Hello everyone!
I have not posted very many pictures on this blog, so this post will be a photo summary of the kinds of things we have done and seen, as well as some of the people we've met! Enjoy!
The outside of the Nakada Church.
Sorry, this is gross. This is the head of a tuna in the fish market. I had no idea they could grow to the size of a dolphin!
Ian and Yoshi!
Lauren and Mieko!
Me and Koichiro!
We got to see Ayako, a reader from last year, in Numazu!
Preston decorated a cookie at the Hawaiian party! It is so difficult to bake cookies in a microwave!
The ema tablets... the question is, which god is this talking about?
Even the mannequins look different here!
Don't use your handy phone on the bus. Don't even think about it....
Ian and Harmony battle to win the Spoons Championship!
Me all dressed up in Kiyomi's kimono!
People write wishes that the priests burn everyday. They are offered to the gods of the trees, horses, sun, water, etc.
It has been so much fun working with children this year. Mai is the cutest little Japanese girl ever!
People pay to pray with the Buddhist priests. The more you pay, the more likely your prayers come true, they say. The prayers are chants that are not understandable to most Japanese people.
Beautiful flowers.
At the parties, we usually play a game and then tell our testimony afterwards. This party was a balloon tower competition. I was trapped in "balloon jail".
My funny reader Mikio!
This is Buddha. Or one of many Buddhas, I should say.
Japan is such a beautiful country. How can they not see the creator?
Ian and his reader, Ikeda-san. Manly men.
Eating lunch with some of our friends from ACU, Tara and Dan, and a reader, Yuko.
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The view of tea bush farms from up on a mountain.
