If we have not love...

Hey!
Last night ( Sunday night Japan time) we got home from visiting Komaki Hope Chapel. It is a church in Komaki. We arrived there on Saturday afternoon and met most of the church members then. We watched the Narnia movie and had dinner at the church. Dinner was Yaki Soba. It is noodles, pork and vegetables and is absolutely amazing. We were split up into pairs and stayed in homes with families from the church. Simone and I stayed with Pastor Abe and his wife in their home above the church. That night we had coffee and fruit with them and talked with them. Sunday morning they made us breakfast and it was huge. We had french toast, strawberries with yogurt, boiled eggs and... cream of corn soup. Okay so I am definitely not used to having soup for breakfast but it was pretty good. And the strawberries here are amazing... so now I know why they are so expensive. We went to the church service there and we played a couple songs for the church and did our drime ( a kind of drama/mime done to music with a bit of dancing). We had a Japanese style barbeque for lunch. They cook meat and vegetables on a grill. It was really good except for the pork that was basically all fat. Definitely not something I enjoyed.... I thought it was eel because when it was cooked it was this grey colour. One of the ladies that goes to english class hosted by the church is a calligraphy teacher and made each of us a calligraphy thing. We found out later that she is not a Christian . It was beautiful. Mine was the character for believe and had white flowers painted on it. God is saying: " Believe that I will heal you. Believe that I have great things in store for you. Believe in the power of love. Have faith. I have made you and I know you. You are precious to me. I care for you. Let me heal all your parts that are broken." God has been showing me that he understands all my hurts and heart aches and has been through his own. He does not say " I told you so" when I get hurt but instead says " I know how it feels". I feel healed over. It is wonderful. Pastor Abe took some of us out for dinner. We went to an Italian restaraunt but it was Japanese style Italian with corn on the pizza. It was really good though. Once again I felt such a strong sense of community and family. Please continue to pray for the people of Japan that God would open their hearts. Pray as well that we would get more students for our english classes, that God would draw the right people to the classes. Pray also that God would open our hearts to hear what else he might be asking us to do during our time here. God is good and I am so glad to be serving Him in Japan. Until next time, Sayonara