So,
This coming Wednesday, i head back out to Okinawa on my 1 year visa, to intern at the Bible college out on the island.
すごい～！
This is amazing! But all so fast too! (pretty much like it is everytime!)
I found out two days ago (i think two days) that i got my visa, and then the days following tickets were found that were cheap and from the airport near my home (usually too exspensive because it is such a small airport), and now i am flying out on wednesday!
My time at home here in Michigan feels short, but i also knew it would most likely be. I sort of have mixed feelings of sadness (to leave my family, whom i have become once again much closer with), excitement (to see friends and mainly to be back out there serving where I believe God has called me), and anxiety/fear (for the long plane ride, and not knowing how i will do as an intern).
All of these are okay though, i can handle it with Jesus. He called me to this, sent me out, He will be there right with me to go through it all.
Thank you for all your prayers, they really, i can't think of good enough words for it. But thank you, just know you are all effective through Christ in them, and that they are greatly needed and wanted. God bless you in them. Spend that time with Him (i know we can all lack in that area, as i know i do many times). keep coming when He calls, your going to be blessed beyond what you expect.
Well, now i'm just preparing to go, getting some last minute things, starting to pack up things being left, and things being taken. Spending time with friends and family before i go. it's nice that a lot of my relatives live so close, I can pretty much see them all before i leave again.
I've really been blessed while i have been home. It's really cool that i've gotten to share a room again with my sister. Things that i wouldn't have imagined to be even a possibility are happening, its really cool. Me and my sister have gotten really close, and it's neat to see the things that God is starting to do in her life. i've been blessed by it.
i forgot how funny my brothers are too, the random "fights" they get into over the last bit of a bottle of orange pop (yes, we say pop in michigan). i am never at a loss for laughs here.
it's cool, my parents are still neat (they won't ever be lame ahaha). my dad started writing this sweet story, his own take on "Frosty the Snowman: a horror" it made me laugh a LOT. He has a good sense of humor!
my mom is silly, she is keeping up with us kids and watching foreign dramas and things, including Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese (maybe i spelled that wrong)!
It's just been cool to hang out with all of them. I hope that someday they can come out to Okinawa and see it there, it really is an amazing place (especially the church family there).
Hopefuly, i will get some pictures up of what were doing here before i leave, they should be pretty funny.
Here are some that have been taken in the past month:
a sweet snowman someone in our neighborhood made.
pondering the path before him...don't worry, he has many more months before he melts (good ol' michigan)
i promised Tamiko i would build her a snowman, but i haven't done it yet....that's on my list to do before i leave)
my mom thought it was funny how i was reading one day. i needed light, and it was super comfortable after i accidently tipped over. :]
I like to leave my mom random photos on her camera.
us kids cleaning up after dinner...but-
in true Japanese style! : equipped with cute sponges with faces.
I love Japan ^_^
God bless,
-マンダ。
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