Several years ago a foreign exchange student lived in Globe, Arizona with her host family and was invited to Pastor John Goodings church. She got saved and moved back to Japan. When we were announced into Tokyo her name was passed on to us and we began emailing and getting to know Ai. She very kindly answered our many questions and we were happy yesterday to finally get to meet her in person! We took the train and rode a couple of hours to her home city of Hon Atsugi and visited her church. The people in her church were very friendly and invited us to stay for lunch afterwards. We met some of Ai's friends who also spoke English and we all had a very nice visit!
We had a nice meal with fancy rice and beans, edamame beans, eggplant and peppers in miso, and pickled daikon radish! (Ai is the girl across from Gary) Later, as we were walking back to the train station I asked Ai how her parents took her becoming a Christian and she said they weren't happy at first but they are fine with it now. Her mother got saved two years ago so now we will pray for her father as well! Another nice thing about yesterday was the weather, the heat wave finally broke and traveling was much more comfortable!
The other day, we needed a day out (all work and no play makes Lisa a dull girl!) but we didn't want to do a lot of walking out doors as it was still quite hot and humid ,so we headed to Tachikawa. Tachikawa has a couple of nice malls with air conditioning and it's a good place to get some walking and window shopping in without melting! Plus, it has Krispi Kreme donuts so that makes the whole trip worth it! We had a nice time and enjoyed our donuts and iced latte, then we did a little window shopping. We didn't buy much, just a really cute bunny bookmark that I gave to Ai as a greeting gift and this:
Oh Yeah! The worlds coolest soy sauce decanter!
That's so good you got to meet Ai! Praise God she and her mother got saved. :)
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