the students are stoaked!)

(this little tiny Okinawan lady helped me try on a Kimono)

(gotta have one of my infamouse "dorky" posed pictures)

So, there is an update in my life to post on here.

I had applied for my missionary visa a long while ago, and have been waiting for it to come in.

The visa I was staying here on only lasts for 90 days, and that 90 days ran out today (Nov. 24).

So, the office amazingly granted me (and Dean, another student out here) an extention on our passports to have time to buy tickets out of the country.

Well, here is a prayer request: I have two options, one is to head back to the states, to Michigan and stay with my family there, and the other is to head back out to Korea and help at the church there again.

So I would like to ask prayer for God's guidance; that I would be senesative to the Holy Spirit and go where He wants me at this time. Both places are good places, I just want to be where He wants me to be. (and this is not a long term stay either way, but the first step of many on this next continuing adventure of my life with Jesus).

Thank you for all of your previous prayers, and your future ones. Prayer is one of the most precious gifts we have here in our lives. Thank you God.

-'manda

skype calls

Sometimes, i get to talk with my family on skype, and i really get blessed by it.
My family is growing up a lot (my little sister and brother are all big now and looking older and older...). It's sad not to be there with them as they grow up, but i know they have will grow, and sometimes grow better with an absence there.



Being away really makes me love my family, shows me what i have. I really enjoy talking with my little sister. She keeps getting more and more pretty. If you think too, please pray for her, she is making life choices, and i want her to make one's that please the Lord.



He has blessed her with a talent to dance, and i know she can use it for His glory, that it would please Him. I really want to see her do good with it.

God has given us such a gift ot have a family down here while we wait to come Home. Even if it's hard and difficult at times, it also comes with many blessings which we all too often look past. This life is not promised to be easy (in ministry, in our families, in everything in life). But it is promised to be a blessed life as we follow Jesus Christ. He is amazing.

That's all for now. There is not too much ministry that i am joining in, but a lot of school. There are only 4 more weeks left of the semester, and then graduation. This time has really been a lot of growing and learning, which i know is going to be put into use and action/application in the coming days after graduation. Pray for the students here, as they go back home and variouse places during the break. We want to live for Christ, and a life that counts for Him.







ありがとう


-'manda